1.   Hopes of striking a deal were fading this week after Republicans canceled a negotiating session with Clinton.

2.   A meeting to discuss seating arrangements that was merely a preliminary to the formal negotiating sessions.

3.   Yeltsin, however, refused to attend negotiating sessions jointly with Gorbachev.

4.   Both sides agreed that a multi-party planning conference should be held later this month to prepare for the full constitutional negotiating session.

5.   Along with some other House Republicans, Kemp met with Regan in a series of negotiating sessions from which Dole was deliberately excluded.

6.   American officials have worked to orchestrate five rounds of negotiating sessions between Indian and Pakistani officials since the nuclear arms race erupted in May.

7.   An Iranian slapped an Irish delegate on the back after they had gone head to head after a daylong negotiating session over sexual rights.

8.   An additional negotiating session may be convened next month, but it not clear whether further talks could resolve remaining problems easily or quickly.

9.   An aide to Ahtisaari said the meeting was not a negotiating session, but simply an attempt to explain the offer to Milosevic.

10.   An all-day negotiating session between Jordan, his agent, David Falk and Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf on Tuesday in Las Vegas appeared to seal the deal.