41.   Milisic said clearance for the operation was being sought from Zaire and neighboring countries.

42.   Ministers said it was a health risk and would turn Switzerland into a haven for drug tourists and traffickers and anger neighboring European countries.

43.   Neighboring countries, concerned that the fighting could spread, beefed up border patrols.

44.   Neighboring Balkan countries fear minorities within their territories will also demand independence if granted for Kosovo.

45.   Neighboring countries also have been hard hit, with most forced to import corn from Canada, the United States and South America.

46.   Neighboring countries are watching the fighting in Afghanistan warily, fearing that the Taliban will seek to export its brand of Islam.

47.   NAMA will sell both caustic soda and epoxy resin in Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries, he said.

48.   Neighboring countries also have been hard hit, with most forced to import corn from Canada, the United States and South America to make up for lost harvests.

49.   Neighboring countries, including Egypt and Algeria, charge that Sudan is harboring Islamic extremists and have curtailed relations.

50.   Others accuse some traders of buying stocks of state subsidized rice and then smuggling them to neighboring countries for sale at higher market prices.