31.   The husband-wife team started the secret Oslo Channel talks and remain key Middle East peace brokers.

32.   The Israeli prime minister has said he accepts only the United States as a peace broker, but France traditionally has had stronger influence with the Arabs.

33.   The NATO-led peace force effectively pulled the plug on live broadcasts in pro-Karadzic areas earlier this year after programming deemed biased by international peace brokers.

34.   The proposal has gained support from European and Arab states and from the United States, the main Middle East peace broker.

35.   They see the United States - the main Mideast peace broker - as essentially pro-Israel.

36.   They include U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, U.S. peace broker Richard Holbrooke, Chinese Falun Gong movement founder Li Hongzhi, and former President Carter.

37.   This is not the first time South Africa has attempted to play peace broker.

38.   When Terje Roed Larsen was a Middle East peace broker, he was a national hero.

39.   However, both Primakov and Yeltsin gave Arafat reason to hope that Russia would soon take up the mantle of peace broker again.

40.   Bosnia peace broker Richard Holbrooke will leave the diplomatic corps Wednesday without knowing whether his legacy will be a lasting peace and without seeing his critics disarmed.