1.   In the meantime, the new brigades with the new vehicles would provide a capability somewhere between a heavy armored division and a light airborne division.

2.   It will take more than a year for all three battalions of the new brigade to be outfitted, trained and begin full operations.

3.   What does Washington do if the guerrillas shoot at the helicopters, or worse yet at the U.S. military trainers working with the new anti-drug brigade?

4.   Later this year, a dozen new brigades specializing in juvenile delinquency and crime prevention will be deployed, along with mobile units will focus on suburban violence.

5.   New anti-crime brigades are to be formed, a National Criminology Institute established and programs drafted to aid victims.