101.   Diplomats were also talking about the possibility of a special meeting to break the impasse.

102.   Each side insisted the other would have to compromise to break the impasse.

103.   Eckhard said the United Nations hoped a special American envoy, who has not been publicly named, would be able to break the impasse.

104.   Food and sanitary conditions have been deteriorating, according to envoys trying to start negotiations to break the impasse.

105.   For years, the United Nations has been sponsoring periodic talks between Indonesia and Portugal under various formulas and echelons to try to break the impasse.

106.   Former Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, the envoy of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, is hoping to break the impasse over the two issues.

107.   Former Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, the envoy of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, is hoping to break the impasse.

108.   Germany will seek to break the impasse over the EU budget by the end of March, Schroeder said.

109.   Government members and others had raised the possibility over the weekend that President Jacques Chirac could dissolve the National Assembly and call early legislative elections to break the impasse.

110.   Greece objects to a deal worked out by Britain, Turkey and the United States to break the impasse.