31.   Serbian officials contend that the women and children who died were killed by armed rebels who refused to let them surrender.

32.   Serbian officials have tried to blame the rebel fighters for the carnage, saying the guerrillas executed those who tried to run away.

33.   Serbian officials said that Bosnian Serb troops had established defense lines in the central Mount Ozren region and around Banja Luka.

34.   Serbian officials, who met on Tuesday night with the Bosnian government at the Sarajevo airport, said they would have to check with their leadership before responding.

35.   The absence of Western troops in Bosnia after next June would almost certainly lead to renewed war, Western diplomats and Serbian officials here say.

36.   The delegation pressed Milutinovic and other Serbian officials to allow Rugova to travel to the West.

37.   The commission is investigating whether Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Serbia, or any other Serbian officials are implicated in war crimes, the official said.

38.   The level of violence varied widely, depending on the whim of the local Serbian official in charge, or even individual gunmen.

39.   The last thing they want to see is Serbian officials when they go home.

40.   The ministers sent a tough message to Milosevic by doubling the names on their list of Serbian officials who are barred from traveling to European Union countries.