31.   Late last week, the main east-west artery in the separatist province was closed because of fighting.

32.   Meanwhile, Yugoslav forces backed by tanks torched the homes of ethnic Albanians and sent hundreds fleeing in the separatist province.

33.   NATO airstrikes in Kosovo could delay the arrival of the first team of pathologists authorized by the EU to study sites of alleged atrocities in the separatist province.

34.   On Wednesday, two top NATO officials warned both sides in the separatist province against launching more attacks.

35.   Reports of massacres of ethnic Albanian civilians in the separatist province have heightened the likelihood of NATO airstrikes against military targets in Yugoslavia.

36.   Some of the thousands fleeing the latest Serbian offensive in separatist Kosovo province have died of exhaustion.

37.   Tbilisi proposes to give the separatist province broad rights on condition it remains part of Georgia, but Abkhazia wants sovereignty.

38.   Tensions aroused by the latest violence have dimmed hopes that diplomacy can head off a return to full-scale war in the separatist Serbian province.

39.   The air campaign was launched to force Milosevic to accept a peace plan for the separatist Kosovo province.

40.   The campaign was launched to force Milosevic to accept a peace plan for the separatist Kosovo province.