The knights are no longer necessarily poor, but are still military pensioners.

Alahudin Altamirov, a 56-year-old military pensioner, said people no longer dared to hope for peace.

What's more, since benefits are underwritten by the Government, military pensioners don't have to worry that their pensions may be plundered by some swashbuckling capitalist.

According to a Latvian spokesman, Russian military pensioners in Latvia will be allowed to stay in their old apartments.

Worship continued in the church with the congregation consisting of townspeople, farming settlers and military pensioners who had been granted two acre plots in the area.

In fact, the bulk of the vast entitlement edifice consists of non-means-tested benefits that go largely to retired Americans, including Congressional and military pensioners.

New arrivals included more gauchos from South America and military pensioners, farmers and shepherds from the British Isles.

Mrs. Davies was buried, at her request, with full military honors with other military pensioners at Royal Hospital Chelsea.

In return, Mr. Meri agreed to grant residence permits to Russian military pensioners living in Estonia, a move that angered many hard-line Estonian nationalists.

Bute mobilised military pensioners, and used them to start to bring Penydarren House additional weaponry from Cardiff; he was advised to be careful, however, in case the shipments fell into the hands of the insurgency.

In the mid-nineties Charly Boy fought for the rights of military pensioners during the Abacha-led military dispensation by marching to Defence headquarters in Abuja to demand payment of their pension arrears.

A detachment of thirty Swiss grenadiers from the Salis-Samade Regiment had been sent to reinforce de Launay's small garrison of Invalides (military pensioners) shortly before the attack on the Bastille.

As you report, Latvian negotiators have buckled under Russian pressure and have agreed that military pensioners of the former Soviet forces in Latvia will be allowed to stay, privatize their apartments and eventually claim citizenship.

Today the Military Knights, who are no longer necessarily poor, but are still military pensioners, participate in the Order's processions, escorting the Knights and Ladies of the Garter, and in the daily services in St. George's Chapel.

Therefore, the Municipal Guards are not paramilitary, nor need to have similarity with military organizations, although normally to be initiated under the command of military pensioners of the BMP, which generally don't act in the interests of the Civil Guard, presenting some traces of these organizations.

Seemingly oblivious to the warning, the next several questioners rose to demand that Ms. Dunn fight to protect some program: welfare for a young single mother who is close to finishing her work toward a college degree; cost-of-living guarantees for a military pensioner, and homeowners' tax deductions, at risk under a proposed flat tax plan.