1.   Podkrepa immediately called off its strike, and the Sofia demonstrators removed the barricades.

2.   Hill and Holbrooke had hoped to get the rebels to remove barricades along main roads and use the move to hold off a massive Serb assault.

3.   Maybe then the barricades can be removed and we can show that a safe city can also be a free and open one.

4.   Once the barricades are removed, more police officers will be assigned to patrol the neighborhood as money for overtime becomes available, said Capt. Vance Proctor.

5.   Within a few hours, police started removing barricades.

6.   Barbed wire barricades had been removed from where they were earlier placed on the main road.

7.   Demonstrators blocked the main westward highway out of the city with rocks soon after dawn, but police dispersed them with tear gas and removed the barricade.

8.   Firemen removed the barricades, and police maintained tight security around the seaside Legislative Palace.

9.   Firemen removed tire barricades spewing acrid smoke, many shops were closed, and parents kept their schoolchildren home, fearing street violence.

10.   Haitian police assisted by U.N. troops cordoned off the area and removed the barricades, restoring calm by afternoon.