21.   The killings on Monday seem to follow a pattern established as soon as the military offensive began.

22.   The offensive began Monday, despite U.S. pleas for restraint.

23.   The offensive began two days ago with attacks coordinated among the Bosnian army, the Croatian army, and troops of the Bosnian Croats.

24.   The Pentagon declined to say when the offensive would begin.

25.   The Russian offensive began to go awry, as before, when commanders finally ordered an assault on Grozny on Christmas Day.

26.   The talks were suspended after the Serbian offensive began early last month.

27.   When the recent Israeli military offensive began, the couple called her twice a day.

28.   Yet the functional-food offensive is just beginning.

29.   Zapatista leaders claimed La Garrucha had been among the villages bombed when the offensive began last week.

30.   A Croatian offensive could begin there within days, he said.