1.   An understanding was reached to work toward a preliminary agreement on the major points in dispute as a prelude to a final treaty, Israeli officials said.

2.   A White House spokesman said the final treaty would allow the United States to warehouse some but not all of those warheads.

3.   According to the reports, the ideas are supposed to form the basis of a framework agreement from which a final treaty would emerge.

4.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, along with President Clinton, will meet in Norway this week to discuss a final treaty.

5.   The final treaty between government and guerrillas was signed just last December.

6.   The final Oslo treaty likely will be signed by December.

7.   The talks on formalizing a framework for a final treaty broke down last month.

8.   The third stage is to be the final treaty.

9.   They plan to craft a framework for an agreement by mid-February and write a final treaty by September.

10.   They want a framework for an agreement set by February and a final treaty crafted by September.