61.   Just last month he rallied other Arab League leaders behind his own Arab-Israeli peace initiative.

62.   Jordan and Egypt have said the recommendations are consistent with their peace initiative.

63.   Lieberman said that he was most concerned about a new peace initiative by the Bush administration, which President Bush has said envisions a new Palestinian state.

64.   --Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy rejected the Saudi peace plan and threatened to withdraw from the Arab League over its apparent lack of support for his own peace initiative.

65.   Myriad peace initiatives had flopped miserably.

66.   Officials feared that would have instantly withered the peace initiative.

67.   Officials said it was especially important this year because they wanted the meeting to concentrate on the peace initiative.

68.   One European ambassador briefed on the peace initiatives last week by National Security Adviser Anthony Lake described the plans as vague.

69.   Others took the same view, including most notably the Irish prime minister, Albert Reynolds, whose government is partner to the British in the latest peace initiative.

70.   Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, who has said that isolated terrorism would not kill the peace initiative, made no immediate comment on the attack.