1.  Earlier on Tuesday, an American military spokeswoman said logistical problems might stall the start of the mission by more than a week.

2.  Earlier in the day, an Israeli settler in Gaza was shot and wounded as he drove his pickup truck, a military spokeswoman said.

3.  Like the other six Marines at the embassy that day, he declined through a military spokeswoman to be interviewed for this article.

4.  A military spokeswoman said she had no reports of deaths.

5.  A U.S. military spokeswoman confirmed the evacuation but refused to elaborate.

6.  A U.S. military spokeswoman said the three would be flown from there to Landstuhl Hospital in Ramstein, Germany.

7.  A military spokeswoman in Pretoria said she had no immediate word on casualties.

8.  A U.S. soldier scheduled to stand trial next week for the killing of an ethnic Albanian girl in Kosovo has pleaded guilty, a military spokeswoman said Saturday.

9.  A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in the stabbing death of a taxi driver in Kaiserslautern, a military spokeswoman said Monday.

10.  An inquiry by the South African National Defense Force cleared the officer, Maj. Elize Lizamore, of any wrongdoing, a military spokeswoman said.