41.   The United States has refused to send troops to eastern Slavonia but has offered to nominate an unnamed retired American general to head the civilian transitional administration.

42.   Three Western military experts, including an American general, arrived in Khartoum Wednesday and headed south to monitor a cease-fire in the Nuba Mountains.

43.   With the approval of the U.S. government, however, a group of retired American generals was hired by Croatia to help reorganize its army.

44.   With U.S. government approval, retired American generals have been helping Croatia organize its army along democratic chain-of-command lines, State Department officials say.

45.   A number of American generals, who were not identified, also took part.

46.   An American general on Wednesday held the first meeting to be organised under US command bringing together the military leaders of the former warring factions in northeast Bosnia.

47.   US lawmakers demanded Friday that President Bill Clinton takes action against an American general who met with with Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic.

48.   Our troops will take their orders only from the American general who commands NATO.