41.   Ehud Barak, a highly decorated former general, took office as prime minister of Israel with an absence of pomp.

42.   Emphasizing his firm intention to also do something about unpaid salaries and pensions, the former general suggested that his definition of national security was broader than most.

43.   Ephraim Sneh, the transportation minister and a former general, said that the deaths should be investigated thoroughly.

44.   Emmanuel Halperin, who anchors a television news show, asked a former general, Ori Orr, recently.

45.   Earlier Monday, Barak, also uncharacteristically, took on Sharon, a fellow former general who served as defense minister in the previous government.

46.   He emerged as a political rival to Aleksandr I. Lebed, the former general who is now the governor of the vast Krasnoyarsk region.

47.   He would be the first former general to head the State Department since Alexander Haig two decades ago and the first African-American.

48.   He was chosen to represent the party because he outscored Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, another former general and now second in the polls.

49.   His brother Shahpur Ahmadzi, an aide and a former general who acted as a bodyguard lived with him.

50.   I was in Havana with Bob McNamara five years ago when a former Soviet general said he had authorization to use tactical nuclear missiles if America invaded Cuba.