71.   Clan elders have been unsucessful in their attempts to mediate the dispute.

72.   Cassoulides also met Tuesday with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, who has been trying to mediate the dispute.

73.   Despite that, Jackson said he has mediated other disputes that appeared even more intractable.

74.   Egypt and France have tried to mediate the dispute over the islands, which are on a major shipping lane in the Red Sea between the two countries.

75.   Egypt, too, has offered to mediate the dispute.

76.   Earlier Friday, Scandinavian monitors were dispatched to rebel-held territory to mediate a dispute over access to seven islets controlled by the government in northern Sri Lanka.

77.   Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa had announced earlier that the French government had been requested to mediate the dispute.

78.   First, the center tries to mediate disputes.

79.   Fujimori said only the countries that are guarantors to the Rio Protocol setting the boundary between the two countries can mediate the dispute.

80.   From the left, Bush is getting advice from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who offered to help mediate the dispute and said America should apologize.