1.   Furthermore, can we be sure of the actions of local commanders?

2.   Local commanders, acting on their own authority, attempted to keep order according to their interpretations of their duties.

3.   The local divisional commander called me direct.

4.   Reporters would be accompanied by military information officers in combat zones if deemed necessary by local commanders and would be strongly discouraged from travelling independently.

5.   Local commanders said the situation in Azici was difficult, but they vowed not to surrender the two towns.

6.   Mr Shevardnadze says local Russian commanders are responsible and not President Boris Yeltsin.

7.   Gen Morillon was also negotiating with local commanders yesterday to try to get aid convoys moving again in eastern Bosnia.

8.   Still the local commander attempted to retake it by one of those spontaneous counter-attacks, but Ptain now intervened, crying hold, enough.

9.   An investigation by the local commander found that the soldier had violated open-fire regulations, army officials said.