11.   Kongolo called for international intervention to stop the Brazzaville fighting from spreading throughout the region.

12.   Most foreign relief workers were evacuated from Sierra Leone last week and the local medical staff were prevented by the fighting from attending to their patients.

13.   Racial tension on the ground particularly between the Bosnian Muslim and Croatian Federation and the Serbian Republic has prevented many of those who fled the fighting from returning.

14.   Thai troops across the frontier have been on high alert to prevent the fighting from spilling over.

15.   The bases are next to the Russian embassy where staff were observing the fighting from the roof, a U.S. embassy spokesman said in a telephone interview.

16.   The government is pushing the talks in a bid to keep sporadic fighting from turning into a full-scale civil war.

17.   The KLA complained that the heavy Serb buildup was a provocation that prevented civilians who fled the previous fighting from returning.

18.   The heaviest fighting from early Wednesday through early Thursday was on a battlefront in the Majevica mountains near the northeast city of Tuzla.

19.   Their frame of reference is the recent war years pitting the coalition government Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Hun Sen headed against the Khmer Rouge fighting from jungle strongholds.

20.   Troops and police had the market surrounded to keep the fighting from spreading, according to witnesses.