11.   The pressure was intense when federal regulators met privately last month to debate remedies for soaring electricity prices in California.

12.   The section was written when Congress met a few months a year, travel times were long and the congressional calendar was set to accommodate planting schedules.

13.   To that end, Jackson met last month with Bryant and apologized for some of his own public criticism.

14.   Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin are to meet this month to negotiate the terms of troops withdrawal.

15.   Despite the clan divisions, the rival factions met last month and reunified the national Olympic committee and other sports federations which continue to be the only national institutions.

16.   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Saturday that the Al-Qods Committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference would meet this month to discuss the situation in Jerusalem.

17.   Foreign ministers from both countries met this month to defuse tensions.

18.   In one encouraging sign, the North proposed Saturday that Red Cross officials from both sides meet this month to discuss the reunion of separated families.

19.   Karimov and Rakhmonov met last month in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, and signed a variety of agreements on political, economic and cultural cooperation.

20.   Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen are set to meet this month to try to mend fences.