1.   The school security specialists also want local law enforcement officials and school administrators to improve their cooperation to stem the violence.

2.   Authorities are frustrated, and hope that a public meeting between police and residents next week will help stem the violence.

3.   Agreements between the two sides to try to stem the violence on the streets, however, has yet to take hold.

4.   But some European leaders said U.S. efforts to stem the violence were at a dead end.

5.   Hate crime legislation does not stem the violence that arises out of hate and fear.

6.   Hoping to stem the violence, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he was trying to arrange a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to be held Tuesday.

7.   In Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, leaders have called on Bush to take a more active role in stemming the violence.

8.   Israel has been searching for some new means to stem the violence.

9.   Last year, France sent an elite squad to the island to stem political violence and to crack down on corruption in the Corsican administration.

10.   Luken ordered a night curfew to stem the violence and keep citizens off the streets.