As the Cabinet met, hundreds of policemen blockaded roads leading to Mr. Rabin's office to keep away right-wing demonstrators.

And on Friday night at the Academy of Arts in Northampton, where the idea of a right-wing demonstrator was thoroughly beyond the pale, another kind of history was being made and another kind of future predicted.

When news of the attack became known, a group of approximately 20 right-wing demonstrators arrived on the scene and clashed with the police in front of Kodama's home.

The P.P. threatened to sue Almodóvar for libel and slander, and at the first showing of "Bad Education," right-wing demonstrators staged a protest outside the Palacio de la Música cinema.

At Qiryat Gat right-wing Israeli demonstrators - some costumed as supposed terrorists, with Arab scarves, toy guns and Palestinian flags - protested that the route would allow "safe passage" for guns, bombs and terror.

Ernst Kirchweger, a former resistance member and concentration camp survivor, who was watching the demonstrations but not participating himself, was seriously injured by a right-wing demonstrator.

During a clash with right-wing demonstrators in the Domain in May 1921 he drew a revolver and was convicted of carrying a firearm.

With an efficiency born of tragic experience, the police, ambulances, body-collectors, reporters and right-wing demonstrators converged on the blast site within minutes.

That was on full display here this week when right-wing nationalist demonstrators clashed with the police, hijacking what was to have been a solemn commemoration of Hungary's failed uprising against Soviet domination a half-century ago.

Earlier in the day, Israeli Army soldiers and police officials acted swiftly to prevent right-wing demonstrators from blocking roads to Jericho to prevent Mr. Arafat's West Bank supporters from flocking there to greet him.