21.   Reached by telephone from Johannesburg, Smith said police trying to remove barricades shot anti-riot pellets when demonstrators threw rocks at them.

22.   Riot police removed the barricades about a half-hour later.

23.   The clashes began when police tried to remove barricades students had placed across the highway in front of the Central American University.

24.   The rallies were generally peaceful, although one demonstrator was injured as police tried to remove a barricade put up by protesters in a southern city.

25.   The Serb left Tuzla late Saturday, and the local government commander ordered barricades removed late Sunday, a government army statement said.

26.   They also removed barricades on the road leading from Tetovo to the border crossing with neighboring Kosovo.

27.   They moved on to the state television station, where another front-end loader from the strikebound Kolubara mine was brought up to remove barricades.

28.   Traffic flowed normally through the city as student-manned barricades were removed.

29.   Violence almost erupted before noon and an elderly protester was injured when police, using a bulldozer and an armored personnel carrier, removed the barricades.

30.   Witnesses said police rounded up residents and forced them to remove some barricades, but new barricades were being erected in other parts of the township.