71.   Ivanko said last week international police monitors would call on heavily armed units of the NATO-led peace force to dismantle illegal checkpoints in case the Serbs refuse.

72.   Ivanko said that more U.N. police monitors were sent to Jusici and the NATO-led peace force has increased its patrols there.

73.   Last July, the Bosnian police formed special units called STOP teams to work with U.N. police monitors.

74.   Local police, the NATO-led peace force and U.N. police monitors were investigating.

75.   Liam McDowall, a spokesman for the U.N. police monitors, said U.N. monitors are surveying the investigation led by local police.

76.   Maj. Mike Moran, a NATO spokesman in Banja Luka, said by telephone that the peace force and U.N. police monitors launched a large operation early Wednesday.

77.   McDowall said U.N. police monitors were monitoring the local police investigation.

78.   More than a dozen houses have been torched in the past two weeks, said Alexander Ivanko, a spokesman for U.N. police monitors.

79.   Much of the training as well as initial tasks will be supervised by the international police monitors.

80.   NATO and international police monitors on Thursday patrolled streets in a Sarajevo suburb to control tensions over disputed demarcation lines separating Serb from Muslim-Croat federation land.