21.   With snow and frozen ground only weeks away, progress will not be possible in most of the country until next spring.

22.   Others expressed anger that the agreement still allows three warlords to have effective control of the country until elections.

23.   Passenger ships remained moored around the country until early Friday.

24.   President Sali Berisha met with opposition leaders into the early morning hours, negotiating on the composition of a new government to lead the country until elections by June.

25.   Presidential spokesman Richard Sakala said Chiluba, top civil servants, and police and military chiefs will run the country until a new cabinet is appointed.

26.   A cease-fire was signed in August, establishing a council to oversee the country until elections later this year.

27.   A new government led by the former Central Bank chairman, Josef Tosovsky, now is leading the country until new elections, which are expected in summer.

28.   A person answering his mobile phone told the AP he is out of the country until next week.

29.   Although Croats fought alongside Muslims in Sarajevo, the two groups clashed elsewhere in the country until a rapproachment last March.

30.   An interim U.N. administration governed the country until last month, when the new nation gained full independence.