41.   As diplomats struggled to revive peace talks.

42.   At U.S. urging, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were to meet in Paris on Wednesday, hoping to revive peace talks.

43.   Attacks on white farmers continue, and some right-wing whites are reviving war talk in retaliation for an unending upward spiral of crime.

44.   Attempts by the United Nations to revive stalled talks between the two Cypriot sectors last month resulted in little more than an agreement to meet in Geneva next month.

45.   Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat head to Paris on Wednesday in hopes that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright can help end the fighting and revive peace talks.

46.   Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were to meet separately in Paris with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in a U.S. effort to revive peace talks.

47.   Barak successfully revived talks with Syria and the Palestinians last year, only to see both tracks falter in recent weeks.

48.   Barak then accelerated talks with parties that backed his plans to revive talks with the Palestinians and Syria, frozen by the outgoing Likud-led government.

49.   Barak wants a broad-based coalition to brook domestic opposition to his plans to revive peace talks with Syria and the Palestinians.

50.   Barak, who hopes to revive peace talks with Syria frozen by Netanyahu, would not comment directly on the airstrikes after meeting with mayors from the north.