11.   As the United States prepared to open crucial negotiations on Wednesday to end the Bosnian war, President Clinton urged the warring parties to make peace.

12.   At the Cleveland Museum a new director had quietly opened negotiations to resolve the dispute with the Louvre.

13.   A spokesman called on Lukashenko to hold free elections for Parliament and to open negotiations with opposition leaders.

14.   Alou is as mystified as anyone as to why management has not tried opening negotiations, but he, too, has seen the writing on the wall.

15.   Albores named several top officials of the state government to open negotiations with the Zapatistas to try to resolve the conflict.

16.   But the fund opened negotiations with Moscow this week by sending the Yeltsin government a confidential letter listing steps it would like Russia to take, Russian officials said.

17.   By offering to open negotiations on a new treaty, diplomats said India appeared to be making its opening bid for a settlement of the crisis.

18.   Concerned by the mounting protests, the government opened negotiations with opposition parties last week.

19.   Drayton McLane Jr., the disenchanted owner of the Astros, almost jumped last fall when he opened negotiations with interests in northern Virginia.

20.   Eventually, they contend, he will quietly open negotiations with them.