1.   Opponents said it was too risky of an endeavor and there was no clear strategy to end the assault.

2.   The NATO campaign is designed to prod Milosevic to end his assault on the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a province of Serbia that once enjoyed relative autonomy.

3.   Todd Walker drew a walk before Mlicki finally struck out Ruben Rivera to end the assault.

4.   When asked if he felt winning Sunday would end the assault, he shook his head.

5.   As government troops end their assault and refugees try to survive another day, a new peace mission is taking shape in capitals far away.

6.   International aid groups pleaded Saturday for peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan to end violent assaults on aid workers, who have become victims of rampant lawlessness in the region.

7.   International aid groups pleaded Saturday for U.N. peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan to end violent assaults on aid workers, who have become victims of rampant lawlessness in the region.

8.   It is a tense partnership that anticipates the day the Russians will end their assault and install a pro-Moscow leadership in Chechnya.

9.   U.N. officials also demanded that Serbs open roads to the besieged capital before NATO ends its assault.

10.   Iran called on the militia to end its assault on Kabul, which has been under siege for the past six months.