11.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Arafat arrest Hamas activists, disarm the militants and cut off their funding.

12.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said it was too early to judge whether Arafat was carrying out his promise to disarm the militants.

13.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Thursday that it was too early to judge whether Arafat was carrying out his promise to disarm the militants.

14.   Last week the Solomon Islands asked the New Zealand government for assistance in disarming the militants.

15.   Moscow is seeking to disarm Chechen militants and crush their drive to create an independent state.

16.   Negotiations have failed to resolve the conflict, which broke out Saturday when police tried to disarm Muslim militants in the village, the Interfax news agency said.

17.   Negotiations have failed to resolve the conflict, which broke out Saturday when police tried to disarm Muslim militants in the village.

18.   On the other hand, fearing civil war, he has not tried to disarm the militants despite pressure from Israel and the United States.

19.   Police in armored personnel carriers and bullet-proof vans swarmed into three violence-wracked neighborhoods of southern Karachi early Sunday to disarm ethnic militants, police said.

20.   Police swarm into neighborhoods to disarm militants.