1.   The Soviet economic blockade introduced in mid-April to pressurize the Lithuanians into rescinding the declaration remained rigidly in force.

2.   It appeared that sympathetic foreign governments regarded exports to Lithuania to alleviate the Soviet blockade as diplomatically contentious.

3.   The US administration, under pressure from Congress, had then sought the ending of the Soviet economic blockade against Lithuania.

4.   In return the Soviet economic blockade in force since mid-April was lifted.

5.   Along with his U.S. military assistant, the Russian general works in the same building Western officers once used to plan how to thwart a Soviet blockade of Berlin.

6.   The dispute over which currency would be used in divided Berlin led to the Soviet blockade of the city, and to the beginning of the Berlin airlift.

7.   The Soviet blockade and ensuing airlift was the first tangible skirmish of the Cold War.

8.   Western Allies begin an airlift to break a Soviet blockade of Berlin.

9.   When West Berlin was isolated by a Soviet blockade, a US airlift of supplies sustained the city.

10.   U.N. agencies were often able to reach the besieged Bosnian capital with truck convoys, which was not possible for West Berlin during the Soviet blockade.