1.   Last week, an opposing group of retired officers joined the battle on the side of the Pentagon.

2.   Although Pinochet reportedly had no official contacts with serving members of the Ecuadorian armed forces, he had visited a military social centre there and met retired officers.

3.   A retired naval officer, he was in charge of the army of stewards and marshals, all volunteers.

4.   Thirty retired council officers may have to pay back their early retirement golden handshakes, because of a High Court ruling.

5.   Almost all retired officers make a point of not criticizing the military on television, but some are more cautious than others.

6.   An obituary about Gurdon Wallace Wattles Jr., a retired legal officer of the U.N. Secretariat, misstated his birthplace.

7.   An organization representing retired military officers is poking holes in a General Accounting Office report on health care for military retirees.

8.   And it just as easily could have been our group, which included a retired Navy captain and a retired Foreign Service officer.

9.   And retired officers like Idris form an outspoken and respected opposition camp.

10.   And retired officers like Idris form an outspoken and respected opposition.