“D-Day in Reverse” as WTO 99 aftershocks continue. Think protests don’t matter? Read the article. By the way, if this was “D-Day in Reverse” then what does that make the protesters?
No man is an island, but the world leaders assembled here come pretty close. President Bush and his counterparts are huddled on Sea Island, protected from the rest of the world by an armada of gunboats, thousands of armed police officers and an array of antiaircraft batteries, among other things. The leaders are 85 miles from Savannah — the nearest city of any size — where journalists, low-level members of delegations and demonstrators assemble. Access to the leaders is zealously restricted: Only one reporter from the U.S. media is allowed on Sea Island each day, and those wishing to see the airport arrivals of world leaders had to secure a place in a number of color-coded “pools.”
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