31.   Meanwhile, fighting between Serbian government forces and secessionist ethnic Albanian rebels continued.

32.   NATO began collecting arms Monday from ethnic Albanian rebels who handed over mortars, machine guns and other heavy weaponry.

33.   Officials here and in Europe said Friday that they expected that the ethnic Albanian rebels would abide by the broad terms of the agreement reached with President Slobodan Milosevic.

34.   Officials here continue to say India will not send in its own troops or supply arms to Sri Lanka, which is battling separatist ethnic Tamil rebels.

35.   Officials in New Delhi continue to say India will not send in its own troops or supply arms to Sri Lanka, which is battling separatist ethnic Tamil rebels.

36.   Only in the last few months has that zone been closed off to ethnic Albanian rebels, and turned over to Yugoslav military control.

37.   So did the ethnic Albanian rebels they were fighting.

38.   Some Serb forces will remain to protect Orthodox Christian religious sites in Kosovo, and the ethnic Albanian rebel forces fighting for an independent Kosovo must be disarmed.

39.   The battered village of Lavce was virtually deserted except for a dozen ethnic Albanian rebels wearing new military fatigues and clearly exhilarated by the shelling from Macedonian forces.

40.   The column of ethnic Albanian rebels, which formed in Albania and traveled into Kosovo under the cover of darkness, did not permit photos.