61.   And they agreed to make the elimination of the six-years severance pay the subject of contract talks between Amtrak and its unions.

62.   Annan has been an active mediator in talks between the two foreign ministers.

63.   And when talks between the White House and the Republican leadership temporarily broke down just before Christmas, Clinton blamed the freshmen and tried to portray Gingrich as ineffectual.

64.   Argentine President Carlos Menem will send Congress a proposal to modernize labor laws, ending six months of government moderated talks between labor unions and business leaders.

65.   As Brian Roberts recalls it, when talks between Kluge and Ameritech fell apart, Kluge called Ralph Roberts, with whom he had merger discussions early on.

66.   As former head of the Mainland Affairs Council, Siew oversaw unofficial bilateral talks between Taipei and Beijing and organized two summit meetings.

67.   As might be expected, six years of talks between Taiwan and China have so far yielded little beyond an endless back-and-forth about terminology.

68.   As the deal to buy Grumman started to crumble, merger talks between Lockheed and Martin Marietta began.

69.   As the Berlin talks were underway, separate talks between the United States and North Korea were being held in Pyongyang.

70.   As the fighting widened, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that efforts were again being made to arrange truce talks between him and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.