61.   Torricelli said in an interview that he was trying to put pressure on Republicans to open negotiations.

62.   UCI executives threw up their hands and opened negotiations to lease the medical center to a for-profit hospital chain.

63.   Under Rabin, repeated efforts to open negotiations with Syria had ground to a halt, and he had all but abandoned the effort until Israeli elections next November.

64.   Well, why not open broad negotiations with the Castro regime?

65.   White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry said Clinton would not open negotiations with Congress over a balanced budget blueprint until Republicans signaled a readiness to bargain.

66.   Other former rebel leaders have opened negotiations with Indian officials in an effort to end the war peacefully.

67.   Police said the plane was isolated on the airport grounds so that officials could open negotiations with the hijackers.

68.   Pastrana has refused to open negotiations with the paramilitaries or grant them formal political status as he has done for the rebels.

69.   President Reagan opened negotiations with the Soviet Union to reduce strategic nuclear warheads on both sides.

70.   Pastrana, who has struggled to open negotiations with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, threatened Friday to take back the roads by force.