11.   Practitioners ranging from young children to old couples converged on the vast square from underground pedestrian tunnels just before midnight Friday.

12.   Since the protests, security on the vast square has been tight.

13.   State media also had said that the women doused themselves with gasoline to the north of a monument in the center of the vast square.

14.   The protests erupted sporadically across the vast square in central Beijing.

15.   The vast square is adjacent to the Great Hall of the People, where the legislature meets.

16.   Thousands more crowded the vast square outside on a gray-to-sunny morning.

17.   Thousands more crowded the vast square outside.

18.   To prevent commemorations, authorities stepped up security today and extra military police patrolled in front of Tiananmen gate, which overlooks the vast square in central Beijing.

19.   Uniformed police questioned people on streets, and plainclothes officers trained high-powered binoculars on the vast square.

20.   A huge crowd braved a chilly rain to celebrate the election outcome in the vast square, where Chirac was to give a speech.