41.   The monitor force was withdrawn to neighboring Macedonia last weekend, and fighting escalated.

42.   The talks were taking place aboard an Australian naval ship, the HMAS Tobruk, anchored off Honiara ready to evacuate Australian citizens if fighting escalates.

43.   Yugoslav army guns bombarded rebel positions and Serb civilians were airlifted from a besieged village Saturday in central Kosovo, where fighting is escalating despite diplomatic efforts.

44.   Yeltsin has made no public appearances or statements about the latest crisis his government faces in breakaway Chechnya, where fighting has escalated.

45.   Fighting escalated on Monday when the seat of power was shelled as the government met for the first time since early April.

46.   He said the military situation was calm both north of Kabul and in the west of the country where fighting had escalated in recent days.

47.   Fighting has escalated in Mogadishu as the date approaches for the planned withdrawal of UN forces from Somalia.

48.   Fighting has escalated in the eastern Tavil-Dara region in recent weeks.

49.   An Israeli soldier and a Lebanese guerilla were killed as fighting escalated across south Lebanon on Wednesday, and Katyusha rockets were fired into northern Israel.

50.   Fighting has also escalated, bringing eastern Zaire ever closer to a humanitarian disaster.