61.   The government has refused to discontinue the overflights and increased patrols, claiming the FARC was using the safe zone to hide hostages and run a drug business.

62.   The government blames Akashi and Rose for refusing to call for NATO air strikes to save the Bihac safe zone.

63.   The housing in the northern safe zone, originally the least-populated part of the island, is already overflowing.

64.   The safe zone, which the FARC allegedly is using to stash kidnap victims and stage military attacks, expires next month.

65.   The U.N. troops would protect humanitarian aid shipments and set up safe zones for refugees if ethnic slaughter worsens in Burundi, according to the U.N. proposal.

66.   The U.S. soldiers on the ground also guided the choppers to a safe landing zone away possible hostile fire, Detoyato said.

67.   The U.N. peacekeeping force, meanwhile, sent confusing signals about its policy for calling in NATO air strikes to protect the so-called safe zones from Serb attacks.

68.   The United Nations confirmed for the first time that Serb forces had encroached on the Bihac safe zone.

69.   Their attacks came as Serb forces were defying threats of a fourth round of NATO air strikes and pushing into a U.N.-designated safe zone in northwest Bosnia.

70.   U.N. commanders in Bosnia have complained that the Security Council has declared safe zones without giving commanders there the guidance or power to enforce them.