This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup.

The new strategy calls for middle-ranking officers from the former Iraqi Army to receive a few months of training early next year.

Others have been middle-ranking officers who staged four rebellions in as many years.

'The nettle has to be grasped,' he told a conference of middle-ranking officers in Blackpool.

Many of the victims were said to be middle-ranking officers.

The middle-ranking officers who mounted the uprising on April 22 were seeking to expel five powerful northern states from the 21-state federation.

Between 1941 and 1944 these positions were usually occupied by middle-ranking officers of the Romanian army.

Some of those recruits are middle-ranking noncommissioned officers today.

But middle-ranking officers have little inkling of General Vuono's agenda.

Analysts said the pro-Estrada contingent had support from middle-ranking military officers who remained loyal to him.