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There is likely to be a much more intense political fight about that provision and the other proposed guidelines for the final settlements, officials said.

During talks at the State Department last week with Mr. Arafat's second-in-command, Mahmoud Abbas, General Powell offered several possibilities regarding the Israeli settlements, officials said.

Other measures include refraining from the instant Security Council veto of United Nations resolutions that Israel opposes and making use of Mr. Obama's bully pulpit to criticize the settlements, officials said.

A day after Aon, the world's No.2 insurance brokerage firm and consulting company, announced that it had designated money for settlements, officials said that they expected the consequences of pending investigations to be far less severe than they were for the Marsh & McLennan Companies, which ranks No.1 in the industry.

When the town board moved ahead with its plan to charge taxpayers townwide for the settlement, village officials were displeased.

It does not include payments CSX's insurers will make toward the settlement, officials said.

Although it appears now that the creditors will not be paid in full, all have accepted the settlement, officials said.

But settlement officials said his support also includes helping them with strategy, lobbying Parliament and cajoling other ministers.

An additional $100 million from the settlement, officials said, would pay for FamilyCare, a new initiative to reduce the number of adults who lack health insurance, estimated at 950,000.

As under previous coalitions, government support for the settlers is also the work of independent-minded ministers with important portfolios and of settlement officials who administer central-government funds.

With several business leaders urging Mr. Giuliani to put aside his pique and reach a settlement, officials involved in the talks said there was still a chance that negotiations could resume.