41.   Gissin said understandings aimed at calming the situation, worked out at a meeting of Israeli and Palestinian security commanders on Thursday, were off.

42.   Hayes said there was still a chance for Europe to calm the situation.

43.   He added that Arafat had replied he was taking action to try to calm the situation.

44.   He expressed the hope that it will help calm the situation.

45.   Hayes added that there was still a chance for Europe to calm the situation.

46.   He said he was willing to meet Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on condition their meeting brings concrete results in calming Kosovo situation.

47.   He said that his intention was to calm the situation and also to ask the men to stop hitting Bullet.

48.   He urged religious leaders to calm the situation, saying he was being purposely provoked to violence.

49.   Heavily armed British troops in three military Land-Rovers arrived later to try to calm the situation.

50.   In the West Bank, new violence erupted despite efforts by the Palestinian Authority to calm the situation during the Clinton visit.