11.   Children on bikes raced from from point to point to watch the waves, and cruising police patrols stopped to check that no one needed help.

12.   In the Bethlehem area, an Israeli patrol stopped a suspicious Arab car.

13.   In the Bethlehem area, Palestinians opened fire after an Israeli patrol stopped their car.

14.   Russian patrols regularly stop Japanese boats plying the fish-rich waters off the islands.

15.   The patrol had stopped to investigate a police car parked on the side of a country road near the border with breakaway Chechnya.

16.   The patrols stopped some pedestrians and drivers to ask for identification.

17.   Those talks were delayed for several hours Friday after an army patrol stopped International Red Cross vehicles carrying rebel delegates to this central Chiapas city for the talks.

18.   In a statement, police said their patrol had stopped the fundamentalists for carrying weapons when the guerrillas opened fire.

19.   A joint Palestinian-Israeli patrol stopped extremists from the banned racist Kach movement from praying in the synagogue overnight Friday, Israeli military sources said.

20.   A police patrol stopped them briefly, and an exchange of gunfire erupted, leaving a spray of bullet holes in cars along a city street.