31.   Any major arms purchase by Syria now, at a potentially crucial time in the peace effort, would certainly attract criticism from Israel.

32.   Any peace effort would have to include the patron governments, either formally or informally.

33.   Arafat, however, faced nearly universal pressure, including from Arab states, to recommit himself to the peace effort.

34.   Arafat has damaged the peace effort by vacillating on security despite promises to combat terrorism.

35.   Arafat must understand that any tolerance for terrorism is unacceptable and that his coy minuet with Palestinian terrorists will sink the peace effort.

36.   Any sort of peace effort is aborted, basically by policies of the United States.

37.   Apparently in an effort to subvert the budding peace effort in Kashmir, terrorists opened fire Tuesday on an area crowded with Hindu pilgrims.

38.   As the marchers called for action that would stave off more violence, the formal peace effort was in a quagmire.

39.   Aside from expressing hope that the peace effort would proceed, he said little about the smoldering tension in separatist Chechnya.

40.   As peace efforts falter in Congo, rising ethnic hatred threatens to transport the fighting to Rwanda and Burundi.