1.   Discreet contacts had taken place since an unpublicized trip to Nairobi in January by the Foreign Minister, Roelof Pik Botha.

2.   Through the British, discreet contacts were made with, of all countries, Iran.

3.   Ultraconservatives from right-wing intellectuals to criminal syndicates have always maintained discreet contacts with the conservative governing party, the Liberal Democrats.

4.   Palestinian negotiators Friday accused their Israeli counterparts of going back on understandings on a Hebron troop pullback apparently reached in discreet top-level contacts.

5.   But Manila and Pyongyang have made discreet contacts in recent years aimed at establishing formal ties.

6.   But the two governments have made discreet contacts in recent years aimed at establishing formal ties.

7.   Manila and Pyongyang have made discreet contacts in recent years aimed at establishing formal ties.

8.   The king has also maintained discreet contacts with a spectrum of Afghan groups and foreign governments through the years.

9.   The two governments have made discreet contacts in recent years aimed at establishing formal ties.

10.   However discreet contacts between the two countries were multiplying in the meantime.