11.   In the last few weeks Powell has resisted pleas from Arab leaders and from the U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan, to go and try to calm the situation.

12.   Israel asked foreign diplomats to calm the situation.

13.   Israeli and Palestinian security officials met early Friday and reportedly planned to meet again to discuss ways to calm the situation.

14.   Israeli officials insist that Arafat gave orders to street lieutenants to calm the situation.

15.   It took three nearby men to calm the situation.

16.   Palestinian police tried to calm the situation Friday by staying out of sight.

17.   Police Col. Mohammed Assad was dispatched to Ramallah from Gaza in an effort to calm the situation.

18.   President Clinton spoke to Arafat and Barak repeatedly as American officials worked intensely to calm the situation.

19.   The announcement on Thursday appeared to be another well-timed attempt to calm the situation.

20.   The violence has put pressure on the British authorities to calm the situation, but some Protestants said the killings have a momentum of their own.