11.   Russian news reports did not indicate whether other measures had been approved to quell the conflicts.

12.   Russian troops quelled the conflict, but a state of emergency is still in place and thousands of refugees remain unsettled.

13.   The World Court is trying to resolve the bitter dispute through legal means to quell the conflict.

14.   Western leaders have promised not to repeat past mistakes in the Balkans and seek to quell the conflict before it spins out of control.

15.   A peacekeeping commission was to submit proposals on a multinational regional force to quell the conflict.

16.   The Syria Times kept up the pressure Tuesday, saying US efforts to quell the conflict in Lebanon will lead only to an unstable ceasefire.

17.   The establishment in November of an interim national unity government has done nothing to quell the conflict, and efforts to reach a ceasefire have failed to bear fruit.