81.   The attack on Monday again posed delicate problems for the western alliance, which feared a spiral of tension and reprisals that could derail the new American peace initiative.

82.   The British and Irish governments, in a peace initiative advanced last December, offered Sinn Fein a place at a negotating table if the violence was ended.

83.   The Arab peace initiative offered last month in Beirut left the entire issue up to negotiation.

84.   The Clinton administration is keen on a Netanyahu-Arafat meeting to demonstrate movement in the peace initiative that Clinton has nurtured.

85.   The Bosnian war has been marked by stillborn peace initiatives and Balkan officials have repeatedly frustrated international diplomatic efforts with an apparently limitless capacity to differ.

86.   The British and Irish governments, in a peace initiative advanced in December, offered Sinn Fein a place at a negotiating table if the violence was ended.

87.   The Downing Street declaration was a peace initiative begun in December by the British and Irish governments together.

88.   The last serious attempt at a peace initiative ended disastrously.

89.   The new peace initiative could still easily unravel.

90.   The main points of the Iraq-Kuwait entente were included in a separate document called The Beirut Declaration that also included the peace initiative toward Israel.