41.   In October, Federal and local police stepped up patrols along the coast of the Caribbean island, considered a favorite entrance point to the vast U.S. drug market.

42.   In Vietnam, Principi was assigned to river patrol along the Mekong Delta.

43.   International peacekeepers stepped up their patrols along the Kosovo side of the border early Thursday as Macedonian troops skirmished with ethnic Albanian rebels in the rugged mountains.

44.   Israel maintains patrols along the southern coast of Lebanon on grounds it is necessary to prevent seaborne guerrilla infiltration into Israel.

45.   Last year Nicaragua banned Costa Rican civil guards from conducting armed patrols along the river.

46.   Military overflights of the zone and increased patrols along its border had led the FARC to walk out of the talks in October.

47.   NATO patrols along the Kosovo boundary have in past months intercepted men and weapons moving into both areas of insurgency.

48.   Near the skirmishes, peacekeepers stepped up their patrols along the border with Kosovo, the Serb province under international control.

49.   Pastrana has pledged tighter controls in the north, including international observers and naval patrols along the Magdalena River.

50.   Police have beefed up patrols along the border, fearing the three remaining convicts may try to escape to Cambodia.