51.   Among the few bright lights were those at the Israeli army checkpoint at the entrance to Bethlehem.

52.   Also, a Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli troops Sunday near an army checkpoint outside Hebron, Palestinian security officials and witnesses said.

53.   Among the attacks were explosions this week at Syrian army checkpoints that killed one Syrian and wounded seven others.

54.   And in the Gaza Strip, an activist from the militant Islamic Jihad group blew himself up at an army checkpoint, killing himself and wounding two soldiers.

55.   An army checkpoint near the village was overrun by the NLA, which now controls all access roads and the hills overlooking the town.

56.   Army checkpoints at the entrances to the city turned back bus loads of people from the surrounding Bekaa Valley who wanted to participate, witnesses said.

57.   Army checkpoints at the entrances to the city turned back bus loads of people from the surrounding Bekaa Valley who wanted to participate.

58.   Army checkpoints slowed traffic from the center of Sharm el-Sheik along the highway leading to the summit site about six miles outside the town.

59.   Army checkpoints impede the arrival of many Palestinians, even when the curfew is lifted.

60.   Army checkpoints provide the sparks keeping Israeli-Arab hatreds burning despite efforts to transform the Middle East.