11.   At the same time, the civilian governments have proved reluctant to move against military officers accused of human rights crimes.

12.   A conviction would point guilt directly at Pinochet, who had tight control over the secret police after he overthrew the civilian government of President Salvador Allende Gossens.

13.   Abacha so discredited military rule that in recent months even many officers began to join ordinary Nigerians in clamoring for a civilian government.

14.   Abubakar, who is not running for president, has pledged that the military will hand over power to a civilian government next May.

15.   All Latin American countries except Cuba now have democratically elected civilian governments, and most have growing economies.

16.   But full restoration of a civilian government is likely to be a long way off.

17.   But civilian governments since then have had little success in dealing with difficult issues.

18.   But looking around them as they face this challenge from a newly confident civilian government, military officers have found few expressions of public support.

19.   But the civilian government has permitted court investigations of military abuses in an effort to discover what happened to opponents.

20.   But the civilian governments headed by Menem and that of Raul Alfonsin before him have issued blanket amnesties for most officers.