21.   Some criticized the former general for lacking any strategy besides force to quell the violence.

22.   Some Israeli defense experts and, recently, politicians say the assassinations only anger the Palestinians and do little to quell violence.

23.   Tajikistan, like the other republics bordering Afghanistan, fears Islamic fundamentalism inside its own borders and has struggled to quell the violence spawned by religious fanatics.

24.   The city is virtually a laboratory for methods of quelling gang violence.

25.   The Colombian government is expected to announce a series of emergency measures later today aimed at quelling recent violence by leftist guerrillas.

26.   The military, which recently said that it stood ready to quell any violence, issued a statement pleading for calm.

27.   The measure is aimed at quelling recent violence organized by the National Liberation Army.

28.   The military, which recently said it stood ready to quell any violence, issued a statement pleading for calm.

29.   The Pentagon wants Congress to help finance a plan for training and equipping a domestic peacekeeping force to help Indonesia quell sectarian violence.

30.   The talks in Paris, described by participants as intense, were aimed at quelling the violence immediately.