31.   Sharon has said the Palestinians have failed to halt deadly attacks on Israelis and that no negotiations could start unless the violence stops.

32.   Sharon does not want substantive peace talks to begin until Palestinians halt their attacks on Israelis.

33.   That means it is also evident that a settlement would not halt attacks on Israel either, leaving Israelis little incentive to make concessions.

34.   The attack was halted by the arrival of a co-worker, Stanette Goepel.

35.   The attack was halted after journalists showed up.

36.   The Bosnian army halted an attack on a critical supply route linking the Serb stronghold of Pale with the garrison in Lukavica.

37.   The militant Islamic Jihad group announced on Thursday that it was no longer bound by understandings with the Palestinian Authority to halt attacks in Israel.

38.   The senior American envoy in Belgrade, Richard Miles, met Tuesday with Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and urged the government to halt the attacks on protesters.

39.   U.S. officials said publicly they could not say when the bombings might end, although some reports quoted unnamed defense officials as saying the attacks could be halted Saturday.

40.   Using binoculars, the pilots reported that civilian vehicles appeared to be interspersed with the military ones, and the attacks were halted.