31.   It did so by pretending to exercise autonomy, delivering some services and forbidding street protests, while the Serbian government pretended to have full control.

32.   It would accept no such generosity, the Serbian government said, until Yugoslavia was readmitted to all international organizations, including the International Monetary Fund.

33.   Keeping Yugoslavia together would leave Djindjic and the powerful Serbian government, elected only last December, in place.

34.   Kostunica and his allies are also trying to assert control over the Serbian government and parliament, which did not go through new elections.

35.   Last week, the Serbian government agreed to allow Albanian students to return to state schools and colleges in the province for the first time in years.

36.   Milosevic has moved to protect his right wing, keeping the Radical Party leader, Vojislav Seselj, from leaving the Serbian government.

37.   Meanwhile, fighting between Serbian government forces and secessionist ethnic Albanian rebels continued.

38.   Montenegro had been sending refined oil at cut price into Serbia to the annoyance of the Serbian government.

39.   Members of Congress from both parties are openly suspicious about the proposed NATO peacekeeping mission to end the fighting in Kosovo between rebel ethnic Albanians and the Serbian government.

40.   None walked away from the meeting with any clues about what the Serbian government would do next.