1.   The Confederacy wanted desperately to destroy the ship, which was enforcing a crippling blockade of Charleston Harbor in the final years of the Civil War.

2.   Peace talks with the Palestinians and Syrians are stalled, and the West Bank and Gaza remain under a crippling blockade imposed in February in response to terrorist attacks.

3.   Greece agreed last month to end a crippling economic blockade.

4.   His followers imposed a crippling economic blockade of the capital of the Indian Ocean island, blowing up bridges as well as erecting barricades on the roads.

5.   Israel said Wednesday it would maintain its crippling blockade of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, turning a deaf ear to Palestinian appeals to ease their hardship.

6.   A fisherman spoke Monday of his showdown with an Israeli gunboat enforcing a crippling blockade of south Lebanese ports.

7.   Army chiefs have urged the government to ease the crippling blockade for fear it is leading to an explosion of anger in the territories, military sources said Tuesday.

8.   The Palestinian Authority headed by Yasser Arafat called Saturday for an emergency UN Security Council meeting to put an end to the crippling blockade of the self-rule territories.

9.   The Palestinians also want pressure to be brought to bear on Israel to lift its crippling blockade of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

10.   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.