11.   Lines of cars up to two miles long formed at gas stations in Zimbabwe, where flooding prevented trucks from bringing fuel to the landlocked nation.

12.   Steinar Bastesen, a Norwegian whaler, was going back to the icy seas of the Arctic Circle happier than when he arrived in this landlocked tropical nation.

13.   Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Zaire condemned the coup, and Tanzania and Kenya have cut road and air links with the landlocked nation.

14.   The Taliban controls most of the landlocked nation, but Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum and other tribal leaders control the center and north, he said.

15.   To a landlocked nation, fish is important.

16.   Walter Poirier, a graduate of Notre Dame, came to this landlocked South American nation in August.

17.   What this landlocked East African nation needs is political reconciliation not unhealed wounds, he argues.

18.   But the summit maintained an economic blockade of the tiny landlocked nation imposed a week after the coup in a bid to force Buyoya to restore the constitution.

19.   Regional countries are demanding the opening of such talks as a condition for easing a crippling six-week-old blockade of the landlocked nation.