31.   The Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, who has sent clear signals of his willingness to restart negotiations with the Israelis, visited Moscow in June.

32.   The standoff is expected to continue, stalling attempts to restart the negotiations.

33.   The visit by the envoys was programmed last month, during an extraordinary meeting between President Andres Pastrana and Marulanda designed to restart peace negotiations.

34.   Their actions served to complicate the already delicate diplomacy that Bush is trying to conduct to end the violence and restart negotiations.

35.   The White House said President Bill Clinton and bipartisan congressional leaders will meet tomorrow to assess progress made today on restarting stalled negotiations.

36.   Thursday, after days of increasingly tough talk by the company and the union, the pilots sent the company a new proposal in a bid to restart negotiations.

37.   While talks between Clinton and Republican leaders were called off Wednesday, Clinton is scheduled to meet this afternoon with lawmakers to restart negotiations.

38.   Zinni is still here trying to restart negotiations.

39.   Zedillo has offered to restart negotiations with the Zapatista rebels, who turned down a government peace plan in June.

40.   Planning Minister Nabil Shaath said the Palestinians want the talks to produce a plan to implement international proposals on ending violence and restarting peace negotiations.