But here is Tanner on the reaction to the mute assault against the City on the Crag: Downtown today, speaker after speaker blasted the government and urged immediate intervention.

Without preliminary warning the speaker blasted and be gave a nervous start.

When the United States delegation marched in, the speakers blasted "Dixie," the minstrel song written in 1859 which virtually became the anthem of the Confederacy in the Civil War.

After paying, they head up a thin driveway to a cracked cement courtyard where speakers blast recorded banda music loudly enough to drown out the low-flying airplanes from Los Angeles International Airport nearby.

On the hardest beats, speakers blast so loudly that they throw fighters across the room, fire erupts from the floor and strippers spin around their poles and give a roundhouse kick to anyone in reach.

The speaker in the overhead blasted out the distorted voice of the Secretary of Defense, Napoleon Ferguson.

He makes his confession without embarrassment: The speakers in the apartment below had been blasting continuously for hours.

Two speakers, mounted on a balcony of the Federal Reserve Bank on Nassau Street, blasted marching tunes and patriotic music above them, but otherwise there was mostly silence.