1.   Republican leaders are scheduled to resume budget talks with the Clinton administration Wednesday.

2.   The United States urged Moscow and the rebels to resume peace talks.

3.   China has agreed to resume talks with Britain over the future of Hong Kong.

4.   There would be no point, he thinks, in simply resuming the talks where they left off.

5.   But Palestinians rejected the offer and said they could not resume peace talks until all the deportees were returned.

6.   THE United States and Russia yesterday challenged Arabs and Israelis to resume peace talks in April and agreed to hold a first summit between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin.

7.   British diplomats, who had been in contact with the Chinese foreign ministry for weeks trying to get them to resume talks, had expected a stormy ride yesterday.

8.   American Axle Inc. and United Auto Workers negotiators resumed contract talks today, trying to avoid a midnight strike that would shut down General Motors Corp. assembly plants.

9.   American officials hope that the cease-fire agreement will calm the fighting enough to let the two sides resume peace talks within two weeks.

10.   American officials said they expected lower-level diplomats and military officials to resume talks in Washington in late July.