31.   The projected mission was to secure the peace in the northern part of the country and ensure the delivery of humanitarian assistance even as fighting continued in the south.

32.   The two sides consider the follow-up investment essential in order to secure the peace.

33.   The United States and Europe are quarreling over bananas, airplanes and beef, working together to secure peace in Kosovo and tangling over the future of NATO.

34.   What they need is someone to work to secure peace in a systematic, step-by-step manner, he said.

35.   Rebels battled government troops on the outskirts of the capital Monday in heavy fighting, leaving dead in the streets and the latest efforts to secure peace foundering.

36.   Although living conditions have improved vastly and a NATO-led force is securing peace, Bosnian Serbs and the federation remain distrustful of a future together.

37.   Australia is disappointed that efforts to secure lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians have deadlocked, Downer told reporters after a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak.

38.   Both the government and the rebels had criticized the mission for failing to secure peace.

39.   Both the Serbian government and ethnic Albanian leaders in Kosovo must make compromises in order to secure peace in the region, Premier Costas Simitis said Wednesday.

40.   Bosnian Serbs said today they would soon open roads linking Sarajevo with other government-held territory, but other efforts to secure peace in Bosnia ran into setbacks.