1.   Anti-gay protesters, most of whom were not convention delegates, taunted rally participants with signs and verbal insults, but police kept the peace.

2.   In a survey of rally participants, The Washington Post found that one out of seven of the men who attended was black.

3.   It was the calm sincerity and steadiness of the rally participants, not the wisdom of their speakers, that marked the day as an inspirational and historic event.

4.   Others, he said, were knocked unconscious by chairs and other objects hurled at them by rally participants.

5.   The rally participants were guests at a Berber dinner held in the Moroccan desert.

6.   An earlier gunshot injured a rally participant and sent Premier Pakalitha Mosisili fleeing to safety.

7.   Banja Luka police loyal to Plavsic got authorization from U.N. police monitors and the peace force to prevent rally participants from arriving, said a Western diplomat in Sarajevo.

8.   But police said virtually all rally participants were German.

9.   But the Shiite group members said the rally participants started the violence.

10.   Fourteen banks set up mobile exchange booths at the World Trade Centre to enable rally participants in selling their dollars.