21.   The Serb attack on Zepa began after the breakdown of local-level talks there between Serb rebels and government defenders, not authorized by the Bosnian government.

22.   The Serb attack on Zepa began after the breakdown of local-level talks between Serb rebels and government defenders, not authorized by the Bosnian government.

23.   The Serbs shelled the town intermittently from Sunday evening through Monday afternoon and fought on the outskirts with Bosnian government defenders, the United Nations reported.

24.   The United Nations agreed to beef up its mediating efforts there between desperate government army defenders and besieging Serbs.

25.   There was an upsurge of shelling Sunday in Bihac, where government defenders are fighting Serbs from Bosnia and Croatia, as well as a rebel Muslim force.

26.   There were no casualties in the government defenders.

27.   U.N. spokesman Lt. Col. Gary Coward said government defenders were digging trenches close to Serb lines between government-controlled Butmir and Serb-controlled Ilidza.

28.   U.N. spokesmen announced early Tuesday that the Bosnian government defenders of Zepa had surrendered to the rebel Serbs.

29.   Heavy fighting around Zepa, the smaller of the two UN safe areas in eastern Bosnia, was reported between Bosnian Serb forces and government defenders late on Friday.

30.   In Gorazde tensions between peacekeepers and local government defenders have risen.