1.   Russia and central Asian states were alarmed by the possibility of Islamic forces gaining the upper hand in the current conflict.

2.   Although the land war is yet to start in Kosovo, there are, for NATO, haunting echoes in the current conflict.

3.   And in an op-ed article in The New York Times last January, he foresaw the current conflict over the farm bill.

4.   As an Israeli, I am certainly pleased that the U.S. government is standing by our side in the current conflict with the Palestinians.

5.   As in Vietnam, reporters in the current conflict have access to some Navy carrier ships and they are not included in highly secretive commando raids.

6.   At almost exactly the time this book was coming off the presses, the current conflict between Israelis and Palestinians rolled out.

7.   Augstburger cited the still unsolved murders of six ICRC staff in Chechnya last December as another example of the total disregard for humanitarian principles in current conflicts.

8.   A company spokesman said Texaco had received assurances that the gasoline would be used only within Montenegro, which has said it is neutral in the current conflict.

9.   After their meeting, however, Taylor denied that he was behind the current conflict in Guinea.

10.   But Dean, Clavelle and Sanders painted the current conflict a bit differently.