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195 八国首脑会议场外的示威者试图突破路障
Activists to Try to Break Through Barriers at G-8 Summit
Roger Wilkison
Genoa, Italy
19 Jul 2001 20:10 UTC
World leaders will soon begin arriving in the Italian port city of Genoa for a three-day meeting of the seven largest industrialized democracies plus Russia. Activists opposed to globalization are 1)signaling they plan to break through steel 2)barriers that have been erected in a four-square-kilometer zone around the summit 3)venue. 4)Sporadic marches on Thursday kicked off what organizers say will be a wave of demonstrations during the summit. Local authorities fear some protests could turn violent.
As thousands of police and other security personnel 5)patrolled the streets and squares of Genoa, one of the more 6)radical groups involved in the protest movement announced it intends to storm parts of the city center that have been 7)sealed off to everyone but 8)delegates to the summit, journalists, Italian authorities and local residents.
The Tute Bianche, or White Overalls group, has 9)vowed to scale or topple the steel and concrete barricades that block access into the so-called red zone near the 13th Century Ducal Palace, where the Group of Eight leaders begin their summit Friday. Luca Casarini, the head of Tute Bianche, told Italian television Thursday police will have to use violence to stop his people from "retaking the downtown area".
Genoa's inner city is 10)ringed by four-meter-high barriers that have blocked off dozens of narrow streets and 11)alleys. Police erected the barriers to prevent a repetition of the violence that marred a European Union summit in Gothenburg, Sweden last month.
Mr. Casarini has called on the security forces to disobey orders and let his people into the red zone so they can vent their anger at the G8 leaders, whom they accuse of oppressing workers and farmers and keeping Third World countries 12)mired in poverty. He says up to 10,000 activists will carry 13)Plexiglas shields Friday to break through the security barriers. On Tuesday, Mr. Casarini warned that thousands of protesters wearing gas masks and motorcycle helmets would storm the summit venue.
Italian authorities are not taking his threat lightly. As many as 20,000 police, 14)paramilitary troops and other uniformed personnel are preparing for the worst. But Mr. Casarini has promised that demonstrators will not carry weapons or break any windows.
Thousands of demonstrators are already in the city, and more continue to arrive. Many residents are staying home or have left town to avoid 15)clashes between police and demonstrators.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, opponents of Iran's government 16)staged a demonstration protesting public executions in that country. Signs carried by the demonstrators urged G8 leaders not to back President Mohammed Khatami, whom they called the smiling face of a 17)repressive 18)regime.
Later in the day, another demonstration protesting what marchers called a denial of rights by rich countries to immigrants from poor nations attracted thousands of people. But police say they are more concerned about mass demonstrations scheduled for Friday and Saturday in which most of the 800 or so groups united under the anti-globalization umbrella are expected to take part.
(1) signaling[ `sI^nLlIN ]n.打信号, 发信号
(2) barrier[5bArIE(r)]n.(阻碍通道的)障碍物, 栅栏, 屏障
(3) venue[5venjJ]n.地点, 会议地点, 比赛地点, 管辖地
(4) sporadic[spE5rAdIk]adj.零星的
(5) patrol[pE5trEJl]v.出巡, 巡逻n.巡逻
(6) radical[5rAdIk(E)l]adj.根本的, 激进的n.激进分子
(7) seal off v.把...封锁起来
(8) delegate[5delI^Et]n.代表vt.委派...为代表
(9) vow[vaJ]n.誓约v.宣誓, 立誓, 发誓
(10) ring[rIN]n.环, 环形物,拳击场vt.包围, 套住, 按铃, 敲钟vi.成环形,按铃
(11) alley[5AlI]n.小路, 巷, (花园里两边有树篱的)小径
(12) mire[5maIE(r)]n.泥潭v.陷入
(13) Plexiglas n.树脂玻璃(多用以制造飞机座舱罩、镜片等)
(14) paramilitary[pArE5mIlItErI; (?@) -terI]adj.准军事的, 辅助军事的
(15) clash[klAF]n.冲突, 撞击声, 抵触v.猛撞, 冲突
(16) stage[steIdV]n.舞台, 戏剧, 活动场所vt.上演, 筹备, 举行
(17) repressive[rI`presIv]adj.压抑的, 压制的
(18) regime[reI5Vi:m]n.政体, 政权, 政权制度
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