101.   A government statement expressed surprise that farmers organized the protest a day before scheduled talks between farmers and agriculture ministry officials,

102.   Additional talks were scheduled Monday evening.

103.   Albright also scheduled talks with Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma and trade minister Shinji Sato.

104.   An attempt at conciliation fell through Thursday, and no other talks were scheduled.

105.   As of Thursday afternoon, Bettman and Goodenow had not been in communication and no talks were scheduled.

106.   Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke met for five hours Thursday with Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, and more talks were scheduled for today.

107.   Asked here by Clinton, Barak had talks scheduled in succession at Blair House with senior U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross, Albright and national security adviser Sandy Berger.

108.   As yet, no more four-party talks are scheduled this week.

109.   Both sides said Friday that no talks were scheduled, and union president Klaus Zwickel repeated his condition that employers must improve their offer for them to resume.

110.   Both sides have said they are willing to negotiate, but no new talks were scheduled.