1.   Police Monday set up check points on the main streets into the impoverished outlying townships of Harare where most workers live.

2.   Downtown businesses returned to near normal on Friday but heavily armed troops remained in outlying townships to prevent a recurrence of violent protests over fuel price increases.

3.   Double-decker buses poured in from outlying townships, and streams of people arrived each minute to join the crowd.

4.   Double-decker buses poured in from outlying townships.

5.   Downtown Harare and the outlying townships were calm as army troops in trucks and armored cars patrolled trashed suburban shopping centers after the rioting Monday and Tuesday.

6.   Downtown Harare and the outlying townships were calm Wednesday morning as army troops in trucks and armored cars patrolled trashed suburban shopping centers and searched homes.

7.   Some workers were on the job later in the week as heavily armed government troops kept watch in outlying townships to prevent protests.

8.   Troops, some in armored cars, were deployed throughout the outlying townships Tuesday.

9.   The report said hundreds of squatter shacks were flattened in outlying black townships while in the inner, more affluent suburbs, scores of houses and businesses were flooded.