11.   Hundreds of uniformed police and plainclothes security officers, their walkie-talkies crackling in the cold winter air, patrolled the vast plaza and its immediate surroundings.

12.   Many uniformed and plainclothes police patrolled the vast plaza.

13.   Scalfaro later told Italian reporters he went to the vast plaza in central Beijing on Monday to offer prayers.

14.   Security was tightened around the vast plaza and outside government offices.

15.   Some followers managed to slip through the cordon and the hundreds of uniformed police and plainclothes security officers patrolling the vast plaza and its immediate surroundings.

16.   The vast plaza was jammed with fascinated Frenchmen and soccer tourists.

17.   Thousands of ordinary Chinese thronged to Tiananmen Square next to the Great Hall to take pictures and admire huge flower arrangements and fountains set up on the vast plaza.

18.   While still heavy, security on the vast plaza was not as intense Sunday as it sometimes has been in the past.