31.   A Russian military spokesman, Colonel Konstantin Kukharenko, denied the existence of the camps.

32.   A Russian military spokesman insisted that rebel casualties were far greater, but there was no way to confirm those claims.

33.   All manned NATO craft returned safely to their bases, but a drone plane was downed, said NATO military spokesman Walter Jertz, a German army major general.

34.   But a military spokesman continued to criticize Western leaders for expressing concerns that the military says are exaggerated.

35.   But a NATO military spokesman, Air Commodore David Wilby, said Friday that allied intelligence was concentrating mostly on finding tanks and other armored vehicles to bomb.

36.   But a U.S. military spokesman Friday defended the policy of inaction, saying it was up to Haitians to police themselves.

37.   But no significant military action was reported inside a zone that U.N. commanders have tentatively sketched out as the so-called safe area, a U.N. military spokesman said.

38.   But neither he nor military spokesmen reconciled the apparent contradiction.

39.   But the second phase has not yet been authorized by the Pentagon, American military spokesmen here said.

40.   By nightfall, the troops had freed the captured president and ended the six-day-old coup, a military spokesman said.