41.   While they waited to depart Monday, the Zapatistas stood in a chilly rain that drenched San Cristobal and the emerald peaks surrounding the city.

42.   Palestinian cities are surrounded by Israeli tanks, and residents are unable to leave their homes in some areas.

43.   Planes cannot land because of anti-aircraft fire from rebels surrounding the city.

44.   Afghan sources said anti-Taliban forces seized the airport this week and that anti-Taliban Pashtun fighters had surrounded the city.

45.   Although Rabbani controls the Afghan capital of Kabul, Taliban fighters have the city surrounded and occasionally lob rockets into the city center, often killing several people.

46.   At a party meeting in the northern city of Haifa, Netanyahu proposed that Palestinian cities be surrounded by Jewish settlements and Israeli-patrolled security zones.

47.   Bosnian Serbs, who surround the city, had said they would not allow access until government forces withdrew from a mountaintop demilitarized zone south of the Bosnian capital.

48.   Bosnian Serbs, whose forces surround the city, agreed to open some roads to the city to limited commercial traffic, so food supplies increased.

49.   But after Russian troops surrounded the city, Yeltsin said he had postponed his threat to storm the capital for two days.

50.   But armed soldiers still surround the city, whose residents only access to the outside world is over a narrow and dangerous dirt track across Mount Igman.