21.   Refugee officials said a multiyear rehabilitation program would be required to accommodate any large number of returning people.

22.   Refugee officials say it is unlikely that new migrants will receive the unconditional and generous welcome once accorded the Indochinese.

23.   Refugee officials on Thursday met with various Macedonian government ministers, all of whom denied that the border was closed.

24.   Refugee officials spoke only on condition of anonymity, for fear of endangering aid efforts already hurt by government interference.

25.   Refugee officials agree, adding that stripping them of their identification cards seemed aimed at making any return to Kosovo harder.

26.   Refugee officials have not interviewed the men, but they are skeptical.

27.   Refugee officials say that for the first time in four years, winter will be on their side.

28.   Some refugee officials said their survival would not have been possible unless they had been sheltered by sympathetic Serbs.

29.   The expulsion attempts are continuing, and refugee officials say they fear there is no way to stop them.

30.   Though this seems an unlikely contraption, refugee officials say that similar ones were not uncommon in the remote areas around Srebrenica.