71.   Refugee officials, meanwhile, fear some Kosovo Albanians may strike out on their own over mountains dotted with minefields.

72.   Refugee officials said Kukes will likely become a major transit center for returnees.

73.   Refugee officials fear another flood of refugees if the United States launches an attack against Afghanistan.

74.   Refugee officials who rushed food, blankets, medical and sanitary supplies to northern Bosnia said a humanitarian crisis loomed.

75.   Some U.N. refugee officials have put the number possibly as high as several hundred thousands.

76.   Such asylum bids embarrass Beijing by focusing attention on its refusal to let United Nations refugee officials screen fleeing North Koreans to see whether they deserve political asylum.

77.   Sukhumbhand and a senior refugee official, Chaiyapruek Sawaengcharoen, returned to Bangkok after leaving the five students at a drop-off point about a mile from the Myanmar border.

78.   The Foreign Ministry officials, requesting anonymity, said the two will fly from Hong Kong, where their desire to defect was confirmed by U.N. refugee officials.

79.   The repatriation was supervised by the U.N. refugee officials.

80.   The Serbs, meanwhile, continued expulsions of Muslims and Croats from their territory in the northwest in recent days, U.N. refugee officials say.