1.   Municipal tractors and trucks were clearing roads choked with tons of debris, including burned tire barricades and shells of burned cars and motorbikes.

2.   Police and U.N. troops patrolled slums in both cities to prevent grass-roots militants from setting up flaming tire barricades.

3.   Pro-Aristide groups built flaming tire barricades at many intersections in the greater metropolitan area.

4.   Police described the area as tense and said young men set up burning tire barricades and torched one public bus Monday morning.

5.   After the shooting, the demonstrators went to nearby Frecyneau, where they torched the tiny police precinct station and blocked access to the town with flaming tire barricades.

6.   Anti-government protesters set up flaming tire barricades at several intersections and two protesters were arrested.

7.   Constant rain Wednesday night and drizzle early Thursday also would have made it difficult for protesters to light the flaming tire barricades they use to block traffic.

8.   Demonstrators blocked streets with tire barricades in the west coast city of Gonaives on Tuesday, protesting the drive-by shooting of a prominent businessman.

9.   Demonstrators piled flaming tire barricades and clashed with heavily armed riot police in the impoverished Barrera sector.

10.   Demonstrators clashed with police and soldiers throughout the city, setting up flaming tire barricades and hurling rocks.