51.   US troops intervened to prevent other homes in the area from being destroyed, a local journalist told AFP by telephone.

52.   Last week, US soldiers had to intervene to prevent an incident in the village of Mahala in northwest Bosnia.

53.   On Sunday, police intervened to prevent striking workers from holding a demonstration outside company headquarters.

54.   Palestinian police intervened to prevent demonstrators from nearing the soldiers.

55.   Palestinian police then intervened to prevent protesters from nearing the soldiers.

56.   Police intervened to prevent the clash escalating throughout the Arhiba region of Djibouti city, where a mobile patrol was now in place, police said.

57.   Police or other authorities did not intervene to prevent the prominent display of the Greenpeace banner.

58.   The fall of Bihac would link up Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia, and the Croatian government has vowed to intervene to prevent this.