61.   Hundreds of people have been killed, and over a quarter million have fled the fighting around their homes since a Serb crackdown on the separatists began in February.

62.   In the fighting around the bombed out presidential palace, two women wearing green camouflage uniforms accompanied a group of fighters trying to reach the building.

63.   In the fighting around the bombed-out presidential palace, two women wearing green camouflage uniforms accompanied a group of fighters trying to reach the building.

64.   Janowski said the refugees were fleeing fighting around the KLA border stronghold of Junik.

65.   Kalima said that in the recent fighting around Kisangani, soldiers discovered rebel documents written in Portuguese.

66.   Macedonian media reports saying that six policemen were killed in the fighting around Aracinovo could not be officially confirmed.

67.   Maj. Herve Gourmelon, a peacekeeper spokesman, reported heavy fighting Tuesday around Mount Vlasic in central Bosnia.

68.   Maj. Herve Gourmelon, a U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo, reported heavy fighting around Bosanska Krupa, on the eastern edge of the so-called Bihac pocket.

69.   Meanwhile, a top Russian commander, Anatoly Shkirko, denied rebel reports of heavy Russian losses in recent fighting around the southeastern village of Bamut.

70.   Merimee cited the intensified fighting around Sarajevo as a reason for continuing the sanctions.