1.   Even the most heavily fortified borders became increasingly permeable to the onslaughts first of radio, then of television and eventually of fax machines and E-mail.

2.   Shahal said the fortified borders would be determined by security concerns and not intended to designate the future boundaries of a Palestinian state.

3.   Still, said the commander, who keeps a daily eye on his Syrian counterparts encamped across the fortified border, a genuine peace would justify this painful trade-off.

4.   The actions by the North Koreans have heightened tensions on the heavily fortified border, where the Cold War has never thawed.

5.   The United States and South Korea have been conducting joint military operations near the heavily fortified border with North Korea.

6.   There he will meet Wednesday with President Kim Dae-jung and visit the heavily fortified border that divides democratic South Korea and authoritarian North Korea.

7.   A North Korean military border guard crossed the heavily fortified border Friday to defect to rival South Korea, the Defense Ministry said.

8.   Although the intention was unclear, it sent East Germans streaming toward the heavily fortified border.

9.   But Li said that the three highly trained agents might already have slipped through the cordon and successfully returned to the North across the heavily fortified border.

10.   Cold War tension persists on the Korean peninsula, which is divided by a heavily fortified border since the two Koreas have still not formally signed a peace treaty.