1.   In June the UVF in Belfast told Sunday Life the organisation was prepared to wait until the checkpoints were removed before stepping up its campaign.

2.   Checkpoints have been removed at most cross-border roads linking Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland.

3.   Military checkpoints have been removed, mines have been cleared, roads have been opened across front lines and NATO soldiers have moved unopposed into Serb-controlled villages.

4.   A top Russian commander later told the Interfax news agency that troops were pulling back in several places and said some Russian checkpoints were being removed.

5.   After the peacekepers removed the checkpoint, Cronin said, the crowd gradually disappeared.

6.   After the U.N. police protested, the checkpoint was removed.

7.   By removing checkpoints, NATO was taking up position between the forces and further separating them.

8.   Illegal rebel checkpoints were also removed in the highway towns of Nyiela, Tiene and Wangekor.

9.   Muslims and Croats on Monday began jointly collecting customs duties and removing checkpoints in an effort to make their on-again, off-again federation come alive.

10.   Muslims and Croats on Monday began the slow process of binding themselves in a customs union and removing checkpoints to help make their shaky union come alive.