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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 07:42 AM
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1. Sounds like they are using the Mayor Giuliani 'cleanup plan'

On Thursday a banner 500 yards long and four storeys high was unfurled to shield an unsightly slum from the Apec leaders while they watch a royal barge procession on the Chao Phraya River. Prostitutes have been arrested by the hundred. Some 900 Cambodian beggars have been flown home in a move criticised by human rights groups, while the Thai homeless have been shifted away from locations near summit venues and hotels.
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