And indeed, under American auspices, Israeli and Palestinian security officials have resumed regular meetings.
The board of cemetery in its new composition held regular meetings until 1994, then again once in June 1998 and resumed regular meetings in September 2007.
On Saturday night, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres resumed meetings with Palestinian officials that had been broken off because of the attacks last week.
When the authority resumed meetings in the following weeks, needless to say, the subject of the subway was gone.
"I anticipate no great delay in resuming meetings," he said, and he repeated his assertion of Monday that the league's offer was a good one.
More recently, some groups like Moscow's Perestroika Club - a discussion group named after Mikhail S. Gorbachev's call for social "restructuring" - have resumed meetings without official interference.
After taking a break for Labor Day, the mediator resumed meetings with representatives of the union and the airline yesterday in an effort to restart negotiations.
He made plans to resume scientific meetings, but was then taken ill again, with significant pain in his thorax and legs.
Protecting the settlers and defining their relationship to the Palestinian police are among issues that must still be resolved by negotiators, who resume meetings this week in Cairo.
Since Wallis's health was poor, and the depression had damaged Ernest's business interests, they did not see Edward again until October, when they resumed frequent meetings.