1.   Investors showed little reaction to the escalating dispute between MCA and Viacom.

2.   The escalating dispute was taking center stage at the annual ministerial meeting of the OECD, being held today and tomorrow.

3.   U.S. long-distance carrier MCI has drawn the line at the Rio Grande in an escalating dispute with Mexican telecom regulators.

4.   A day after threatening to crack down on violent political opposition, President Nelson Mandela met Thursday with his chief political rival and played down their escalating public dispute.

5.   A day after warning of possible emergency measures, President Nelson Mandela met Thursday with his chief political rival and played down their escalating public dispute.

6.   But it also called for talks to defuse an escalating dispute.

7.   But it also calls for talks to defuse an escalating dispute.

8.   Haitian police had already fired multiple rounds of tear gas over four hours, failing to control the second day of violence in the escalating dispute.

9.   Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi met with Syrian President Hafez Assad on Thursday as part of efforts to mediate the escalating dispute between Turkey and Syria.

10.   Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on Thursday joined in efforts to mediate the escalating dispute between Turkey and Syria, the Iranian news agency reported.