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For the moment, Mr. Nastase's greatest concern is the thousands of unemployed miners in the west, in the Jiu Valley, whose riots in 1977 shook the Communist regime, who have descended on Bucharest in mobs twice since Communism fell and who in 1999 were marching on the capital a third time before the government halted the protests by agreeing to keep pits open.

The government quickly rescinded the decision to halt the protests.

After her release from prison, Karman said, European Union officials and friends at the U.S. Embassy beseeched her to halt the protests.

Her husband said the bail, poor treatment and long sentences were designed to scare people into halting the protests.

After the vote on Thursday, however, some indigenous leaders said they would lift the scattered blockades and halt the protests.

Opposition leaders who failed to halt the protests, he said, "would be responsible for bloodshed and chaos".

But it appeared that an attempt by the military to halt the protests through warnings, troop deployments and initial bursts of violence had not succeeded.

Mr. Rospigliosi's announcement came hours after the government unveiled a deal with local leaders in Arequipa to halt the protests.

The attempt to halt the protest came as it emerged that hundreds more workers were ready to join the nationwide strike action.

The Kremlin had to use force to halt the protest action outside Moscow's ring road, but demonstrations continue throughout Russia, and new protest actions are expected when the tax goes into effect.

The agreement would require the opposition to halt the street protests and to take part in a coalition with Mr. Saleh's ruling party.