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...Phong Nha, we get stuck at a roadblock. The local People's Committee chairman-who, it must be said, has only a few strands of hair, slicked down over his head-refuses to grant us permission to travel the western fork of the highway, even though construction is nearly finished. Mr. Truong surprises us by talking the guard at the government checkpoint into letting us through. The road lies between a stream and a cliff overgrown with ferns. It offers some of the most stunning scenery we've seen, but the construction workers-who insist we join them...
Those supporters said yesterday they were particularly anxious that if Okhotin stays in Russia for an appeal, it will present a further roadblock to his return to a quiet academic life
...It’s become the major roadblock for vaccine trials,” Lieberman said...
...building was leveled. Last June a suicide bomber killed 20 people in the town, and Chechen guerrillas are known to move freely in the area. No one has claimed responsibility for the latest raid, but hard-line Islamist guerrillas are the main suspects. Other Stories: Chechnya in TIME Peace Roadblock ISRAEL Buoyed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's successful trip to the U.S., the Israeli government ordered the building of 22 homes in a settlement in the Gaza Strip, pushed through a law denying citizenship to Palestinians who marry Israelis and completed the first phase of a $1 billion security...
...incidents a raid Sunday on a Baghdad house where U.S. forces believed Saddam was sheltering, during which four innocent Iraqis were reportedly killed and a number wounded in the course of U.S. efforts to secure the location. U.S. officials say the victims were in two cars that ran a roadblock, although that account disputed by locals. In a city where the locals are inclined after weeks of lawlessness and deprivation to believe the worst of the Americans, that's an unfortunate discrepancy...