1.  The hitherto important military department was to be dissolved completely and replaced by an advisory committee subject to the direct control of the politburo.

2.  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh are also working on the smart cameras as part of a grant from the U.S. military department responsible for inventing the Internet.

3.  Swiss authorities arrested a Rwandan man accused of taking part in massacres last year in the central African country, the federal military department said Thursday.

4.  US troops also occupied the residence of the Haitian colonel in charge of the northern military department, Claude Josaphat.

5.  Meanwhile, the commander of the military department in north Haiti resigned, citing the Cap Haitien shootout, according to a private radio station here.