11.   Bipartisan and partisan factions in the Senate continue private talks over crime and health care.

12.   A Japanese delegation led by Vice Transport Minister Hiromichi Toya is already in Washington for three days of talks over civil aviation rights between the two nations beginning tomorrow.

13.   A second danger is that after fitful talks over the winter, the owners will declare an impasse in the negotiations and seek to impose their own terms.

14.   Administration officials adamantly refused to describe talks over whether American drug agents would be permitted to carry sidearms in Mexico.

15.   But he stopped well short of dismissing the disarmament commission idea, merely challenging Britain to clarify its position on talks over the predominantly Protestant province.

16.   But it was this status quo that international negotiators saw as a necessary backdrop to peace talks over Croatia and Bosnia in the coming months.

17.   But talks over when, where and how the candidates should meet appear to have broken down.

18.   But Republicans charged this afternoon that the White House had snarled talks over funding for the United Nations and a program to help low-income people obtain winter heating.

19.   Chernomyrdin expressed relief that the talks over the Black Sea Fleet seem finally to have been completed.

20.   Chilean stocks fell after newspapers reported that talks over the purchase of five investment companies by a leading Spanish utility had broken down.