21.   Two dozen armed policemen surrounded him as he was brought to court amid a crush of journalists and onlookers.

22.   Two other defendants, the psychic Giuseppina Auriemma and the doorman Ivano Savioni, sat in court surrounded by policemen.

23.   A crowd of Islamic fundamentalists left the prayer service and converged on the German embassy, which was surrounded by policemen in riot gear.

24.   At least a hundred riot policemen surrounded the Veterans Memorial Medical Center to prevent the protesters from entering the northern Manila compound, journalists on the scene said.