The smiling couple waving to crowds from a black open-top limousine.
"They're good for viewing by crowds from a distance," Mr. Birch said.
Though the Americans had trained Iraqi police officers to clear crowds from a crime scene, dozens of people wandered through.
A cartoon on the front page of Friday's La Stampa, a Turin-based daily, depicted Mr. Berlusconi overlooking huge crowds from a balcony.
During the final scene, as the Belmondo character lies in the street, dying of a bullet wound, crowds from a nearby restaurant pushed up to within inches of the actor while the camera rolled.
But surveillance of crowds from a distance — in which lighting and shadows vary, and faces tend to be partly obscured or pointed in random directions — is still not reliable or fast enough.
The chance to cast a free vote appeared to drain some of the energy and crowds from a protest in Tahrir Square, where clashes between protesters and street vendors broke out Tuesday night.
Since the crowds began arriving earlier in the week, helicopters have been flying overhead watching the pilgrims, and authorities monitor the crowds from a control room through closed-circuit television.
Dance parties like Discovery, Let's Play House, Mister Saturday Night, All Night Rong and Nouveau York take place in downtown Manhattan and in Brooklyn (in Williamsburg, Bushwick and Clinton Hill), attended primarily by young, diverse crowds from a generation that has grown up without prejudice toward dance music.
Ms Tymoshenko, who has a back injury, addressed crowds from a wheelchair after being freed from detention.
Espinoza gambled but he knew that in Mayweather he was engaging with a man who draws crowds from a range of constituencies.
