1.   The UN Protection Force, which provides escorts for the land convoys, fears the airdrops would make its lightly armed troops vulnerable to retaliation.

2.   Airlifts would prove a safer option than land convoys, given reports of Taliban hold-outs and conflicts among local warlords.

3.   Bosnian Serbs currently are blocking land convoys into Sarajevo.

4.   Eight land convoys a week are need to keep Sarajevo fed.

5.   Eight land convoys a week are needed to keep Sarajevo fed.

6.   In Bosnia, Serbs on Monday carried out their threat to ban land convoys to Sarajevo for a week.

7.   In Bosnia, Serbs followed through Monday on a threat to ban land convoys to Sarajevo for a week.

8.   In Sarajevo, Serbs banned land convoys of humanitarian aid for a week.

9.   Janowski said Wednesday Serbs also served notice they would allow no land convoys into the Bosnian capital during the week beginning Sunday.

10.   Janowski said his organization increased the number of land convoys for Sarajevo, but supplies were insufficient.