21.   During Operation Essential Harvest, thousands of NATO troops are collecting weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels, bt despite progress in the collection, tensions persist.

22.   Ethnic tensions persist throughout Bosnia.

23.   However, tensions persist in the post-war province seeking to recover from a decade of political repression, war and ethnic conflict.

24.   In Bosnia, Croat-Muslim hostilities ended with a U.S.-sponsored agreement last March to form a federation, but tensions have persisted.

25.   Meanwhile, tension persisted on the Tajik-Afghan border Wednesday.

26.   Meta stepped down because of personal and ideological differences with Socialist leader Fatos Nano, and the tensions persist within the party.

27.   Montenegro is expected to hold a referendum on secession next spring, and ethnic tensions persist in Kosovo.

28.   Nonetheless tension persists.

29.   On anniversary of Korean war, tensions persist.

30.   Tensions persisted.