1.   Prime Minister Shimon Peres and PLO chief Yasser Arafat meet Thursday to try to revive their peacemaking.

2.   Following inconclusive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, diplomatic efforts to revive Middle East peacemaking are continuing with a meeting between the Israeli and Egyptian leaders.

3.   For one, the two sides are comparing notes on how to revive peacemaking in the Middle East.

4.   For one, the two sides were comparing notes on how to revive peacemaking in the Middle East.

5.   Late Monday, television exit polls predicted Barak, a career soldier expected to revive peacemaking with the Palestinians, would win by a large margin.

6.   The shooting rampage came only hours after U.S. President George W. Bush expressed support for a Palestinian state and spoke about efforts to revive Mideast peacemaking.

7.   The stop in Damascus was bound to raise speculation that peacemaking could be revived by the United States on that front.

8.   They also charged that his continued presence on the scene would undermine their efforts to revive peacemaking.