1.   Commentators said that the two sides were likely to pressure their respective Cambodian allies to ensure that a peace agreement was reached before fully normalizing ties.

2.   But the American businessmen who rushed in after Washington finally normalized ties with Hanoi last year are discovering that Communist hardliners still grip the reins.

3.   In the three decades since Richard Nixon began to normalize ties, no American administration has come up with a completely satisfactory China policy.

4.   Sen. John McCain, himself a Vietnam prisoner of war for five years, concurs with this view and urges the administration to normalize ties.

5.   The German authorities, however, were under pressure from German industry to normalize economic ties with Vietnam and thus to secure access to an emerging Southeast Asian market.

6.   Others, including Syrian President Hafez Assad, have called on Arab countries to stop normalizing ties with Israel.

7.   Arab leaders warned that steps taken by Arab nations to normalize ties with the Jewish state could be reversed if there is no progress in negotiations.

8.   Asked if he foresaw a day when ties between the Islamic Republic and the United States would be normalized, Velayati merely laughed.

9.   At a public gathering last year, the coalition vowed to wreck the peace treaty and urged Jordanians not to normalize ties with Israelis.

10.   At a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo Monday, Syria called on Arab states to stop normalizing ties with Israel.