31.   The company did not name its negotiating partners.

32.   The Clinton administration makes no excuses for inviting its new negotiating partners to talk.

33.   The Dalai Lama said Chinese leaders should see him as their best negotiating partner, one who would not be around forever.

34.   The third, a democracy as negotiating partner, remains of course a fantasy.

35.   This approach is based on the assumption that Arafat will never be a reliable negotiating partner and that Israel has no choice but to act alone to constrain terrorism.

36.   This is seen as necessary to win the confidence of negotiating partners.

37.   This time, Europe appeared willing to accept the same ideas, still endorsed by former American negotiating partners, in their eagerness for closure.

38.   Though he retains enormous power and still symbolizes the Palestinian national movement like no one else, Arafat has proven to be an unreliable negotiating partner.

39.   Under the best of circumstances, North Korea has been a prickly and unpredictable negotiating partner.

40.   Yet where Jerusalem is concerned, the Israelis clearly consider the king a more reasonable negotiating partner than Arafat.