1.   Soldiers surrounded the conference building, telephone lines were cut and land borders closed.

2.   At the land border are the fences topped with razor wire and in the harbor, high-speed patrol boats.

3.   But the challenges of tracking people, especially without causing traffic jams at land borders, have hindered the effort.

4.   He said people who leave by land borders often do not turn in the forms.

5.   He introduced a bill Tuesday to exclude land borders from the requirement and to seek a study of the feasibility of such record-keeping.

6.   Many are similar to those experienced by agencies charged with monitoring land borders.

7.   Most Europeans concede that Americans are more experienced in defending a long land border.

8.   The country was also closing its land borders with Egypt and Jordan until it could be assessed whether attacks on Israel could be next.

9.   Wednesday, the Russian government announced it had shut its land border with Georgia and Azerbaijan to block any military aid into Chechnya.

10.   Peacekeepers would have to go in by sea or air since the enclave has no land border with East Timor.