31.   Recent weeks have seen intensified clashes between heavily armed Serb special police units and armed ethnic Albanian separatists, who control large parts of the countryside in Kosovo.

32.   Some Spanish firms have claimed they have to keep such figures secret so as not to encourage abductions by armed Basque separatists, according to finance professor Ramon Gurriaran.

33.   Suspected armed Basque separatists exploded a car bomb as a military van passed by Monday, killing at least four people and injuring a dozen others, authorities said.

34.   Spanish news reports have said the accounts were used to influence politicians, grease business deals and pay off armed Basque separatists.

35.   Such findings would contradict claims by the Yugoslav government that the victims in Racak were armed separatists or civilians accidentally caught in the crossfire.

36.   Such findings would contradict claims by the Yugoslav government that the victims in Racak were armed separatists or civilians accidentally caught in the cross-fire.

37.   The four were taken from their jeep at dawn by armed separatists near the capital of the tiny oil-rich enclave in Southwest Africa.

38.   The killings ended when France began extraditing suspected armed Basque separatists back to Spain.

39.   The shooting was the latest episode in a standoff that pitted authorities against a group of armed separatists who want Texas to secede from the United States.

40.   Two Serbs have been killed in southern Kosovo by armed ethnic Albanian separatists, the independent Beta news agency reported Wednesday.