31.   Diplomats tried to contact Kashmiri militants on Monday to persuade them to free their five Western hostages or drop a threat to kill them by dusk.

32.   Diplomats tried to contact Kashmiri militants on Monday to persuade them to free their five Western hostages or drop a threat to kill them.

33.   Diplomats try to save negotiations on Korea peace talks.

34.   European, American diplomats try to avert trade war.

35.   European diplomats were trying today to put together a new round of peace talks in Chechnya while Russian forces bombed Chechen rebel positions in the south.

36.   EU diplomats have tried and failed to get the Taliban to restart U.N.-brokered peace talks with their opponents.

37.   For nearly two years, Norwegian diplomats have been trying to get both side back to the bargaining table.

38.   Foreign diplomats have tried without success to unite ethnic Albanian factions for a joint platform in peace talks with Serbian officials.

39.   He said American diplomats would try to work something out between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

40.   In the middle is a bespectacled American diplomat trying to make peace and avoid being flattened by the Balkan steamroller.