51.   Fearing a bloody battle for control of northern Afghanistan, a U.N. convoy prepares to evacuate foreigners and aid workers.

52.   Fifty people were killed in a bloody battle between Muslims and Christians in Maluku province, a senior police officer said Thursday.

53.   Foreign mediators see talks Wednesday between Mobutu and rebel leader Laurent Kabila as a last chance to avoid a final bloody battle.

54.   Had the peacekeepers tried to stop the shooting, it likely would have escalated into a bloody battle between U.N. and Rwandan soldiers.

55.   His last opponent, Lennox Lewis, said despite a bloody battle in October he was not worried.

56.   His first produced the talks between top commanders that partially quelled the bloody battle for Grozny.

57.   Hindu mobs joined bloody battles between heavily armed Muslims and riot police in a northern Indian industrial city, leaving six dead Sunday in spreading religious riots.

58.   His first produced talks between the top commanders for both sides that partially quelled the bloody battle for Grozny.

59.   However, a standoff continued in Bethlehem, and Israel barred a U.N. commission from examining the Jenin refugee camp, site of a bloody battle.

60.   If those talks fail, there could be a bloody battle over the zone.