31.   Across Egypt, students protested in peaceful and generally small gatherings.

32.   Allowing the students to protest appeared to signal wariness by the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council, or SLORC, against sparking renewed student activism in politics.

33.   At universities across Egypt on Monday and Tuesday, students protested U.S. action.

34.   But the students protesting last week said they had not been allowed adequate time to prepare, and had demanded the exams be postponed.

35.   Egyptian university students have protested against possible U.S. strikes.

36.   Elsewhere Monday, several thousand students protested in Solo in Central Java as well as in Lampung and Medan on Sumatra.

37.   Four students protested during the speech.

38.   However, in recent weeks students protested peacefully outside the university gates almost daily, demanding that the university be reopened.

39.   However, in recent weeks students protested peacefully outside the university gates almost daily, demanding to return to studies.

40.   In Cairo, the opposition National Democratic Alliance said the students were also protesting against the death of a student who died Tuesday of brain hemorrhage in police detention.