51.   Howard on Tuesday dismissed growing calls for U.N. peacekeeping force to intervene to stop bloodshed in East Timor.

52.   If they had tried to discuss the case, the warden said, the guard would have intervened to stop the conversation.

53.   In recent weeks, Jordan has intervened to stop its citizens from slurring Jews.

54.   In his first comments since international forces moved in, Gusmao thanked international leaders and their forces for intervening to stop the bloodshed by anti-independence forces.

55.   Indonesia claimed it was intervening to stop a civil war among rival Timorese factions.

56.   In the third protest this month against the Russian invasion of Chechnya, Muslim students on Monday demanded that the United Nations intervene to stop the fighting.

57.   Iraq has asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to intervene to stop Kuwait selling the vessels to scrap-metal merchants.

58.   It alleges police have failed to intervene to stop political violence and intimidation.

59.   It reiterated calls on the United Nations, NATO, the European Union and the United States to intervene to stop the government attacks.

60.   It was the first time the powerful Serbian president has intervened to stop the growing Serb exodus from Sarajevo.