1.   A smooth new highway, swooping through tunnels and overpasses, had replaced the old rutted road studded with militia checkpoints.

2.   A U.N. official said he was threatened at gunpoint as he drove past a militia checkpoint.

3.   He took the two oldest boys, who were at the greatest risk, to Zaire, paying bribes at the militia checkpoints that were ubiquitous in those days.

4.   Serb militia checkpoints were located at entrances to the camp.

5.   Pro-Syrian Amal guerrillas on Thursday attacked an Israeli-backed militia checkpoint leading into an occupied border zone of south Lebanon, security sources said.