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To: jlallen who wrote (64282)	11/30/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

Duty calls, and I must away......Don't tell anyone of our plans......

To: jlallen who wrote (64282)	11/30/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Looks like we'll have to change our itinerary. Protests Force WTO to Relocate, Delay Opening 4.22 p.m. ET (2134 GMT) November 30, 1999 SEATTLE — Protests forced the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday to delay its opening ceremony for several hours and relocate to a more secure building. "We decided to postpone,'' a WTO official said. "The opening ceremony will take place this afternoon in the convention center.'' Thousands of protesters took up position in key places around downtown Seattle early on Tuesday, preventing delegates from leaving their hotels and from entering the Paramount Theater, where the opening ceremony was to have started at 10 a.m. Police firing canisters of tear gas, spraying pepper spray and firing small rubber pellets skirmished with protesters as they tried to clear the streets to allow the meeting to get underway. WTO Director-General Mike Moore told a half-empty theater that the decision to postpone the ceremony was taken by the U.S. government as host of the meeting. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky was among those kept in her room by the protests, U.S. and WTO officials said. The demonstrators say that the free-trade agenda of the WTO ministerial meeting benefited big business at the cost of the environment, workers, communities and human rights.