Billboards advertising soft drinks and sofas have appeared along the road leading to what was once the occupied zone.

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The Lebanese government continues to run schools, courts and the police inside the occupied zone.

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Nonetheless, local and Arab tourists feel secure enough to pour into the former occupied zone every weekend.

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The Lebanese army, for its part, has reluctantly stationed 500 troops in the former occupied zone, but they keep largely to their barracks and certainly steer well clear of the border.

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He had been captured in the British zone of occupied Germany after the war but was allowed to go free.

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For example, upon learning that there was not a single complete edition of the Talmud in Germany, General Joseph McNarney, commander of the American zone of Occupied Germany, undertook an effort to print a Talmud for survivors.

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The government has finally got around to developing the prime land once occupied by American military bases in the former Canal Zone.

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So a lot of the focus has been to seal off that possibility by creating a rebel-controlled buffer zone on the Syrian side of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

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And the challenge for the Conservatives is to actually fight Blair on the ground that we have traditionally occupied rather than spinning off to the right into the sort of dark twilight zone, no doubt getting huge cheers from the small audience at the party conference but utterly relevant to the rest of the British people.

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