21.   A disciplined and sustained international effort by intelligence and law enforcement agencies worldwide is required to impede terrorist threats.

22.   A look at the potential promise and pitfalls of the international effort to rebuild the war-torn Balkans.

23.   A new outbreak of fighting in Kosovo added urgency on Wednesday to international efforts on enlisting ethnic Albanian rebels in talks on the future of the Serb province.

24.   A three-hour gunbattle and continued threats by both sides Monday complicated international efforts to cobble together a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians.

25.   All pledged a renewed international effort to combat terrorism.

26.   Bush also called for an international diplomatic effort to stop the burgeoning nuclear-arms race between India and Pakistan.

27.   But a few months ago, there was no discussion within the Bush camp of participating in an international AIDS effort at all.

28.   But his visit will be valuable if it draws broader attention to the serious problems bedeviling international rebuilding efforts in Kosovo.

29.   But in the year that Beeston has been in office, he has worked to bring the owners even with the players in the international effort.

30.   But rather than throwing stones at this international effort, we should be pulling together.