51. Israel lifted a week-old naval blockade on Beirut Port Sunday. 52. Israel lifted a week-long naval blockade on Beirut Port on Sunday. 53. It did not embrace a naval blockade proposed by the United States to keep oil shipments away. 54. It has tried to prevent the escape of the Abu Sayyaf rebels with a naval blockade and seizure of private boats. 55. Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini suggested that a naval blockade might be imposed to bar illegal immigration. 56. Italy has set up a naval blockade to keep more Albanian vessels from reaching Italian ports, and is sending back what it calls undesirables among the refugees. 57. Lebanon urged permanent members of the U.N. Security Council Friday to pressure Israel to lift its naval blockade on south Lebanese ports. 58. Lebanon is seeking U.N. action to halt an Israeli naval blockade of southern Lebanon ports and the air raids that have accompanied it. 59. Meanwhile, Axworthy said NATO had not made a final decision on the proposed naval blockade to stop oil deliveries to Yugoslavia. 60. NATO officials said they were mulling over such a naval blockade. |