1.   The army made an unsuccessful attempt to end the rebellion.

2.   In October Museveni announced the appointment of a commission to investigate ways of ending the rebellion in the east.

3.   That could prove disastrous militarily for the separatists, who have been drastically outgunned in their fight against Serbian security forces that have tried to end the rebellion.

4.   Two years ago, Grachev convinced Yeltsin that a brigade of paratroopers could end the rebellion in Chechnya in a few hours.

5.   Zedillo has swept clean the Supreme Court and tried a legal route for ending the rebellion in Chiapas.

6.   People hid in their homes as they have since Saturday, when a simmering feud between Uganda and Rwanda over how to end the rebellion in Congo turned violent.

7.   Pottakis came under intense criticism from opposition parties and even members of the ruling Socialist party for allegedly not doing enough to end the rebellion.

8.   Both sides recently signed a breakthrough human rights accord, the first of four agreements needed to end the rebellion.

9.   But it was not clear whether they had agreed to end the rebellion.