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DALLAS (AP) — A committee of Dallas 2012, an organi
zation trying to bring the next Olympic Games to North
Texas, announced Tuesday more than 30 proposed sites
around the Dallas-Fort Worth area that would host the sport
ing events.
The Dallas 2012 Bid Committee's Board of Directors plans
to list the 38 venues in its bid proposal, which will be sub
mitted to Olympic officials in December to compete with sev
en other cities for the national nomination. The American city
selected will then compete with cities chosen from other parts
of the globe for the Olympic site's final selection by an inter
national committee in 2005.
The U.S. Olympic Committee will choose the American
candidate from Dallas, Houston, New York, Cincinnati, Los An
geles, San Francisco, Washington D.C.-Baltimore and Tampa,
Fla.
Dallas has an excellent chance of emerging as the in
ternational winner, said Richard Greene, board presi
dent and former Arlington mayor. The area has "extra
ordinary venues and facilities" and the"abilityt«
the Olympics a regional process," he told The As
ed Press in a phone interview.
The bid would make the 277-acre Fair Park in Dal
hub of the Olympic Games, officials said. A new Cottonl
probably would be constmcted to become the Olympit!
dium, where opening and closing ceremonies would
place If new venues are built, they will be transferred
communities or institutions after the games.
Officials expect to use funds from sources sw
television revenues to pay for renovations or new la]
ities, but will ask local entities to pay for services
security and garbage pickup.
If North Texas wins the bid, host cities and profess
al teams could get financial aid from Dallas 2012.Fi
stance, Dallas 2012 would pay for renovations at Texas:
dium - one of the sites proposed to host two sj
events — including covering the hole in the roof.
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nounced U.S. plans to build an anti-mis
sile shield and agreed to closer coopera
tion on international affairs.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin
and Russian President Vladimir Putin
wrapped up nearly three hours of
closed-door talks with a public sign
ing ceremony. Among the five docu
ments they and their aides signed,
two took aim at the United States, sin
gling out the proposed high-tech na
tional missile defense system.
In a joint state
ment, Beijing and
Moscow accused
Washington of us
ing the system "to
seek unilateral mili
tary and security
advantages that will
pose the most grave,
adverse conse
quences" to China,
Russia and the Unit
ed States itself.
Putin and Jiang
urged Washington to
adhere to the 28-year-
old Anti-Ballistic Mis-
and Russia to "work togetherinj
international arena to promotep
and stability in the world."
Tuesday's meeting wasjianj
Putin's second in three weeks,a
Central Asian summit. Oncebittal
vals for the allegiance of the com
nist world, Beijing and Moscowf
steadily improving ties in
1980s. In recent years, they havefonl
a common cause in concerns aim
U.S. dominance in world affairs.
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tion of Taiwan
into any foreign
missile defense
system is
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sile Treaty, which prohibits the missile
defense system. Their statement
warned that altering the treaty "will
trigger an arms race and lead to an
about-face in the positive trend that ap
peared in world politics after the end
of the Cold War."
Washington argues that its pro
posed national shield is not aimed at
China and Russia, but against missiles
from North Korea and other smaller
states hostile to U.S. interests.
Putin and Jiang, said "the pretext of
a missile threat is totally unjustified."
Beyond criticizing the United
States, Jiang and Putin issued a sep
arate statement committing Clvina
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its troops and allies in East Asia,wh
Beijing fears would undermine
claim to Taiwan.
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any foreign missile defense system
unacceptable," said the
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ford td alienate the United Statf
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Mothers
who abandon their newborns in
hospitals or other safe havens
are protected from prosecution
under a measure signed into law
Tuesday by Gov. George Pataki.
The new law, aimed at reduc
ing the number of abandoned
babies, shields parents who
desert their newborns from fac
ing child abandonment charges,
provided the baby is urinanuf» ev j ate sc j,
and left in a safe place. m ‘ u L . ,
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