11.   An end to Republican violence so peace talks could begin.

12.   Within hours of the sudden announcement talks began in Dundee between the American owned watchmaker and local union officials.

13.   The talks began early yesterday morning and were continuing at an undisclosed venue.

14.   Although shaky talks began last week with student leaders and UNAM officials to end the walkout, the end seems far off.

15.   Also, he said, preliminary talks have begun with NFL owners about whether the two could win the right to buy a franchise.

16.   And talks have not begun on the disputes surrounding the opening of a Palestinian airport and a sea port in Gaza.

17.   And the talk was just beginning.

18.   And the Unionists and their leader, David Trimble, stopped demanding that the IRA disarm even before talks began.

19.   And so the talks began.

20.   Another issue that needs to be resolved for final talks to begin is an Israeli demand for concrete counterterrorism commitments from the Palestinian Authority.