61.   Many of the statistics cited by Gore come from border areas where the state struggles to provide quality health care, jobs and education.

62.   Morales said the key to kick-starting the Texas economy is to bring the border area out of poverty.

63.   McNamara, who visited here briefly Friday on a tour of the region, also stressed that Kosovars in this crowded border area must get ready to evacuate immediately.

64.   NATO experts said Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of land mines have been laid throughout Kosovo, with the heaviest concentration in the southern border areas.

65.   NATO troops, under the agreement, will be in charge of monitoring the border area.

66.   Nonetheless, Mexican truckers generally have a good safety record in the border areas, according to some officials.

67.   Nor have American intelligence analysts detected any signs of Scud missiles, a scourge of the gulf war, in the southern border area.

68.   Now with the border area open to them, the older Palestinians stand heartbreakingly close to the land where they were born.

69.   On three previous occasions, NATO missiles have strayed into unpopulated border areas in Bulgaria, but caused no damage to people or property.

70.   Or Ethiopia may be shifting focus to two other border areas where it contends that Eritrean troops occupy Ethiopian land, the officials said.