21.   A confidential review by U.S. naval officers has concluded that Taiwan needs a significant infusion of new weapons, including a sophisticated ship-borne radar system.

22.   A naval officer before entering the computer-service business, Perot has never been public office.

23.   Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda sat in his Pentagon office with a group of reporters last month assessing his two years as the highest ranking U.S. naval officer.

24.   After college he served for four years as a naval officer during World War II.

25.   Admiral Fargo also said he would allow a Japanese naval officer to serve as an adviser to the proceedings.

26.   Aleksandr Nikitin, a researcher for a Norwegian environmental organization and a former Russian naval officer, was still asleep.

27.   But after that, most prospective naval officers never sail.

28.   But Callas understood how hard Butterfly had fallen for a dashing American naval officer, with his hearty laugh and cocky ways.

29.   But rising to the status of naval officer is, for minorities, to become more isolated.

30.   Command, the saying goes, is lonely, and it can be lonelier still for a naval officer.