101.  British officials have in the past conducted secret talks with Sinn Fein leaders, but never before have they sat down openly at the same table with them.

102.  British officials said that they would probably be a Scandinavian and a Canadian, and that they would be appointed in coming days.

103.  British officials said their rescue team had been preparing for the call for days.

104.  British officials said they did not expect Turkey to assume its role until June.

105.  British officials say that Blair would never had gone public with his proposal if it did not have the support of President Bush.

106.  British officials told their American counterparts that London considered the operation important enough to make an exception to its regulations against accepting foreign nuclear material.

107.  British officials will continue to meet with Trimble to keep him in the negotiations.

108.  But British officials have recently acknowledged that pique was the real reason.

109.  But British officials said Masari was no democrat.

110.  But British officials said talks were in a preliminary stage and faced complicated legal obstacles.