21.   Bolger said the peace bid sought to satisfy all New Zealanders.

22.   But his peace bid withered after Mandela was booed and jeered by IFP-supporting tribal chiefs at a meeting at which the imbizo was to have been planned.

23.   But in June the previous Sri Lankan government of President Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended the peace bid after accusing peace envoy Solheim of siding with the Tigers.

24.   But in June the previous Sri Lankan government of President Chandrika Kumaratunga had suspended the peace bid after accusing peace envoy Solheim of siding with the Tigers.

25.   Catholics, as well as the majority Hindus here, want the latest peace bid to bring results.

26.   Chief administrator Ratnam said he was hopeful the peace bid could succeed, pointing to the involvement of Norway and the support of the US as positive factors.

27.   Dayaratne said extremist elements were trying to sabotage the peace bid and hoped the gesture would help national reconciliation.

28.   De Charette, on the second leg of a peace bid which will also take him to Beirut, later started talks with President Hafez al-Assad.

29.   The president, in a letter to the army commander, had also warned that she had the power to scuttle the peace bid.

30.   The United States has warned that the global crackdown against terrorism may be extended to the Tigers if they jeopardise the Oslo-backed peace bid.