51.   Both countries share a border with Yugoslavia, and both have applied for NATO membership.

52.   Bulgaria shares a border with Macedonia and Yugoslavia.

53.   But many veterans and others in Russia have little interest today in Afghanistan, which no longer shares a border with their country.

54.   But they deplored the absence of Morocco, which shares a border with Algeria and is just across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spain.

55.   China also shares a border with the three former Soviet republics in Central Asia.

56.   China shares borders with both South Asian nuclear powers.

57.   Cutt off from Russia, Kaliningrad shares a border with Poland and Lithuania.

58.   Egypt shares a border with the Palestinian area of Gaza and with western Israel.

59.   Ethiopia and Somalia share a border, and Ethiopian support for the new administration is seen as critical to its success.

60.   For the Turks, who share borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria, it means a ready supply of high-tech weaponry and access to Israeli technology.