Anti-Bush protesters swarm station

About 200 activists swarmed into New York's Grand Central Station yesterday, hung banners and chanted "Fight AIDS, not war" on the day President George W. Bush accepted the Republican nomination at his party's convention. Police officers arrested about...

About 200 activists swarmed into New York's Grand Central Station yesterday, hung banners and chanted "Fight AIDS, not war" on the day President George W. Bush accepted the Republican nomination at his party's convention.

Police officers arrested about a dozen people who sat down around the information booth in the train station's main concourse and refused to move at the height of the morning rush hour, witnesses said. Police did not have an exact number of arrests.

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