71.   Mortenson talked Wednesday with a refugee named Shabaz who crossed from Afghanistan a day earlier, just before Pakistan closed the border with its terrorist-harboring neighbor.

72.   More are trapped on the other side of the border, unable to pass since Macedonian authorities effectively closed the border.

73.   Neighboring Pakistan and Iran have closed their borders to additional refugees from Afghanistan.

74.   Namibia closed the borders around the strip, imposed a curfew and evacuated foreign aid workers.

75.   No one was crossing the border from Serbia, and there were unconfirmed reports that the border had been closed.

76.   Now, a generation is growing up knowing curfews, shootings, closed borders with Israel and grinding poverty.

77.   On Saturday, Macedonia, saying it was overwhelmed by the flow of people into the country, announced that it would close its border.

78.   On Tuesday Belgium, Spain and Switzerland announced that they were closing their borders to French meat.

79.   Other countries closed their borders with Yugoslavia.

80.   Organizers feared a repeat of last year, when the European Union closed its borders to horses from the Northeast, where at least nine infected horses died.