21.   Mrs. Clinton will be the first wife of a U.S. president to visit this landlocked South American country wedged between Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia.

22.   No figures were available on the number of Muslim female staff working for the United Nations in the landlocked Central Asian country.

23.   Now that Laos has joined Asean, the landlocked country is facing a new set of expectations and problems that it can no longer ignore.

24.   Officials feared Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders might flee the landlocked country, crossing Pakistan or Iran to the sea.

25.   Richardson will hold a second round of talks with Sharif early on Friday before leaving for neighboring Afghanistan, a landlocked country wracked by two decades of relentless fighting.

26.   Prime Minister Khamtay Siphandon of Laos has risen from humble rural origins to be the most powerful man in the Marxist ruling elite of his landlocked country.

27.   Radio reports indicate that voter turnout was not only dismal in Bamako, but throughout the landlocked west African country.

28.   Such laws are especially important in Laos, a poor landlocked country with no industrial base, because its relatively unspoiled natural resources are potentially its greatest asset.

29.   Such a corridor is important to Zimbabwe and other landlocked southern African countries that depend on South Africa for access to ports.

30.   Tanzania has already sealed its borders with Burundi, effectively stopping vital shipments of oil and fuel to the landlocked country.