11.   Barak and acting Likud chairman Ariel Sharon held lengthy talks late Monday to restart negotiations that broke off several weeks ago after Sharon adopted hardline positions on peacemaking.

12.   Barak and acting Likud chairman Ariel Sharon held lengthy talks late Monday to restart negotiations that broke off several weeks ago after Sharon adopted hard-line positions on peacemaking.

13.   Before traveling to Belgrade, Chernomyrdin had held lengthy talks in Moscow with Talbott and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, a European Union envoy.

14.   But Bosnian Serb commander Gen. Ratko Mladic made no concessions during lengthy talks with Janvier that started Friday and lasted until early Saturday morning.

15.   Fatchett also held lengthy talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, the official Syrian Arab News Agency said.

16.   He held lengthy talks with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and with President Roman Herzog, a rare occasion for an opposition leader visiting this country.

17.   In the past week, Kinnock held lengthy talks with Italian Transport Minister Claudio Burlando.

18.   Kinnock held lengthy bilateral talks with Italian Transport Minister Claudio Burlando on the margin of the EU meeting in Austria to try to break the deadlock.

19.   Last month, the government and the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, announced they were ready to begin cease-fire deliberations after lengthy preliminary talks.

20.   Netanyahu, speaking to the Chamber of Commerce in Tel Aviv, confirmed he had met with Arafat and said he hoped the lengthy talks would help build confidence.