61.   White House officials closely monitored the settlement talks during months of intense negotiations.

62.   A planned attack by Georgian guerrillas on breakaway Abkhazia was thwarted after intense negotiations among top leaders of the rival governments, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said Monday.

63.   After intense negotiations, Mchumo last month proposed that Moore get the job because he had the edge over Supachai.

64.   After six days of intense negotiations, most of the official comment was pessimistic.

65.   After days of intense negotiations, Annan did manage to get Barak and Arafat to let go of preconditions standing in the way of a summit.

66.   After intense negotiations over the past three days here, Boeing was given a final chance later Tuesday to come up with a new offer, the official said.

67.   After intense negotiations, two embassy staff members agreed to receive five representatives from the workers.

68.   After nearly a week of intense negotiations on Kosovo, deep divisions persist between the Serbs and ethnic Albanians on almost all important issues, international mediators say.

69.   After three weeks of intense negotiations, the two sides reached agreement last month in Kuala Lumpur.

70.   ASI executive director Vena Murray said Talbot had changed his mind after a week of intense negotiations.