61.   Burns is a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and a career foreign service officer.

62.   But many career officers believe Lebed is capable of military reform.

63.   Career officers, veterans and conscripts.

64.   Edward Hidalgo, a Mexican-born lawyer and career navy officer who was Navy secretary in the Carter administration, died Saturday of a heart attack.

65.   Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, a career military officer, assumes power in Nigeria.

66.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze has set up an independent intelligence service and appointed a former career KGB officer to lead it, officials said Tuesday.

67.   FREMPOL is small party made up mostly of retired police and career military officers whose main interest is increasing their pensions.

68.   Grams said the committee will probably approve all seven career foreign service officers, although he said there was one nominee he still had reservations about.

69.   He is a career foreign service officer who has yet to serve as an ambassador.

70.   He said that pending a final decision, he would not oppose Krga, a career intelligence officer seen as politically neutral.