91.   The latest talks, which took place in Fort McNair, focused on security arrangements.

92.   The Japanese government was under pressure at the time from groups on the left that wanted to end the security arrangement with the United States.

93.   The main matters to be negotiated apart from the Syrian demand for total withdrawal from the Golan were security arrangements and normalization of relations.

94.   The new security arrangements severely curtail the effectiveness of the monitors by reducing the area of Kosovo that they can cover.

95.   The next step is to reach an understanding on the terms and principles of security arrangements.

96.   The military talks over the next few days will focus on security arrangements following a pullout.

97.   The Palestinians, however, are quite flexible about security arrangements to ease Israeli jitters.

98.   The ruling, coming less than a month before the convention, leaves Los Angeles police and other law enforcement agencies little time to rework security arrangements.

99.   The process of such transformation has been a history of piecemeal expansions of the role of the security arrangements at the hands of the Japanese government.

100.   The talks are bogged down in disputes over security arrangements, water sharing and details of upcoming Palestinian elections.