21.   Any violation of the zone by the Bosnian Serbs would provoke massive allied airstrikes.

22.   Any request for massive airstrikes must still be approved by UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

23.   Bosnian Serb radio also claimed earlier that Serb anti-aircraft batteries had shot down one of the NATO planes taking part in the massive airstrikes on Serb positions around Sarajevo.

24.   Bosnian Serb gunners attacked at least three UN posts or camps in retaliation for massive NATO airstrikes Wednesday but there were no casualties, UN officials said.

25.   Bosnian Serb gunners attacked at least three UN posts or camps in retaliation for the massive airstrikes but there were no casualties, UN officials in Sarajevo said.

26.   Bosnian Serb radio claimed Wednesday that Serb anti-aircraft batteries shot down early Wednesday one of the NATO planes taking part in massive airstrikes on Serb positions around Sarajevo.

27.   Bosnian Serb radio claimed Wednesday that Serb anti-aircraft batteries shot down two NATO planes taking part in massive airstrikes on Serb positions around Sarajevo.

28.   Bosnian Serb radio reported that two other NATO aircraft had been shot down earlier during massive airstrikes on Serb positions around Sarajevo.

29.   But Washington remains unreceptive to the idea of airlifting French troops to protect Gorazde, and appears instead to favour massive airstrikes against the Serbs.

30.   The US had initially pushed for a commitment to the use of massive airstrikes and for a more drastic curtailing of UN control.