21.   The indirect talks, which went six hours Saturday, adjourned until an unspecified time sometime after Sunday.

22.   The indirect talks underway Tuesday in Algeria are sponsored by the Organization of African Unity with U.S. and European envoys in attendance.

23.   The Russian president has proposed indirect talks with Dudayev and other Chechen leaders.

24.   Yeltsin has ordered a unilateral cease-fire and proposed indirect talks with the rebels.

25.   Yeltsin, who seeking re-election in June, is under pressure to end the unpopular war and he has proposed indirect talks with Dudayev and other Chechen leaders.

26.   Yeltsin appeared to signal some flexibility in suggesting indirect talks with the rebel leader.

27.   He also proposed indirect talks with separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev through the intermediary of Russian or foreign political leaders.

28.   However Assad gave a stark summing-up of the US-mediated indirect talks so far.

29.   Indirect talks between the government and opposition at various levels to break the impasse have so far been unsuccessful.

30.   Iran on Wednesday denied any indirect talks with Israel on Arad.