11.   In December the president personally visited Mexican customs checkpoints along the border to help ensure Mexicans returning home for Christmas were not harassed.

12.   Israel can prudently protect its cities by moving its security cordon back to checkpoints along the borders of the West Bank and Gaza.

13.   Montenegrin television showed army bunkers with newly set up machine-gun positions at checkpoints along the coastal road towards the border with Croatia.

14.   Officials in Jordan noted that it had recently reinstated its checkpoints along the Jordan valley after a team despatched by Hezbollah in Lebanon attempted to cross into Israel.

15.   Previously, this money has gone to Croat-controlled border towns and to local leaders who set up spot checkpoints along main commercial arteries.

16.   Rumsfeld indicated Wednesday that one of the missions was setting up checkpoints along roads in the south in the hope of catching Taliban and al-Qaida commanders.

17.   Russian army troops are supposed to operate checkpoints along the roads.

18.   The discoveries have led the government of neighboring Costa Rica to set up checkpoints along the Pan American Highway and call for a regional effort against the arms trade.

19.   The well-armed Swiss troops at checkpoints along the main roads are not the easier-going Seattle police.

20.   They also have set up dozens of checkpoints along the roads, where they search any car that looks suspicious.