
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 28, 1995                   TAG: 9510300089
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BOSTON                                LENGTH: Short

MILLION MAN REFIGURED AT 837,214

University experts re-examined photos and video footage of the Million Man March and lowered their crowd count slightly to 837,214 Friday - much higher than the National Park Service's estimate but far lower than the Nation of Islam's.

Scientists at Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing used aerial photographs provided by the park service to do their second computer analysis of the march turnout.

The center's director, Farouk El-Baz, said Friday that the new estimate was 837,214, with a 20 percent margin of error. That means the actual number could have been as low as 670,000 or as high as 1,004,000.

The techniques used by the center were developed to count sand dunes in satellite photographs of Egypt and Kuwait.

- Associated Press

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