31.   Col. Gary Boyle takes a post overseeing security at Dhahran and concludes the perimeter fence is too close.

32.   Codes often have restrictions on height and how far the fence must be from the property line, the setback.

33.   Defense Agency Director General Hideo Usui told reporters today that the fences were to prevent any confusion from taking place and to secure cooperation of the facility.

34.   Early fences were primarily defensive.

35.   Elsewhere, the fence is eight feet high.

36.   Fences are the only thing stopping the sands from overrunning Komsomolsky.

37.   Fences are a physical manifestation of that threat.

38.   Fences are the most effective control.

39.   Fences are too costly and subject to flood damage, they say.

40.   Even the most expensive hidden fence is considerably cheaper than a chain-link or wood fence.