1.   At that instant, cannon fire boomed behind him, well inside the Serb-held Croatian territory known as the Krajina.

2.   At this point, he argues, the U.N. presence only prevents his government from reasserting control over Croatian territory captured by Serbs.

3.   But the United States does not want to include much Croatian territory in the zone.

4.   Croatian Serbs occupy about a third of Croatian territory and have declared an independent state in the Krajina region.

5.   Creating a weapons exclusion zone that would stretch over Croatian territory would require a new Security Council resolution, U.N. officials here said.

6.   Finally, it proposed a six-mile zone that would not include Croatian territory.

7.   He received authority on Saturday from the U.N. Security Council to use NATO air power on Croatian territory.

8.   The effort to establish formal military links with Zagreb, coming after the smuggling of Iranian arms through Croatian territory, alarmed U.S. officials.

9.   The taking of Okucani suggested that the real aim was to capture the whole enclave, which bulges into Croatian territory from Serbian-controlled northern Bosnia.

10.   They urged him to move now to retake other Croatian territory held by Serbs.