21. In addition to blocking various border posts, farmers scuffled with the authorities at the Channel Tunnel as they tried to block freight trucks from boarding trains to Britain. 22. In an effort to further integrate their economies, Italy and most other European Union nations have dismantled border posts with their EU neighbors in the past two years. 23. In retaliation, the Ecuadoreans said, their planes bombed Pachacutec, a Peruvian border post named after an Inca king. 24. In the West Bank town of Tulkarm, hundreds of Palestinians attacked a border police post and stoned the soldiers. 25. In the north, they blocked border posts between France and Belgium. 26. It passed a border post, where Albanian soldiers carrying automatic rifles were on duty in their drab, heavy uniforms. 27. Meanwhile, gangs of local Albanians looted the border post and burned Serbian uniforms in the roadway, unheeded by any local authorities. 28. Macedonian officials do not recognize the area, near the town of Lojane, as an official border post, but have grudgingly allowed ethnic Albanians to enter there. 29. More are walking through unofficial bush crossings, but the slowdown at the border post was a clear signal, aid officials said. 30. Moving slowly, they pushed the bewildered refugees back toward the Yugoslav border post. |