41.   In three days of negotiations this week, French officials will try to prevent an abrupt, full-scale move to deregulation, a source close to the delegation said.

42.   Israel and Jordan opened peace negotiations this week and on Monday King Hussein meets Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Washington for a first official summit.

43.   Israel and the PLO held five days of intense negotiations this week at a secluded hotel in Zichron Yaakov, near the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

44.   Israel and the PLO were to continue negotiations all week at the Red Sea port of Eilat to try to conclude a full agreement to extend self-rule.

45.   Israeli foreign ministry director-general Uri Savir and Palestinian economy minister Ahmad Korei led the negotiations all week to try to hammer out a deal.

46.   Buoyed by the conclusion of nuclear negotiations this week in Kuala Lumpur, a senior government official here pledged on Thursday to accelerate South Korean investment in North Korea.

47.   Erakat said Israeli-PLO negotiations this week would focus on the structure of the autonomy council.

48.   They are to resume negotiations this week.

49.   US Secretary of State Warren Christopher has sat in on the negotiations this week in a bid to hammer out the agreement, the radios said.

50.   The European Union and the United States have offered substantially improved proposals following the resumption of high-level telecommunications negotiations this week in Geneva.