61.   Both Yugoslav forces and ethnic Albanian rebels suffered casualties Thursday in the north of the Serbian province.

62.   Both the underground Kosovo Liberation Army and Rugova want Kosovo, a southern Serbian province, to become independent.

63.   But enough remain to keep up a visible presence in much of the southern Serbian province.

64.   But even as the death toll has risen in the Serbian province, diplomats apparently see a glimmer of hope.

65.   But he stressed that no decisions had been made on increasing U.S. troop involvement in the ethnically divided Serbian province.

66.   But the Serbian province remains under Serb control and the military directed by Milosevic from Belgrade.

67.   But U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke said the situation in the southern Serbian province was as bad now as two weeks ago.

68.   But the official Tanjug news agency blasted Clinton as a liar looking for an excuse to intervene in the Serbian province.

69.   But the top Yugoslav general in the southern Serbian province warned that any NATO ground incursion would meet with stiff resistance.

70.   But thousands of Kosovo Serbs already left the embattled southern Serbian province or were on their way out.