1.   At checkpoints around the province Sunday, NATO troops were stripping KLA soldiers of hand grenades and machine guns even before the demilitarization agreement was reached.

2.   Agencies will combine forces to conduct saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints around the Valley.

3.   But other refugees said the rebels had set up checkpoints around the edge of the forest and had at times forced them back into the woods.

4.   But residents noted that vehicular checkpoints around West Belfast had also disappeared.

5.   By afternoon, they abandoned their checkpoints around the airfield southwest of Pristina, after blocking access to it for three days.

6.   In Prizren, armed KLA soldiers manned checkpoints around the city on Monday, tolerated, at least for the moment, by NATO peacekeepers.

7.   In Prizren, armed KLA soldiers man checkpoints around the city, tolerated, at least for the moment, by NATO peacekeepers.

8.   Lawmakers returning to Washington this week found a heightened level of security around the Capitol, with more barricades and checkpoints around the complex.

9.   NATO forces, while refusing to intervene in the crisis, have set up checkpoints around Banja Luka to prevent the police from mobilizing to detain Ms. Plavsic.

10.   On Friday, soldiers at checkpoints around Pervomayskoye confiscated film from two Western photographers at the scene.