1.   Dedicated to non-man entry sewer repair and maintenance, the Sika-Robot cuts costs by eliminating the need to excavate pipes.

2.   Under the rescue plan, the Housing and Redevelopment Agency will buy the land beneath Locke and make the sewer repairs with the aid of state and federal financing.

3.   Belarus had ordered the ambassadors out to carry out what it described as urgently needed sewer repairs on the complex, which adjoins the residence of President Alexander Lukashenko.

4.   Lukashenko says the compound needs urgent water and sewer repairs, but the diplomats say they cannot be forced to leave under the terms of an international treaty.

5.   The actions represent the escalation of a diplomatic conflict over sewer repairs and demands by Belarus that ambassadors in the area vacate their homes so that work could begin.

6.   The Belarusian government forced out western diplomats from the Drozdy residential compound last spring, claiming it needed urgent sewer repairs.

7.   Then the ambassadors of the United States and five European countries left Belarus on Monday in a diplomatic crisis over sewer repairs.