51.   Paul Rogers, a terrorism expert at the University of Bradford, said the main goal of negotiators was to reduce tensions.

52.   Powell said if there was calm on the border, there would be opportunities for further diplomatic efforts to reduce tensions.

53.   Reducing hair-trigger tensions on both sides of the demilitarized zone dividing the peninsula is another must.

54.   Reducing tensions diplomatically.

55.   Russia and the United States have agreed to stop aiming their nuclear missiles at each other in a largely symbolic understanding to help reduce tensions.

56.   Representatives of the United States, China and the two Koreas met recently in Geneva and agreed to steps to reduce tension on the Korean Peninsula.

57.   Sharif announced his decision only hours after a lunch meeting with Vajpayee, at which they agreed on steps to reduce tensions.

58.   Since eating or smelling of food may reduce psychologic tension, craving or the desire for food may then be representative of the underlying conflict.

59.   Such payments, if presented here in sufficiently ambiguous terms, might give the Chinese leaders a face-saving way to release the plane and reduce unwanted tensions.

60.   That policy rested on reducing nuclear tensions in the region and promoting trade between India and the United States.