41.   One of the bandits slashed and fatally shot First Sgt. Witono of the elite police Mobile Brigade Unit, who was assigned to escort the convoy.

42.   Police said they would escort the convoy to prevent problems.

43.   Refugees from Kosovo say the targeting of women continued even as their convoys were being escorted out of the province.

44.   Several West African peacekeepers escorting the convoy were wounded and the trucks were seized by fighters, she said.

45.   She said the Burundian military already had begun to escort aid convoys.

46.   Since peacekeepers could not escort the convoys without their vehicles, their commander stationed them along the road at six-mile intervals.

47.   Tanjug said Ukrainian peacekeepers were escorting the convoy when it was attacked near the village of Banjica, halfway between Urosevac and Stpce.

48.   State police in New Jersey and Maryland have agreed to escort convoys through their states.

49.   The contingent is to protect U.N. personnel and assets and escort relief convoys, among other jobs.

50.   The allies also debated the old idea of creating a secure corridor linking Sarajevo with the Croatian port of Split and of escorting U.N. convoys, officials said.