11.   However, after Bowles visited congressional leaders later in the afternoon, White House officials reconsidered the timing.

12.   Last summer, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange visited leaders of the rebel group at their jungle stronghold in San Vicente del Caguan.

13.   Powell plans to arrive in Israel and the Palestinian areas later this week, after visiting leaders in Egypt, Spain and Jordan.

14.   This week, a Colombian newsmagazine reported that Venezuelan military officials visited FARC leaders inside the zone, without Colombian government approval.

15.   Today, Raines exudes calm as he visits GOP leaders, making the case for budget peace and an end to partisan warfare.

16.   A senior Iranian official on Saturday visited the leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, the official Iranian news agency reported.

17.   A senior Iranian official on Saturday visited the leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, the official Iranian news agency reported.

18.   Abdullah was due to visit Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday.

19.   Albright visited Singaporean leaders during a one-day stop on her way back from meetings surrounding the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

20.   Arafat also visited Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Monday, and visited leaders in Sudan on Sunday night.