BUCHAREST - Romanian authorities stopped trains and deployed busloads of riot police to keep striking coal miners from advancing on the capital, Bucharest, where they went on the rampage twice in the early 1990s.
The head of Romania's state-run railway said 16 trains in the central Jiu Valley, stronghold of the most militant miners, had been cancelled. A further six had been rerouted from the region, 400 km west of Bucharest.