71.   Negotiations may have started but only a ceasefire until Friday and the partial and progressive withdrawal of Russian troops have been agreed.

72.   Negotiations will start on an Israeli military redeployment as well as Palestinian elections in two weeks.

73.   Mediator Julius Nyerere on suggested Wednesday that sanctions against Burundi might be relaxed once serious negotiations started between Tutsi strongman Pierre Buyoya and Hutu rebel leaders.

74.   Officials have said formal negotiations could start next week, and that an IMF team was on stand-by to travel to Buenos Aires.

75.   Negotiations did start after the Budennovsk crisis, but have been suspended since October after repeated violations of a military accord signed in summer.

76.   Negotiations have started between the administration officials and the rally leaders.

77.   No negotiations have started although the Taliban had called for Dostam to cooperate and join a Taliban-led central government.

78.   Oil Minister Abdel Mohsen al-Midaj has said negotiations will only start once the strikers have returned to work.

79.   Political observers say the government may face an uncontrolled labor unrest if the standoff continues until March, when annual spring wage negotiations start.

80.   That is when the real negotiations will start -- and clubs will want to resist an open house.