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Tue 07 Jul 2007WTO chairmen propose compromisesMediators of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) farming and industrial goods talks today proposed compromise texts meant to save the Doha free trade accord.Don Stephenson, Canada's ambassador to the WTO and mediator of the industrial goods talks, said countries needed to "search for balance" between their competing interests in the nearly six-year-old negotiations to secure an agreement.