11.   Moscow strongly opposed threatened NATO airstrikes last year that were intended to pressure Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to call off his offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels.

12.   Serbs backed by renegade Muslim forces attacked government troops on several fronts in northwestern Bosnia early Monday in defiance of threatened NATO airstrikes.

13.   That phase ended with an agreement between Milosevic and U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, which averted threatened NATO airstrikes.

14.   The matches were in doubt Tuesday because of threatened NATO airstrikes against Serbian targets.

15.   The matches are in doubt because of threatened NATO airstrikes against Serbian targets.

16.   The October deal averted threatened NATO airstrikes and bought time for diplomats to try to work out a political settlement for Kosovo.

17.   With both sides rejecting the plan, the United States and its European partners have not carried out threatened NATO airstrikes against Serb-Led Yugoslavia.

18.   Without agreement from the Albanian side, NATO was unable to follow through with its threatened airstrikes against the Serbs.

19.   Without the ethnic Albanians on board, NATO cannot carry out threatened airstrikes on Serb targets to force Milosevic to agree.

20.   Without the ethnic Albanians signing on to the agreement, NATO cannot carry out threatened airstrikes on Serb targets to force Milosevic to agree.