1. Before boarding the buses to be processed they planted the crosses into the wet ground. 2. But too many crosses are planted too close to the road, he said. 3. He rejected any suggestions that the officer who saw Hill planting crosses on Friday should have suspected that violence was at hand. 4. Somewhere amid what is now blacktop, legend has it, the cross was planted. 5. They recited the names of the dead, planted the crosses in the grass and were herded into buses to be fingerprinted and processed. 6. Up a steep staircase to the right is the elaborate, some say gaudy, shrine covering the rock where the cross was planted. 7. Both the government and church leaders have called for an end to planting new crosses, but conservative Catholics accuse the government of giving in to Jewish demands. 8. Both the government and church leaders have urged protesters to stop planting new crosses, but conservative Catholics accuse the government of giving in to Jewish demands. 9. But even the king and the combined military forces of the country could not stop this determined young man from planting the cross on Burmese soil. 10. More recently militant Catholic groups have been planting small crosses beside the big one. |