31.   After meeting Netanyahu, Clinton and his special envoy, Dennis Ross, will consult the Arabs.

32.   After the Russian special envoy, Victor Chernomyrdin, returned from his mission to Belgrade with the Finnish president, Ivashov assailed the accord as a sellout.

33.   Aides denied reports in local newspapers that said Clinton had already decided to become a special envoy in Northern Ireland after he leaves office.

34.   Bush announced that he was sending special envoy Anthony Zinni back to the region to work with Israel and the Palestinians in a renewed effort to broker a peace.

35.   Bush decided not to keep veteran Mideast diplomat Dennis Ross on as a special White House envoy to the region.

36.   Bush has called upon the United Nations for assistance and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has named an Algerian diplomat, Lakhdar Brahimi, as his special envoy to Afghanistan.

37.   But Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and special Middle East envoy Dennis Ross planned to remain behind to help keep the talks on track.

38.   But United States special envoy Richard Holbrooke was able to get Milosevic to back off.

39.   But three weeks into the bombing, in a key turning point, he decided to appoint a special envoy to negotiate peace in the Balkans.

40.   But when Robert Gallucci, the special U.S. envoy on the missile issue, met with Russian officials this week, a number of cases remained unresolved.