Apparently the vendors, for the city sidewalks seemed crammed with them, were something new, fledgling capitalists trying the new way right here beside a Communist rally.

In the old days it was the other way around - large authorized Communist rallies by the Kremlin, maverick Yeltsinites by the White House.

"Then, it wasn't staged and well organized like this, but there was a feeling, the people were so clear-eyed, such great faces - the opposite of those cold, mean Communist rallies."

He had seen great numbers of women coming out of a Communist rally at Madison Square Garden.

Residents said the Communist rally was attended by about 5,000 people in front of the capital's Lenin Museum.

Three American teenagers, arrested by East German police while attending a Communist rally, unwittingly possess a roll of film that could ignite a new world war.

At one Communist rally in the city, party cadres followed a journalist trying to interview voters.

A few hours after meeting the I.B.M. executive, as he drove to a Communist political rally, he said the party's rural reforms were the key to its success.

He had attended a Communist rally and what he heard made him opposed to communism for life.

Women who went to the Communist rallies sometimes had to dodge Islamic extremist assailants who tried to throw acid at their faces because they went about uncovered.