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...KLANSMEN WHO disrupt protest marches are way out of the mainstream of American life. They are the locked-out, angry at a world which has passed turned on them. They are the people who call latenight radio call-in shows to ask--as one caller recently asked Larry King--"Why don't we have a national holiday in honor of the guy who blew King away...
...Nebraska," he said. "More specifically, Chapstick and Sunglasses, Nebraska." He informed me that if I failed to get him to his resting place in the Cornhusker State, I could quite possibly disrupt the balances of nature...
...most banks, a customer clad in nothing but a string bikini would draw stares and possibly disrupt business. But at Brazil's BancoMovel (mobile bank), many of the best-dressed people wear mostly suntan lotion. Housed in small red 9-ft. by 5-ft. trailers, two of these automated tellers-on-wheels are stationed in or around beach resorts near Rio and Sao Paulo, providing cash around the clock to customers who may leave home without their clothes but never without their electronic banking cards...
...Anglican Church in southern Africa, Winnie's car pulled up outside the stadium in a Cape Town suburb. Hundreds of young supporters immediately rushed out of the stands to the parking lot, surrounded the car and began chanting, "Man-de-la, Man-de-la." Concluding that she would hopelessly disrupt the ceremony if she entered the stadium, she drove away...
...next 35 minutes, Sakharov patiently fielded questions on the chilly platform. Remarkably, few police officers were in evidence. Usually, any public appearance by a Soviet dissident is well attended by uniformed and plainclothes police, who try to intimidate journalists and passersby. This time no attempt was made to disrupt the impromptu news conference. Nor was there any police stakeout at the couple's tiny seventh-floor apartment on Chkalova Street...