11.   Panel member Carlos Lozano, the editor of a Communist Party newspaper, said a renewable six-month truce should be declared as soon as possible.

12.   Palestinians said it was the first major incursion into Palestinian territory since a U.S.-brokered truce was declared last month.

13.   A truce was declared two days later.

14.   Although both sides have declared a truce, they retain their stocks of pistols, submachine guns, grenades and plastic explosives.

15.   Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were expected to make simultaneous announcements Thursday afternoon formally declaring the truce.

16.   Barak and Arafat were expected to make simultaneous announcements Thursday afternoon formally declaring the truce.

17.   Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had been expected to make simultaneous announcements Thursday afternoon formally declaring the truce.

18.   But diplomats said no peacekeepers could be sent until a formal truce was declared and the warring sides began negotiations to solve their differences.

19.   Capt. Valentine Strasser last month lifted a ban on political parties and said the government is prepared to declare a truce with rebel fighters.

20.   Chancellor Helmut Kohl and an allied Bavarian party declared a truce Thursday in a quarrel over energy taxes that was becoming a major election-year embarrassment.