31.   North Korea broke contact with the South in March after President Bush suspended talks with the North, saying he was skeptical of being able to verify any agreements.

32.   Netanyahu himself said he would favor early elections if the government suspended the Syrian talks until the vote.

33.   Now that Israeli-Syrian talks are suspended but still may be resuscitated, the Israelis and the Palestinians are in something of a holding pattern.

34.   Politicians, including President Ezer Weizman and Housing Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, called for suspending talks with Palestinians.

35.   Peres, who became prime minister after the November assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, suspended talks underway in Maryland with Syrian officials after the fourth bombing.

36.   President Rafael Caldera suspended talks with the IMF last week saying congressional inaction on a series of tax laws made negotiations impossible.

37.   Prime Minister Ehud Barak suspended peace talks with the Palestinians Sunday, ordering his negotiators home from Stockholm amid continued violent demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza.

38.   Talks are suspended.

39.   The attacks changed everything, leading Peres to revive brutal measures against the Palestinians and to suspend the talks with the Syrians.