11.   He met with the separatist military commander Aslan Mashkadov, and within hours of his arrival he announced a new cease fire.

12.   He said he would only call a cease fire if both sides agreed to stop fighting and political negotiations began.

13.   He, in turn, urged the warring sides to observe a cease fire as recommended by a special commission chaired by former Senate Democratic Leader George Michell.

14.   Israeli intelligence and security officials had been telling their leaders for weeks that no cease fire would work without movement toward a political settlement at the same time.

15.   It has been divided by an uneasy and shifting cease fire line ever since.

16.   Last week, a high-level commission recommended that the two sides agree to a six-month cease fire.

17.   NATO forces concentrated initially on separating the warring factions in Bosnia and monitoring the cease fire.

18.   Powell is under a broad directive from the president to discuss a cease fire and political settlement between the Israelis and Palestinians.

19.   Sen. Olympia Snow flew this morning to Croatia at the request of Majority Leader Bob Dole to review potential U.S. military involvement now that the cease fire has begun.

20.   Shortly before his training was completed, there was the cease fire.