31.   Interethnic conflicts have erupted in recent years, particularly among Uzbeks and Tajiks, and Uzbeks and Meskhetian Turks exiled there under Stalin.

32.   Meanwhile Monday, the Indian Defense Ministry tried to calm international concern about the danger that the conflict could erupt into nuclear war.

33.   On Friday, ethnic Hungarian leader Laszlo Toekes warned that a conflict could erupt in Harghita, the private news agency Mediafax reported.

34.   RTZ-CRA, which operated the giant Panguna Copper mine in central Bougainville before the conflict erupted nine years ago, also criticized the possible use of mercenaries.

35.   Russia took part in a Thursday meeting in London of the six-nation Contact Group attempting to bring peace to Kosovo, where conflict erupted in February.

36.   Similar conflicts have erupted in western Bosnia between Muslims and Croats.

37.   The Air Force saw a need for the sleep study because pilots now fly greater distances just to begin their missions when conflicts erupt.

38.   The Angolan forces played a key role in blocking a rebel offensive in southwest Congo, near the border, soon after the conflict erupted in early August.

39.   The conflict erupted after Vieira accused Mane of selling arms to Casamance separatists fighting the Senegalese government.

40.   The conflict erupted in Guinea-Bissau after Vieira accused Mane of selling arms to Casamance separatists fighting the Senegalese government.