11.   Congressional leaders had asked the president to convene a conference on violence and values.

12.   In December, the Japan Meteorological Agency convened a conference of earthquake and volcano specialists to discuss the situation.

13.   In November, he decided to convene a conference on the software business.

14.   Mapuranga said the OAU would ask donor nations to convene a conference on Rwanda, along the lines of a conference last year on Somalia.

15.   St. Louis manager Tony La Russa convened a conference at the mound.

16.   The conference has been convened to set up rules to try individuals for genocide and other crimes against humanity.

17.   The conference was convened shortly after the Ruby Ridge, Idaho, shootout between federal agents and white separatist Randy Weaver.

18.   The crucial decision left to President Bush is whether to convene a Mideast peace conference before or after Arafat has left the scene.

19.   The NIH convened the conference in response to Congressional demands for greater protections for research participants following deaths in gene therapy experiment.

20.   The process of convening the conference might act as a diplomatic bridge that would allow the return of the barred American monitors.