31.   Within hours of the death of the U.S. ambassador on Wednesday, President Jacques Chirac spoke impromptu in English on the steps of his Elysee Palace.

32.   He is understood to have privately briefed North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ambassadors on his position on Tuesday.

33.   Incoming Senate leader Robert Dole told NATO ambassadors on Tuesday he would make a resolution to this effect a political priority in the new, Republican-dominated Congress.

34.   A meeting of NATO ambassadors on the use of airstrikes in the event of a Bosnian Serb attack on Gorazde was postponed until Tuesday, a NATO spokesman said.

35.   Boutros-Ghali and Security Council ambassadors on Monday urged Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to comply with the other UN demands on sanctions.

36.   Burns said the State Department was in contact with the Turkish ambassador on the issue.

37.   The surviving hostages were formally handed over to their families or to their ambassadors on Friday.

38.   The Sudanese ambassador on Friday noted that his country was the third in the region to be hit by sanctions.

39.   US State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said that after these talks, Talbott would travel to Brussels to brief NATO ambassadors on the talks.

40.   When he said there was nothing in the building, the attackers kicked the ambassador on the chin.