71.   But, in a city where shortages are commonplace after an effective economic blockade by the rebels which lasted several weeks, the move is not altogether voluntary.

72.   But the summit maintained an economic blockade of the tiny landlocked nation imposed a week after the coup in a bid to force Buyoya to restore the constitution.

73.   Cuba had created one of the best education systems in the world, Nzimande added, despite an economy damaged by a United States-imposed economic blockade.

74.   Earlier Luc Rukingama, installed as foreign minister by Buyoya, warned Burundi would not host the multinational until an economic blockade of the country is lifted.

75.   Essential goods have begun getting scarce in Antananarivo for the first time since supporters of President Didier Ratsiraka launched an economic blockade of the Madagascan capital.

76.   The summit had also been expected to review an economic blockade imposed a week after Buyoya seized power, in a bid to force peace talks.

77.   Today Russia supports Georgia in negotiations and has surrounded Abkhazia with an economic blockade, but so far the talks have still been deadlocked.

78.   They have also managed, with equal lack of resistance, to break the crippling economic blockade Ratsiraka imposed on the capital more than three months ago.

79.   With elite troops still at his disposal and support from some provincial governors, he imposed a crippling economic blockade on the capital Antananarivo.

80.   Yeltsin last fall sent border troops to Chechnya and imposed an economic blockade on the republic in a bid to force Chechnya into submission to Moscow.