1.   Hours earlier the prime minister had fired the general as army chief of staff, while he was out of the country.

2.   Robert Blackwill, the U.S. ambassador here, has strongly denied Indian newspaper reports published earlier this week that the United States had pressured India to fire the general.

3.   The armed forces launched the coup Tuesday, just an hour or so after Sharif had fired the general.

4.   The general was fired and jailed in February for allegedly taking cash and property from Carrillo.

5.   The television station went dark soon after announcing that the prime minister had fired the general.

6.   To the contrary, he recently fired a general who had disobeyed orders to send troops into Chechnya.

7.   President Yeltsin fired seven generals, all suspected of being willing to conspire with former Defense Minister Pavel Grachev against the president.

8.   Bosnian Serb leaders fired four generals in a bid to assign blame for major battlefield setbacks and appealed to Serbia to help prevent more losses.

9.   He credited Pastrana with firing generals and suspending others accused of human rights violations.

10.   It is the first time a Colombian general has been fired for human rights abuses.