41.   The world sees sets of Israeli-Arab negotiations as snapshots, unrelated to each other.

42.   Their backlash against this shabby treatment ensured the collapse of the negotiations just as Microsoft and the federal government were on the verge of a settlement.

43.   Too often, Wallace said, people view such negotiations as a personal rather than a business matter.

44.   Yet he steadfastly refused to list free-agent negotiations as a priority this weekend and again decried the circus atmosphere certain to descend uponc Dallas.

45.   Pyongyang blamed the United States after the talks broke down in March and only agreed to resume the negotiations as part of a package deal with Washington last month.

46.   A guerrilla spokesman also rejected the negotiations as meaningless.

47.   A surprise demand by the Russian side for an equity stake in the consortium slowed down negotiations as did the passage of legislation on production sharing.

48.   Administration officials consider arms control negotiations as much a relic of the past as the ban on national missile defenses.

49.   Arabs, even some of the more radical, made it clear they continue to see negotiations as the best way to settle their differences with Israel.

50.   At a news conference Tuesday, Arafat reiterated his commitment to negotiations as the only way to settle disputes with Israel.