51.   Only a negotiated political settlement can assure peace in Cyprus and remove the danger of military conflict between Greece and Turkey.

52.   Opponents denounced it as an escalation of Central American military conflict and a poor substitute for drug rehabilitation and education programs.

53.   One senior Western diplomat here put the odds of a military conflict at even or better.

54.   Silberman told Lobel that if the judges ruled in his favor, they would force courts to decide which military conflicts reach the level of being called a war.

55.   Should a military conflict erupt by accident, the analysts said, the United States could respond with diplomatic rebuffs, economic sanctions, or military intervention.

56.   Such actions by almost any other nation would indeed be seen as a prelude to military conflict.

57.   Such a declaration could lead to another military conflict in the Middle East, many Israeli and Palestinian experts believe.

58.   Talk of U.S. retaliation also raised worry that Middle East oil supplies could be disrupted by military conflict.

59.   That move opens a new front in the split between government secrecy and news media that try to use satellites to report military conflicts.

60.   The accord erased the vestiges of price rises built on anticipation of a military conflict that had been building for much of this year.