61.   Netanyahu is considered to a master campaigner, while Barak, a former army chief of staff, has been faulted for coming across as overly intellectual and wooden.

62.   New Aspiration leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, former army commander-in-chief, will head the Defense Ministry.

63.   Neither the overthrow of Chavez, a former army colonel, nor of Mahuad two years ago can be classified as a conventional Latin American military coup.

64.   No one, that is, except Vyacheslav Izmailov, a former army major who has made freeing hostages and prisoners of war his business.

65.   One of them is Interior Minister Ehud Barak, a former army chief of staff, who abstained in the vote.

66.   Only two applications are from former high-level National Party officials and only a handful are from former army officers.

67.   Particularly vexing is their success in recruiting former army soldiers to their crusade against the leftists.

68.   Recent claims by former army officers that soldiers were themselves to blame for extrajudicial killings and torture have only increased these suspicions.

69.   Private companies, some with ties to former Honduran army officers, are behind the logging, environmentalists say.

70.   Some African diplomats say that Kabila is recruiting the Interahamwe and former army troops, who are then trained by Zimbabwean officers fighting for the Congo president.