21.   The economic blockade of the country had protected most South Africans from the epidemic raging along the truck routes of nations to the north.

22.   The first steps should include efforts by the Palestinian Authority to collect illegal guns and prevent terrorist attacks and moves by Israel to lift economic blockades of Palestinian areas.

23.   The guidelines also called for Japan to take part in minesweeping efforts in international waters, to enforce economic blockades and to help evacuate civilians trapped in unstable countries.

24.   Under the PRI, Mexico was a key and steadfast ally of Cuba and opposed the U.S. economic blockade on the island.

25.   Washington has tried to isolate Cuba and Castro diplomatically, while imposing increasingly restrictive economic blockades.

26.   Rangel said the Chavez government opposes the economic blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.

27.   An economic blockade called by two communist guerrilla groups fizzled on the second day Tuesday in a small eastern Indian state, government officials said.

28.   And now, they said, a Turkish economic blockade threatens Armenia with starvation.

29.   Arafat blamed the Israeli economic blockade for preventing the arrival of reinforcing stones from the West Bank.

30.   Armenia is embroiled in a bitter ethnic conflict with adjacent Azerbaijan, which has imposed an economic blockade against and blocked railroads to its neighboring Caucasus Mountains nation.