11.   Earlier in the day the Rwandan News Agency reported that the fighting began after several hundred Ugandan soldiers were flown to Kisangani to drive Rwandan soldiers from the airport.

12.   Fifteen American soldiers supporting the war in Afghanistan have been killed in airplane or helicopter crashes since the fighting began in October.

13.   Food was running out, and the price of rice had risen fivefold since the fighting began.

14.   Heavy fighting began in Chervlennaya last Monday and lasted for two days until the Chechens pulled out across the Terek.

15.   In February he became the first president to meet with rebel leaders since the fighting began.

16.   In the hills above the blocked villagers, American troops cautiously advanced Tuesday afternoon toward the spot where the fighting had begun Tuesday morning.

17.   It has been closed since shortly after the fighting began.

18.   It was also supported by both Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, making it perhaps their only common ground since the fighting began.

19.   Neither Egypt nor Jordan has posted an ambassador to Tel Aviv since the fighting began last year.

20.   NATO and U.S. officials have insisted that Milosevic reduce those troops to the levels present in the province before the fighting began in late February.