61.   The White House is struggling to decide its next move as Middle East middleman while unrelenting terrorist acts by Palestinians and Israeli military reprisals are dashing peace prospects.

62.   This, most observers and politicians agreed, would fuel a combative atmosphere likely to make peace prospects worse.

63.   This, most observers and politicians agreed, would have fueled a combative atmosphere likely to worsen peace prospects.

64.   This weekend, with Ross en route to Jerusalem, regional peace prospects came into even more flux.

65.   U.N. Middle East envoy Terje Larsen, generally optimistic about peace prospects, was gloomy.

66.   U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said Thursday withdrawing U.N. peacekeepers from Croatia would damage peace prospects and urged the former Yugoslav republic to reconsider the move.

67.   U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright linked peace prospects on the Korean peninsula Saturday to famine and economic deprivation in North Korea.

68.   In Gaza City, the PLO warned that the settlers were jeopardising peace prospects.

69.   Mestiri also went to the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad to discuss peace prospects with former premier Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

70.   Russian President Boris Yeltsin was due to discuss peace prospects in Chechnya in a televised address to the nation later Thursday.