41.   Contrary to some reports, chemists and military experts say that gas masks can protect against nerve gases such as sarin.

42.   Despite the stepped-up attacks, military experts generally discount the likelihood of an all-out Russian invasion of Chechnya.

43.   Dmitri V. Trenin, a former Army officer and military expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, disagreed.

44.   Every military expert is sure that the United States and South Korean forces could defeat a North Korean attack without using any land mines.

45.   Even Taiwan military experts cannot make a good case for the tanks, which were put on the arms sales wish list by the Taiwanese army.

46.   From battle tanks to electrical power plants, deciding what to hit in the air war was left largely to military experts in Washington and Europe.

47.   He added that military experts have reviewed the tape and found nothing that shows federal agents fired devices into the compound to start the deadly blaze.

48.   His plan, untested in battle, has already drawn fire from some military experts who worry that it is a risky experiment.

49.   However, military experts remained skeptical that government forces would really attempt such a broadly advertised all-out attack into the several hundred Serbian artillery pieces ringing the capital.

50.   However, other military experts question whether even such training can overcome the inherent inconsistency of using combat soldiers peacekeepers.