21.   Later, a Bosnian Serb military statement denied the town had fallen, but admitted that Bosanski Petrovac had come under Croat artillery fire for the first time.

22.   Most of the women and children from Srebrenica were taken there in U.N. convoys after the town fell.

23.   The army communique, carried by Omdurman Radio, said the town had fallen Saturday night.

24.   The government admitted Sunday that a diamond-rich eastern town had fallen to a militia group fighting in support of ousted President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.

25.   The government denies the towns have fallen and says its allied forces are surrounding Kalemie.

26.   The head of a United Nations guards unit in Sulaymaniyah, Stafford Clarry, reported the town had fallen to the KDP after the PUK forces abandoned their posts.

27.   The military forces announced Tuesday there were fierce battles in the Ulu area but never said if the town fell to rebels.

28.   The Muslims had fled to the mountain from their hometown of Nevesinje in the south when the town fell under Serb control at the beginning of the Bosnian War.

29.   The opposition denied the town had fallen.

30.   The Serbs took refuge at the U.N. compound in their former stronghold of Knin when the town fell to the Croatian army last month.