61.   Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been invited to start membership negotiations with the EU.

62.   Participants agreed to start negotiations on technical matters and to continue the dialogue in Durban, South Africa, in four weeks.

63.   Palestinians said they would reject modifications to the accord and would not start negotiations on a final peace treaty until Israel made all of its promised West Bank redeployments.

64.   Peres and Shaath met together with Eyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa before starting negotiations.

65.   Party leaders began contacting each other and Queen Beatrix on Thursday to start the negotiations.

66.   Phillips wanted umpires to resign in an effort to get baseball to start negotiations for a new contract.

67.   Quoting an unidentified civilian who was part of a group trying to start negotiations, the report said the rebels shot and killed two of the hostages.

68.   Poland started membership negotiations with the EU in March, along with Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovenia and Cyprus.

69.   -- The two expressed their intention to start negotiations in the near future by representatives of both countries on bilateral fishing cooperation.

70.   A Russian aircraft manufacturing delegation will start negotiations next Tuesday for the possible takeover of parts of the bankrupt Dutch company Fokker NV, a spokesman confirmed Friday.