31.   The telephones were busy through the night Friday night at the regional command in Iquitos, and there was no answer Saturday morning at the defense ministry.

32.   The Southern Command, one of five regional military commands, is responsible for Central and South America.

33.   They also hold two of the three regional commands.

34.   Those arrested Friday were presented to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo when she visited the police regional command in Pangasinan early Saturday.

35.   Whoever controls the Naples command will become even more important in the new NATO, which is to cut its three regional commands to two.

36.   Haselock said the commander of NATO ground forces in Bosnia, British Lieutenant General Sir Michael Walker, would visit the regional IFOR command Friday to discuss the issue.

37.   AFSouth is the other regional command.

38.   Apart from Afsouth, the other regional command is the central command, or Afcent.

39.   But establishing new regional commands is seen as not essential.

40.   Captain Kyaw Soe was a grade three officer in the Loikaw regional military command until his defection to the ABSDF, which the student group announced last Saturday.