1.   Another pressing issue is Kosovo and the Serbian crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanian forces.

2.   Clinton administration officials said at the time that they were concerned that NATO intervention would bolster the separatist forces.

3.   Pre-election polls give a tiny lead to separatist forces, led by Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau and charismatic former Canadian cabinet minister Lucien Bouchard.

4.   The currency drop was aided by a new private poll showing separatist forces in Quebec gaining momentum, and that hurt bank shares, Ketchen said.

5.   The separatist forces were led by Quebec Premier Rene Levesque.

6.   Pro-Georgian militants have often attacked Abkhazian separatist forces in the province.

7.   A challenge to party organization on ethnic lines would weaken the separatist forces.

8.   A FLEC official contacted in Paris said he had no information about the reported kidnapping because he could not contact the separatist forces in the territory.

9.   After several years, the separatist forces drove Azerbaijani government troops out of the enclave and also seized territory in Azerbaijan proper.

10.   After a day of bombing raids on the outskirts, Russian troops reportedly moved toward the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya in heavy fighting with separatist forces.