31.   Clashes there subsided last spring after NATO allowed Serbian security troops to return to the buffer zone bordering Kosovo.

32.   David Rohde of the Christian Science Monitor was turned over to U.S. Embassy officials in Belgrade by Serbian security officials, who mediated the release.

33.   Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov warns that a withdrawal of Serbian security forces from Kosovo would result in a flood of Serbian refugees from the ethnic Albanian-majority province.

34.   He initially said Serbian security units had detained Xhemajli.

35.   Heavily armed Serbian security forces were being deployed near the boundary of the three-mile demilitarized zone as tensions grew by the hour.

36.   Heavily armed Serbian security forces, including a special anti-terrorist unit and tanks, were seen near the three-mile demilitarized zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia.

37.   However, the EU foreign ministers again called for the Serbian security forces to cease repressive action in Kosovo.

38.   Hundreds of ethnic Albanian rebels regrouped in western Kosovo Wednesday, in an attempt to stave off Serbian security forces in the secessionist province.

39.   However, these claims will mean nothing if blood continues to be spilt by Kosovo separatists and Serbian security forces.

40.   Hundreds of ethnic Albanian rebels regrouped in western Kosovo on Wednesday in an attempt to stave off Serbian security forces in the secessionist province.