31.   But there were signs Saturday that the Palestinian police were determined to quell possible riots.

32.   College students, taxi drivers and computer experts find themselves thrown into combat, exchanging fire with Palestinians and quelling riots.

33.   Earlier this year, eight people died in protest demonstrations and the government used helicopters and troops to quell riots.

34.   Earlier this week, police opened fire on mobs in an attempt to quell the riots.

35.   During several hours of street battles in Hebron, Palestinian police made no attempt to quell the riots.

36.   Ellison said the Curtin riot had been quelled by Saturday, but the situation there remained tense.

37.   Eight police and border police officers were lightly injured while trying to quell the riots.

38.   Fourteen U.N. police officers were wounded Monday as they tried to quell a riot by hundreds of Serbs, a U.N. spokesman said.

39.   Guards at a prison that houses several Cali drug cartel kingpins fired tear gas Friday to quell a riot by inmates who tried to escape, authorities said.

40.   He said the riot had been quelled by Saturday, but the situation at the detention center remained tense.