Emergency services had to saw through other fallen trees which had blocked the track.

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This explains why Mr Clinton never made a convincing case for fast-track trade-negotiating authority, which Congress consequently blocked.

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With the normal route blocked, three Land Rovers were sent along a disused railway track which went to within two fields of the cottage.

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But the only direct challenge we encountered on the rutted track came from a pack of 12 wild dogs that briefly blocked our path, and then lazily chased our small convoy for a few hundred metres.

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