21.   A plan for a political settlement in Afghanistan that should follow an American military operation has yet to be drawn up.

22.   Adams also dismissed suggestions that the bombing showed he cannot deliver the IRA for an overall political settlement.

23.   Adjari said she now had very little hope of a political settlement.

24.   But Adams said such a commission would be realistic only after a political settlement.

25.   But Andjelkovic knows that any political settlement will mean his replacement once new elections can be held.

26.   But it was not clear whether he meant that Washington should try and reach a political settlement with Slobodan Milosevic, the hard-line nationalist leader of Yugoslavia.

27.   But Mowlam told the Geographical Society that a political settlement might not result immediately in a peace settlement.

28.   But the conflict seems, at last, to be edging toward a political settlement.

29.   But the difficulties of finding a political settlement remain.

30.   But the Tiger leadership has refused to discuss a political settlement, insisting on prior military concessions.