31.   India launched a three-month military campaign to flush them out and had refused to hold talks since then.

32.   Israel and the Palestinians have failed to hold substantive peace talks since Israeli settlement activity chilled discussions a year ago.

33.   Israel and the Palestinians have not held substantive peace talks since construction of Israeli settlements froze discussions a year ago.

34.   It was the third round of working-level talks since April.

35.   Japan and the United States have failed to reach an agreement on the issue in a series of talks since late last year.

36.   LeMoyne has been trying since Friday to broker a solution to the impasse that has paralyzed peace talks since October.

37.   Mandela has been mediating peace talks since December and invited Clinton and other world leaders to witness the signing of a peace accord in Arusha, Tanzania.

38.   Military officials from both sides have held talks since then on resuming security coordination.

39.   Microsoft and AOL have been in on-again, off-again talks since January, when a five-year contract between them ended.

40.   Premier Zhu Rongji said he expects to confront American rage when he visits Washington next week for the highest-level talks since the summit.