1.   Amid the chaos Monday, Abed Rabbo, the senior Palestinian negotiator, quit his post.

2.   Arafat said Ross urged him to sent his senior negotiator, Mahmoud Abbas, to meet with Gold on Thursday.

3.   A senior Israeli negotiator said that the maps prepared by the Netanyahu government had been redrawn.

4.   Afterward, around midnight, Clinton convened the senior negotiators from each side, leaving aside the two leaders.

5.   But as senior negotiators threw themselves into a final round of meetings, the two sides apparently remained deadlocked on several key issues.

6.   But his counterpart, Gilad Sher, the senior Israeli negotiator, said that continued terrorism could indeed derail the joint effort.

7.   In a series of negotiations between senior negotiators, solutions to the basic issues have been discussed in deep detail.

8.   In an incident Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah accidentally fired on an armored car carrying Ahmed Qurei, a senior Palestinian negotiator.

9.   In public remarks Tuesday, Sharon and Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian negotiator, staked out sharply opposing positions on how those recommendations should be carried out.

10.   In response to the Palestinian protest, Israel hurriedly arranged a meeting between its senior negotiator and his Palestinian counterpart in an attempt to reduce tensions.