1.   If the peace process gains momentum, Gonzalez expects the candidates to soften their rhetoric.

2.   Hostility remains, despite the peace momentum.

3.   The Bush administration has recently voiced support for a Palestinian state, giving the deadlocked Mideast peace process new momentum.

4.   Bosnian government and Serb officials, buoyed by a breakthrough agreement on applying their ceasefire, meet again here Thursday in hopes of keeping the peace momentum rolling.

5.   But lingering disputes between the parties delayed implementation and dampened the peace momentum here.

6.   The Seoul official is expected to ask Washington to resume talks with Pyongyang with a new peace momentum brought to the Korean peninsula.

7.   Welfare Minister Yusuf Kalla, who mediated the Maluku peace talks, also deplored the blasts but expressed confidence they would not hurt the peace momentum, Kompas said.