1.   The potential for the fighting to spill over into a wider regional conflict has triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity.

2.   Arab leaders have repeatedly warned that a failure to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict could ultimately lead to a wider regional conflict.

3.   As fears of a wider conflict deepened in Washington and the Middle East, President Clinton Sunday proposed a summit with Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat.

4.   Consequently, Beirut is forced to acquiesce to Damascus and Tehran, permitting cross-border raids against Israel that could provoke a wider regional conflict.

5.   Diplomats and aid officials said the fighting in Zaire could mushroom into wider conflict.

6.   For the sake of avoiding a wider conflict, it must be made to work.

7.   He spent much of the day on the telephone with with other Arab leaders and Clinton, discussing possible diplomatic moves that could help head off a wider conflict.

8.   His military campaign, the largest since the end of the Bosnian war, threatens to ignite a wider conflict in the Balkans.

9.   In this scenario, the diplomat said, Israel could be drawn back into a wider conflict in Lebanon more directly involving Syria.

10.   It also prompted sharp Arab criticism, but officials and analysts in Israel were quick to play down the possibility of a wider conflict.