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Paris Protests Disrupt Torch Relay
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to boycott the opening ceremony. Spokesmen for President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said they plan to attend. On Monday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), a candidate for president, called on Bush to boycott the event unless China improves on human rights.
Chinese organizers of the Beijing Olympics held a hastily called news briefing Monday to "strongly condemn" the "separatists" who have disrupted the torch procession.
"The torch relay has been well-welcomed by local people and it's operation has been smooth," said Wang Hui, director of media and communications for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. "But it's a pity that a few Tibetan separatists want to disrupt and sabotage the torch relay."
During a March 24 lighting ceremony in Olympia, Greece, Rogge had said the torch relay was designed to be "a journey of harmony, bringing the message of peace to the people of different nationalities, cultures and creeds."
Correspondent Maureen Fan in Beijing, researcher Corinne Gavard in Paris, and staff writers Amy Shipley in Washington and Ashley Surdin in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
