81.   Cohen and his colleagues, representing the five most influential NATO allies, met on the sidelines of a conference of European defense ministers in Bonn.

82.   Defense Secretary William Perry, in Paris for meetings with defense ministers from European countries contributing troops to the U.N. force in Bosnia, was even more emphatic.

83.   Dostum, the deputy defense minister, carried flowers and was wearing a suit instead of his uniform.

84.   Dostum has been appointed deputy defense minister.

85.   During a visit in April, the Indian foreign and defense minister, Jaswant Singh, was invited for a surprise tete-a-tete with Bush.

86.   Early this year, a bribery scandal about arms procurement led to the resignation of the defense minister.

87.   Early this year, Netanyahu dismissed Mordechai as defense minister, and he did so live on television, at the top of the evening news.

88.   Ephraim Sneeh, the deputy defense minister, said the attack was similar to one in Netanya last November that preceded Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

89.   Ephraim Sneh, the Israeli deputy defense minister, accused the Palestinian Authority of failing to curb the street riots, which have gone unchecked by the Palestinian police.

90.   Ephraim Sneh, the outgoing deputy defense minister who lost to him, will become the transportation minister.