91.   Mandela is playing a leading role in international efforts to mediate an end to the six-month civil war in Zaire.

92.   Nyerere is trying to mediate an end to the Burundi crisis.

93.   Parliament speaker Ali Akbar Nategh Nuri said Wednesday Iran was ready to send a delegation to Chechnya to mediate an end to the war.

94.   Several attempts since then at mediating an end to the conflict, notably from the Arab League, failed to stop the fighting.