The FEST Team, which stands for Foreign Emergency Security Team, has also arrived. And that involves State Department personnel, FBI and Justice Department personnel, and others, about 50 people,

Obviously, it’s up to Indonesia to provide for the security of its own people in East Timor, as well as United Nations workers and other foreigners in East Timor,

If you look at our deployments today, under 5,000 people in Bosnia and about 5,000 people, under 6,000 people in Kosovo, it adds up to about 11,000 people, 10,000 or 11,000 people deployed in the...

Drafts are not final, and they’re subject to change until they’re final. So… by mutual agreement, the secretary of the Air Force and the deputy secretary of defense decided that there was more work to...

I think it is fair to say that things were in their expected position — which was moved, … They have been moving their military assets, including tanks and artillery — and other things. Dispersion...

The forces are clearly more wary of being hit. They’ve had to disperse more and are having a harder time operating in large, coherent units.

I hope that CNN is … energetic in making this retraction and clarification so that people do understand what the true facts of this mission were,

Everybody now believes that that force is probably too small and that a larger force will be required to go in as a peacekeeping force.

We have a worldwide mission to perform, and we are not going to stop performing that mission. We can never eliminate the risk, but we can take steps to reduce the risk.

easier to move, harder to find, more lethal, able to strike long distances in short times.

President Yeltsin has said that the Russians do not plan to get involved in this conflict, and since that is a very reasonable tack for the Russians to take, we take him at his word...

The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that’s built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.

The KLA has already agreed not to attack the Serb troops as they’re leaving,

If we could get by with fewer troops we would, but those figures won’t be known until we understand what the peace agreement is, if we get one.

We believe that both countries would be better off if they took steps to reduce tensions, not increase tensions.

If the summoned vessel takes flight, she may be pursued and brought to by forcible measures if necessary,

They are certainly bracing for war … but they continue to participate in the talks.

There is no consensus in NATO today for a ground invasion force.

It’s too early to speculate on that. The Navy will do whatever is necessary to help the NTSB get the information it needs to conduct a thorough investigation.

It is due to credible threat information on unspecified targets.

It’s required sharp increases in pay and benefits, and I think those have been appropriate, particularly in light of the recruiting problems that we were having a year ago, and the quality of life problems...

The Defense Department has sent out two advisories to military installations and commanders around the world,

We’ve certainly seen preparations for moving out.

He has not been able to rebuild his military, in part because of our containment, but also in large part because of the United Nations’ embargo on Iraq, which has prevented him from buying the...

We’re watching it very carefully. We have certainly seen signs that (Saddam Hussein is) attempting to reconstruct his air defense abilities north of the 32nd parallel.

I think it’s good we called this genocide. It’s bad that we’re not doing more to stop it.

We have very robust, well-trained combat search and rescue teams available to search for them.

This is a very eerie and disturbing echo of documented instances of rape and killing of women in Bosnia during the Bosnia war, and it is obviously outrageous if this is occurring.

We’re looking at ways to improve the quality of life, … Beyond pay and retirement, one is medical care, and that’s a box that is yet to be checked, but it’s something that the secretary...

Recruiting is on an upswing. In the last couple of months, the services have exceeded their recruiting goals,

indicative of increased allied pressure on the very center, the central nerve system of the regime that controls military and security forces.

I think that if you look at that, you’ll see that there’s been a dramatic increase in the amount of time and energy that’s been put into this project.

I don’t think completing your training early qualifies in most people’s minds as a readiness problem.

There have been some down days (during which patrols were not conducted) because of weather and other reasons, but we are still patrolling the no-fly zones, particularly in the south, aggressively.

The extent to which disparaging speech or expression with respect to sexual orientation occurs or is tolerated by individuals in the chain of command will be assessed.

The encouraging thing is, that after a couple of days, the Yugoslav government has announced that they will be treated as POWs,

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

Obviously we are gratified that CNN retracted a report that we believe was not accurate.

This highlights again that Greece needs to take a tougher stance against terrorism.

Enterprising generals and admirals will always find ways — very good ways — to spend more money.

He delayed for a long while participating in the oil-for-food program, which has actually been one of the hopeful and helpful measures that the U.N. has brought to Iraq, allowing it to import more food...

But I think this is an area where pressure from the public is having an impact on what our government is doing.

Given what we have seen, the active redeployment of (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s) air defenses, the high state of alert, we think he is interested in much more than diplomacy, that he has ulterior motives...

The question you all will have is, ‘Isn’t this a step toward the deployment of ground troops in Kosovo?’ … The answer is, absolutely not. This is pure and simple an expansion of the air...

It’s not surprising that their facilities are primitive by our standards. It’s also not surprising that, given the dedication and money they’ve devoted to upgrading their military, that they have been able to produce long-range...

I don’t know quite what they mean by that, whether they’ll build the military back up in size to 2.1 million people to a Cold War-force size or whether they’ll leave it at the current...

He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is...

These tankers will immediately help increase the tempo of air operations, allow us to keep planes on station for longer periods of time and increase the number of the hours of the day in which...

This is what right now we see as the type of force that will be self-contained and be able to provide the engineering capability, the patrolling capability, the internal force protection security capability that’s necessary.

There is now a clear minimum flight ceiling of 2,000 feet,