1.   All along, Sharon has rejected any possibility of substantive peace talks as long as the shootings and bombings go on.

2.   Israel and the Palestinians reached agreement on Israeli troop withdrawals from Hebron, a timetable for further pullbacks in the West Bank and the rescheduling of substantive peace talks.

3.   Pastrana was elected last year after promising negotiations with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, but no substantive peace talks have begun.

4.   Sharon does not want substantive peace talks to begin until Palestinians halt their attacks on Israelis.

5.   The Bush administration has supported the Israeli position that a Palestinian crackdown on militants must precede any resumption of substantive peace talks.

6.   Palestinian leaders are expressing frustration over prospects for restarting substantive peace talks with Israel in the wake of the Iraq crisis.

7.   Palestinians are expressing frustration over prospects for restarting substantive peace talks with Israel in the wake of the Iraq crisis.

8.   Rabin told reporters after meeting with Christopher on Thursday that Israel and Syria are moving into substantive peace talks on security arrangements.

9.   Rabin told reporters after meeting with Christopher that Israel and Syria were moving into substantive peace talks on security arrangements.

10.   But Kabila has not been optimistic, saying a pullout of Rwandan and Ugandan-backed forces from the Congo was a precondition for substantive peace talks.