21.   Serbian officials close to Milosevic said he was likely to send a delegation to the talks.

22.   Serbian officials in Belgrade linked the bomb blast to an attack on Serbian police in the southern Presevo region near the Kosovo boundary.

23.   Serbian officials later said that the monitors had been released.

24.   Serbian officials, as a matter of policy, refuse to disclose the names or location of those taken into custody.

25.   Serbian officials kept up a defensive, wounded tone, and called in Western ambassadors to the Foreign Ministry to protest the possibility of bombing.

26.   Serbian officials said the statement followed a meeting between Karadzic and the Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, in Belgrade late last week.

27.   Serbian officials said they would not be released until NATO guaranteed that there will be no more air strikes.

28.   Serbian officials asked the Albanians to please hurry up.

29.   Serbian officials have yet to provide the roster.

30.   Serbian forces have been moving into this region, too, supposedly to stop the influx of armed Albanian groups, Serbian officials say.