31.   It imposed high fines on the Novi List newspaper, thus threatening to close down the only remaining independent daily in Croatia.

32.   La Tribune, an independent daily, quoted witnesses as saying the car suddenly veered out of its lane and headed toward the police station before exploding.

33.   Last week, almost all the main independent dailies accused the government of causing the newsprint shortage and charged it was politically motivated.

34.   Milosevic cracks down on two independent Belgrade dailies.

35.   On Monday, the army took off five men from a bus headed for Bosnia at the outpost Scepan Polje, the independent daily Vijesti said.

36.   On Monday, two Serbian independent dailies halted publishing after police raided the office and confiscated property of another non-government newspaper fined for alleged anti-state activity.

37.   Police raid office of prominent independent daily to collect fine for anti-state activity.

38.   Police raid office of independent daily.

39.   Police requested Tuesday that charges be filed against ultranationalist party leaders who recently burned copies of an independent daily and protested U.S. policy in the Balkans.

40.   Several hundred Yugoslav army reservists deserted Kosovo and returned to their hometowns in Serbia, demanding an end to the war, a Montenegrin independent daily reported Thursday.