The New York Times-20080129-Poland- Traffic Jam at Border- -Brief-

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Poland: Traffic Jam at Border; [Brief]

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The Polish government tried to defuse a crisis on the country's eastern border with Belarus, where truckers are facing a 24-mile-long traffic jam amid a wage protest by customs officers. Angered by the delay, some truckers parked across the road near the Terespol crossing and refused to let anyone pass. This is the fourth day I've been waiting here, and I've moved just a kilometer and a half, said a trucker from Kazakhstan who identified himself only as Sergei. Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, visited the nearby town of Biala Podlaska and made an ardent appeal for customs officers to return to work.