71.   At dusk, along the road west from Pristina, where villages had recently been plundered and burned by government forces, smoke was rising from homes again.

72.   At the time, the predominantly Muslim Bosnian government forces and the Croat militias were fighting bitterly for territory in central Bosnia.

73.   At the start of the war, three years ago, the Bosnian government force was a militia of lightly armed amateurs.

74.   At the same time, government forces retook a nearby village, causing hundreds of ethnic Albanian civilians to flee the area.

75.   At the start of the war the government forces had little training and few leaders.

76.   Battered by government forces and worn down by six years of war, Islamic rebels in Algeria last week for the first time called for a truce.

77.   Better to incorporate the militias into new multi-ethnic government forces, the U.S. view says.

78.   Bosnian government forces pressed forward Thursday with an offensive near the northern town of Tuzla, and they appeared to be gaining strategic high ground, U.N. officials said.

79.   Bosnian government forces backed by the Croatian army recaptured the town, in northwest Bosnia, during an offensive that appears for now to have ended.

80.   Bosnian government forces began an offensive on Monday, shattering a cease-fire six weeks before it was scheduled to expire.