51.   Also Monday, the deputy leader of Hezbollah said in southeastern Lebanon that Sharon would pay a price for any new military offensive in the region.

52.   And as Serb forces opened a new offensive against militant ethnic Albanians, European Union foreign ministers tightened sanctions against Belgrade by banning Yugoslav airlines from EU airports.

53.   Amid a rash of recent killings in Kosovo, Washington is launching a new diplomatic offensive to persuade ethnic Albanian leaders to sign a peace deal.

54.   Anti-Taliban officials have been buoyed by the international airstrikes and promised that new offensives against the Taliban were in the works.

55.   Authorities closed roads leading to Ljuboten, and no government officials would immediately comment on the new offensive in which scores of houses apparently were destroyed.

56.   But on Thursday, he said he would hold off on a major new offensive, saying the government had made some movement from its hard-line position.

57.   But Rabbani has said there must be guarantees that Hezb-e-Islami will not launch a new offensive.

58.   But in Chechnya, new Russian offensives were reported, and top military officials said they had little faith in talks.

59.   But top Russian military officials were cool to the idea of talks and new Russian offensives were reported around the rebel strongholds of Vedeno and Shatoi in the south.

60.   But the meeting Saturday between top Bosnian government and Croat commanders in the central Bosnian town of Travnik indicated new offensives were being planned.