81.   Pastrana ceded the zone to the rebel group known as the FARC three years ago as an incentive to start peace talks.

82.   Persistent fighting in the northwest has confounded U.N. efforts to calm Bosnia and get peace talks started.

83.   Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen on Tuesday urged unions and employers to start talks.

84.   Persistent fighting in the northwest has confounded U.N. efforts to calm Bosnia under a four-month truce agreement, and get peace talks started.

85.   Poland has been invited to join NATO and is to start accession talks with the European Union next year.

86.   Putin in the past repeatedly had rejected Western demands to start talks with rebels.

87.   A high-ranking Social Democrat, Wolf-Michael Catenhusen, said Monday the party leadership was expected to start coalition talks with the Greens on Friday.

88.   Aaron and Mogg started talks at EU headquarters Monday morning and announced a joint news conference for Tuesday afternoon to wrap up three negotiating sessions.

89.   Actively supported by the United States, the Croatian government and U.N. officials have started talks on a new Security Council mandate for the peacekeepers.

90.   Albright visited the region earlier this month and urged both sides to take steps to get the talks started again.