41.   Sharon has made clear that he wants to defer permanent peace talks into the indefinite future.

42.   Syria is considered the key to a permanent peace because of its ties to radical factions in Iran and elsewhere in the Arab world.

43.   Still, the details of a permanent peace agreement were as clear at Taba as they ever have been, most participants said.

44.   That suggests that it will be hard to produce a permanent peace from the program.

45.   Syria has long been one of the countries in the Middle East considered most critical to a broad permanent peace settlement between Israel and the Arab world.

46.   That suggests that it will be hard to produce a permanent peace from his program.

47.   The agreement removed a persistent stumbling block to the resumption of negotiations on a permanent peace.

48.   The British could accept this as a sign that the IRA was committed to a permanent peace.

49.   The dispute threatens to end the attempt by Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders to achieve permanent peace in the northern British province.

50.   The Israeli-Palestinian accords leave the status of Jerusalem and other core issues to negotiations on a permanent peace settlement.