31.   Summit leaders also discussed what actions were needed in the face of escalating violence in Indonesia, one of the nations hardest hit by the Asian economic crisis.

32.   The alternative is diplomatic deadlock and escalating violence.

33.   The answer to escalating juvenile violence is to quit coddling young thugs.

34.   The about-face was announced late Wednesday by Secretary of State Colin Powell on a day when Bush himself made no public comments on the escalating Mideast violence.

35.   The diplomatic effort failed and instead the biblical town, the historic birthplace of Jesus, was caught in one more day of escalating violence.

36.   The escalating violence has seemed to make Arafat stronger.

37.   The escalating violence in the Mideast is horrifying, but the Palestinian leadership seems unwilling to rein it in.

38.   The escalating violence in the Middle East threatened the peace in the Krayzelburg household in suburban Los Angeles.

39.   The escalating violence has also destroyed the foundation of peace agreements that granted the Palestinians autonomy and self-government in limited parts of the West Bank and Gaza.

40.   The escalating violence was a painful reminder of the limits of American influence in the troubled region.