31.   But aid workers said boulders blocking main routes had been blasted apart with explosives overnight and that the relief effort was now in full swing.

32.   But Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki told reporters nothing had changed and that Ethiopia was still blocking the route to peace.

33.   But the rightists were stopped from reaching their new destination as well because the route was blocked by protesters.

34.   But U.N. aid officials spoke of traffic jams, with horse-drawn carts, tractors and in some cases sheep herds blocking main routes.

35.   But they may find the route blocked by millions of angry French strikers.

36.   Columns of armored personnel carriers blocked the route to Parliament.

37.   During the negotiations, the rebels have asked the military to dismantle camps that block land routes to rebel-held Jaffna peninsula in the north.

38.   Dozens of Bosnian Serbs on Wednesday blocked routes linking their territory to Sarajevo with sandbags, to protest recent arrests of three Bosnian Serb war crimes suspects.

39.   Flames erupted simultaneously in several spots in the building, and escape routes were soon blocked by smoke and collapsing walls.

40.   In tough talk, Aleman declared that strikers who are blocking key routes in the country and forcing thousands to walk to work could also face criminal prosecution.