11.   Not to be upstaged, local NATO officials and the French military officials who have been clearing mines and readying access roads held their own opening the day before.

12.   The Lebanese now also face the problem of clearing Israeli mines in the former buffer strip.

13.   The peace agreement calls for rival factions to clear the mines.

14.   The United States has insisted that Russian troops serve under NATO command or play a non-combat role like clearing mines.

15.   The Yugoslavs have planted mines, Albright said, and families should be patient and take their time until the international security force had cleared the mines.

16.   They also clear mines from graveyards and escort the bereaved from both sides to bury their dead or visit graves.

17.   Three U.S. minesweepers are lost in two weeks of clearing mines from Balikpapan harbor.

18.   Three other U.S. soldiers were injured this past weekend while clearing mines.

19.   After the handover, NATO forces immediately set to their task of separating the rival forces, bulldozing competing checkpoints and clearing mines.

20.   All sides have cooperated in identifying and clearing mines, said U.S. Army Col. Robert Gaylord.