1.   Clinton said U.S. sales of defensive weapons to Taiwan should not impede reunification negotiations between Beijing and Taipei.

2.   General managers complain that agents impede negotiations with rookies chosen in the draft simply because they want to break the bank.

3.   The fund cited a welter of laws and regulations that have kept major companies on life support while impeding negotiations for selling them to foreign investors.

4.   The proposal for such ground stations, which would alert Israel to a Syrian military buildup on the border, have impeded negotiations because of Syrian objections.

5.   Leftist guerrillas attacked a military outpost in the northern Guatemalan highlands, wounding nine soldiers in fighting that the army said Tuesday could impede peace negotiations.

6.   The organization said announcement of the accord had been delayed out of fear that public knowledge of it would impede the negotiations.

7.   In a newspaper interview Tuesday the US diplomat said the on-going war would not impede his negotiations and denied his efforts had reached an impasse.