1.   American and Cuban officials said they could not recall the last time an American military vessel sailed into a Cuban harbor.

2.   But military vessels fall into a different category.

3.   But the Japanese press and senior officials have challenged the practice of having civilians aboard a military vessel during an exercise.

4.   Clinton has authorized U.S. military vessels to transport Cuban boat people to Guantanamo Bay.

5.   He added the North has plans to fire missiles on Tokyo and on U.S. military vessels stationed in Asia if they interfere in a possible Korean war.

6.   Putin is now urging that the United Nations undertake responsibility for ocean rescues of stricken military vessels.

7.   Those ships not signaling would be exposed as military vessels, the officials say, and be more vulnerable.

8.   Others speculated that one of the many Soviet military vessels plying the Mediterranean at the time sunk the Dakar as a favor to Arab allies.

9.   Passengers stranded overnight on a grounded ferry were forced to leap onto a military vessel Friday in a rescue operation complicated by choppy seas.

10.   Peruvian military vessels and crews have regularly been leased for commercial assignment when not needed for national service.