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140 Arrested as 'Die-In' Snarls New York Traffic Reuters Thursday, March 27, 2003; 12:01 PM
NEW YORK -- Police arrested more than 140 protesters who lay down in the middle of New York's 5th Avenue during Thursday morning rush hour as part of a "die-in" to protest the U.S.-led war on Iraq.
About 400 antiwar activists converged near Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, many of them lying on their backs near the intersection of 49th Street and 5th Avenue and others holding signs and chanting "No War, No Oil, No Profit."
The two-hour peaceful protest, which closed part of 5th Avenue and snarled city traffic, was the latest of several acts of civil disobedience and antiwar demonstrations in New York, San Francisco and other large U.S. cities.
© 2003 Reuters
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