91.   Instead of expected conciliatory gestures, North Korea increased its military build-up near the border and continued its vitriolic anti-South rhetoric.

92.   In what was apparently a conciliatory gesture, Israel announced the release of Khalil e-Rai, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner.

93.   It is a conciliatory gesture by President Clinton replying to another gesture from the Cuban leader freeing a handful of political prisoners.

94.   Its image sullied by charges of atrocities, the military pulled troops out of Aceh last month in a conciliatory gesture.

95.   Lee, the Taiwanese president, offered a conciliatory gesture to China on Wednesday, saying he wants better ties and eventual reunification with the mainland.

96.   Military brass apologized for atrocities and announced plans to withdraw some troops as a conciliatory gesture.

97.   Moderate Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has repeatedly made conciliatory gestures toward Egypt since his elections two years ago.

98.   Musharraf said the conciliatory gestures were beneficial to India, not Pakistan.

99.   North Korea, in an apparent conciliatory gesture, released in December five South Korean fishermen it seized seven months earlier.

100.   President Franjo Tudjman, who led his country to independence riding a wave of Croatian nationalism, made a rare conciliatory gesture during his campaign.