31.   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.

32.   Russian troops eventually stopped the convoy of Chechens and hostages at Pervomaskaya, which the Russian troops took in a massive assault Thursday.

33.   Soldiers reportedly stopped the convoy in Pampor town, but it was not immediately clear whether they then arrested the protesters or merely sent them back to Srinagar.

34.   That convoy had been stopped by government soldiers Tuesday.

35.   The convoys were stopped because the military insisted on searching them, said a government official.

36.   They stopped their convoy before reaching the border and demanded new promises of safe passage, said Vladimir Vasilyev of the Interior Ministry in Moscow.

37.   U.N. convoys have been stopped by land mines or checkpoints.

38.   Todor Bogdanovic was shot dead before dawn Sunday by a police officer trying to stop a convoy of refugees that ran a roadblock.

39.   While the convoy was stopped at a roadblock, an Israeli soldier ambled over and asked him whether he believed in the peace process.

40.   Within hours, a tense standoff developed when a British NATO convoy was stopped by a Russian checkpoint at outskirts of the airfield and refused permission to pass.