21.   If Abu Amar is right, then the crackdown Israel demanded could drive Hamas back into armed opposition, with untold consequences for the negotiating process.

22.   If the answer is yes, observers on all sides believe an irreversible negotiating process, with unpredictable consequences, will be set in motion.

23.   In addition, last week, both Minnesota senators and several other elected officials urged Bush to let the negotiating process play out.

24.   Instead, administration officials want to develop a bipartisan negotiating process in the hope of drafting a proposal that could win support from both parties in Congress.

25.   It has been spurred in part by the political jeopardy in which the stalled negotiating process has placed Arafat among his people.

26.   Israeli forces continued on Friday to raid what, under the negotiating process outlined in Oslo, is Palestinian-controlled territory.

27.   It may not be possible to restart the negotiating process until it is clear who will control Jaffna and the surrounding peninsula in the north.

28.   It was mandated within a larger negotiating process among the rebel organization, the Guatemalan government and the United Nations.

29.   It will be difficult to return to the negotiating process that had come close to that end.

30.   Johnson and Huizenga said they consulted with Shula, who remains part-owner of the club, during the negotiating process this week.