81.   Traders are waiting for further developments in northern Iraq, where two rival Kurdish factions appear to be on the verge of a military conflict.

82.   Traders interpreted the action as a sign that the situation might erupt in a military conflict.

83.   U.S. officials have said it is critical to keep China-Taiwan negotiations moving forward to keep the potential for military conflict at bay.

84.   Western military analysts and diplomats fear that events could spiral out of control, leading to deliberate or accidental military conflict between China and Taiwan.

85.   While issues beyond the sports arena were involved, the military conflict still became known as the Soccer War.

86.   Yergin said it could help keep oil and gas prices affordable and reduce the likelihood of a military conflict over energy supplies.

87.   Post-Cold War NATO is still important as an alliance ... for the security it gives for the containment of military conflicts.

88.   Papandreou, in Washington for the NATO summit, said the diplomatic effort to end the military conflict over the Serbian province of Kosovo must be intensified.

89.   Pastrana stressed that Colombia has no intention of drawing the United States into its military conflict.

90.   Primakov denied news reports that he had previously told reporters here that a military conflict might be inevitable.