71.   Intercity trains have come to a complete halt after five days of strikes by railroad workers.

72.   Juppe defused the strike by scrapping plans to cut retirement benefits for railroad workers, but he held to other reductions in social security and benefits for state employees.

73.   Late Wednesday, Minister of Communications Zeljko Luzavec threatened the railroad workers with mass firings if they struck.

74.   --Protection for railroad workers when contracts are merged between roads.

75.   Railroad workers are also protesting austerity cuts.

76.   Railroad workers are worried about changes in their pensions.

77.   Railroad workers make extra checks of trains and tracks.

78.   Railroad workers were using blowtorches to cut through the mangled metal to pull out those still trapped, officials said.

79.   Railroad workers whose injury claims were met with a blood test that probes their DNA had their civil rights violated, the federal government says in a lawsuit.

80.   Railroad workers, angered by plans to close unprofitable lines and lay off workers, have been on strike since Friday.