31.   The fighting appeared linked to a new government offensive in neighboring Croatia, and came after a nationwide truce expired Monday in Bosnia.

32.   The fighting appeared to die down Sunday after hundreds of heavily armed police were deployed, but scattered gunfire could still be heard.

33.   The fighting appeared to intensify, meanwhile, in northwest Bosnia.

34.   The fighting appeared to mark the disintegration of a November peace accord that had halted a five-month civil war in the former Portuguese colony.

35.   The fighting now appears limited to southern Chechnya and frequent shootouts in the capital, Grozny.

36.   The latest fighting appears to put the peace plan in even greater jeopardy.

37.   The latest fighting appears to have eroded a United Nations peace plan that called for the establishment of a neutral multiparty council.

38.   The renewed fighting did not appear to scuttle a planned exchange of bodies between the two sides.

39.   The recent fighting appears to have ended more than a year of relative calm in northern Uganda.

40.   While the fighting appeared to have abated, the propaganda war continued.