1.   Prior court decisions have upheld the right of police to conduct random stops at traffic checkpoints to look for drunk drivers in the name of public safety.

2.   The allied armada, though it has been likened to a blockade, is more like a traffic checkpoint on the lookout for drunken drivers.

3.   According to the ministry, the embassy employee was shot Wednesday night by soldiers who were manning a traffic checkpoint in Lome, the capital.

4.   --Agreed to decide next year whether police can set up random traffic checkpoints and stop motorists to search for illegal drugs.

5.   Gunmen killed four Tajik Interior Ministry workers at a traffic checkpoint on Wednesday and then escaped, a news agency reported.

6.   Gunmen ambushed a traffic checkpoint along a major highway in a restive southern region on Thursday, killing three police officers, a news report said.

7.   Most of the exercise will require long days of hard training for peacekeeping duties ranging from staffing traffic checkpoints to coping with sniper fire and minefields.

8.   Some of the practice missions, such as traffic checkpoints and food distribution, worry conspiracy theorists.

9.   The justices will decide whether police can set up traffic checkpoints and stop motorists in hopes of catching people who sell or use illegal drugs.

10.   The Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether police routinely can set up traffic checkpoints and stop motorists in hopes of catching people who sell or use illegal drugs.