31.   His most lasting memories of the state, he said, were seeing a dead armadillo, rice growing and driving through a county where liquor sales were banned.

32.   In a series of steps earlier this year, President Boris Yeltsin imposed tight tax controls over alcohol production and severely limited liquor sales by small retailers.

33.   It also has banned liquor sales in an attempt to head off violence.

34.   Last July, the Blackfeet Tribal Council banned liquor sales on its Montana reservation for five days and suggested it could be the forerunner of year-round prohibition.

35.   Liquor sales are forbidden between Monday and Friday.

36.   Liquor sales also were banned over the weekend.

37.   Liquor sales are banned nationwide starting at midnight Wednesday.

38.   Normally, liquor sales there would violate state and local laws prohibiting alcohol in or near public parks.

39.   Police have arrested four people for illegal liquor sales.

40.   Police said they arrested four people for illegal liquor sales.