11.   The attacks also fulfilled a vow from U.S. officials that they would not ease up on Saddam Hussein amid the Balkan crisis.

12.   The dust is slowly beginning to settle on another Balkan crisis, one that has defined the elements of the intractable Bosnian war more clearly than ever before.

13.   The extraordinary response to the Balkan crises is not limited to helping refugees inside Austria.

14.   The sudden surge in arriving refugees suggests that a second wave is heading for Macedonia, whose own fragile ethnic balance is being sorely tested by the Balkan crisis.

15.   The two American officials also decided to add Spain and Italy to their previously announced plans to visit Britian, France, and Germany to discuss the Balkan crisis.

16.   To judge by scattered comments from their vacation abodes, however, congressional Republicans are deeply divided over the Balkan crisis.

17.   Wednesday President Boris Yeltsin named his former prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, as a special envoy for the Balkan crisis.

18.   We look at where veterans in the Senate line up on the Balkan crisis.

19.   While striving to maintain a businesslike demeanor in public, in private the president is preoccupied with the Balkan crisis, aides said.

20.   Against that backdrop, Belgium suggested the EU rethink its common defense ambitions given a history of waffling on Balkan crises.