51.   In the defense ministry, initial indications were that Netanyahu intended to offer it to Yitzhak Mordechai, a recently retired general who was popular as Northern Commander.

52.   In Moscow, Aleksandr Lebed, the retired general who is running for president, predicted that the Chechens rebels would now begin to fight among themselves.

53.   Indeed, while the gathering was touted as a conservative blockade against Powell, it also served to underscore the deep divisions with the party about the retired general.

54.   It died in a Ramada Hotel ballroom outside Washington, D.C., last week, with the retired general and his wife, Alma, together at the microphone.

55.   Jacques Klein, a retired American general who heads the United Nations mission to Bosnia, flew personally to take Kostunica to Sarajevo.

56.   Kemal Idris, a respected retired general, was one of many public figures who said they would not accept Habibie as president.

57.   Lebed is a retired general who ran a surprisingly strong third in the first round of the presidential contest before joining forces with Yeltsin for the runoff.

58.   McCaffrey, a retired general himself, loudly praised the appointment.

59.   Monday, Yeltsin, having given the retired general the reins of power, yanked on them rather tightly.

60.   Neither does his promise to rely on his running mate, former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, and his likely secretary of state, the retired general Colin Powell.