51.   Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reasserted that Israel will not revive peace negotiations until the violence ends.

52.   NATO recently has stepped up plans for airstrikes against Serb forces after repeated warnings that it would attack unless violence ends in the restive province.

53.   NATO recently stepped up plans for airstrikes against Serb forces after repeated warnings that it would attack unless violence ends and special police units were withdrawn.

54.   On Tuesday, Peres delivered a similar message in an address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, saying peace negotiations could resume as soon as the violence ends.

55.   Prodi said the EU should offer Israel and its Arab neighbors the prospect of major economic assistance to develop the region if the violence ends.

56.   Residents claim army trucks took the dead away soon after the violence ended.

57.   Resisting Arab calls for forceful U.S. intervention, President Bush insisted again Tuesday that violence must end before productive peace talks can be held between Israel and the Palestinians.

58.   Sharon has demanded that violence ends before negotiations resume.

59.   Sharon has repeatedly said that in any case, no peace talks can resume until the violence has ended.

60.   Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, here with Clinton, called Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to essentially make the same case the violence should end.