31.   She also will meet with ethnic Albanian leaders, the State Department said.

32.   The attack produced a province-wide rebellion, ending the peaceful resistance movement led by the ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova.

33.   The agreement was not signed by the guerrillas but by ethnic Albanian political leaders.

34.   The ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova said Thursday that NATO must be included in any international force sent to secure the return of ethnic Albanian refugees to Kosovo.

35.   The government is offering limited autonomy, and there are deep divisions among ethnic Albanian political leaders over what level of autonomy would be acceptable.

36.   The government offensive comes as Western diplomats were turning a bit less pessimistic about their chances of persuading ethnic Albanian leaders and the Serbs to negotiate.

37.   The parties, however, did not endorse a request by the KLA leadership to be declared the army of the government, ethnic Albanian leaders said.

38.   The Rambouillet talks broke up on Tuesday to allow time for the ethnic Albanian leaders at the negotiations to return to Kosovo to consult with their constituents.

39.   Then, under an agreement earlier this month between Macedonian Slav and ethnic Albanian leaders, Parliament should approve constitutional amendments to expand rights for the minority Albanians.

40.   There were also more reports of assassinations of ethnic Albanian leaders and of the scorched-earth torching of Kosovar villages by Serbian forces.