1.   It was Schmerhom, however, who was despatched to lead a negotiating team to meet the Republican leaders.

2.   This constituted an apparent retreat from earlier calls by the Palestinian negotiating team for a total freeze on settlement building.

3.   An IMF negotiating team is due to arrive in Moscow next week to make an agreement formal, Russian officials said.

4.   An end to the talks is not in sight, though, and Swissair has recently removed its chief pilot from its negotiating team because of differing views.

5.   Angelos, a lawyer, said he felt the owners should listen at the table and talk in caucuses with their negotiating team.

6.   Arafat and the Palestinian negotiating team are scheduled to meet with Ross on Friday evening in Nablus in the West Bank.

7.   As the rebels pressed their attack, a rebel negotiating team carrying a white flag approached Russian troops at the railway station, the scene of the fiercest fighting.

8.   Barak delayed naming the leader of his negotiating team until last week.

9.   Board of Education president Mark Slavkin, a member of the negotiating team, said it was premature to say the negotiations were unsuccessful.

10.   - Found his way onto the tobacco lawsuit negotiating team for the anti-smoking forces, although he had no expertise on the complex issue.