21.   Arafat may have no choice but to act against the groups if he wants to retain U.S. support for a Palestinian state.

22.   Arafat cannot escape his virtual imprisonment in Ramallah without acting against more militants, the Israelis say.

23.   As it acts against Islamic militants, the Palestinian police force is increasingly viewed in the refugee camps as an Israeli proxy.

24.   Boehner, frustrated that the Department of Justice has not acted against McDermott, filed suit seeking damages under the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

25.   A report on Israeli television said Arafat assured Peres he would act against extremist groups.

26.   A series of Council resolutions have empowered NATO to act against Bosnian Serb targets in both Bosnia and Croatia.

27.   A senior Israeli military official said late on Monday that the government was intent not on war but on squeezing Arafat, to compel him to act against militants.

28.   A State Department official denied that Coerr had done so, and Latin America experts suggested that Arosemena had acted against him for political profit in Ecuador.

29.   A series of council resolutions have empowered NATO to act against Bosnian Serb targets in both Bosnia and in parts of neighboring Croatia occupied by nationalist Serbs.

30.   Acting against the orders of his government, which was still neutral, he began issuing transit visas.