21.   Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Sunday that he flew to Niger and Nigeria this month to show the United States that U.N. sanctions had not isolated his country.

22.   Last year, Washington imposed a unilateral economic embargo against Tehran in an attempt to isolate the country.

23.   Meanwhile, official media has blasted Washington for trying to isolate the country.

24.   On Monday, Russian President Boris Yeltsin accused the United States and its NATO allies of trying to exclude and isolate his country.

25.   Positions on all sides were hardening that could isolate the country, something an international firm like UBS can ill afford, Cabiallavetta said.

26.   Russian President Boris Yeltsin set the tone for the conference in a speech Monday that accused the United States and its NATO allies of trying to isolate his country.

27.   That led the United States, which considers Iran a terrorist state, to urge the Europeans to isolate the country economically and politically.

28.   That ruling prompted the United States, which considers Iran a terrorist state, to urge the Europeans to isolate the country.

29.   The United States wants to isolate those countries for their alleged sponsorship of terrorism.

30.   The United States wants to isolate these countries for their alleged sponsorship of terrorism.