1.   Police tactics deployed during the strike included roadblocks designed to prevent miners from reaching picket lines.

2.   Griles says he started a system to prevent miners with unpaid fines from getting additional mining permits, but acknowledges many never paid.

3.   Police blocked approaches to the presidential offices with portable metal fences and prevented the miners from coming close to the imposing building.

4.   Authorities are eager to prevent the miners from descending on Bucharest, fearing violent protests.

5.   Authorities are eager to prevent miners descending on Bucharest, fearing violent protests.

6.   Earlier this week, Transportation Minister Traian Basescu temporarily cut rail service to prevent miners from coming to the capital.

7.   He said troops were preparing to take all measures to prevent miners reaching the capital.

8.   The government on Tuesday temporarily cut rail service to the area to prevent miners from heading to the capital.

9.   The government temporarily cut rail service to a western Romanian mining region Tuesday to prevent miners from heading to the capital Bucharest where they have rioted twice before.

10.   The government cut rail service to a western Romanian mining region Tuesday to prevent miners from heading to the capital Bucharest where they have rioted twice before.