11.   Apart from some renegades and influential retired generals, for most officers the main dispute now is whether to seek rapid or gradual reform, the experts said.

12.   As a retired black general, the son of parents who did not finish grade school, Stanford has drawn inevitable comparisons to Colin Powell, his longtime friend.

13.   As his defense minister, Aristide named a retired general, Wilton Lerisson.

14.   At issue in the current case is whether the retired generals knew of the abuses and could have used their authority to stop them.

15.   Attorney General Allison Leahy is the liberal Democratic presidential candidate running against conservative Republican Lincoln Howe, a retired four-star general.

16.   Before anyone could ask the retired general what he meant, Warner called a halt to the briefing and steered the two back inside the house.

17.   Because of his status as a retired general, Pinochet has the right to choose the location of his interrogation by prosecutors.

18.   A black retired general asked McKinney to meet him in a park, for a talk.

19.   A few months ago, government investigators discovered that Bussi, a retired general, had a fat Swiss bank account that he never disclosed on his tax returns.

20.   A retired general was named president and the leadership of the zealous Islamic movement put in jail.