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> Margrete Strand-Rangnes
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> 4/23/99 Wall St. J. A1
> 1999 WL-WSJ 5449784
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> The Wall Street Journal
> Copyright (c) 1999, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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> Friday, April 23, 1999
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> The Wall Street Journal / NBC News Poll
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> A Special Weekly Report From The Wall Street Journal's Capital
> Bureau
> By Ronald G. Shafer
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> SEATTLE IS BRACING for protesters at a trade meeting in November.
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> Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club plan big
> showings at a
> World Trade Organization gathering, to protest environmental harm from
> globalization. Steelworkers hope to turn out 50,000 people to
> protest labor
> disparities. The Web site of activist group Public Citizen says:
> "Mobilization on Globalization. If you oppose the WTO, you must go to
> Seattle."
>
> Seattle's City Council takes a stand on treaty talks, voting to make the
> city a global-investment-treaty-free zone. China could be a new
> WTO member
> at the November round of global talks. Americans, by 60% to 26%,
> think China
> joining the WTO would have a major impact on the U.S. economy.
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> Planners picked Seattle partly because of its experience with
> environmental
> protesters; "It's going to be like Chicago '68," says one trade lobbyist.
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