1.   Some left after only a fortnight and, as time went by, it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade.

2.   Another is that the blockade is maintained but the travel ban is lifted.

3.   Azerbaijan has maintained a blockade against Armenia, where the dismal economy has provoked the emigration of nearly half the nation.

4.   Poletti said, though, that without the CFDT it was too hard to maintain blockades.

5.   African officials Wednesday advocated maintaining a blockade on Burundi to force the Tutsi-led government to make peace with the majority Hutu opposition.

6.   Arafat said Israeli forces continued to demolish houses, attack Palestinian areas and maintain blockades of Gaza and West Bank territories.

7.   But protest leaders vowed to maintain the blockade, now in its second day, until the government changes its mind about the safe haven.

8.   Hundreds of police and British soldiers have maintained the blockade and Prime Minister Tony Blair has insisted that the law will be enforced.

9.   In the southeast, the military command said Russian units were maintaining a blockade Thursday on several villages near the border with Dagestan.

10.   Serb forces maintained a blockade around a Kosovo mining village on Tuesday as they tried to dislodge ethnic Albanian separatists.