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Global antiwar protest; mass arrests in New York

On the largest single day of protest in world history, millions marched against the coming invasion of Iraq. In New York, where a court had banned marching outside the UN, police penned, charged, and arrested hundreds of demonstrators — a preview of the mass-arrest tactics that would define the decade's protest policing.