51.   It will be years before meaningful labor and environmental accords are part of the world trade system.

52.   It may be too soon to declare the Oslo accords to be dead, Makovsky said.

53.   Japanese automakers who manufacture in Canada said the accord is encouraging.

54.   Kim Wallace, a political analyst at Lehman Brothers, said he expects Clinton to try to reassure investors that a balanced-budget accord is still possible.

55.   Last July, at a summit in Agra, an accord of sorts was available that would at least have gotten negotiations going.

56.   Most ministers said an accord was feasible upon arrival.

57.   Nelson, however, confirmed that the accord was necessary.

58.   Now they wonder whether that accord was only a beginning.

59.   One diplomat suggested that the seemingly routine accord would be the most important item signed.

60.   One is that the London Club accord is only an agreement in principle that still must be approved by individual creditors, most of which are Japanese banks.