1.   If these timetables hold, the Oslo peace framework signed nearly two years ago on the White House lawn would take a mighty step from promise to reality.

2.   Israel has threatened to annex parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip if statehood is declared outside the peace framework.

3.   Only Syria and its Lebanese client still remain outside the formal peace framework, and even they may not remain outside very much longer.

4.   U.S. officials insisted Monday that the diplomatic door remains open, and that air strikes can end anytime if Milosevic agrees to the peace framework.

5.   Peace talks have been stalled since an unsuccessful summit meeting in July near Washington, when Barak and Arafat failed to agree on terms for a peace framework.

6.   All the signs are that the largely middle-class voters will register disapproval of the peace framework announced in February by electing a man who opposes political compromise.

7.   Ajello conceded he did not know how other forces involved in the fighting could be brought into the peace framework.

8.   Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski, a VMRO member, also broke ranks with the peace plan framework and urged a nationwide referendum on the constitutional changes.

9.   The result is a blow to Prime Minister John Major, a leading architect of the peace framework, announced with Irish Prime Minister John Bruton in February.