51.   In southern Colorado, hot weather and shifting wind challenged firefighters near Durango, where new flames damaged buildings, closed a highway and forced more evacuations.

52.   Israel also moved heavy armaments up to the border with Lebanon and closed some highways in the north.

53.   Lebanese troops closed the highway as rescue workers used cranes, bulldozers, shovels and even their bare hands to remove slabs of concrete.

54.   Major highways were closed as tow trucks and snowplows worked to clear them, news reports said.

55.   Major Dutch highways were closed to all but emergency traffic to facilitate evacuations assisted by a thousand soldiers.

56.   Meanwhile, fighting between Aidid loyalists and forces of his chief rival, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, closed the highway from the capital, Mogadishu, to Baidoa.

57.   Major Dutch highways were closed to all but emergency traffic to facilitate evacuations from the polders between the Maas and Waal rivers, west of Nijmegen.

58.   Major highways were closed by landslides.

59.   Meanwhile, the opposition Iraqi National Congress said Iraqi army units closed highways Monday linking northern Iraq with Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

60.   More than a foot of blowing snow closed major highways Wednesday in eastern Wyoming and western South Dakota, stranding travelers and shutting down schools.