41.   While negotiators tried to wear masks of civility in public, their private discussions were often contentious and even hostile.

42.   Racing against the clock, negotiators tried Monday to conclude a Hebron agreement and pave the way for a summit meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat on Tuesday.

43.   A busy street was closed while police negotiators tried to end the standoff.

44.   A negotiator tried to get her to drop the weapon while employees were evacuated from the building.

45.   As efforts to impose the truce faltered in Bosnia, international negotiators tried to prevent a new outbreak of war in neighboring Croatia.

46.   Ben-Ami said the negotiators were trying to come up with principles for achieving peace on which both the Israelis and Palestinians could agree.

47.   Behind the scenes, however, Pakistani and Indian negotiators are trying to craft a joint statement to take the relationship incremental steps forward.

48.   But he said Serb negotiators were trying to enlarge the demilitarized zone and link opening of routes into the city with other issues.

49.   But U.S. negotiators will try to extract a promise in Pyongyang that North Korea will suspend further missile tests, the officials said.

50.   Canadian negotiators tried to work out a deal with the Serbs to allow volunteers to replace detained peacekeepers if they fall sick.