1.   A series of violent attacks has left the peace talks in shreds.

2.   Japan has refused to send a representative to the talks in Geneva.

3.   Naturally, Hanoi heralded the bombing halt and the peace talks in Paris as great victories.

4.   The talks in Geneva about intermediate-range nuclear forces have recently resumed.

5.   The two leaders held private talks in June to try to resolve the dispute.

6.   There is something surreal about the climate change talks in Bali.

7.   Negotiators hunkered down for a weekend of non-stop talks in the hope of averting a Monday morning strike.

8.   Many want to abandon the multilateral trade talks in Geneva.

9.   Concern on this issue was seen as one reason for Soviet delaying on the Open Skies talks and at the conventional armed forces reduction talks in Vienna.

10.   The lack of agreement threatened the timetable for completing the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade talks in the GATT negotiations.