61.   The killing last week of two police officers by the IRA in Lurgan, a short distance from the parade flashpoint in Portadown, has heightened tensions even further.

62.   The president, and his hand-picked mediator, Bill Usery Jr., only heightened the tension by putting off their Solomonic judgment until today.

63.   The state government has made several attempts to establish control over the federally protected territory, which has heightened tension in the region.

64.   The tension is perhaps heightened by the music she chooses to sing.

65.   The tension was heightened on Tuesday when North Korean soldiers fired two or three shots across the demilitarized zone between the two countries.

66.   The trade-off has heightened tensions.

67.   Thursday night, a bomb exploded outside a Roman Catholic home in Belfast, blowing a child against a fence and heightening tensions further.

68.   To indict Iranian government officials could heighten tensions with that nation at a time when the State Department is seeking better relations, officials said.

69.   What looms is likely to be a coarse campaign of sloganeering that could heighten tensions along the lines of class and race.

70.   Word of a possible military coup in Pakistan, a development that could heighten tension with India, became an additional source of instability.