41.   Israel and the PLO continued contacts Wednesday to fix a date and a venue for the resumption of negotiations to extend autonomy across the West Bank, officials said.

42.   Israel and the PLO drew a veil over the location in Egypt of the Arafat-Peres meeting on extending West Bank autonomy due to open late Saturday.

43.   Israel and the PLO on Sunday reached a deal to extend Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank, Palestinian Justice minister Freih Abu Meddein told AFP.

44.   Israel and the PLO were very close to a deal on extending autonomy on the West Bank in marathon overnight talks, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday.

45.   Israel and the PLO worked against the clock to wrap up final details and initial an agreement before sundown Friday to extend autonomy across the West Bank.

46.   Israel announced Thursday that hundreds of prisoners will be freed when an accord on extending Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank is reached and hundreds more after elections.

47.   Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO leader Yasser Arafat announced here Friday that they had reached overall agreement on extending Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank.

48.   Israel proposes to continue talks on extending autonomy, including a redeployment outside Bethlehem and Ramallah, after the signing of a partial accord, the paper added.

49.   Israeli-PLO talks on extending autonomy are to resume Monday in Cairo.

50.   It was the third straight day of marathon negotiations between Arafat and Peres aimed at wrapping up an agreement to extend Palestinian autonomy over the West Bank.