11.   Police cordons were reported to have been thrown around slum areas in which many of the cases originated in an effort to prevent people from leaving.

12.   Several thousand university students, in a rare demonstration since the winter, were prevented from going to Parliament by a police cordon.

13.   They were among the very few who were allowed through the police cordon.

14.   They should be met not with police cordons and water cannons but with a readiness for dialogue.

15.   They were the very few who were allowed through the police cordon.

16.   Opponents of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic avoided a larger, more dangerous confrontation Monday afternoon by moving tens of thousands of people away from a police cordon.

17.   Opposition leaders prepared for a long standoff but urged their supporters to remain calm and not to try to break through the police cordon by force.

18.   Police arrested six people, three for breaking through a police cordon and three others for protesting in front of a police station.

19.   Passengers could board and disembark only through a police cordon, skirting the main station building.

20.   Parents of children attending the neighboring French Embassy School and adjacent British Embassy School made frantic telephone calls, tried to squeeze past the police cordon.