1.   As recently as this decade the service kept murderous Guatemalan military officers on the payroll and defied a presidential decision to cut off security assistance to that country.

2.   Administration officials insist that the security assistance would be aimed primarily at fighting drug trafficking and not at counterinsurgency operations against leftist guerrilla groups.

3.   Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said any eventual American security assistance need not go for weapons.

4.   In addition, lawmakers who have been cool to ACOG requests for security assistance from the Pentagon may change their minds.

5.   It is the largest recipient of U.S. security assistance in the hemisphere.

6.   The Clinton administration offered security assistance, but Peruvian President Alberto Fujimoro demonstrated little public sense of urgency.

7.   Exasperated with Russia, Shevardnadze, a former Soviet foreign minister, has been actively pushing for greater Western security assistance.

8.   He has been pushing for greater Western security assistance, and said in the spring that Georgia would welcome the chance to join NATO.

9.   He voiced support for increased international security assistance.

10.   The company said the revenue outlook was improving because of expanded demand for data-storage equipment, servers, security assistance and services.