21.   The government has accused the MILF of provoking the fighting by attacking military detachments guarding a Japanese-funded multimillion-dollar irrigation dam project in Carmen.

22.   The government has accused the MILF of provoking the fighting by attacking military detachments securing a Japanese-funded multi-million dollar irrigation dam project in central Mindanao.

23.   The government did not deny the accusation, but claimed the rebels started the fighting by attacking the nearby government-held town of Moliro.

24.   The grouping of U.N. operations into the four executive committees represents a compromise following bitter turf fighting by U.N. agencies, departments and their supporters in member states.

25.   There are fears that Kosovo will explode in fresh fighting by spring if those efforts fail.

26.   Though some take sides, most are pulled into the fighting by circumstance.

27.   They also describe heavy fighting by rebels and self-armed ethnic Albanians against Serb forces.

28.   Three others, bleeding from police beatings, were helped away from the fighting by citizens who had been watching from the sidewalk and cheering on the students.

29.   Clashes started at dawn, but police managed to quell the fighting by midday, Tana River police commander Peter Muthike said.

30.   Zairean soldiers pulled back in the face of the fighting by what appeared to be uniformed Rwandan soldiers, he said.