21.   Transportation Department officials met Wednesday with Olathe officials and bridge designers and decided to close the bridge next year to rebuild the abutments.

22.   Uzbekistan has said it will keep the crucial bridge closed until an international force can ensure that the border is protected.

23.   When she arrived to pick him up on the Brooklyn side, she discovered that the bridge was closed for construction.

24.   Police closed the bridge to traffic shortly before the accident, which disrupted water supplies and telephone lines in nearby cities.

25.   Police closed three bridges linking Copenhagen to the Amager island, where the airport is located.

26.   At Copenhagen, police briefly closed bridges leading to the airport, while officers with submachine guns and bulletproof jackets checked all vehicles.

27.   At Shrewsbury, on the Severn, the town center was inaccessible and a key bridge was closed.

28.   Closing the bridge caused major tie-ups in nearby highways, the ANSA news agency reported, while railway traffic was disrupted in both Italy and Switzerland.

29.   Coastal bridges were closed and everyone but emergency personnel was ordered off the highways.

30.   East Grand Forks flood coordinator Gary Sanders said reluctantly that another bridge might be closed this weekend.