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But the country was politically fragmented, with arguments between monarchists and republicans, right and left, and tension escalated into civil war.
Salaries have escalated since the repeal of the reserve clause.
The question is whether the fight was worth it at several crucial junctures: when the United States got more seriously involved in 1963-64; when it dramatically escalated in 1967-68; and when it began a prolonged withdrawal, from 1969 through the fall of Saigon in 1975 ...
The Washington Post leads with a report that cocaine and marijuana seizures in the southwestern U.S. and along Mexico's Pacific coast have escalated dramatically in the past two years.
In the early 1990s, various Muslim insurgents in Indian-controlled Kashmir escalated the conflict by demanding independence for Kashmir or union with Pakistan.