71.   NATO had threatened airstrikes last year unless Serb forces halted their bloody crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists.

72.   NATO has threatened attacks unless Milosevic accepts the plan and halts attacks on ethnic Albanian separatists in rebellious Kosovo province.

73.   No accord has been reached between Serbs and ethnic Albanian separatists in the Serbian province.

74.   On Monday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged strong action by the Security Council to stop the crackdown by Serb forces on ethnic Albanian separatists.

75.   Recent weeks have seen intensified clashes between heavily armed Serb special police units and armed ethnic Albanian separatists, who control large parts of the countryside in Kosovo.

76.   Putin and other officials insist the war in Chechnya is against international terrorism, not ethnic separatists.

77.   Serb authorities, attempting a new initiative, invited ethnic Albanian separatists to hold face-to-face talks this week.

78.   Serb forces blockaded a mining village in Kosovo again Tuesday, trying to dislodge ethnic Albanian separatists.

79.   Reports that some ethnic Uighur separatists in the region may be linked to Osama bin Laden can only worry China.

80.   Russia insisted Tuesday that the main threat to peace in Kosovo comes from ethnic Albanian separatists, not the government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.