41.   Both colonies were closed, regimented societies with residents restricted to the area by Thai authorities, but the exiles and their hosts came to arrangements of mutual benefit.

42.   But most colonies are now independent and many U.N. members are asking whether the committee is still useful.

43.   Children of squatter colonies have no specific playground - the whole colony is their playground.

44.   Samaranch cited the tricky issue of the status of the Hong Kong Olympic federation now that the former British colony is under China.

45.   Spain, that claims the land, says the colony is a hotbed of drug trafficking and money laundering.

46.   The controversy sets up the first test of how much judicial independence Beijing is willing to allow Hong Kong now that the former British colony is under Chinese rule.

47.   The colony was the forerunner of present-day Indonesia.

48.   The colony is hypersensitive to anything concerning commerce between China and the United States, its two biggest trading partners.

49.   The dispute sets up the first test of how much judicial independence Beijing is willing to allow Hong Kong now that the former British colony is under Chinese rule.

50.   The former French colony is one of the poorest countries in Africa.