111.   The proposals have been codified from an outline political settlement announced in August by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who is Sinhalese.

112.   The overwhelming endorsement of the political settlement will go down in history as one of the significant acts of a divided people.

113.   The secretary was expected to press the Israelis not only for a withdrawal, but also for a quick resumption of negotiations toward a political settlement.

114.   The rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran told a Norwegian peace envoy he was interested in a political settlement.

115.   The statements also indicated that efforts by American mediators to forge a cease-fire around some promise of a political settlement were increasingly unlikely.

116.   The Ulster Unionists are the largest pro-British party in Northern Ireland and without their agreement a political settlement would be impossible.

117.   The United Nations had been counting on a meeting of nine regional African leaders on Tuesday in the Nigerian capital of Abuja to help advance a political settlement.

118.   Then there is the so-called Contact Group, which is supposed to wheedle the Bosnian Serbs into a political settlement.

119.   The war will not end until the Russian government and the rebels negotiate a comprehensive political settlement rather than the kind of slapdash agreement they threw together this spring.

120.   There is still no political settlement, and the cease-fire lines have taken on the appearance of permanent, U.N.-patrolled borders.