1.   Columnist Maureen Dowd has waded in, writing that the nostalgia offensive makes the baby boomers look even more spoiled and vacuous in the eyes of the war generation.

2.   Air Force Brig. Gen. John Rosa, deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that the U.S. offensive was making progress.

3.   But the offensive is making slower progress than expected.

4.   The anti-Kabila offensive has made steady gains in both northern Congo and in the southern, mineral-rich provinces of Eastern Kasai and Katanga.

5.   The government offensive also makes use of force less likely, Coward said.

6.   The government offensive also makes use of force less likely, said U.N. spokesman Lt. Col. Gary Coward.

7.   His spokesmen said a government offensive had made it impossible for him to leave Angola.