11.   Labor leader Shimon Peres has said he was ready to join if Netanyahu softened his hardline positions vis-a-vis the Palestinians.

12.   Outgoing chief of staff Mofaz, is considered to have hardline positions on military and political questions, is expected to enter politics when he finishes his term.

13.   Palestinian leaders said Friday they were worried by such hardline positions.

14.   Palestinian officials have said such hardline positions amounted to a declaration of war against them and the peace process.

15.   Senior Tories immediately rounded on the hardline position, with eight admitting that they had once smoked the drug.

16.   The United States had tried hard to get full attendance in Qatar, but failed because of growing Arab dissatisfaction with the hardline positions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

17.   Turkey changed its hardline position against the inclusion of Armenia in the project despite an armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

18.   He also repeated Sunday hardline positions on privatization of state-run enterprises like France Telecom if the left is elected.

19.   Increasingly hardline positions are being taken by all three sides in Bosnia as the country moves towards a general election, the first since the war ended last December.

20.   Contacts between Egyptian and Israeli official have come nearly to a standstill since Netanyahu won May elections amid Arab criticisms of his hardline positions in the peace process.