81.  The new and much-heralded display of American leadership is similarly fragile.

82.  The one thing that is clear now is the need for steadiness and resolve in American leadership.

83.  The paradox of European allies eager to accept American leadership, complaining about its absence and often resenting its exercise is almost as old as the alliance itself.

84.  The third thing the President was doing in the speech was, again, speaking about American leadership.

85.  The White House contends that the new approach, as opposed to crisis management dependent on American leadership, will spread the financial risk among the industrial powers.

86.  There is a bitterness in this peace for those of us who have urged American leadership since the conflict in the former Yugoslavia began.

87.  This dreamy kind of optimism cannot sustain American leadership for long.

88.  This is an acid test of American leadership.

89.  Today, a new framework for American leadership, adapted to the needs of a new century, is being built.

90.  To shirk that responsibility now, when American leadership has finally been asserted in Bosnia, would be a devastating blow to the U.S. position in the world.