1.   Intensified diplomatic contacts during February and early March involved UNITA, MPLA-PT, Soviet and US officials and appeared to create optimism.

2.   The best hope that Kampuchea can be spared more agony is the gathering weight of diplomatic contact.

3.   Moreover, this growth of diplomatic contacts was a two-way process.

4.   And in most instances, formal ties, or even serious diplomatic contacts, have come at a steep price tag.

5.   But his visit has been marked by some of the worst violence of the conflict, and now a rupture in diplomatic contacts.

6.   But perhaps Washington, London, Paris, and Tokyo will dredge up enough courage to increase their own diplomatic contacts with Taiwan as a warning to China.

7.   But they expressed hope that it would encourage the tentative diplomatic contacts the Clinton administration has pursued in recent years.

8.   Foreign Minister Jose Miguel Insulza announced Friday that the government was suspending all diplomatic contacts with Britain and Spain.

9.   Germany has numerous business and diplomatic contacts with countries about which Washington seeks information and wants to ostracize diplomatically, like Iran, Iraq and Libya.

10.   If the PLO is declared in non-compliance, all U.S. financial aid and diplomatic contacts with Yasir Arafat must be severed.