21.   As a special envoy, he shuttled from Moscow to Washington to Baghdad.

22.   At several points during the talks, special Mideast envoy Dennis Ross and other officials entered the suites and joined the discussions.

23.   At the United Nations, the special envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, called Tuesday for a two-year transitional government backed by a multinational security force.

24.   Bitter intransigence on both sides has frustrated many would-be mediators over the years, most recently Richard Holbrooke, the special Cyprus envoy of President Clinton.

25.   A special envoy of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl met with Indonesian President Suharto and said afterwards that Germany had offered to help Indonesia write new banking laws.

26.   A special Russian presidential envoy for the Middle East was sent to Baghdad this week to hold his own meetings with Iraqi leaders.

27.   A U.N. special envoy, Thorvald Stoltenberg, was scheduled to resume talks on Saturday with Bosnian Serbs.

28.   Abdelfattah Amor, a special United Nations envoy, said he has investigated the topic in China, Pakistan, Iran, Sudan and elsewhere.

29.   After Chernomyrdin, the Russian special envoy, returned from his mission to Belgrade with the Finnish president, Gen. Ivanshov assailed the accord as a sellout.

30.   After the State Department formally named Holbrooke as an unpaid special envoy for the Balkans in October, he continued to collect speaking fees.