51.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Thursday praised Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for reportedly refusing to recognize the Bosnian government at a meeting with international mediators.

52.   Bosnian Serb leaders say they were caught off guard by the sudden announcement last month of a phased transfer and have raged at international mediators.

53.   Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman initialed the agreement under the watchful eyes of U.S. and international mediators.

54.   Both sides were poised to resume full-scale war if international mediators are unable to produce an unlikely breakthrough at talks set to resume Monday in Paris.

55.   But as international mediators saw in Kosovo and Bosnia, consensus-building among disparate and hostile factions often defies optimistic deadlines.

56.   But international mediators have urged the government not to arrest Berisha to allow tempers to cool.

57.   But as international mediators saw in Kosovo and Bosnia, the process of consensus building among disparate and hostile factions often defies optimistic deadlines.

58.   But he suggested that international mediators could secure a change in Iraq along lines followed in Haiti last year.

59.   But Colum Murphy, a spokesman for top international mediator Carl Bildt, pointed the finger back at the Muslim-Croat government Thursday.

60.   But during his separate meetings with international mediators Karl Bildt and Thorvald Stoltenberg, Milosevic blasted Croatia for launching an all-out attack on its Serb-held regions.