21.   Protest organizers said they purposefully excluded men from the group to avoid any angry confrontations near the home.

22.   Protest organizers stress that the protest and the re-enactment are mutually exclusive.

23.   Protest organizers, many of them Americans who were involved in the Seattle demonstrations, said the diversity of participants in the demonstrations here is a strength.

24.   Several weapons, including knives, were found in the surprise blitz at the headquarters of the protest organizers.

25.   Spokesmen for the party denounced the protest organizers as exploiters of children and defenders of special interests.

26.   The crowd was eventually stopped by the protest organizers, who have been promising to wage a nonviolent protest in their effort to push the Navy from Vieques.

27.   The protesters were from groups including Kach and Kahane Chai, said Michael Guzofsky, a protest organizer.

28.   Order was restored in time for two Cabinet ministers to accept two petitions on behalf of Chan from protest organizers.

29.   Police negotiated for an hour with protest organizer Mary Bull, who wore a plastic foam tree on her head, before proceeding with the arrests.

30.   Protest organizers had expected several thousand demonstrators and blamed police and the media for the smaller turnout.