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北京街道為奧運封鎖 各場館維安如銅牆鐵壁
法新社╱張佑之 2008-08-08 21:35
（法新社北京八日電）中國當局今天在北京各處採取全面安全措施，以保護奧運開幕式，包括部署了大批武警，並將市中心區封鎖。
在北京當局宣布今天為公定假日以使為期十六天的奧運能順利展開後，北京一千七百萬居民中有許多人即足不出戶，各街道出奇地安靜。
在回教分離份子再次發出恐怖攻擊警告的情況下，當局動員了十多萬名武警、解放軍和「公共秩序義工」，在奧運期間搜查一切問題。
奧運各場館四周有如銅牆鐵壁，由成列的武警、高籬、監視器和防空導彈負責保護。
在北京北區通往各場館的主要道路上，已連夜設立新的檢查哨，唯有當地居民和持有場館門票者才能獲准通行。
北京機場在奧運開幕式於晚上八時展開之前不久關閉。
奧組委副主席王偉告訴記者：「我們在安全方面、在奧運維安方面一點也不放鬆，安全部隊已經加強。」
他說：「然而，我們希望使奧運辦得愉快輕鬆，因為對來看奧運的人而言，這是個慶典，所以我們必須保持平衡。」
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Beijing's Games kick off with spectacular opening
by Dave James
13 minutes ago
BEIJING (AFP) - The 29th Olympic Games, costing an estimated 40 billion dollars and shrouded by political controversies, burst into life Friday with a spectacular opening ceremony.
President Hu Jintao was due to officially declare the Games open at the "Bird's Nest" stadium at 11:04 pm local time (1504GMT) in front of 90,000 spectators and a worldwide television audience of up to four billion.
The Olympic cauldron was to be lit by Li Ning, the Chinese gymnast who captured three gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
The three and a half hour opening ceremony, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Zhang Yimou, would see around 5,000 competitors from 204 nations parade in a lavish event, lit up by 35,000 fireworks.
In a country where eight is a lucky number, the ceremony burst into life at eight minutes past eight on the eighth day of the eighth month.
Organisers would welcome a dose of good fortune after seeing the Games, planned as the crowning acheivement of the country's breathless economic transformation, often overshadowed by disputes over human rights, press freedom and unease in the West over Chinese foreign policy.
A colourful, tightly-choreographed hour-long opening show, shot through with themes from Zhang's signature movies Hero and House of Flying Daggers, portrayed China's colourful history from ancient dynasties to modern superpower.
Appropriately, 2008 drummers kept the rhythm as a host of dancers, acrobats and trapeze artists told the story of the Great Wall of China, the Silk Road and the country's love affair with martial arts.
As tradition demands, Greece, the home of the ancient Olympics, were due to lead the parade of teams into the stadium.
But in a break from that famous tradition, the competing nations were poised to file through in the order based on the number of strokes of the names as written in Chinese characters.
As a result, Guinea were the first while hosts China brought up the rear led by flag bearer, and basketball superstar, Yao Ming.
The United States were to be led in by Sudan-born Lopez Lomong, a former refugee from Darfur, in a politically-charged choice given the criticism of Chinese foreign policy over the conflict in the African region.
South and North Korea, who failed to agree on marching in side-by-side were to follow one another instead.
Many heads of state were attending the opening ceremony.
They included US President George W. Bush and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.
Before arriving in Beijing, Bush repeatedly highlighted during a speech in Thailand Washington's "deep concerns" over religious freedom and human rights in China.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a fluent Mandarin speaker, also pledged to raise China's human rights record with the Chinese leadership while Sarkozy sent China a list of prisoners and rights activists whose cases were a matter of concern for the European Union.
More than 100,000 security personnel have been called in to police the Games, amid fresh warnings of terror attacks from Islamic separatists while Beijing airport was also shut down just ahead of the start of the ceremony.
The streets were unusually quiet as many of the Chinese capital's 17 million residents stayed at home after the city government declared a public holiday.
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