1.   Earlier this year a group of SAS special force commandos was dispatched to the Gulf when further hostilities loomed.

2.   Even as the U.N. refugee agency resumed aid convoys, skepticism was widespread that the Yugoslav president will meet international demands and refrain from further hostilities toward ethnic Albanians.

3.   In February, Special Air Service commandos were dispatched separately from Australia and New Zealand to the Gulf when further hostilities loomed.

4.   It provides for Greece to send air and naval support in the event of further hostilities.

5.   North Korea maintains that the South attacked it to start the war, and that it is trying to provoke further hostilities.

6.   The World Court issued an emergency ruling Friday to prevent further hostilities in the territorial dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria over a mineral-rich peninsula.

7.   Troops have been dispatched to the area to prevent further hostilities, which Covarrubias said appeared to have been stoked by a territorial dispute over logging concessions.

8.   President Gloria Arroyo later agreed to resume negotiations after both sides agreed to restrain their forces and prevent further hostilities.