A year later, when the police dismantled a tent city in the park and rousted the homeless people who had been living there, Father Kuhn led parishioners in support of them.

And when the Macedonian police rousted the 50,000 Kosovo refugees from the camp in the town of Blace, it further scattered families.

He said the police broke his front door off its hinges, rousted him from his bed, and handcuffed him.

He said: "If the police roust 10 people and find something on one of them, they think that justifies abusing the rights of the other nine.

At night, the police usually do not roust him there.

Few slept that first night, out of worry that the police could return at any minute and roust them from their beds.

In Summit, where he's dipped his brush for five years, the police no longer roust him and the locals invariably stop by and share a little chapter of their lives.

They said the secret police rousted them from their rooms, took their clothing, jewelry and watches and drove them to Abu Ghraib.

Location of Safe Zones Mr. Waxman, who will participate in the selection, said one possible site was Bicentennial Park, a downtown area from which police have often rousted homeless people.

The police rousted more than a dozen homeless people from their makeshift shelters and tents on Massachusetts Institute of Technology property today, arresting several when they balked at leaving in the rain, school officials said.