21.   Defusing such threats can nurture the more normal relations essential to a settlement.

22.   Establishment of fully normal relations does not mean the end of frictions, however.

23.   He believes Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, his predecessors, were pursuing a chimera in imagining that normal relations with Arab states were ever really possible.

24.   He argued that Hezbollah should try instead to prevent normal relations between Israel and Arabs.

25.   He said Sunday that normal relations would help both Americans and Vietnamese who suffered in the war to put the past behind them.

26.   If Cuban cooperation continues and the new arrangement proves successful, the White House should look for other ways to move toward more normal relations.

27.   In Beirut, one draft resolution gave a general endorsement to the call for normal relations with Israel.

28.   In practice, though, what is required comes close to a break in normal relations.

29.   In return, the Arab nations would commence normal relations with Israel.

30.   In their meeting in September, Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin seemed determined to restore normal relations.