71.   The talks were arranged with the blessing of Suharto.

72.   The talks were arranged and chaired by IGAD, whose members comprise Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan.

73.   The talks had been arranged by the United States after it announced earlier this month that it had exhausted its role as broker.

74.   The talks were arranged by Baptist leaders in Nagaland and their colleagues in the United States, Jamir said.

75.   The talks were arranged during a diplomatic shuttle last week by Secretary of State Warren Christopher to the Middle East.

76.   The United States has taken the lead in trying to arrange talks between the two sides about the future of the province.

77.   The United States and Europe have been trying to halt the violence and arrange talks between the Albanians and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

78.   The United States has been playing the lead role in trying to arrange talks between the two sides on the future of the province.

79.   The violence came amid protracted efforts to arrange truce talks, possibly next week, between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

80.   The violence escalated as shuttling U.S. envoys tried to arrange talks between Serbs and ethnic Albanians with no sign of compromise.