Protest

proud to apologize. Well, I'm a big black woman, and I'll do it for him. We're sorry. Now, Mr. Ayatollah and the rest of them, can we have our men home?"

Dressed in a clown suit, Wavy Gravy, one of the original Merry Pranksters from San Francisco in the '60s, acted as master of ceremonies, reading stage announcements, introducing speakers, and repeatedly calling on the crowd to dig into "its pockets, each others pockets, for a little green energy, refined tree flesh," to help the Coalition pay off the estimated $70,000 cost of the rally.

By 7:30 p.m., the chartered buses were pouring out of the capital, leaving only local activists and people planning on joining today's action at the Pentagon.