21.  Striking coal miners wielding clubs and homemade explosives clashed Thursday with riot troops trying to block their march to the Romanian capital.

22.  Striking coal miners wielding clubs and Molotov cocktails attacked anti-riot police blocking their protest march to the Romanian capital on Thursday.

23.  Striking coal miners tore through police lines Thursday attacking riot troops with clubs and homemade explosives and then headed for the Romanian capital.

24.  Striking coal miners wielding clubs and homemade explosives clashed Thursday with government riot troops trying to block their eastward march to the Romanian capital.

25.  The Romanian capital has been fighting for years with huge garbage piles, lots of dust and bad roads.

26.  Thousands of agricultural workers marched through the Romanian capital Wednesday to protest low wages and government policies.

27.  Four American pilots who took part in NATO-sponsored military exercises here were severely beaten up in a striptease joint in the Romanian capital, police said Monday.

28.  Halaicu was heavily criticised by Romanians and by his political allies for what they saw as his catastrophic management of the Romanian capital.

29.  He completed his studies in the Romanian capital, notably writing a doctoral thesis on the French revolution.

30.  Ion Stoica was Wednesday questioned by police in the Transylvanian town of Cluj before being taken to the Romanian capital.