61.   Ignoring the refusal, a few hundred protesters broke through police cordons around the square Saturday, and police beat them back with batons.

62.   Hundreds of students tried to march through a police cordon but were repulsed as police fired tear gas, Jongwe said.

63.   In a separate clash, thousands of bare-handed opposition demonstrators charged a police cordon.

64.   In addition to the police cordon, the site has been protected by army helicopters and special police forces stationed on nearby hills.

65.   In Belgrade, protesting students spent their fourth consecutive night facing a heavily armed police cordon that has been preventing their marches against Milosevic.

66.   It led to a garage near commuter rail tracks but within the police cordon.

67.   Joao Pedro Stedile, one of the leaders of the landless movement, stood outside a police cordon with a few hundred protesters.

68.   Last month, nationalists broke through a police cordon protecting foreign diplomats and several hundred former Muslim residents of Banja Luka who came to attend the event.

69.   Meanwhile in Belgrade, protesting students spent their fourth consecutive night facing a heavily armed police cordon which has been preventing their marches against Milosevic.

70.   Most student leaders slipped through the police cordon after the banned rally.