Cairo Protesters Try To Keep Up The Pressure -- New York Times
CAIRO — With Egypt’s revolt entering a third week, thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square, demanding the immediate departure of President Hosni Mubarak, even as his government portrayed itself as already in the midst of American-approved negotiations to end the uprising.
While the crowd seemed smaller than on previous days, the protesters mustered enough support to form a human chain blocking the entrance to the Mugamma, a huge edifice on Cairo’s central square built in the 1950s to house the city’s labyrinthine bureaucracy — a central part of everyday life.
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