21.   As part of his effort to recruit Arab nations to his anti-terror campaign, Bush has been seeking both Palestinian participation in the alliance and progress toward peace here.

22.   As one of the poorest of Arab nations, Yemen needs investment and other opportunities that could come through improved ties with the United States.

23.   At the same time, Arab nations and other opponents of sanctions continue to criticize them for causing unacceptable hardship to the Iraqi people.

24.   At the same time, he insisted that a peace must be comprehensive, rejecting the notion that Arab nations could make a separate accommodation with Israel.

25.   At the other are those like France, Russia, some large developing countries and most Arab nations who say they no longer see a direct military threat.

26.   At the United Nations the Arab nations have appeared weaker as a group because they are no longer speaking with a single voice here, council members say.

27.   At stake for Israelis is not only peace with the Palestinians, but budding relations with other Arab nations and its peaceful ties to Egypt and Jordan.

28.   A decade later, when the Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat made a separate peace with Israel, the Arab nation ostracized Egypt from its leadership councils.

29.   A delegation of leading Muslims from six Arab nations would be visiting Boston in July as part of a month-long tour of the United States.

30.   A majority of Arab nations remain fragile polities where loyalty is prized above ability, and the patriarchal family is the strongest state institution.