Tensions mounted.

The rain grew heavier in July and August 1931.

In the last few months of the year the violence escalated.

Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border.

Today, there are many more players involved, and the stakes energy security, above all are far higher now.

Hostilities in the area escalated in May with armed exchanges between Hizbollah and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and with rocket firing by unidentified armed elements.

The very character of the war in Iraq has been transformed from a democratizing mission into a stabilizing mission high in casualties and in cost.

The demonstrations rapidly escalated into serious rioting causing the disintegration of the homeland apos s Government within the next two weeks, and forcing Mr. Mangope to flee the capital of Mbambato.

In the days of intense fighting last week, in a tragi comic display of defiance, the people of Aleppo burned hundreds of tires, sending plumes of black smoke into the air to create their own No Fly Zone.

HIV AIDS, the plague of the modern world, has killed over 20 million men, women and children and the number of people infected has surged to over 40 million.

In the public health sector, health services have deteriorated, after they had been amongst the relatively advanced in the world. Due to shortages of medicine and the deterioration of medical equipment, cases of death have reached 384,022 cases from August 1990 to March 1994.