11.   Croatian Serb officials confirmed the town had fallen, calling off a session of their self-styled parliament to hold an emergency meeting of their defense council.

12.   Fino has turned down that demand and has twice canceled plans to travel south for meetings with the self-styled defense councils running the region.

13.   Hasan is a member of Jamaat-e-Islami, a key members of the defense council.

14.   In Knin, Croatian Serb officials confirmed the town had fallen and called an emergency meeting of their defense council.

15.   It was later announced that the defense council had rescued the ship.

16.   Joint army activities would require consent of supreme defense council.

17.   Premier Costas Simitis called an emergency meeting Saturday of his defense council to discuss both crashes and rescue efforts.

18.   Supreme defense council now headed by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic would remain, but decisions would require agreement by both states.

19.   The defense council for a detained journalist submitted another request to visit him following reports that he was hospitalized with torture-related injuries, a newspaper reported Sunday.

20.   They also stripped her of the direct command over the army, transferring the authority to a defense council loyal to Karadzic.