21.   Efforts underway to negotiate compromise language on Mideast in final declaration.

22.   Group negotiates compromise language on Israel.

23.   King said both countries agreed to compromise language.

24.   Sergey Lavrov, the Russian ambassador, said his delegation agreed to compromise language for the sake of consensus.

25.   Russia objected, but has muted its criticism to the point that some sort of compromise language may be in the offing.

26.   Tauzin said compromise language to increase the CAFE requirements will be added to the bill.

27.   Talks have been underway since then to find compromise language.

28.   The compromise language in the published statement made no mention of Kim and said that the new deputy post would be subject to approval by the budget committee.

29.   The ethnic Albanian Party for Democratic Prosperity has opposed compromise language, saying the draft proposal still suggests a dominance by Macedonians.

30.   The measure could, however, end up with compromise language struck Tuesday that would lift the four-decade-old U.S. food embargo against Cuba.