21.   It was to culminate on Wednesday morning with a military parade.

22.   It will be the first big military parade in Moscow in five years.

23.   Lebanese guerillas staged impromptu military parades with the abandoned tanks they managed to start.

24.   Military parades were held in many of the bigger cities.

25.   None of the other wartime allies staged a big military parade for the occasion.

26.   Rumsfeld being welcomed to the Pentagon with a military parade last Friday, after being sworn in as Secretary of Defense.

27.   Shevardnadze, who as Soviet foreign minister had a pivotal role in dissolving the Soviet Union, had planned a military parade to celebrate Independence Day.

28.   Soon the television was back on the air, broadcasting the classic coup soundtrack, canned military music, over taped footage of military parades.

29.   There were no military parades, no soccer games or other public commemorations.