91.  The heightened tensions between Syria and Israel stoked fears that fighting could intensify on a new front after seven months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

92.  The existence of sympathetic armed groups outside the rebel-held zone raises the possibility the rebels could create new military fronts in areas now ignored by federal forces.

93.  The government recently opened a new diplomatic front by making contact with the former patron of the Bosnian Serbs, President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia.

94.  The lawsuit opens a new legal front for the manufacturers, who last week were sued by a group of wholesalers who accused them of fixing prices.

95.  The U.S. Agriculture Department is moving on two new fronts in an effort eventually to eliminate scrapie from U.S. sheep flocks.

96.  The start of the dangerous training mission opens a new front in the U.S. war on terrorism and marks the second-largest American counterterrorism deployment, after Afghanistan.

97.  To the southwest, the occasional thud of exploding artillery warned of a possible new front.

98.  Hundreds of airborne troops launched a fresh offensive against Tamil Tiger guerrillas Monday and opened a new front amid rising rebel attacks in eastern Sri Lanka, officials said.

99.  In Zaire itself Monday rebels captured a key port on Lake Tanganyika in the southeast of the country, opening a new front in their bid to overthrow Mobutu.

100.  Afghan government forces launched a ground offensive against the Taliban Islamic militia near Kabul on Tuesday while holding off another warlord on a new front.