1.   British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, his Irish counterpart, will meet Thursday in an attempt to salvage the agreement.

2.   Consultants for both sides stayed up well into Friday morning, trying to salvage the agreement, to no avail.

3.   Palestinian officials, however, expressed some hope that some agreement could be salvaged before mid-September, when Arafat has pledged he will declare a Palestinian state.

4.   A trade negotiation deadline was extended for nine months in April in an attempt to salvage an agreement to open multibillion-dollar telecommunications markets to international competition.

5.   He did all in his power to salvage the agreement to which his leadership is wedded.

6.   That cloud will hang over Clinton as he tries to salvage the agreement he brokered with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in October.

7.   The U.N. is trying to salvage the agreement and get the two sides to meet again, the spokesman said.

8.   The U.N. is trying to salvage the agreement and get the two sides to meet again, said the spokesman, who spoke with customary anonymity.

9.   The agreement was salvaged by dropping a clause proposed by Syria recognising the right to resist foreign occupation.