President Bush, along with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other American officials, conducted a flurry of telephone diplomacy to try to revive talks.

In effect, Mr. Clinton will be turning his telephone diplomacy into face-to-face persuasion during his White House sessions with the two leaders.

But Athens and Ankara have followed sharply different courses since President Clinton's personal telephone diplomacy persuaded both sides to withdraw their flags and forces.

They did early this morning, but it was not clear whether Secretary Powell's telephone diplomacy had any effect on the Israelis' decision.

Meanwhile, the President had been conducting his own telephone diplomacy on Tuesday morning, speaking twice with Chancellor Kohl.

On February 25, Bush called seven Iraqi political leaders in an extraordinary round of telephone diplomacy aimed at getting talks restarted about forming a permanent government.

After 1,450 seamless days of state dinners, brush-fire wars, telephone diplomacy and global jet excursions, George Bush's Presidency is now rapidly winding down.

It will also require something beyond telephone diplomacy by Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice.

President at Jamboree Mr. Bush apparently did not continue his telephone diplomacy today.

That puts him well behind Ms. Albright's pace, though he has spent countless hours on telephone diplomacy, which he has often argued can be just as effective.