71.   But the alliance reserved the right to attack if he resumes his crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists seeking independence for the southern Serbian province.

72.   But the sources said Milosevic refused to budge on an additional demand to deploy an international monitoring force in the secessionist Serbian province.

73.   But the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Milosevic refused to budge on an international monitoring force in the secessionist Serbian province.

74.   But there was no visible progress in weekend diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, and refugees continued pouring out of the Serbian province.

75.   Comparing Kosovo to Rwanda, a top U.S. official toured a devastated area of the Serbian province on Sunday and pushed for independent investigations into reported massacres.

76.   Discussing the situation in Kosovo, he said the southern Serbian province inhabited mostly by ethnic Albanians bears the brunt of repression from the current Serbian regime.

77.   Elsewhere in the turbulent Serbian province, several peaceful protests were held without incident.

78.   Ethnic Albanian sources still in the Serbian province made allegations of killing, kidnapping, and looting by paramilitary gangs, some targeting civilians in door-to-door raids.

79.   Ethnic Albanians, which make up the vast majority of this Serbian province, are hoping to gain independence from Serb authorities.

80.   European Union envoy Wolfgang Petritsch arrived in the southern Serbian province for a day of meetings with ethnic Albanian negotiators and representatives of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army.