61.   Following two days of talks, the U.S. and Japan extended negotiations in a dispute over stop-over cargo flights, a U.S. official said.

62.   For much of May, Frasure, a career diplomat, held marathon one-on-one negotiations in Belgrade with President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia.

63.   Following the advice of his father, who is serving a life sentence, Gotti had broken off plea negotiations in late December.

64.   Ford Motor Co. recently overcame its most contentious union negotiations in decades by finessing an agreement over the future of workers at its giant auto parts unit.

65.   Fortunately for MacPhail, he did not have to face similar negotiations in building up the sports at CBS.

66.   Gingrich has expressed a willingness to raise the debt ceiling during negotiations in Congress and, later, with the White House.

67.   German officials and business leaders are to resume delicate negotiations in Washington later this week on compensation for Nazi-era slave laborers.

68.   Four days of intense negotiations in Brussels failed to settle the disagreement.

69.   Gingrich, however, showed no deference to the delicate negotiations in his hour-long address.

70.   He also faced fierce criticism within the governing Peronist party since returning empty-handed from negotiations in Washington over the weekend with the International Monetary Fund.