41.   The two will be spend six hours together tomorrow, including a private supper, for talks in which trade will be high on the agenda.

42.   THE United States and Russia yesterday challenged Arabs and Israelis to resume peace talks in April and agreed to hold a first summit between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin.

43.   No official announcement was made on the specific types of retaliation under discussion at the talks in the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah.

44.   The politically explosive bilateral trade gap is certain to loom large when the Japanese Prime Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa, holds talks in Washington next month with President Clinton.

45.   Writers giving talks in the last year have included such diverse characters as Shirley Conran, Barry Norman and Nigel Tranter.

46.   Also on the horizon are trade talks in Qatar that will deal with patent rights and a battle over prescription drug benefits in Medicare.

47.   American Chairman Robert Crandall was similarly grim about the talks in an appearance before the House aviation subcommittee, where he testified about the federal airline ticket tax.

48.   Although the peace talks in Chiapas have meandered, President Ernesto Zedillo is deeply interested in keeping them alive.

49.   American Home and SmithKline Beecham broke off merger talks in January.

50.   American officials said they expected lower-level diplomats and military officials to resume talks in Washington in late July.