51.   The Serbs, as they have after milder NATO strikes, took hundreds of U.N. soldiers hostage, this time using some as human shields.

52.   The Serbs looked upon them as jigsaw pieces of Greater Serbia, staving off NATO reprisals by using U.N. personnel as human shields.

53.   The Serbs might plan to use them as human shields, to deter NATO bombs.

54.   The world saw television images of the peacekeepers chained as human shields to potential targets.

55.   Their televised walk through a ring of tanks into the compound on Sunday caught Israeli soldiers by surprise, and they have effectively become human shields.

56.   The trail of the missing men leads past the sad streets of Djakovica, to execution sites and a building filled with women and children used as human shields.

57.   There was no evidence the refugees were being used as human shields.

58.   They also herd hundreds - pregnant women, children, pacifists, officials - who collectively form a human shield that protects the Chechnens.

59.   There were scattered reports that Serbs have used ethnic Albanians as human shields to try to confound allied attacks.