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CLINTON IS POISED to extend the June deadline for U.S. troops' mission in Bosnia.</br></br>The president is expected to discard the idea of an exit date and list criteria to be met before the international force can go home. Privately, U.S. officials concede troops may have to stay several years. There are now 8,500 U.S. troops in Bosnia, and, in one scenario, 7,000 would stay. There have been no combat casualties and voter opposition is muted, but the extension issue provokes anger in Congress.</br></br>Many drugs donated in the Balkan war were unusable, and a New England Journal of Medicine study says donors dump outdated supplies on the U.N.</br></br>---</br></br>The budget deficit is shrinking faster than had been projected, and the fiscal '98 shortfall could be as much as $30 billion less than the $58 billion forecast, according to soon-to-be-released administration and congressional estimates. Clinton aides are already drawing up scenarios for using any fiscal '99 surplus.