41.   Even after paying their bribes, the women can make the crossing only on foot and can bring back only what they haul across the bridge on their backs.

42.   Permission for foreign ships to make direct crossings is seen by the press here as the first step towards direct shipping links in the near future.

43.   Prodi also said that Italian patrols in the area were continuing with their orders to deter Albanian refugees making the crossing.

44.   The captain had initially asked the would-be immigrants to decide amongst themselves which of them should make the crossing.