31.   Aid agencies, including the World Food Program and the Red Cross, have been pleading with the warring factions to open the roads leading into the city.

32.   Although the request violated an earlier, U.N.-brokered agreement to open the road, Rose immediately complied.

33.   Although police cordoned off the area for rescue work, the road was opened to vehicles and pedestrians by daybreak Saturday, officials said.

34.   Although the United Nations reported another verbal agreement to open the road last month, that fell apart over different interpretations.

35.   An Israeli government spokesman, Shlomo Dror, said soldiers were under orders to open the roads in humanitarian cases.

36.   Army troops, meanwhile, opened provisional roads about a quarter of the way up the coast, from Tapachula toward Esquintla.

37.   As tensions eased periodically throughout the war, various roads have been opened briefly, only to close again as fighting increased.

38.   Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim-led government ended weeks of bickering Monday with an agreement to open a road into Sarajevo for trucks carrying aid.

39.   Bosnian Serbs said today they would soon open roads linking Sarajevo with other government-held territory, but other efforts to secure peace in Bosnia ran into setbacks.

40.   Blair called Jospin as British truckers complained of big detours and said French police were doing nothing to open roads blocked by strikers.