21.   Iranian newspapers praised President Mohammad Khatami Thursday for proposing contacts with Americans, but said the United States also must make efforts to mend ties.

22.   Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited South Korea last fall to mend ties.

23.   Khatami made the comments in response to a question if he was in favor of mending ties with the United States.

24.   Khatami was responding to a question about whether he favored mending ties with the United States, but did not say what form dialogue should take.

25.   Obuchi hopes to mend ties shaken after a Tokyo summit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in December.

26.   Putin visited North Korea in July to mend ties between the two former communist allies.

27.   President Vaclav Havel started mending ties with the Arab world Friday, four days after the Czech prime minister compared Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

28.   Since then, Biya has repeatedly tried to reach out to the French president, seeking to mend their ties.

29.   Some deputies apparently want to mend ties with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

30.   Since then, Hussein has managed to mend ties with Egypt, and his visit Tuesday marked his third to Egypt in two years.