21.   President Megawati Sukarnoputri installed an army general, who played a key role in her rise to power last year, as her new military commander on Friday.

22.   A new commander is to take over the U.N. observer force on the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border, the mission announced here Saturday.

23.   A new military commander for East Timor, Col. Suhartono Suratman, was sworn in Wednesday in a ceremony in Dili.

24.   A significant reduction in the number of U.S. troops on Okinawa is not likely in the near future, the new commander of the Pacific Command said Thursday.

25.   A unit of the blue-bereted peacekeepers saluted the new commander at a ceremony Sunday at their headquarters in the border town of Naqoura on the Mediterranean coast.

26.   African peacekeeping soldiers stepped up their deployment in the capital Monday after a new commander took over and promised to once again make Monrovia a safe haven.

27.   Also Thursday, a new commander for Russian troops in Chechnya took up his post.

28.   Although Chettha made it clear that Thanom would be honourably removed, he did not name a new Third Army commander.

29.   Almost overshadowed by the sensational rumors of his death was a report that the separatists had also chosen a new top military commander.

30.   Amid a rash of violence, the new commander of NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo warned Monday that Western governments will withhold support if attacks on minority groups persist.