To the Editor: I enjoyed reading Paul Starr's clever solution to the Congressional roadblock surrounding a universal mandate for Americans to buy health insurance.
The police immediately set up roadblocks and surrounded the lodge to cut off any avenues of escape for the radicals inside.
Hundreds of law enforcement officials, some on horseback, used roadblocks, helicopters and tracking dogs to comb the rural countryside surrounding the John B. Connally Jr. state prison, three miles south of this ranching community of about 4,000 people.
During this time, U.S. troops from the 19th Infantry, desperate to move around the roadblock to obtain supplies and care for wounded, began moving through the surrounding hills.
While residents were allowed to leave, tribesmen from surrounding villages who descended on Sana from the south, east and north faced government roadblocks, effectively sealing off the capital.
American officials have expressed concern to the Zimbabwean government about the circumstances surrounding the death of a 58-year-old American man who was shot at a roadblock, diplomats said yesterday.
This afternoon, it looked low and it looked old, but surrounded by Israeli tanks and military roadblocks and littered by burnt tires and spent bullets, it did not look very peaceful.
At this point the city was surrounded and North Korean troops began setting roadblocks along the roads out of the city.
On Sunday, a police roadblock cut off access to the narrow dirt road that leads to the home, which is surrounded by trees and borders a farm field on one side.
