31.   At first our view of the river was blocked by wall-to-wall houseboats, while far-off cranes leaned like giraffes over half-finished apartment blocks.

32.   Beyond the last row of apartment blocks where Riesenberg lives, an Israeli tank was parked on a hill, its long barrel sloping down toward nearby Arab towns.

33.   Almost everyone else lives in grim, Soviet-style cement apartment blocks.

34.   Concrete shacks were replaced by apartment blocks featuring electricity and running water.

35.   Crowds from the gray stone apartment blocks on French Hill looked on grimly.

36.   Down below was Pristina, another banged-up East European city full of Soviet-style apartment blocks.

37.   Drug abuse and alcoholism are rampant, and Lenin Avenue is lined with ruined apartment blocks abandoned by those who could leave.

38.   During a lull in the action Monday, several seconds of gunfire burst from the shell of a half-completed apartment block.

39.   Eleven-story apartment blocks, complete with seaview balconies, rise from piles driven into the seabed.

40.   Even the washing hanging from the balconies of the apartment blocks gives a psychological boost by offering some visual respite from the sea of rust.