51.   Threats by officials and a show of force by police forced farmers outside a south China provincial capital to abandon a planned protest Thursday, a rights group reported.

52.   Tsvangirai gave no details of the planned protests.

53.   This is the second planned protest by farmworkers, who stopped work for three days in April and refused to buy or sell cattle or grain.

54.   Thousands of soldiers sealed off a park adjacent to the Presidential Palace with barbed wire and tanks, preventing a planned mass protest against President Suharto on Wednesday.

55.   He asked Chen to reconsider the planned protest, saying it could affect the talks.

56.   In Wellington, Prime Minister Jim Bolger announced New Zealand may send a navy vessel to Mururoa with a planned international protest fleet of yachts.

57.   At the Bethlehem and Bir Zeit universities, classes were suspended to allow students to take part in planned protest rallies.

58.   Bamenda, in north-west Cameroon, is the main base of the SDF which said Friday it saw no reason not to go ahead with the planned protests.

59.   But both men refused to give further details of the planned protest.

60.   But unions cancelled planned protest rallies in many areas because of heavy snow and freezing weather, press reports said.