11.   Later that month, the American executive director of the Soros Foundation was expelled after the government charged him with interfering in domestic affairs for attending an opposition rally.

12.   That led to immediate Balkan-style speculation that the Milosevic government had intentionally blown the power to make sure that the game would conflict with the opposition rally.

13.   The broadcast seemed a patent effort to discourage people from attending the opposition rally, the first in Belgrade since the Kosovo war.

14.   The first opposition rally in Belgrade, on Thursday night, drew tens of thousands of people demanding his resignation.

15.   The protest was called after a dozen newsmen were among those allegedly beaten by plainclothes police officers at an opposition rally last week.

16.   The ruling could add fuel to an opposition rally planned for Friday.

17.   They should guarantee physical protection to opposition rallies, using armed NATO troops if necessary.

18.   Thugs are breaking up opposition rallies and threatening opposition candidates and their supporters.

19.   Yet the war in Kosovo and the opposition rallies that followed the end of the war have resulted in an enormous number of political trials.

20.   Our pictures show a mammoth opposition rally in the capital Dhaka.