11.   Palmer describes his warm friendship with Gary Player, the great South African golfer, winner of all four major golf championships, something Palmer himself failed to achieve.

12.   There is no love lost between the two, though each declined to talk about what split up their once warm friendship.

13.   One year later, a historic peace treaty with Jordan and a warm friendship with the king opened doors for Israel in Morocco, Tunis and several Gulf States.

14.   Blair had a warm friendship with former President Clinton, with whom he shared many political views, and he defended him during the Monica Lewinsky affair.

15.   Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko boasted Thursday of a warm personal friendship with Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, saying there were great prospects for cooperation between the two countries.

16.   Clinton and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin forged a warm personal friendship, marked by bearhugs and backslapping in public.

17.   The king became an important facilitator in the Palestinian-Israeli talks and he and Rabin shared a warm friendship.

18.   German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who has made no secret of his warm friendship with Yeltsin, could again pressure the Russian leader to drop the new law.

19.   The Syrian government, meanwhile, has had historically good relations with the Saudi monarchy and Assad and Prince Abdullah have a warm friendship.