In this case, however, the casual accusations that various journalists are cutouts for the principal combatants are largely baseless.

Instead of hours of sporadic fisticuffs between men of rival fire companies, he said, the fighting began about 10:15 P.M. with an exchange of insults, lasted only 10 to 15 minutes and involved two principal combatants and five to 10 others.

American negotiators have not won the confidence of Sunnis or Shiites, the principal combatants, nor even of Kurds, the uneasy bystanders.

None is more surprising, however, than the role model selected by both principal combatants in the Bosnian conflict: the Jews.

His principal combatant, Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS Television, said, "I just keep putting more pieces on the table."

When they arrived, the Athenians (again including Demosthenes and Aeschines) were rather surprised to find embassies from all the principal combatants in the Sacred War were also present, in order to discuss a settlement to the war.

On Friday large groups will be deployed from the principal combatants of Britain, France, Germany and Holland, as well as from Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, even Malta.

The agreement here thus seems to signal a truce among the principal combatants - the United States, Japan and West Germany - over world economic policy.

The principal combatants were North and South Korea.

Saxony received a financial reward of six million gulden from the principal combatants for its role in the intervention.