The headline: Golf with Rice hit by APEC summit lockdownReuters
Published: Wednesday September 5, 2007
It seemed like a good idea at the time ... a round of golf course diplomacy with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has succumbed to the security stranglehold at an Asia Pacific summit in Sydney.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer had challenged Rice to a game at Sydney's Rose Bay Golf Club on Saturday while their leaders thrash out deep and meaningful answers to issues such as world trade and climate change.
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"It doesn't seem a good use of our security resources ... to be protecting us playing a game of golf, so I thought it was better to give it away."
Parts of Sydney have effectively become a ghost town with a huge steel and concrete fence sealing off an exclusion zone where leaders of the 21 Pacific rim economies will meet over the next few days.
Armed police are patrolling the streets and the harbour waters, helicopters buzz constantly overhead and snipers have set up in key positions, much to the frustration of Sydney residents who have complained of draconian measures.Rest of article:
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Golf_with_Rice_hit_by_APEC_summit_l_09052007.html
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