71.   He denounced the abduction of the officers as a terrorist act, but said he may call for the resumption of peace talks after the rebels release their captives.

72.   He continued fighting two successive military regimes, saying they were also corrupt, but finally agreed to peace talks after elections in February installed the new government.

73.   Holbrooke announced the talks after intensive negotiations with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and consultations with Croatian and Bosnian officials.

74.   Holbrooke left the talks after three hours for consultations by phone with Albright.

75.   Horn and his Malaysian counterpart, Mahathir Mohamad, held talks after attending a signing ceremony.

76.   However, it was not clear whether the Palestinians would attend such talks after the killing of the PFLP leader.

77.   In Bonn, Germany, negotiators made major progress on treaty talks after bowing to the White House on forest management and proposed emission caps.

78.   In Shali, the Chechen military commander, Gen. Aslan Maskhadov, ruled out further peace talks after negotiations with the Russian military failed to take place Saturday.

79.   In Shali, southeast of Grozny, Maskhadov said there was no sense in further peace talks after negotiations with the Russian military failed to take place on Saturday.

80.   Israel and Syria began peace talks after the Madrid summit, but have made little progress.