1.   After international mediation failed last month to break the deadlock, opposition leader Sheikh Hasina called for an accelerated campaign of national strikes and demonstrations.

2.   After an international mediation effort failed last month to break the deadlock, opposition leader Sheikh Hasina called for an accelerated campaign of national strikes and demonstrations.

3.   Meretz, which opposes all settlement construction, warned that an accelerated building campaign would derail peace talks with the Palestinians.

4.   The abduction was apparently the latest in an accelerated campaign of IRA attacks on dissidents.