11.   The violence underscored the difficulty facing any cease-fire in the war, and served as a reminder that many previous efforts to end the fighting have failed.

12.   The violence underscored the urgency of renewed international efforts to resolve the ethnic conflict.

13.   The violence underscores the simmering anger and frustrations among Indonesians over the wide gap between the rich and the poor, pervasive corruption and nepotism.

14.   The violence underscored enormous difficulties still confronting NATO and the United Nations more than a month after peacekeepers moved into Kosovo and ethnic Albanian refugees began flooding home.

15.   The violence underscores the weakness of the new national police force, which is being trained by Canadian, French and U.S. instructors.