31.   Sports Minister Steve Tshwete met Tuesday with officials of the South African Rugby Football Union and said relations had warmed between the government and rugby officials.

32.   Still, in an interview published Friday, Komura said Russian-Japanese relations have warmed because of summits between Yeltsin and Hashimoto.

33.   Taiwan has no diplomatic ties with North Korea, either, but their relations have warmed in recent years especially in non-political sectors.

34.   U.S.-Vietnam relations have been warming gradually since emerging from deep freeze last year.

35.   U.S.-North Korean relations have warmed since North and South Korean leaders met last month.

36.   U.S.-North Korea relations have been warming after a historic October accord to steer the North away from possible production of nuclear weapons.

37.   Vatican-Israeli relations have warmed significantly in recent years, and John Paul often has expressed a desire to visit Jerusalem.

38.   He expected relations to warm after the signing of an Israeli-Palestinian deal on the handover of most of the West Bank city of Hebron to the Palestinians.

39.   In recent years relations have warmed, with New Zealand training many Vietnamese officials.

40.   Their relations have warmed in the years following the disintegration of the Soviet Union and a subsequent cooling of relations between New Delhi and Moscow.