[08.4.9 美国 CNN] 三藩市为奥林匹克火炬抗议紧张准备

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SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- Authorities are bracing for protests Wednesday as runners plan to carry the Olympic torch through the streets of San Francisco -- but they hope to avoid the chaos that disrupted the torch relay in London and Paris.
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Police officers have had their vacations canceled. And Mayor Gavin Newsom has said that the route along the waterfront -- already cut from eight to six miles -- could be changed up to and even during the run itself.

"Things are still subject to change based on the information that we receive," said San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens. "The goal is to have a safe event for everyone: spectators and participants."

A spokesman for the group Students for a Free Tibet said he has heard of many people planning to protest in San Francisco.

"We want it to be peaceful. But it will be large," said spokesman Tenzin Dasang. "I heard from Tibetans that now live all over the U.S. and even abroad who are coming here."


San Francisco is the only U.S. stop for the torch relay, where it wraps up the first week of a 23-city international tour.
When the flame arrived in the city Tuesday, thousands of people -- chanting slogans and waving banners -- demonstrated against China's human rights record, including its treatment of Tibet.

A day earlier, three protesters scaled suspension cables on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and unfurled a large banner that read "One World. One Dream. Free Tibet." The demonstrators used baby carriages to sneak the banners and climbing equipment past police.

The San Francisco protests followed demonstrations in London and Paris in which protesters tried to snuff out the torch's flame and dozens were arrested.

"The whole world seems to spontaneously react to the situation and know that it's a fraud what the Chinese are doing," said actor Richard Gere, who has been a consistent advocate of human rights in Tibet.
Gere belongs to the International Campaign for Tibet, was one of several organizations that took part in Tuesday's protests.

"What the Chinese are doing, this is not an athletic game to them," he said. "This is putting a stamp of approval on repression and human rights abuses."

Fears of protests prompted one of the San Francisco torchbearers to drop out of Wednesday's relay. But two-time Olympian Marilyn King plans to run, despite some apprehensions.
King knows first-hand the worst-case scenario of the Olympic stage. She was at the 1972 Munich games when 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were killed by terrorists.

King also lost her chance to compete in 1980 because of the U.S. boycott of the Moscow games.
"There are always people who are willing to step outside those boundaries," she said. "So I have some anxiety about that."

The flame is on a 130-day journey that will take it through through 23 cities on five continents and then throughout China, culminating at the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing on August 8.

Beijing organizers have said the month-long international relay will not be stopped despite the protests, but some International Olympic Committee members have suggested an early end should be considered.

The IOC's executive board will take up the topic of the torch relay "in general" on Thursday or Friday, IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said. But there is no proposal on the agenda to end the global tour early, she added.
The president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, is expected to meet with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The meeting was pre-scheduled and will focus on the preparations for the Olympics, the IOC said.

On the torch's visit to France on Monday, protesters forced an abrupt halt to the flame's passage through Paris after just 10 miles of the 17-mile (28 km) planned route.

On Sunday, at least 36 people in London were arrested along the torch's route, according to London Metropolitan Police.

Meanwhile, an Olympic committee member suggested Monday that the public relations nightmare that has followed the Olympic flame on its way to the Summer Games in Beijing may make 2008 the last time such an ambitious global torch relay is attempted.

International Olympic Committee member Richard Kevan Gosper, who is also chairman of the IOC's press committee, told reporters he was always opposed to a global tour for the flame.

"I'm a firm believer that we had the right template in the first place, that the torch simply should go from Olympia, Greece, to the host country," he said.

"I would expect that the Olympic committee will review that template" of taking the flame on a global relay, he said.
Liu Jingmin, vice president of the Beijing organizing committee, said the Olympic torch has been "warmly welcomed by the local people" in each city.

He said the organizers "are confident that the Beijing Olympics torch relay in overseas cities will be carried out successfully."








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三藩市为奥林匹克火炬抗议紧张准备

三藩市，加利福尼亚（CNN报道）——当局正在为火炬手星期穿过三藩市街道传递奥林匹克火炬时会发生的抗议做好紧张的准备——但是他们希望避免发生那种使伦敦和巴黎火炬传送陷入中断的混乱。

[图片说明]西藏和尚们（译者注：此处原文没有用Lama一词）在通向北京的85，000英里的火炬之路经过的三藩市示威。

警察们已经取消了休假。纽瑟姆（Gavin Newsom）市长说沿水域路线已经由8英里缩短到6英里，还可能会有所变动，包括在传递进行过程中。

“情况会根据我们收到的信息改变。”三藩市警察Neville Gittens中士说，“目标是大家都看到一场安全的活动：包括观众和参与者。”

一个自由西藏的学生团体发言人说他已经听说许多人正策划在三藩市进行抗议。