It was a blanket denial of all of the accounts of his either being militarily involved or fund-raising.

"We couldn't sit on the sidelines and not become militarily involved."

Most Americans have been relatively indifferent to the Yugoslav conflict over the last year, and reluctant to see this country get militarily involved.

"The Serbs know now that the Europeans are not going to get involved militarily," a diplomat said today.

It has decided to get involved militarily in Bosnia, but with no clearly defined plan for achieving America's basic interests.

Turkey has neither cause, nor sufficient lack of sense, to want to become militarily involved.

And I think there will come a time, after all is said and done, when we will have to get involved militarily there.

"They have absolutely no interest in getting militarily involved but would love for this to go on for quite some time."

Wisely, he has resisted pressure to get militarily involved and still wants to stay out of the war.

But in Washington and Europe there was always a deep reluctance to get involved militarily.