21.   The largest deployment of German police officers since World War II is being put into action to protect the shipment and control demonstrators, newspapers say.

22.   The multinational force came to the violence-wracked Balkan nation in April to protect aid shipments.

23.   They maintained that Salinas used his influence and protected large-scale shipments transiting through Mexico from Colombia to the United States.

24.   France at the time led calls to send in a multinational force to protect aid shipments to the refugees, and the United Nations agreed in principle.

25.   Military officials from countries due to take part in a security force for protecting aid shipments to Albania were to meet in Rome later Wednesday to hammer out details.