11.   He also knew they would tolerate few, if any, casualties to protect residents of a Serbian province almost none of them had known existed.

12.   He is clearly risking renewed international isolation to crush a budding rebellion in this Serbian province by the ethnic Albanians who form its majority.

13.   It also demands the demilitarization of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, which has been fighting for independence for the Serbian province.

14.   Kosovo ushered Milosevic from obscurity into the political limelight, and Milosevic has made his toughest stand on the Serbian province.

15.   Kosovo can remain a Serbian province and the two groups can live together, this reasoning goes, if only the ethnic Albanians are given a little more freedom.

16.   Meanwhile, violence continued in the southern Serbian province Tuesday.

17.   Milosevic denounced the U.N. mission in the southern Serbian province as shameful and a total fiasco and said it should be ended as soon as possible.

18.   NATO planes attacked tanks, military vehicles, artillery, and troops on the ground in the southern Serbian province.

19.   Revenge killings of Albanians could destroy not only the tenuous cease-fire in this southern Serbian province, but also the nearly stalled U.S. efforts to negotiate peace.

20.   Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said the advance, hours before NATO peacekeepers were to have entered the Serbian province, was a mistake.