31.   The truce was brokered by Clinton two weeks ago at an emergency summit meeting in Egypt, but it did not take hold right away as the bloodletting persisted.

32.   The truce was brokered by Norway.

33.   The truce was brokered by former President Jimmy Carter during a visit to Bosnia earlier this week and was supposed to have taken effect Friday.

34.   The truce was brokered by the foreign and defense ministers of Togo who arrived earlier in the day, Lusa said.

35.   The violence cast a pall over U.S. efforts to broker a truce between Israel and the Palestinians at an emergency Mideast summit in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt.

36.   U.S. President George W. Bush sent an envoy, Anthony Zinni, to the region next week for a third attempt to broker a truce.

37.   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been most prominent among a group of distinguished diplomats who have tried to broker a truce.

38.   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been most prominent among a group of distinguished diplomats who have tried to broker a truce to the bloodletting.

39.   U.S. President George W. Bush is sending an envoy, Anthony Zinni, to the region next week for a third attempt to broker a truce.

40.   Two previous attempts by Zinni to broker a truce were scuttled by violence.