Teletext Recovery - 02/12/1999

P147 CEEFAX 1 147 Thu 02 Dec 19:23/14    From World Today, BBC World Service The Battle of Seattle, as instant history has already labelled the protests against the World Trade Organisation, tops most newspapers. The Berliner Morgenpost reflects an ages-old divide in the headline "Poor protest against the world's rich", as does the Frankfurter Rundschau with "Power politics of the mighty". Die Welt takes a more technical line with "Demonstrators demand borders on trade", while Munich's Sueddeutsche Zeitung talks of the "ghost" of the WTO 1/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World service: MW 648, SW 6.195 UK Papers News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

P147 CEEFAX 1 147 Thu 02 Dec 19:22/01    From World Today, BBC World Service "The disorder in Seattle has a good chance of going down in history," says Vienna's Die Presse. "Not even at the height of the leftist students' movement of the 1970s would it have been possible effectively to take hostage ministers and diplomats from 135 countries," the paper notes. "Free trade...is the source of development and prosperity for all. An economic counter-revolution throwing the world back into protectionism... would have catastrophic consequences." 2/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World service: MW 648, SW 6.195 UK Papers News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

P147 CEEFAX 1 147 Thu 02 Dec 19:26/24    From World Today, BBC World Service Luxembourg's Tageblatt leaves customs tariffs well alone and detects an exotic aroma mixed with the tear gas. "The demonstrations brought back to Seattle for a few hours the atmosphere of the protest movements of the sixties," complete with "a strong odour of marijuana", the paper says. "The image that will endure is that of the delegates in dark suits and leather briefcases lost in a crowd who could not understand them and whom they could not understand," says Le Monde. 3/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World service: MW 648, SW 6.195 UK Papers News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

P147 CEEFAX 1 147 Thu 02 Dec 19:26/10    From World Today, BBC World Service The Hungarian Nepszabadsag looks at the scene in Seattle with some amazement. "This is the first time since the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement that tens of thousands of demonstrators occupied the streets of an American city, paralysed traffic and stopped an international event from being held," the paper says. Hungarian delegates spoke to the protesters, but found they held "rather naive and manipulated views on the nature of the world economy". 4/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World service: MW 648, SW 6.195 UK Papers News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

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