1.   During an interview at a highway checkpoint here Tuesday, Velasquez appeared stunned when he learned of the charges against him.

2.   In addition to Mexican Customs searches at international bridges, soldiers and federal police guard highway checkpoints where vehicles are searched for weapons and other contraband.

3.   International relief vehicles rumble through highway checkpoints guarded by rifle-toting boys.

4.   Soldiers dressed in civilian garb staff five highway checkpoints where all vehicles are stopped and searched for narcotics.

5.   The Border Patrol also might keep an impaired driver at a highway checkpoint until a Highway Patrol officer arrives, Ahr said.

6.   The mayor of Cali said recently that he was going to install highway checkpoints on the outskirts of his city to ferret out and turn away the displaced.

7.   Traffic heading into the Valley was halted at highway checkpoints.

8.   Traffic heading north is stopped at highway checkpoints where agents often use drug-sniffing dogs to search vehicles.

9.   He also questioned the widespread tactic of highway checkpoints where federal and state police search for drugs and other contraband.

10.   KLA rebels have been seen milling about positions and highway checkpoints evacuated by government forces under pressure from NATO.