21.   President Clinton exhorts all sides to keep working on securing peace.

22.   Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said he knew Plavsic from diplomatic efforts in securing peace in Bosnia.

23.   So America is being called on to secure a peace, guarantee it with troops and cast enough light on the past in order to build the future.

24.   Still, if Assad is indeed feeling his years, the diplomats say, it is conceivable that he might prove eager to secure peace as his legacy.

25.   Such a possibility raised the specter of a new Balkans conflict just three years after peace was secured in Bosnia.

26.   The Catholic French nobility slaughtered thousands of French Protestants who had come to Paris for a wedding arranged to secure peace between the two religious factions.

27.   The job of securing peace in Bosnia and Kosovo is far from complete.

28.   The local elections are seen as key to spurring refugees to return home and to securing peace in Bosnia.

29.   The paradigm that safely ended the Cold War can also be the one that at last secures peace between Israel and its neighbors.

30.   The Russian military, in fact, has already made plans to station a permanent garrison in Chechnya to secure the peace.