But the protesters, some feeling they had been upstaged, confronted the group with shouts like, "You helped convict those kids!"

While the Pope might have heard the shouting, the protesters did not confront him directly.

Here in the streets of Bophuthatswana's showcase capital, protesters confronted skittish police in skirmishes that left more than 30 injured today.

Last December, protesters were confronting political leaders around the country, demanding that they cut off American support for the right-wing Government in El Salvador.

Detective Fred Vasquez, whose face was splattered with spit as protesters confronted him at 34th Street, stood stone still except for a brief flutter of blinks.

Occasionally, the protesters would confront minor children of clinic employees who were home alone.

In the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Arabs said Nail Hamad, 18, was shot to death when stone-throwing protesters confronted soldiers.

Recently, 30 black protesters confronted Mr. Graves and charged "inhumane treatment" by some officers and a lack of action on his part.

Throughout the day, 10,000 angry but unarmed protesters had confronted helmeted soldiers with fixed bayonets, and the soldiers had fallen back, issuing periodic "last warnings" over a loudspeaker.