21.  The talks chairman, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, authored the nonviolence principles and has required each participating party to pledge acceptance of them.

22.  The talks chairman, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, required each participating party to subscribe to six principles of nonviolence.

23.  The talks chairman, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, said Tuesday that all eight participating parties had accepted the document as a basis for the negotiations.

24.  The Ulster Unionist-SDLP package was approved early Tuesday in a vote among all nine participating parties.

25.  They invited Sinn Fein to rejoin the other seven participating parties Monday.

26.  They invited Sinn Fein to rejoin the seven other participating parties Monday.

27.  They filibustered and withheld their agreement when all nine participating parties met inside Stormont, the center of British rule of Northern Ireland.