71.   In previous years, the two organizations have negotiated cease fires between the Taliban and the northern alliance to permit the polio vaccination campaigns.

72.   In recent weeks U.N. special envoy Mahmood Mestiri has been shuttling between the government and Taliban fighters to try to broker a cease fire.

73.   Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war that ended with a U.N. Security Council cease fire.

74.   It is fighting to carve an Islamic state out of the southern Philippines but has a tentative cease fire with the government as the two sides hold peace talks.

75.   James Ngobe, the U.N. representative at the talks, said a more permanent cease fire would have to await the establishment of the governing commission of religious scholars.

76.   Kabila demands that Rwanda and Uganda, who back the rebels, withdraw their troops before a cease fire is implemented.

77.   Kabila offered a unilateral cease fire last week in return for negotiations, but the government of Prime Minister Leon Kengo wa Dondo rejected the call out of hand.

78.   Khaled Mashaal, the Hamas leader who was targeted in the failed Mossad assassination attempt, was a key opponent of the cease fire, the official said.

79.   Last fall, the IRA initiated a cease fire in the long-running Northern Ireland conflict.

80.   Low-level violence has persisted despite the tenuous cease fire and progress on carrying out the provisions of the peace deal.