1.   As the fighting widened, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that efforts were again being made to arrange truce talks between him and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

2.   But it now serves as the site of truce talks.

3.   Friday the United States was leaning on Israel and the Palestinians to start truce talks, with an eye on helping build a coalition to combat terror.

4.   Gen. Anthony Zinni, the Bush administration envoy, is planning to resume truce talks with Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs on Sunday.

5.   Israel called off truce talks that had been scheduled for Thursday night after overnight negotiations ended early Thursday morning without an accord.

6.   It was designated as the site of the truce talks, which continue sporadically to this day.

7.   Since the truce talks began, the violence has not abated.

8.   The moves could set the stage for the first truce talks here since midsummer.

9.   The shooting death of another Israeli settler early Monday further jeopardized truce talks that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had already put off on Sunday.

10.   Peres, who has been pushing for the truce talks to go ahead, said Tuesday there has been extensive U.S. pressure on Sharon.