1.   Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is expected to join a Latin-American trade mission tomorrow after devastating ice storms postponed his departure.

2.   Earlier in the day, observers stressed the importance to the peace process of persuading the rebels to postpone their departure.

3.   He evidently found that both sides were finally ready, and postponed his departure to pursue an intensive round of shuttling and talks, which will evidently continue.

4.   He postponed his departure for two months, however, because of a string of relatives visiting him and his wife Lisa.

5.   He was postponing his departure, he said, although two missing friends had finally been accounted for, because he wanted to be among the grieving here.

6.   Lieberman postponed his departure from the government for at least a week.

7.   The seniors seemed remarkably stable Wednesday night as they discussed the charter plane that did not arrive on Tuesday, forcing them to postpone their departure until Wednesday morning.

8.   Walsh said Wilson postponed his departure for his European vacation several days when much of the state flooded earlier this month.

9.   Yet the departure was again postponed.

10.   After three days of meetings with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, U.S. mediator Dennis Ross has postponed his departure to continue efforts toward renewing cooperation in fighting terrorism.