21.   However, there were still no clear indications of when these autonomy talks would begin.

22.   However he said the proposal, put together after a United States initiative to unblock autonomy talks, had been rejected by Israel.

23.   In Cairo, PLO chief negotiator Nabil Shaath denied reports that he had been sidelined from the autonomy talks.

24.   In Oslo, Rabin and fellow Nobel peace laureate Yasser Arafat agreed at a meeting Sunday to resume autonomy talks in Cairo on Wednesday.

25.   Israel and the PLO on Tuesday resumed autonomy talks here a week after Israel suspended negotiations in the wake of a hostage crisis.

26.   Israel and the PLO tried to resolve a wrangle over an unpaid telephone bill owed by the Palestinian Authority at autonomy talks here Tuesday, officials said.

27.   Israel expects autonomy talks with the Palestinians to resume in Cairo on Wednesday or Thursday, a military spokeswoman told AFP on Sunday.

28.   Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip, halted autonomy talks with the PLO halted and closed its border with Egypt after HAMAS announced it had taken Wakman hostage.

29.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Monday threatened that Israel would pull out of West Bank autonomy talks unless the Palestinian Authority put an end to the violence.

30.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Tuesday suspended autonomy talks with the Palestine Liberation Organisation over the abduction.