11.   Ecevit ordered a half-day holiday for public sector employees in the afternoon to allow them to watch the historic encounter.

12.   Thousands of Sri Lankan cricket fans turned an historic encounter against an India-Pakistan team in Colombo on Tuesday into a anti-Australian carnival.

13.   On Friday Mubarak had already organised another historic encounter between Assad and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

14.   Previous forums have seen historic encounters between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres, and Nelson Mandela and Frederik De Klerk.

15.   The historic encounter was recorded for all time in photos of soldiers from both sides embracing each other and comparing notes on their respective makes of submachine gun.

16.   The historic encounter was to take place under UN auspices Friday on a South African ship sailing in international waters.