71.   That does not mean the West can or should intervene whenever ethnic conflict erupts.

72.   Territorial disputes growing from passionate ethnic conflicts have resulted in mini-wars being easily reignited.

73.   That is encouraging, since it is a reasonable bet that NATO may again be called on to act against ethnic conflict in Europe in the years ahead.

74.   That film, a story of ethnic conflict set in London and Macedonia, has been shown at festivals in a half-dozen countries over the last five months.

75.   The availability of small arms has magnified ethnic conflicts, empowered warlords and contributed to an appalling toll in civilian casualties.

76.   The Clinton administration appears to have learned a belated lesson about ethnic conflicts in the Balkans.

77.   The ethnic conflict worsened this year when NATO began bombing Yugoslavia.

78.   The ethnic conflict between Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda spread to Zaire and touched off a revolt last October among Zairian Tutsi.

79.   The immediate spark for ethnic conflict is typically a sudden hardship for a group, often caused by larger events like economic hard times.

80.   The nationalist quarrel between Hungary and Romania is typical of the ethnic conflicts that have bubbled to the surface in Central Europe since the fall of communism.