31.   Bosnian Croat forces have for the past three months been creeping up the mountainous sides of the Livno valley along the Croatian border, into Serb-held territories.

32.   Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic called for NATO airstrikes to stem the Serbian offensive for the last of government-held lands in northwest Bosnia near the Croatian border.

33.   Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic was seriously injured in a car accident early Friday near the Croatian border.

34.   But the ban has never completely prevented Muslim-led Bosnian government forces from getting weapons bought clandestinely or donated by sympathetic governments and smuggled across the Croatian border.

35.   But the Bosnians want their territory to cut through the strip of land in order to give them access to the Sava River on the Croatian border.

36.   But there were warnings that fighting in western Bosnia along the Croatian border could explode into a much broader war.

37.   Coward reported heavy small-arms and mortar fire around the town of Velika Kladusa along the Croatian border.

38.   Croatian border police prevented them from going there.

39.   Croats have been pressing the Serbs in far western Bosnia along the Croatian border for the last six months.

40.   Coward reported heavy small-arms and mortar fire around the town of Velika Kladusa, at the far northwest tip of Bosnia, along the Croatian border.