61.   Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president of Yemen and a former army general, said there was no evidence linking the blast to the current fighting in Israel.

62.   Bush, who campaigned last year on drawing down U.S. troops in Kosovo, has tried to keep his administration at a distance from the intensifying fighting in Macedonia.

63.   But a weekend skirmish near the provincial town of Khost shows how murky the fighting in Afghanistan can be.

64.   But as the fighting in Afghanistan continues, battle lines in the two wars are only becoming more confused.

65.   But although the fighting in this region has ended, the danger for the survivors has not stopped.

66.   But can the United States wage a multi-front campaign at a time when the fighting in Afghanistan has intensified?

67.   But carrying out his request initially stalled because of concerns about putting ground forces so close to the fighting in Yugoslavia, and now because of the sluggish deployment.

68.   But efforts to open roads into Sarajevo, exchange prisoners of war and end the fighting in the northwestern Muslim pocket of Bihac have been unsuccessful.

69.   But Georgia and Azerbaijan, former Soviet republics in the Transcaucasus, are worried the fighting in Chechnya will spread south into their territories.

70.   But he and other experts said it would hamper Russian intelligence gathering on the fighting in Afghanistan and military developments in China or in the Middle East.