21.   Trying to negotiate passage with submachine gun-toting Serb police manning checkpoints is routine.

22.   A South Korean diplomatic team on Thursday attempted to negotiate safe passage for a North Korean defector who sought asylum at the South Korean embassy.

23.   Attempts were already being made on Sunday, Coward said, to mend fences with the Bosnian Serbs in order to negotiate the passage of convoys into the captial.

24.   Basayev was able to leave the town after negotiating safe passage with Russian negotiators and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

25.   Local inhabitants said the soldiers had arrived Sunday to negotiate passage for their vehicles to surrounding plains.

26.   Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin launched peace talks after negotiating safe passage for the guerrillas in exchange for the hostages.