Mr. RUPP: Well, east up by the Red Sea is perhaps the poorest region of Sudan, and there is a feeling that at least some of the tribes in that area have been excluded from discussions, and the concern on the part, I think, of the Sudanese government as well as others of us that there--that could be a next area of conflict.

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"If the United States is ever called upon to fight deep in east central Europe against the Red Army or the Russian armies, this country will be divided far more deeply than it was during Vietnam, " former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said.

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The 1, 800km (1, 100-mile) fence is set to run from the Red Sea coast in the west to the edge of Oman in the east.

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