1.   Although the vote comes five weeks after U.S. warplanes began bombing the Balkan nation, no one expects it to pass.

2.   And TV satellite dishes from the R.L. Drake Co. point skyward in various Balkan nations.

3.   Bosnia is still laced with land mines, and experts say it could be decades before the Balkan nations recover economically from the damage of violence and sanctions.

4.   A war is breaking out in this Balkan nation, which until now has escaped the ethnic carnage of Kosovo to the north.

5.   Bulgaria, a small Balkan nation that borders Romania, had won and Mexico had lost.

6.   Clinton also took note of the NATO peacekeeping force, including U.S. troops, now stationed in Bosnia with an eye on other Balkan nations.

7.   Clinton promised the leaders of these Balkan nations that the United States would continue to provide economic aid as well as encourage business development in their relatively poor countries.

8.   Dole made the comments while campaigning in this Ohio city, where a U.S.-brokered peace accord for the war-torn Balkan nation was negotiated last year.

9.   Greece, meanwhile, offers relatively little opportunity for regional expansion, given its proximity to the war-torn Balkan nations.

10.   He rejects the idea that Balkan nations are doomed to repeat a centuries-long cycle of violence.