41.   As Samuel Berger, the national security adviser, pointed out afterward, it is difficult to forgive absent justice.

42.   At a National Security Council meeting, McNamara argued for a blockade, and McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser, put the case for an air strike.

43.   Assuming that the new department is successfully created, the new secretary is widely expected to be Tom Ridge, the homeland security adviser.

44.   At the end of his unusually pointed speech challenging the Republicans as new isolationists, the national security adviser, Sandy Berger, vowed to keep up the drumbeat.

45.   At the White House, Clinton was briefed by security advisers and renewed his view that airstrikes, without follow-up ground operations, could break Milosevic.

46.   At the White House, President Clinton received updates from his national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, throughout the day.

47.   At that time, Bush is expected to name Stanford University scholar Condoleezza Rice as his choice for national security adviser.

48.   Because he knew from personal experience that the national security adviser could trump the secretary of state, Kissinger managed to keep the White House post vacant for months.

49.   Barak also summoned his security advisers to consider other measures to combat terror attacks, including a wider ban on Palestinian workers inside Israel.

50.   Barak was joined by Levy and Danny Yatom, his security adviser, both of whom accompanied him to Washington last week.