21.   On Tuesday, the fighting spread to other areas.

22.   Scores of civilians evacuated Aracinovo, an ethnic Albanian-populated suburb near Skopje, apparently anticipating the fighting will spread.

23.   Residents of the village of Terechnoye, several kilometers from Pervomayskaya, fled in panic in the middle of the night after hearing the fighting was spreading.

24.   Since then, command over the town of Sakow has changed hands twice, and the fighting has spread into the surrounding villages, chasing villagers from their homes.

25.   Sahnoun, an Algerian diplomat, said that if not stopped quickly the fighting could soon spread throughout a whole belt of the continent.

26.   Since then, the fighting has spread east to several other fronts along the border, leaving tens of thousands of troops and civilians dead.

27.   Since then, command over the town of Sakow has changed hands twice, and the fighting has spread to surrounding villages, forcing residents to flee.

28.   Straw sought to ease Turkish fears that the fighting could spread to its southeastern neighbor Iraq.

29.   The clash raised fears the fighting might spread to Mogadishu and Merca, where both factions are well represented.

30.   The fighting quickly spread to Mazar-e-Sharif where warring factions battled with rocket launchers and automatic weapons.