51.   In a newspaper interview published in Kuwait, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, said the group did not feel bound by peace initiatives.

52.   In Kiev, Ukrainian officials announced a Yugoslav peace initiative.

53.   In the end, Franco says, each guerrilla group pursued separate peace initiatives.

54.   In the last few weeks, local legislators have begun to talk of a new peace initiative.

55.   In the Middle East, peace initiatives are opening up new travel options.

56.   In the past, Bruton had criticized Hume for opening the secret talks with Adams that led to the opening of the peace initiative a year ago.

57.   Israeli officials believe that they have managed to head off a broad American peace initiative that would have included plans for sharing Jerusalem.

58.   Israel has reacted warily to the Arab peace initiative, a fact that could pose problems of its own for Bush.

59.   It remained possible that negotiations over the peace initiative, which were on-again, off-again all Wednesday, would resume after sunrise Thursday morning.

60.   It was widely seen as negative and many assumed the peace initiative was dead in the water.