21.   Both were serving sentences in a military prison but were transferred out in September as part of a failed government effort to negotiate a truce in the Islamic insurgency.

22.   Bushinsky also denied reports by Palestinian security officials that Israel was negotiating a truce with the militant Islamic group Hamas to prevent anti-Israeli attacks before the elections.

23.   Carter helped negotiate the truce to allow health workers to travel to the south as part of a campaign to eradicate a parasite that causes blindness.

24.   Christopher was due in the Middle East on Saturday for an indefinite stay to negotiate a truce.

25.   Communist rebels, who were then negotiating a truce with the Aquino government, withdrew from the negotiations to protest the killings.

26.   Demoralized and divided by defeat, the dictator believed the British and Americans would be forced to negotiate a truce.

27.   France poured in soldiers and U.S. officials tried to negotiate a truce so foreigners could safely flee.

28.   He helped restore ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last October and helped negotiate a truce in Bosnia months later.

29.   He said the foreign and defense ministers of Togo were due to arrive in Bissau on Wednesday morning to try to negotiate a truce between the two sides.

30.   In the absence of a central authority, Israel has no one with whom to negotiate a truce, he said.