Protesters cap weekend with defiant rally near White House

Monday, January 20, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Dancing in a conga line and shouting calls for peace, demonstrators on Sunday pressed as close to the White House grounds as they could get to demand that President Bush back off Iraq. Police swiftly arrested those who breached barricades.

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