21.   Angeli said, however, that international monitors were unable to reach the border to investigate the alleged air attack because of shelling in the area.

22.   He said the deployment was slow because of land mines, but that a part of his troops had reached the border with Kosovo by early afternoon.

23.   In the northern port of Salonica, protesters prevented a train carrying British troops and military vehicles headed to join NATO forces in Macedonia from reaching the border.

24.   Jacques Franquin, the UNHCR spokesman in Kukes, said it was unclear if the Serbs were preventing people from reaching the border.

25.   Local residents have frequently protested the passage of foreign troops, and have temporarily stopped military convoys from reaching the border on at least three occasions.

26.   On the Afghan side of the border, however, turbaned Taliban troops stop their fleeing compatriots from reaching the border, say Pakistani border guards.

27.   Opponents of a unilateral withdrawal warned that it would enable guerrillas to reach the border.

28.   Rather, the berries are inspected only by U.S. authorities when they reach the border.

29.   Refugees walked for days through crocodile-infested mangrove swamps and jungle to reach the border with Senegal.

30.   The Americans reached the border before daybreak Friday, and headed on to Amman, the Jordanian capital, five hours away.