1.   At that time, U.S.-Japanese relations were tense because of a festering dispute over auto trade.

2.   President Clinton sought Wednesday to cool simmering U.S.-China relations that threaten to boil over due to festering disputes on trade, arms proliferation and Taiwan.

3.   GM wants any deal to settle the strikes in Flint, Michigan, near Detroit, to resolve festering disputes at parts plants at Ohio parts plants.

4.   Hosts Australia pulled out of an Oceania soccer congress Friday over a festering dispute between officials.

5.   Kashmir is the focus of the festering dispute between India and Pakistan that has provoked two of their three wars and brought them close to a fourth.

6.   Tensions have flared after a summit between Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in July failed to settle the festering Kashmir dispute.

7.   Some diplomats believe the U.S. pressure brought the Iraqi minister to New York to try to resolve the festering dispute with the council.

8.   The festering dispute prompted major opposition parties in Haiti to boycott the November presidential elections.

9.   The festering territorial dispute has long prevented the two nations from concluding a peace treaty.

10.   Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus set a deadline that falls Saturday for settling the festering dispute at a meeting last month.