81.   Mubarak later telephoned Netanyahu and Arafat to discuss the results of their historic first summit, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported.

82.   North Korea warned Saturday that a historic inter-Korean summit this month could be jeopardized if South Korea continued to argue over the nuclear standoff on the divided peninsula.

83.   Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Tuesday for an historic summit with NATO leaders to seal an agreement giving Russia a seat in a joint NATO-Russia Council.

84.   Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saint Petersburg on Saturday for the second leg of a historic summit with his US counterpart Geroge W. Bush, RIA Novosti said.

85.   Some reports had speculated that he might have been murdered by hardliners ahead of the planned historic summit with South Korea.

86.   South Korea started preparations Sunday for a historic summit meeting with North Korea by forming a task force to make contacts with Pyongyang, officials said.

87.   Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui said Wednesday that an offer from Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin to hold a historic summit would be closely studied.

88.   The historic summit will mark the replacement of nearly four decades of existence of the OAU by the AU, which will be loosely based on the European Union.

89.   The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said Kim died without materializing his plans to normalize relations with the United States and to hold an historic summit with South Korea.