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Had Kennedy not opted for the blockade, it's clear that the first combat use of nuclear weapons since Nagasaki could have prompted a terrifying cycle of 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.
Correo , a daily from the Basque city of Bilbao, condemned Aznar's pronouncements, warning that the growing chasm between Basque public opinion and that of the rest of the country could generate "a verbal escalation whose final objective couldn't be other than to deepen the abyss" between people "likely to take Basque nationalism to the ballot box and those who would like to prevent a sovereignty debate."
Projected growth in Medicare reflects the escalation of health care costs at rates well exceeding general rates of inflation.
They infer two lessons from Vietnam: that "gradual escalation" never works and that "bombing" can't break an enemy's will.