1.   As President Clinton described it on his return to the White House Tuesday, he believed that he was compelled to force the issue by convening the talks.

2.   For years they traveled the world, monitoring elections, convening peace talks between combatants and seeking to improve the health of impoverished people in developing countries.

3.   Prime Minister John Major needs to do his part to keep the process going, by convening peace talks with all parties.

4.   Several previous efforts to convene peace talks have failed.

5.   Sinn Fein hopes that Washington will continue to press the government of Prime Minister John major to convene the talks soon.

6.   The cease-fire will take effect on Monday when Gabonese President Omar Bongo, who has acted as international mediator, convenes peace talks.

7.   The debt talks were last convened in October in Washington.

8.   The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission convened the talks, which are scheduled to last up to two weeks.

9.   There, the talks were convened under the umbrella of the Organization for African Unity, but atmospherics were sour.

10.   This year, he negotiated a cease-fire in Sudan, and last week he convened talks with Cuban exiles on the future of Cuba.