31.   A pool reporter at the airport described a much more tense enounter, however, when Russian forces supported by Serbs tried to refuse access to the airport.

32.   A pool reporter at the airport described a much more tense encounter, however, when Russian forces supported by Serbs tried to refuse access to the airport.

33.   Arming themselves with knives and hatchets, they refused access to strangers.

34.   Both sides report events largely through their media in Pristina, preventing independent confirmation often by refusing access to the area of action.

35.   Bosnian Serbs refused access to international organizations and to journalists, including most Bosnian Serb reporters.

36.   But Beijing had consistently refused access, he said.

37.   But the officer was refused access to Pope, a U.S. Embassy official said.

38.   Croatia has given verbal assurances of cooperation, but the tribunal says Bosnian Croats refused it access to central Bosnia.

39.   He did not specify when Mubanga had been arrested, and said British consular access had been refused by Zambian officials.

40.   However, the army command refused reporters access to the men, so the report could not be independently confirmed.