1.   It is Chechnya, the secessionist province of southern Russia, that has begun to serve as a model, at least for Kosovo.

2.   A village outside Pristina was in flames Monday as clashes between Serb forces and ethnic Albanian rebels moved closer to the capital of the secessionist province in southern Serbia.

3.   A Yugoslav official assured that security forces in the secessionist province will withdraw in time to avoid threatened airstrikes.

4.   As the rebels were burying their dead, Serb sources reported new violence in the secessionist Serbian province.

5.   Beijing regards Taiwan as a secessionist province and seeks to deny legitimacy to the governing Nationalist party.

6.   But it is in China, which regards Taiwan as a secessionist province.

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

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

9.   China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, regarding it as a secessionist province, and objects to its leaders traveling abroad.

10.   China considers Taiwan a secessionist province.