11.   A U.N. spokesman in New York said all the parties but Arafat had agreed to attend the summit.

12.   Almost all the world leaders attending the summit meeting here were invited to a reception Thursday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

13.   Both President Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Muryama will attend the summit.

14.   But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said on television that he would not agree to conditions for attending a summit.

15.   But the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has said Arafat could attend the summit only if he first committed to a cease-fire plan.

16.   Clinton is in Barbados attending a summit of Caribbean leaders on the last leg of three-nation Latin America swing.

17.   Clinton was scheduled to meet with Jiang and other Asian leaders during a visit to Japan to attend a summit of APEC leaders.

18.   Even some Israelis fear that if Arafat does not attend the summit, the meeting will focus on bashing Israel and U.S. policy while the Saudi initiative languishes.

19.   Executives and officials attending the summit sat through elaborate portrayals of what a New Middle East might look like.

20.   Forty-five Latino organizations attended the summit and called for renewed activism, Renteria said.