71.   The US Jewish community has long sought to build such a memorial at Belzec, but talks have dragged on for seven years.

72.   No agreement was expected on Monday and some officials predicted the talks could drag on until Wednesday.

73.   No limit has been set for deciding the name change, but Greek Foreign Minister Carolos Papoulias said Thursday that the talks could not drag on forever.

74.   Patience in the business community seems to be wearing thin as the budget talks drag on.

75.   The fear here is that if the talks drag on under a renewed cessation of hostilities the current battle-lines will become frozen.

76.   The Israeli-PLO talks have dragged amid a series of anti-Israeli attacks by Palestinian hardliners and a crisis over the expansion of Jewish settlements on the West Bank.