1.   A senior U.S. diplomat assured Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday that Washington is resuming efforts to break the deadlock in Mideast peace talks, Palestinian officials said.

2.   A senior U.S. diplomat assured Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday that Washington was resuming efforts to break the deadlock in the peace talks, Palestinian officials said.

3.   A senior U.S. diplomat assured Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday that Washington was resuming efforts to break the Mideast deadlock, Palestinian officials said.

4.   A senior U.S. diplomat assured Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday that Washington was resuming efforts to break the deadlock in Mideast peace talks, Palestinian officials said.

5.   Russian diplomats assured Cuba that Moscow remains interested in mutually beneficial political and military relations with Havana, according to a Foreign Ministry statement.

6.   The diplomat assured them the Cuban government would handle the matter expeditiously, said the attorney, Michael C. Berry.

7.   The top Pakistani diplomat assured his full coperation, he added.