71. Catholics have vowed to conduct counter-marches and road blocks. 72. Conical road blocks had been placed to close off the station just outside the high embassy walls fortified by razor-tipped barbed wire fencing atop them. 73. Despite renewed government shelling, rebel fortifications and road blocks remained in place and there were no signs of mass retreat by the insurgents. 74. Disgruntled cotton farmers shut down a border crossing with Bulgaria on Friday and others set up road blocks around northern Greece to demand higher subsidies for their crops. 75. During a break, Komolowski warned the government will stop talking to the farmers if road blocks continued, provoking a defiant response from radical farm leader Andrzej Lepper. 76. Elsewhere, suspected Islamic militants shot dead three civilians at a fake road block west of Algiers, journalists who visited the scene said. 77. Eventually NATO troops and U.N. international police set up a barbed-wire road block. 78. Fake road blocks have become a common ploy of armed groups in this country whose roadways are now dotted with official roadblocks to trap suspected insurgents. 79. Farmers want Simitis to meet with them and talk about specific demands before bringing down the road blocks. 80. Fiery road blocks, looting and shootings forced businesses and schools to shut down. |