31.   In Central Java, antigovernment protests occurred in Kudus, Surakarta and Semarang.

32.   In Jakarta Sunday, a group of Irian Jaya people urged the military to halt operations around the cities where the protests occurred.

33.   In recent weeks heavily armed police and soldiers have staged well publicized exercises to show how they will react if protests occur.

34.   IRNA did not identify the village where the protest occurred or give a crowd estimate.

35.   Many protests have occurred in Sichuan, home to legions of indebted state industries.

36.   Officials in Jiangsu contacted by telephone denied that any such protests had occurred.

37.   Protests occur regularly in major cities.

38.   Protests also occurred in three other cities and Podgorica, capital of Montenegro.

39.   Similar protests have occurred at several South African universities, where some black students say administrators maintain white privileges from the apartheid era.

40.   Similar protests have occurred in past weeks in some other towns in East Java.