41.   Egyptian, Saudi Arabian and Syrian leaders met at the weekend and said they reaffirmed their commitment to a peace initiative.

42.   France has been disinclined to embark on any peace initiative in its former colony.

43.   Fulbright kept pressing Johnson for peace initiatives, alone at first but ultimately backed by a majority of both the public and the politicians.

44.   Hanging in the balance was the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative, which Peres has vowed to continue and Netanyahu has promised to slow.

45.   He said all Palestinians welcomed the Saudi peace initiative and hoped it would lead to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

46.   He said he had been mandated under a joint Anglo-Irish peace initiative to hold talks with all concerned parties in Northern Ireland.

47.   Here and throughout Chechnya people express some faint hope that the summit next week between Clinton and Yeltsin may produce a new peace initiative.

48.   His words were widely seen either as an indirect peace initiative by Milosevic or as a sign of a fissure within his regime.

49.   However, since, by definition, Clinton may win no foreign policy victories, his peace initiatives must be condemned out of hand.

50.   If anyone bore moral guilt, some settlers argued, it was Rabin himself for pressing his peace initiative onto what they depicted as an unwilling population.