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ROME — Protesters clashed with police at a demonstration Saturday against the planned expansion of an airport and U.S. military base in the northern city of Vicenza.
Demonstrators wearing helmets and carrying plastic shields threw stones and other objects at officers guarding a bridge on the route of the protest. Police fired tear-gas canisters and clubbed some demonstrators, but no injuries were reported.
The expansion plan would allow the transfer of four U.S. battalions from Germany, raising the number of active-duty personnel in Vicenza to 5,000 from about 2,900 already stationed at the Ederle base.
