Experts in diplomacy and negotiation say the talks are a classic example of an increasingly popular approach to resolving long-festering disputes.

If the talks are successful, they could put to rest some long-festering disputes in Russian-American trade.

Federal environmental officials said they were optimistic about a resolution of the long-festering dispute.

Experts in diplomacy and negotiation say the deal is a classic example of an increasingly popular approach to settling long-festering disputes.

This will require solving the long-festering disputes that induced it, like control of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, and Iraq's access to the gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

Citing his health and a long-festering dispute over his role, Herbert von Karajan resigned today after 34 years as chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

The most acute political risk for Belize's nascent oil industry may be a long-festering territorial dispute with neighboring Guatemala, the most densely populated country in Central America and home to 12 million people.

Officials at the United Nations said Mr. Annan would also challenge Mr. Assad to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon and settle a long-festering dispute over the two countries' borders.

The agreement seeks to end a long-festering international dispute that has imperiled salmon stocks and once provoked a blockade of Alaska-bound ferries by angry Canadian fishermen.

But Washington has to solve some of its own long-festering disputes over what kind of strategic and conventional forces it wants before it can reasonably agree with the Russians on important cuts.