1.   Plavsic split over the summer with the hardline leadership in Pale, which remains loyal to her predecessor, Radovan Karadzic.

2.   The guerrillas belonged to a faction of the guerrilla movement that split from its hardline leadership in August to seek peace with the government.

3.   The move by Karadzic was seen by some as an attempt to open communications between his hardline leadership and Western officials.

4.   The ouster of hardline leaderships in both countries over the past two years opened the way to their return.

5.   The plane was reported downed in an area where Taliban opposition reported heavy fighting with forces of the hardline Islamic leadership.

6.   U.N. spokesman Juan-Carlos Brandt said the hardline Islamic leadership conveyed its decision to U.N. officials in the Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday.

7.   He said a pardon was justified because of his leading role in breaking away from the hardline central leadership which continues to wage war against the government.

8.   International agencies say Serbs have been pressured into abandoning their homes by their hardline leadership which forged the war on the basis of ethnic exclusivity.

9.   International agencies have accused the hardline Serb leadership of deliberately provoking the Serb exodus by exaggerating fears of reprisals by Moslem authorities for the brutal siege of Sarajevo.

10.   International aid agencies said the hardline Bosnian Serb leadership has intentionally misled its people in order to get them to leave their homes.