41.   Croatian border police prevented them to go there.

42.   Croatian media reported Tuesday that the Bosnian army and allied Bosnian Croat militias had recaptured six villages near the Croatian border.

43.   De Lapresle said the new mission would monitor the zone separating Serb and Croat forces and the Croatian border.

44.   Doolin said staff from the Australian Embassy in Belgrade had been to the Croatian border and tried to speak to border guards.

45.   Early Wednesday, the position in the Croatian border town of Kostanica was abandoned.

46.   Fears of a wider Balkan conflict accelerated after Croatia accused Yugoslav troops Tuesday of entering a demilitarized zone on the Croatian border with Montenegro.

47.   Fighting intensified today around a strategic plateau near the Croatian border and Bosnian Serbs shelled the government-held city of Tuzla for a second straight day.

48.   Four persons in the Croatian border town of Zupanja were wounded by the shelling, said HINA, the Croatian news agency.

49.   Gunness said the government and Croats had made significant gains to the west along the Croatian border, linking up and creating a border buffer zone.

50.   He left Belgrade around midday Friday and was to have contacted his editors after reaching the Croatian border, but no call ever came, according to the network.