41.   The seven-day blockade was costly not only for the Pioner Murmana but also for the Russian factory trawler Dauriya, fishing in North American waters.

42.   The Serb blockade was apparently a response to the detention Thursday by the Bosnian government of an ethnic Serb employee of the UNHCR.

43.   There is no blockade.

44.   Vidaneev warned, however, that the decision might be different if there are similar blockades in the future.

45.   He said there was no blockade on foodstuffs.

46.   However, the Hebrew press reported that the blockade was a reprisal against harassment by Lebanese troops of people living in the zone Israel occupies in the south.

47.   Akhiad Idigov, speaker of the Chechen separatist assembly, said the blockade was a provocation and called on Russian President Boris Yeltsin to act.

48.   An army spokesman refused to confirm or deny the report, but the military never admitted there was a blockade.

49.   Blockades were also in place at Boulogne and Dunkirk.

50.   Calais city official Jean-Pascal Cogez stressed after the blockade had been re-sealed that this rule remained in force.