1.   And holding Mideast peace summits.

2.   A troubled peace summit neared a humiliating collapse Wednesday night as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Palestinian leaders, packed his bags and threatened to leave.

3.   After staring at the prospect of a failed peace summit, Clinton said, neither Arafat nor Barak wanted to return to the tumultuous region without a peace accord.

4.   By midnight, the faltering peace summit had been resuscitated.

5.   Clinton hosts a peace summit among Arafat, Rabin, King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

6.   Clinton signed the short-term increase just before leaving for a peace summit in Egypt.

7.   Clinton himself has already hosted two major Mideast peace summits.

8.   During the interview, Bush was asked whether he, too, might convene a peace summit.

9.   In the interview that followed, Clinton also talked about the peace summit, despite a strict US-imposed gag rule.

10.   Israel also reopened international borders to Palestinians Wednesday after the agreement reached at the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, an Israeli spokesman said.