21. The labor congress accused police of attacking peaceful protesters, while police said the planned march was illegal. 22. The party had called off the originally planned march the previous Sunday because of the threat, citing police pressure. 23. The presidents of both groups said in radio interviews that they opposed the planned march, and accused each other of being gay. 24. They banned street parking as of Wednesday evening and urged merchants to shutter their shops along the planned march route from the Montparnasse train station to the Education Ministry. 25. Unbowed, hundreds of the demonstrators gathered at nearby Atma Jaya Catholic University in the morning ahead of a planned street march. 26. As with the Republican convention, an official protest site has been set up near the hall and demonstrators have dutifully registered their planned marches. 27. The week-long planned march was to try consolidate the party which has since last year split into two camps, KPCK chairman Roch Basuki Mangunprojo said. 28. Witnesses earlier said police charged anti-government demonstrators with batons and teargas in Rawalpindi to prevent a planned march to the Pakistani capital by JI, witnesses said. 29. Major clashes erupted between opposition supporters and police in Dhaka on Thursday ahead of a planned mass march to the office of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. 30. NATO troops in Bosnia were bracing for more clashes Wednesday between Moslem refugees trying to return home and hostile Serbs at three planned marches, a US official said. |