61.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat first would have to publicly speak out against violence and Israel pull its troops from the West Bank.

62.   Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo called on the United States and Europe to press Israel to pull its troops back from Palestinian population centers.

63.   Powell and U.S. President George W. Bush have repeatedly called on Israel to pull its troops out of Palestinian areas.

64.   Paris has issued threats that it will pull its troops out if the situation cannot be turned around.

65.   Palestinians would arrest militants, and Israel would pull its troops back from Palestinian areas and ease travel restrictions.

66.   Peres has also said Israel would only pull its troops out of parts of the West Bank city of Hebron if Arafat kept his promise.

67.   Peres had promised Arafat to pull Israeli troops out of most of Hebron this summer.

68.   A cease-fire has generally held, and combatants have pulled troops back from key flash points.

69.   A cease-fire this year has generally held, with the warring parties largely complying with promises to pull troops back from key battle zones.

70.   A man claiming to be Chechen guerrilla leader Salman Raduyev has threatened to bomb Russian rail facilities until Moscow pulls its troops out of the breakaway republic of Chechnya.