31.   Some deputies apparently want to mend ties with President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, who withdrew his support last summer.

32.   Some deputies apparently want to mend ties with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who withdrew his support last summer.

33.   Sudan, an impoverished, Islamic Afro-Arab country, has been trying to mend ties with the oil-rich Gulf states.

34.   The EU was hoping that the summit in Cardiff, Wales, would reverse that decision and mend ties with Turkey.

35.   The meeting was to have taken place in Damascus on Wednesday, part of an effort by the Palestinians to mend ties that have been troubled for years.

36.   Two leaders try to mend troubled ties.

37.   Watanabe said talks with Ford were continuing, but it was still uncertain whether ties could be mended.

38.   He is on the second day of a landmark three-day visit to the Philippines aimed at fully mending bilateral ties strained by the Mischief Reef incident.

39.   However, signals have emerged from Washington that President Bill Clinton wanted to meet Chinese head of state Jiang Zemin to mend ties.

40.   In a bid to mend ties with the mainland, Taiwan has eased its constraints on various economic activities with China.