21.   Arafat is especially eager for intensified international pressure on Israel to lift stringent restrictions on border crossings by Palestinians.

22.   Earlier Thursday, Mandela signed into law a set of stringent restrictions for granting bail to some criminal suspects.

23.   Environmentalists hope for even more stringent restrictions on university growth.

24.   Movement of people across the Israeli-Lebanon border and the front line separating the occupied zone with the rest of Lebanon is subject to stringent restrictions.

25.   Russia has enacted stringent restrictions on fishing for sturgeon, which are threatened by overfishing and pollution.

26.   Russia has enacted stringent restrictions on fishing for sturgeon, which are threatened by overfishing and pollution in the Caspian Sea, but authorities continue to report poaching.

27.   Sharon has said Palestinian statehood is inevitable, but has proposed stringent restrictions on such an entity.

28.   Sharon has said Palestinian statehood was inevitable, but has proposed stringent restrictions that Palestinians reject as unacceptable.

29.   She was quoted as saying North Korea has drastically reduced financial allowances to the embassy and put more stringent restrictions on staff.

30.   Russia has enacted stringent restrictions on fishing for sturgeon, which are threatened by overfishing and pollution in the Caspian.