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With that escalation, communications as well as command and control became increasingly critical and increasingly difficult.
And by accelerating the bombing, NATO is warning Milosevic that it is willing to match him escalation for escalation.
In Russia, Izvestiya reported Thursday that Russian military chiefs have plans to storm the Chechen capital of Grozny in what would mark a huge escalation of the weekold invasion of the rebel republic.
Optimally, the drug will cut the length of a flu bout by 40 percent, and significantly reduce the chances of escalation into a severe case.
The latest escalation: Palestinian officials accused Israel of preparing commando attacks on Palestinian territory--including an assassination attempt on Yasser Arafat, according to a Palestinian mayor--and urged the United States to stop Israel's blockade of Bethlehem and its destruction of Palestinian houses.