51.   Escalating tension between India and Pakistan also weighed on the market.

52.   Escalating tensions could mean more repression in Cuba.

53.   Georgia plans to send a high-level delegation to the separatist region of Abkhazia to work on reducing escalating tensions, President Eduard Shebardnadze said Tuesday.

54.   In an effort to ease escalating tension between Syria and Turkey, Egypt said Saturday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will travel to Damascus and Ankara for talks.

55.   In an indication Iran to ease escalating tensions with the United States, the country is considering expelling Hekmatyar, the state news agency reported.

56.   In a sign of escalating tension, Sudan has declared a mobilization of militias and police forces in an eastern region reportedly attacked by Ethiopia.

57.   In Sydney, the U.S. secretary of state and her Australian counterpart asked U.N. chief Kofi Annan to become involved in escalating tensions in Myanmar.

58.   In his first public comments on the escalating tensions with Baghdad, Clinton urged that efforts be redoubled to end the crisis through diplomacy.

59.   Ironically, the allied victory over Germany, and a few months later, Japan, was followed quickly by escalating tensions between Stalin and his Western allies.

60.   Marek Siwiec, an aide to President Aleksander Kwasniewski said the week of protests was escalating tension.