31.   In both surveys a majority was against closing the tunnel in response to international pressure and the demands of the Palestinians.

32.   Israel closed the tunnel Friday and Saturday hoping to restore calm, and reopened it Sunday.

33.   Israel had closed the tunnel Friday and Saturday, apparently to calm the situation.

34.   Israeli Cabinet secretary Danny Naveh said the government was not considering closing the tunnel.

35.   It closed the tunnel Friday and Saturday hoping to restore calm, and reopened it Sunday.

36.   Late Saturday, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution that indirectly calls on Israel to close the tunnel.

37.   Last September, the United States abstained when the council passed a resolution calling on Israel to close a tunnel that touched off fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.

38.   Naveh said the Israeli government was not considering closing the tunnel.

39.   Senior PLO official Farouk Kaddoumi said a meeting between Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was impossible unless Israel first promised publicly to close the tunnel.

40.   Since the tunnel was closed drivers have been forced to use the Gotthard Pass over the Alps, but authorities shut the road overnight Wednesday because of snow.