Rally Protests U.S. Role in Middle East : Gulf crisis: The demonstrations are to continue through Jan. 15, the U.N. deadline for Iraq’s pullout from Kuwait.

With 30 days left before the United Nations deadline for Iraq to pull out of Kuwait, hundreds of demonstrators took to Westwood’s sidewalks in the third of a series of peace rallies that organizers said will continue every Saturday until the deadline passes.

Police estimated that 400 protesters marched, sang and chanted in front of the Federal Building, while the Los Angeles Coalition Against U.S. Intervention in the Middle East estimated their ranks at 700. They included a psychoanalyst, an attorney who works for an executive search firm, a registered nurse, several Vietnam veterans, a handful of teachers and a retired biochemist.

Dorothy Millunchick, 75, put her friends and family on notice that she will not be available Saturdays between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. through Jan. 15. She will be out marching for peace.

“I am going to put my body where my mouth is,” Millunchick vowed, clutching a sign that read: No Blood for Oil.

The protesters chanted “Hell No, We Won’t Go. We Won’t Fight for Texaco,” eliciting a chorus of horns from cars passing by on Wilshire Boulevard.

Among those present was Ron Kovic, who was wounded and paralyzed from the chest down in Vietnam and whose autobiography was the basis of the film “Born on the Fourth of July.”

“I have been sitting in this wheelchair for 22 years because policy makers thought violence was the answer,” Kovic said. “If they go to war we will fill the streets of this country with hundreds of thousands of people. We will sit down, we will protest, we will go to jail.”