71.  Moreover, some traders said Iran may enter the fray on behalf of the PUK if the group is repelled by Iraqi forces.

72.  More important, Pentagon officials said that they had no idea where the Iraqi forces leaving the Kuwait border would go or how far they would be from it.

73.  Most of them were civilians who refused to cooperate with the occupying Iraqi forces.

74.  North Korea is thought to have sold long-range Scud missiles -- similar to those used in the Gulf War against Iraqi forces --to Iran and Syria.

75.  Not only PUK officials but also every fleeing guerrilla who was interviewed insisted that Iraqi forces had taken part in the attack.

76.  One plan being developed is to establish a large demilitarized zone in southern Iraq that would be off-limits to Iraqi forces.

77.  Pentagon officials said the action came after Iraqi forces fired on American and British jets patrolling the no-flight zone over southern Iraq during the past two days.

78.  Primakov engaged in intensive diplomacy before the Persian Gulf war, as Moscow sought to dissuade Washington from its offensive to evict Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

79.  Reports out of Irbil said Sunday that scores of such turncoats had been rounded up in house-to-house searches and executed by Iraqi forces.

80.  Sanctions against Iraqi military forces can be made more effective.