91.   The ban was prised open slightly last year when flights were inaugurated between Taiwan and China with a brief stop in the Portuguese colony of Macau.

92.   The first leg of journey will take the Matthew to Bantry in south-west Ireland, where it will make a brief stop before heading out across the Atlantic.

93.   The president is to visit Pakistan late this month at the end of a five-day visit to India and a brief stop in Bangladesh.

94.   The plane made a brief stop in Alaska before heading to Portland.

95.   The torch also will make a brief stop in Athens, before heading to Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday night.

96.   Vedrine began his trip with a brief stop in Gabon and continued to South Africa.

97.   U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will make a brief stop in Papua New Guinea next Wednesday to discuss how the United States can help the relief effort.

98.   Wang made a brief stop in Taipei earlier this month after Hong Kong immigration officials, suspecting his passport was forged, refused to let him enter.

99.   While Giuliani made a brief stop in Binghamton on Friday for a news conference and a speech, Clinton has been crisscrossing upstate New York.

100.   White House officials have been considering whether to add a brief presidential stop in North Korea to a November trip to Vietnam and Brunei.