81.   One Bush associate close to the process said late Tuesday that Bush would not name any prospective Cabinet members until next week at the earliest.

82.   One of the most important military improvements the prospective new members must make is in airfield operations and other means of accepting and supporting reinforcements from existing NATO countries.

83.   Prospective NATO members laud an agreement between Russia and the Western alliance.

84.   Secretary General Javier Solana stressed that joining NATO is a lot cheaper for the three prospective members than if they each had to modernize their defense forces separately.

85.   Since most prospective members of the corps are former KLA fighters, the Serbs are suspicious of the new organization.

86.   Some of the Asem members were quite unhappy to keep prospective Asem members out.

87.   Slovenia is among prospective members that see the Kosovo crisis as a reason for hurrying up their entry into the alliance.

88.   So the alliance is pressuring prospective member countries to try to solve long-standing disputes among themselves and with neighboring Russia and Belarus.

89.   Simitis has in the past warned Greece will veto the accession process five other prospective members if any problems arise with Cyprus.

90.   Solana said NATO planners hope to have their own cost estimates ready by December when accession talks are due to start with the prospective members.