41.   The government sent in soldiers and police units beginning last spring to put down ethnic Albanian rebels.

42.   There was a small advance Tuesday in the effort to prop up the fragile cease-fire between Yugoslav authorities and ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo province.

43.   They returned fire, wounding two ethnic Albanian rebels.

44.   This hilly region lies northwest of Pristina and is the stronghold of the ethnic Albanian rebels who began fighting the Serbs just over a year ago.

45.   Truckloads of soldiers from the Kosovo Liberation Army, the ethnic Albanian rebel group, also were reported in the area.

46.   Under threats from NATO, Yugoslavia has all but stopped conventional attacks on the ethnic Albanian rebels who now operate freely in widening areas of the Serbian province.

47.   With their signs and slogans, the demonstrators compared President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia, who sent in troops against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo, to Hitler.

48.   Yugoslav leaders said last week that they had ordered a partial troop withdrawal because they had completed their operations against ethnic Albanian rebels.

49.   Out in the countryside, Serbs and ethnic Albanian rebels have been fighting over Kosovo province with land mines, machine guns and tanks.

50.   Only lightly armed Serb police were permitted in the buffer zone, enabling ethnic Albanian rebels to operate there with impunity.