31.   The mayor claimed tracks would be laid at the expense of vital road space through some crowded city neighborhoods.

32.   The rebels attacked government soldiers near Mankulam, a northern town close to a vital road link the military has been trying to capture since last year.

33.   The soldiers are trying to capture a vital road link to the Jaffna Peninsula.

34.   The troops are trying to capture a vital road to the government-controlled Jaffna Peninsula, home to a half a million Tamils.

35.   They also shelled a Canadian U.N. base at Visoko, outside Sarajevo, and mined a vital road used by the United Nations to and from the city.

36.   Antenna reported on a group of armed youth guarding a vital road near Delvina.

37.   Overnight Monday, a bridge was blown up on a vital road link between Antananarivo and the southeastern coast, police told AFP.

38.   Since then the stranded Palestinians have closed the vital road connecting Libya and Egypt twice in protest at their plight.