1.   France has talked of using the force to blast open aid routes into the encircled city of Sarajevo and establishing the security of the closed Sarajevo airport.

2.   Aid routes dried up across Bosnia on Thursday in a sign that combatants were gearing for another bloody Balkan spring.

3.   Aid routes dried up across Bosnia on Thursday in a sign that combatants were preparing for another bloody spring.

4.   An upsurge in fighting around Sarajevo and other areas of Bosnia and the closure of aid routes herald another bloody Balkan spring.

5.   An upsurge in fighting around Sarajevo and other areas of Bosnia and the closure of aid routes heralded another bloody Balkan spring.

6.   Apparently trying to pre-empt any Western threats to open aid routes, the Serbs allowed the first U.N. convoy in one month to reach Sarajevo.

7.   Bosnian Serbs around Sarajevo, meanwhile, promise to open an aid route into the capital by Monday.

8.   Bosnian Serbs closed aid routes from the airport to the besieged Bosnian capital, and officials in turn closed the airport because of lack of storage space.

9.   Bosnian Serbs had closed aid routes from the airport to the besieged Bosnian capital, and officials had in turn closed the airport because of lack of storage space.

10.   French Defense Minister Charles Millon urged the international community to do more to defend Gorazde and to force open an aid route to Sarajevo.