Now this beleaguered town of 41,000 people, the largest in Dutchess County, is bracing for even more turbulence and theatrics.

And U.N. convoys can run Serbian roadblocks to deliver food, fuel and medicine to Bosnia's beleaguered towns.

ON Tuesday morning, in dawn's chilly half-light, a group of 25 marines mustered beside their Humvees at a base in the beleaguered town of Yusufiya for a raid.

Bosnian Serb forces, defying a United Nations warning issued only the day before, clashed tonight with Dutch peacekeepers guarding the entrance to a beleaguered town in eastern Bosnia.

The officials said the only supplies now reaching the beleaguered town come from helicopters, which bring in medical supplies and evacuate the wounded.

After receiving 15 days of combat training, he was informed, he would be sent to the front lines outside the beleaguered town of Gorazde.

They would vote for emergency funding for the beleaguered town (an economic rival to Denver) in return for legislation authorizing the issuance of bonds for Denver's tunnel.

The Swedish fleet had failed; much-needed reinforcements and supplies had reached the beleaguered Danish town.

Nevertheless the blockade was a strict one and no supplies entered the beleaguered town.

Local officials, including an outspoken and politically influential town supervisor, have said the museum would give a boost to the economically beleaguered town, and its rejection was not expected to engender good feelings.