51.   Kuchma then appointed a new commander of the National Guard, a new head of the Ukrainian Border Guard, and director of the Customs Committee.

52.   Karadzic had met earlier at his headquarters in Pale, east of the Bosnian capital, with the new U.N. commander in Bosnia, Lt. Gen. Rupert Smith.

53.   Lt. Gen. Rupert Smith, the new commander of U.N. forces in Bosnia, was heading to the northwestern Bihac region today to visit Bangladeshi peacekeepers there.

54.   Lt. Gen. Rupert Smith, the new British commander of U.N. forces in Bosnia, arrived in Sarajevo Thursday, and met with Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic.

55.   Maj. Gen. Sultan Al-Mutairy was named new commander of ground forces.

56.   Lt. Gen. Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, deputy chief of the North Caucasus military district, became the new federal military commander in Chechnya.

57.   Little was known about the new commanders.

58.   Meanwhile, the Russian side said Ukraine was appointing new commanders to Fleet units without any authorization.

59.   Military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Amnon Shahak appointed Shlomo Yanai as the new commander of southern Israel Thursday, as part of a reshuffling of top army officers.

60.   New commanders of all nine military districts in Haiti were also named.