51.   Botswana President Festus Mogae, whose southern African country is playing host to the talks, told the Congolese to look at the negotiations as a last hope.

52.   Bush administration officials consider arms control negotiations as much a relic of the past as the ban on national missile defenses.

53.   British Protestants had demanded a Northern Ireland-wide vote before any negotiations as the best symbolic way to underscore their majority position within the province.

54.   But both sides have portrayed the latest round of U.N.-mediated negotiations as critical.

55.   But both sides have portrayed the latest round of negotiations as critical.

56.   But most, including Arabs considered radical, made it clear that they still see negotiations as the best way to settle their differences with Israel.

57.   Clinton has described his framework for negotiations as one that meets the fundamental needs of Israel and the Palestinians.

58.   Croats and rebel Serbs positioned for possible battle Tuesday even as they agreed to test negotiations as an alternative to renewed war.

59.   Denktash, backed by Ankara, walked out demanding recognition of his breakaway state and the discontinuation of Cyprus-EU accession negotiations as a condition for his return.

60.   Govt vows no negotiations as another town falls to rebels.