21.   The talks Wednesday on implementing the truce were linked to a wider effort to divide Bosnia between the Serbs and the Muslim-led government and its Croat allies.

22.   U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni has spent the last two weeks trying to implement a truce agreed on last May but still only on paper.

23.   Zinni spent much of Thursday closeted with Palestinian security officials and negotiators, talking about ways to implement a truce.

24.   He said participants so far had discussed only the beginning of the preamble to a UN-drafted document detailing ways to implement a truce.

25.   The prime minister warned there could be setbacks in implementing the truce, but foreign monitoring would help minimise difficulties.

26.   She was the first person to be killed in the Israeli operation and the eighth since Arafat said Thursday night he was ready to implement a truce.