11.   That means that there can be no bombing pauses to let Milosevic reflect, no return to fruitless diplomacy.

12.   The Pentagon declined to call the easing a bombing pause and, in fact, the military campaign did not stop.

13.   The Pentagon, while ruling out a bombing pause for Ramadan, has been at pains to strike only military targets.

14.   The NATO bombing pause began late Thursday afternoon.

15.   The United States, Britain and France have refused to consider a bombing pause.

16.   Even as the bombing pause was announced, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott was in Moscow to repair a diplomatic rift over the sustained NATO airstrikes.

17.   In a concession to Russia and China, the agreement calls for a NATO bombing pause between the time Yugoslav withdrawals begin and the Security Council passes the resolution.

18.   On Tuesday, Roger Riddell, international director of the British charity Christian Aid, also called for a bombing pause.

19.   On Wednesday, he was overheard forcefully pressing the merits of a bombing pause.

20.   The bombing pause was a concession to Russia, although it is likely to be brief and tied to a verifiable withdrawal.