1.   The fighting on the border is escalating.

2.   The peace talks are being held up by continued fighting on the border.

3.   The overthrow of Siyad Barre came at the end of a month of intense fighting on the streets of Mogadishu.

4.   However, reports continued of instability throughout the country, and of persistent fighting on the Sierra Leone border.

5.   No fighting on the way.

6.   Most important, however, is the impact of the fighting on South Africa, which could still scrap the independence deal.

7.   Since conventional fighting on any scale was quite unacceptable to the Europeans, flexible reponse should be used essentially to deal with localized crises.

8.   As they did, dozens of other Ethiopian troops looted the town, whose residents fled during the fighting on Saturday.

9.   At one point he tended to several hundred psychiatric casualties of the fighting on Guadalcanal.