But, the officer conceded, "this could have shown up in the street."

The police, many officers concede, sometimes do mistake innocent people for criminals.

Some officers conceded that blind allegiance in the name of trust is hypocritical and could even threaten their lives.

Senior military officers conceded that they had not studied the potential environmental consequences of accidentally launching a missile toward the ocean.

Some officers, in private conversations, concede that they could lose.

Russian officers conceded that the move was also a precaution against rebel infiltration.

"There's some truth to what you say," the naval officer conceded.

"And a shuttle can't outrun a warbird," the first officer conceded.

These officers conceded that pornography had ceased to arouse any feelings in them whatsoever.

But both officers would concede only that they did not arrest most of those they frisked.