41.   On Wednesday, the Serbs called for immediate negotiations on the hostages seized after NATO bombing raids.

42.   Rechner, along with several other unarmed UN military observers, was seized by Bosnian Serbs in Pale, Bosnia, last Friday in retaliation for NATO bombing raids.

43.   Russia is strongly opposed to NATO bombing raids against its ally Yugoslavia, though Moscow has no effective means to resist them.

44.   Russia vehemently opposes NATO bombing raids, but its diplomatic efforts to end the crisis have made little headway so far.

45.   Several people were killed and injured during a NATO bombing raid on the southern Yugoslav city of Nis, the state-run Tanjug news agency reported Friday.

46.   Serbs had detained the peacekeepers in late May in retaliation for NATO bombing raids.

47.   Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians have fled from Kosovo to neighboring Albania and Macedonia in the wake of Serbian attacks that have followed NATO bombing raids on Yugoslavia.

48.   The APEC leaders were expected to approve a statement Sunday that condemns terrorism, but pointedly does not mention the U.S. bombing raids in Afghanistan.

49.   That plan gained momentum Thursday when the Bosnian Serbs, battered by NATO bombing raids, agreed to withdraw heavy guns threatening Sarajevo.

50.   The Bosnian Serbs proposed on Wednesday immediate negotiations on the hostages seized in Bosnia after NATO bombing raids on Serb ammunition depots.