The clash in China seems to be an effort to spread the battle wider still.
Germany has even threatened to spread its battle to Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria, and is now reportedly investigating Swiss bank Vontobel.
PAGE A4 Macedonia Fighting Spreads Battles with ethnic Albanian rebels have reached Tetovo, Macedonia's second largest city, with stray bullets claiming the first civilian casualties.
Not only is the disease spreading, but practitioners battle over fundamentals such as diagnostic criteria, appropriate treatment and the validity of chronic forms of the disease.
A firewall slowed the blaze from spreading, but after battling the fire for three hours, firefighters found the bodies of five shelter occupants upstairs.
Islamic Insurgents Attack Police Buildings in Russia Islamic insurgents attacked police and security buildings in the Russian city of Nalchik, the authorities said, further spreading Russia's battles beyond the republic of Chechnya.
They focus on spreading Catholicism and battling poverty, not on liberal-versus-conservative debates of the First World church — disputes of authority, doctrine and personal behavior that missionaries risking their lives in hostile lands can see as frivolous luxuries.
The momentum spirals from whisper to roar: placards, pumped fists, Molotov cocktails, police, tear gas, wounded protesters, water cannons, sirens, helicopter spotlights and pitched battles spreading through a city on the brink.
One Democratic senator, Charles Schumer of New York, accuses Mr Estrada of being a "stealth" conservative; another, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, says that "the fundamental rights of the American people are too important to be entrusted to a person about whom we know so little".The battle is spreading beyond Washington.
Within minutes, prisoners had overpowered and killed a half-dozen guards, and a gun battle spread across the compound.
