1.   Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police.

2.   Police dispersed the crowds with teargas, and tanks were stationed in the city.

3.   After a few hundred rowdies were dispersed by police Saturday night, the chamber-of-commerce types were secretly pleased.

4.   After police dispersed the curious, the bear dropped to the ground and disappeared into the woods.

5.   Finally police dispersed the crowd by pouring tear-gas fluid on them from helicopters.

6.   Finally, police dispersed the crowd by pouring tear-gas fluid on them from helicopters.

7.   Frustrated by too few ballots, voters in Tuxtla Gutierrez, in Chiapas state, smashed windows before being dispersed by police firing tear gas.

8.   On the Upper West Side and in Times Square, noisy crowds of thousands were allowed to celebrate for hours before the police dispersed them without serious incident.