41.   Most analysts believe that the most optimistic outcome for the Washington negotiations is an agreement in principle on the core issues, leaving the important details for further talks.

42.   Michael Ovitz, Eli Broad and Ed Roski were the Three Stooges incarnate, squabbling and ducking the core issues right up to the very end.

43.   Morgan acknowledged that the price of victory would be a slight chipping away of Democratic solidarity on core issues such as abortion that are important to some Democratic constituencies.

44.   Neither party has abandoned its core issues.

45.   One camp, said to include Elizabeth Dole, thinks the Republican nominee ought to stick with his core issues and keep to the high road.

46.   On core issues, he holds views that are diametrically opposed to those of the religious right.

47.   On Monday Lieberman supports Democratic core issues like abortion rights.

48.   Party Chairman Mike Long suggested that Lazio may be more open to those core conservative issues later in the campaign.

49.   Presumably, the two sides will get to the core issue Wednesday, though as of late Monday afternoon, no definite meeting had been set.

50.   Saudi Arabia, however, will be a leading force in rejecting any attempt to finesse the core issue of East Jerusalem, where Palestinians have demanded full sovereignty.