11.   President Clinton and Balkan leaders plan to sign that bargain Thursday in Paris.

12.   The Balkan leaders listened carefully, signed the first of countless cease-fires, and went straight back to war.

13.   The Balkan leaders, observers say, want a deal.

14.   The divisions could also complicate the Bosnian government response to an American peace plan being presented this week to Balkan leaders.

15.   The NATO mission is to enforce a peace treaty that was signed Thursday in Paris by Balkan leaders.

16.   The organization is convinced that cooperation among Balkan religious leaders will be an essential component of any future reconstruction and reconciliation in the region.

17.   The three Balkan leaders are to fly from Moscow later that day, arriving late Tuesday at Dayton.

18.   The upsurge in tension was reported while Balkan leaders were meeting in the Macedonian capital Skopje to discuss, among other things, disputes over borders.

19.   Their objectives should be limited to maintaining the existing cease-fire, physically separating the warring parties and overseeing the division of territory agreed to by Balkan leaders in Ohio.

20.   To reach the settlement, all three Balkan leaders had to make wrenching concessions, particularly over territory.