71.   The government has encouraged rebel negotiators to hold the talks in Manila, but they have refused, citing security worries.

72.   The government has notified the NDF that it will cancel safety guarantees it had granted to rebel negotiators and their consultants in the peace talks.

73.   The latest killings came only two days after government officials and rebel negotiators met in Switzerland and agreed to a new accord to try to reduce bloodshed.

74.   The NDF office is in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, where rebel negotiators live in exile.

75.   The rebel negotiators will continue to demand a new Constitution and an interim government.

76.   The rebel negotiator Comandante David said his team was studying the proposal.

77.   The rebel negotiators insisted that Llamas was an adviser of the NDF panel and should have been immune from arrest.

78.   The rebel negotiators speak Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolobal or Chol, with Spanish only as a second language.

79.   They have met rebel negotiators and will hold talks with police and military officials.

80.   They met rebel negotiators and will hold talks with police and military officials.