41.   The United States helped broker the Good Friday peace pact which both Protestant and Catholics hope will end decades of sectarian violence.

42.   The urgent talks seek a way for the Irish Republican Army to begin disarming so that the Northern Ireland peace pact does not collapse.

43.   The Western-crafted peace pact would give the Kosovars political autonomy for three years, with a possibility of independence from Serbia later.

44.   The Zapatistas rejected a tentative peace pact negotiated with the government in March that promised to bring economic and social development to the Mayan Indians of Chiapas.

45.   The violence had threatened the peace pact approved in May.

46.   They agreed last month to a peace pact in Dayton, Ohio, and will formally sign the agreement this week in Paris.

47.   They questioned how much impact a peace pact will have in a region that has been in conflict since before the United States became a country.

48.   Told that there was to be no peace pact, at least not this time, they were visibly dismayed.

49.   Two decades after the signing of their landmark Camp David peace pact, Egypt and Israel have maintained a frigid diplomatic distance, and only minimal economic ties.

50.   With hostilities on the decline, civilian President Alvaro Enrique Arzu signed a peace pact with the rebels.