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<H1>Police Stop Protest at Senate Building</H1>
<H2>Dozens Arrested in Several Antiwar Demonstrations Held Near Capitol</H2>
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<DIV id=byline>By <A title="Send an e-mail to Michelle Boorstein" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/michelle+boorstein/">Michelle Boorstein</A></DIV>Washington Post Staff Writer<BR>Wednesday, September 27, 2006; Page A14</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT>
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<P>The quiet, sunny atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building was transformed into a chaotic scene yesterday when dozens of war protesters filed into the lobby, formed a prayer circle, shouted Scripture and eventually were arrested as Senate staffers hung over railings and crammed glass-walled offices to watch.</P>
<P>Employees in the building and longtime area activists said they had never seen police allow such a demonstration in a government office building, with activists one and two stories up reading the names of the Iraq war dead, civilian and military. The names rang loudly through improvised megaphones into the building's open center. Dozens of police streamed into the atrium and arrested about 35 people, including Rick Ufford-Chase, who until recently was a top official of the Presbyterian Church (USA).</P>
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