11.   Friday, state Sen. Therese Murray,D-Plymouth, said she had asked to meet with protest organizers before the march but they refused.

12.   His government has kept open a dialogue with the more moderate protest organizers, and made soothing, sympathetic statements while insisting that Italy will not condone violence.

13.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has accused the protest organizers of having purely political motives.

14.   Mulky, the protest organizer who has founded an advocacy group for abducted children, said she expects the demonstration will last two hours.

15.   One protest organizer refuses to disclose his Los Angeles location over the telephone, fearful that the call is being monitored.

16.   Payal Parekh, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said art and street theater were useful when she was a protest organizer in her native India.

17.   Protest organizers accused the police of overreacting.

18.   Protest organizers said they did not plan on civil disobedience next week.

19.   Protest organizers could sew an enormous quilt using just the slogans on signs, shirts and caps that can be spotted at any demonstration.

20.   Protest organizers insisted that their demonstrations would be peaceful.