31.   He said the telephone conversation failed to end the stalemate, but added that contacts were continuing between the two sides.

32.   However, foreign ministry officials have insisted that radio contacts were continuing between the government and rebels.

33.   Humanitarian contacts have continued between the communist North and its southern rival despite the lack of official dialogue between the two sides.

34.   Humanitarian contacts have continued between the two Koreas despite the lack of official dialogue between the two sides.

35.   A Palestinian official said contacts were continuing between Israeli Foreign Minster Shimon Peres and parliamentary speaker Ahmed Qorei and information minister Yasser Abed Rabbo.

36.   A senior Israeli official said contacts have continued but Oman is unhappy with the idea of an interest section.

37.   According to an Israeli official, contacts continued Saturday ahead of the Arafat-Peres talks to try to draft a symbolic announcement.

38.   According to an Israeli official, contacts continued Saturday ahead of the Arafat-Peres talks to try to draft instead a symbolic announcement.

39.   An Irish government spokesman said contacts would continue but did not say if an accord had been reached.

40.   Bacon said that despite the breakdown in formal contacts with the Serbs this month, contacts have continued at an informal level.