61.   The report could not be independently confirmed because the area near the Kosovo-Albania border has been sealed off by Serbian security forces.

62.   The released peacekeepers were turned over to Serbian security chief Jovica Stanisic, who negotiated three previous hostage releases on behalf of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

63.   They charged that Serbian security forces fired machine guns, mortars and other weapons throughout the night, apparently to intimidate them from returning to their villages.

64.   They discussed developments in southern Serbia, an area bordering Kosovo and Macedonia where ethnic Albanian insurgents battled Serbian security forces last year.

65.   Thousands of ethnic Albanians have been detained, interrogated and beaten by Serbian security services trying to halt their drive for an independent Kosovo.

66.   Twenty-four Albanians are killed by Serbian security forces in a few days.

67.   Violence between independence-minded ethnic Albanians and Serbian security forces broke out in Kosovo last February.

68.   Western newspapers are laden with stories about ethnic Albanians suffering atrocities at the hands of Serbian security forces.

69.   Yugoslavia is resisting the dispatch of a multinational force to Kosovo where there is heavy fighting between Serbian security forces and the Albanian minority.

70.   A lot of high-ranking and red-bereted Serbian state security officers milled around.