61.   Thousands take to the streets, defying police ban.

62.   Two mainstream distributors defied the ban by showing the movie to adult audiences, risking large fines.

63.   With China alone in defying a ban on test explosions of nuclear weapons, that task, too, will prove a challenge.

64.   Government leaders were not immediately available for comment on what possible action the government would take against the organisers for defying the ban.

65.   He said the orphanage, which defied a ban on teaching girls during the Taliban rule, relied on handouts from the government and non-governmental organisations.

66.   Hundreds of Coptic Christians have travelled to Jerusalem to celebrate their Easter defying a ban by their Patriarch Shenouda III, airport officials said Sunday.

67.   In other parts of Dhaka, thousands of police and BDR were on alert against possibly violent opposition activists, who plan to defy a ban on public gatherings.

68.   At the weekend, the UPC tried in vain to defy a ban on party demonstrations.

69.   But French Transport Minister Bernard Bosson said British airlines planning to defy the ban would do so at their own commercial risk.

70.   Chief Fawehinmi has pleged to defy the ban and continue his opposition to the military regime.