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Peace Time: August 13, 1999

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Britain and France have each placed a brigade of 7,000 troops on standby for UN peacekeeping missions, the first Security Council members to do so. In theory, more than 20 nations have provided a pool of 100,000 troops from which NATO can draw the peacekeepers it needs. --Stephen V Cole

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