The French surrendered on May 7, the day an international conference met in Geneva to seek an end to the war.

The meeting is considered a key test of the two sides' sincerity in seeking a negotiated solution to the war, because it includes the first substantive discusions.

The overture came three weeks after loyal troops crushed an attempted coup by senior military officers who were seeking an end to the war.

Angola's leftist Government and the United States-backed rebels met again today to seek an end to the 15-year civil war.

The defeat, along with the end of the Korean War the previous year, causes the French to seek a negotiated settlement to the war.

Guatemalan refugees became an important political and economic influence on seeking an end to the civil war, which finally came about in 1996.

The Brezhnev leadership concluded from this event that seeking diplomatic solutions to the ongoing war in Vietnam was hopeless.

Angolan officials indicated that they may be willing to seek a political solution to the long civil war with Jonas Savimbi's rebels.

There are risks in seeking an early end to the war.

Thorvald Stoltenberg was part of the unsuccessful mediation team in seeking an end to the war in Bosnia.