41.   The Canadian general said he hoped the military options would be settled by the end of the weekend.

42.   The event that precipitated the current crisis shadowed everything the generals said.

43.   The death of the Tel Aviv bomber was caused by a premature explosion, the general said, indicating that he planned to leave the bomb at the cafe.

44.   The general has always said, as Pentagon officials did again Friday, that there is nothing beyond speculation to suggest where bin Laden might be.

45.   The general has said he was not involved in plotting a coup and was working on his farm when the mutineers asked him to be their spokesman.

46.   The general said he decided that the best way to cleanse Pakistan of Sharif was to get him physically out of the country.

47.   The general said he did not expect to attend the conference, which he said should be limited to scientists.

48.   The general said many more Taliban positions needed to be hit, including the Tutekhan Ridge, where Taliban gun emplacements look down on the main road into Kabul.

49.   The general said NATO could not be sure how many of the refugees were killed by bombs because its investigators could not visit the scene.

50.   The general said that after the experiments carried out by Russians and Czechs in a North Korean hospital, the Americans were executed.