11.   A Persian Gulf War commander is inheriting the unenviable task of cementing a shaky truce in Bosnia, where countless past attempts at peace have failed.

12.   A series of clashes this month in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic, has shattered a shaky truce reached last fall.

13.   A shaky truce held, but there was a feeling that civil war hung in the balance of mediation efforts.

14.   A shaky truce in Croatia is getting shakier as time runs out for peacekeepers separating government and rebel Serb forces, a senior U.N. official said Friday.

15.   A Gulf War commander on Monday will inherit the unenviable task of cementing a shaky truce in Bosnia, where countless past attempts at peace have failed.

16.   A shaky truce appears to be holding after about two weeks of fighting between government troops and secessionist guerrillas of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Maguindanao province.

17.   A shaky truce has largely held since October in the province, which is populated overwhelmingly by ethnic Albanians.

18.   A shaky truce was established in Kosovo last October, but sporadic violence continues.

19.   A series of clashes this month in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic, has shattered the shaky truce reached last fall.

20.   A series of clashes in April in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic, endangered the shaky truce reached last fall.