51.   The Paris transit authority parked a double-length bus just outside the police cordon to receive worried families who poured in from the suburbs served by the line.

52.   The Paris transit authority RATP agreed to pay subway and bus drivers belonging to one large union for some of the time they were on strike.

53.   The SNCF and the Paris regional transit authorities set up bus shuttles to compensate for the disruptions.

54.   The transit authority agreed to pay subway and bus drivers belonging to one large union for some of the time they were on strike.

55.   The transit authority is waiving fares for five days as a conciliatory gesture.

56.   Transit authority Assistant General Manager Fran Egan said the agency was glad the union promised not to strike immediately and said she was willing to negotiate through the night.

57.   The transit authority said the strike was illegal.

58.   Twenty-four people were slightly injured Wednesday in a subway accident in Barcelona, the transit authority in the northeast Spanish city said.

59.   Lorentz was formerly chairman and managing director of computer group Bull and the Parisian mass transit authority RATP.

60.   Parisian transit authorities said they expected services to be back to normal on Friday.