51.   Hundreds have already died since Serbs began a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo in late February.

52.   Hundreds of people have been killed in Kosovo since Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic sent troops in to battle ethnic Albanian separatists.

53.   Hundreds of people have died since Milosevic launched his crackdown in February on ethnic Albanian separatists in the province, part of Serbia, the main Yugoslav republic.

54.   In Moscow, a foreign ministry spokesman said the main threat to peace in Kosovo comes from ethnic Albanian separatists, not the government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

55.   International officials fear Macedonia could be drawn into the turmoil of the war-torn Kosovo were ethnic Albanian separatists fight for independence from Serbia.

56.   It added that the United States were aiding ethnic Albanian separatists in their aim to secede Kosovo from Serbia and Yugoslavia, which also includes Montenegro.

57.   International peacekeepers took over the province after the NATO bombing campaign forced Milosevic to halt his crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists and withdraw his army and troops.

58.   It is fought mostly in the north by ethnic Tamil separatists, but suicide bombings, gunbattles and army raids sometimes spill into the capital.

59.   Italy is just across the Adriatic from Yugoslavia, where a government push against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo has sent hundreds of refugees fleeing.

60.   KLA is an acronym for the Kosovo Liberation Army, a group of ethnic Albanian separatists who fought a Serb crackdown in this province.