11.   The PLA is dangerous because it has nuclear weapons and because the generals seem to have slipped the bonds of civilian control.

12.   As casualties mount and the campaign drags on, their generals seem hapless fools or hopeless cynics.

13.   At first, the generals seemed to take their loss in stride.

14.   But the generals do not seem to step in.

15.   It was intoxicating stuff and the former paratroop general seemed to let it go to his head.

16.   The former Communist general seemed unrepentent, however, telling a news conference that atrocites were a regrettable consequence of war.