1.   Buyoya has restored parliament and political parties, and opened talks with the Hutu rebels.

2.   Buyoya has restored parliament and political parties and opened talks with the CNDD.

3.   Buyoya has restored parliament and political parties and opened talks with the insurgents.

4.   Recently opened talks between Rugova and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who is behind the crackdown, are all but dead as a result of the new offensive.

5.   The government also has signed peace accords with a main Muslim guerrilla group and right-wing rebel soldiers, and opened talks with another Muslim separatist group.

6.   The strike began early Monday shortly before Iberia management opened all-day talks with union representatives.

7.   US President Bill Clinton opened talks here Monday at the White House with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

8.   Zeroual opened talks Saturday with political leaders on the advent of democracy in the north African country, but Islamic fundamentalists fighting to oust him were not invited.

9.   Philippine police said al-Ghozi had been an explosives expert with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Muslim separatist group that has since opened talks with Manila.