So there's a dance going on, an intricate political minuet.

The anticrime bill and gun control have created a political minuet for the Democrats and the Republicans.

The former dictator's death has also forced President Michelle Bachelet into a delicate political minuet.

He was not the only one choreographing political minuets.

But what began as a political minuet before a rapt, election-year audience appears to have developed its own momentum, creating an atmosphere in which negotiations have become an imperative.

A8 Salvadoran Government-rebel talks that begin Tuesday are more of a twirl in a political minuet than a breakthrough toward ending the war, Western diplomats said.

Extreme Differences The decision culminated what began as a political minuet before a rapt election-year audience.

At the same time, his administration revived other issues in what is emerging as a political minuet to end the controversy without losing face.

With the other, he must accommodate Mr. Codey, a popular fellow Democrat and occasional rival of Mr. Corzine's, in an awkward political minuet of uncertain duration.

A special session of the General Assembly that was expected to act swiftly on a package of gun-control laws has instead turned into a complicated political minuet.