21.   The two nations renewed their WTO talks during the APEC session.

22.   Three-and-a-half years later, Prime Minister Ehud Barak relaunched the talks during a September meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

23.   White House officials closely monitored the settlement talks during months of intense negotiations.

24.   President Leonid Kuchma said Thursday he will meet with U.S. President Bill Clinton for economic and political talks during a NATO summit next week in Madrid.

25.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is confident Israel and Syria will make significant progress in peace talks during his four-year term in office.

26.   Baffert shrugged off talk during Preakness week that the strapping Point Given was a sore horse.

27.   Carey and the pope held two rounds of talks during the visit.

28.   Coalition talks during the past week focused on narrowing differences between the two sides on fiscal policy and how to apportion spending cuts mandated by the budget deficit.

29.   Finance Minister Theo Waigel, the head of the Bavarian-based Christian Social Union, also called for direct talks during the first day of the gathering Saturday.

30.   He announced the planned resumption of talks during an early February visit by John Paul, who urged an end to the fighting.