41.   Chretien, later speaking as prime minister of Canada, said he is preoccupied by the plight of the Canadian peacekeepers still being held.

42.   Col. Reno Vanier, the former commander of Canadian peacekeepers in Haiti, was fined and demoted Thursday following his conviction on six bribery and fraud-related charges.

43.   Collenette says he believes Canadian peacekeepers are being used as pawns.

44.   Col. Reno Vanier, the former commander of Canadian peacekeepers in Haiti, was convicted Tuesday on six bribery and fraud-related charges.

45.   Eleven Canadian peacekeepers and one U.N. monitor held hostage by Serb rebels were taken Saturday to a rebel stronghold southeast of Sarajevo, a U.N. spokesman said.

46.   Eight more Canadian peacekeepers have been detained by Bosnian Serb soldiers amid rising tensions between United Nations forces and Serb fighters.

47.   Elsewhere, a Canadian peacekeeper was slightly injured in Sarajevo Sunday when a mortar shell, apparently fired by rebel Serbs, exploded in a tree at UN headquarters.

48.   Eight more Canadian peacekeepers have been detained by Bosnian Serb soldiers amid rising tensions between United Nations forces and Serbian fighters.

49.   Fifty-three Canadian peacekeepers and two observers are being detained by the Serbs.

50.   Fifty-five Canadian peacekeepers remain detained near Visoko, Bosnia, by Serb forces, a spokesman said today.