11.   Security officials were forced to intervene to end scuffles between journalists and plain-clothed police.

12.   Syria, which dominates Lebanon politically and militarily, has intervened to end the political crisis in Beirut.

13.   The armed forces said Saturday they were ready to intervene to end the latest bout of opposition protests in this small island state.

14.   The same day, the mayor intervened to end a strike.

15.   Yeltsin has intervened to end some of the more pressing strikes, like that of the coal miners last year, but his involvement provided only a temporary relief.

16.   His decisiveness in ordering French commandos to intervene to end the hijacking of an Air France passenger jet in December only served to increase his popularity.

17.   Clinton has intervened to end two railroad strikes and a strike by American Airlines flight attendants.

18.   De Robien met with a delegation of the Africans, as the hunger strikers grew weaker and as Chirac came under increasing pressure to intervene to end the deadlock.

19.   The Yediot Aharonot reported that Indyk froze under the insult and that other members of parliament intervened to end the standoff.

20.   It called on the international community to intervene to end the fighting.