31.   On Thursday, the United Nations reported numerous abandoned Serb homes were being looted and torched.

32.   President Hugo Chavez on Thursday ordered the military and police to step up security in Vargas to prevent looters from robbing abandoned homes.

33.   Serbian officials have already complained that Albanian citizens are freely crossing into Kosovo and even settling into abandoned Serb homes.

34.   The remains and some abandoned homes are the only reminders that people once lived here.

35.   The United Nations on Thursday accused Croats of widespread and systematic looting and torching of abandoned Serb homes and property in southern Croatia.

36.   There was widespread harassment, and looting and burning of abandoned Serb homes.

37.   Their return is often complicated by bureaucracy, or their abandoned homes being occupied by refugees from other regions, she noted.

38.   Walker said it could be three months before families in Vietnam can return to their abandoned homes, he said.

39.   While some fear random reprisals, the majority are unable to return because their abandoned homes were taken by Croat refugees from Serbia and Bosnia.

40.   YUGOSLAVIA-FIGHT FOR HOMES, Bosnian Muslims move into abandoned Serb homes.