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NEW YORK (AP) — This is a
city of shrugs, a place where mil
lions of people brush off suffocat
ing subway crowds, strict securi
ty and the glare of the world spot
light with a wry smile and shared
expression: “Only in New York.”
This is a place that takes
pride in its ability to absorb
nearly any sort of special event
— and organizers hope to con
vince the U.S. Olympic
Committee that staging the
2012 Summer Games here will
be no different.
“It absolutely plays to our
strength,” said Daniel
Doctoroff, founder of
NYC2012, the city’s Olympic
lobbying group. “The real test is
what city has the capability of
managing it, and no city has the
experience New York does.”
The USOC will choose
between New York and San
Francisco on Saturday as the U.S.
candidate for the Olympics, and
the winner will compete against a
strong field of worldwide candi
dates. The International Olympic
Committee will choose the host
city in 2005.
In their competition with
San Francisco, New York
organizers say they hold a clear
advantage: efficiency.
Their hopes center on the
“Olympic X,” a design that
would align venues into a
rough cross-shaped pattern,
with a high-speed ferry run
ning north-south and commuter
rail lines running east-west.
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The idea is to get athletes and
spectators from place to place
— baseball at Yankee Stadium,
soccer at the Meadowlands in
New Jersey, equestrian
Staten Island, gymnastics
Madison Square Garden —
without tying up traffic.
The New York organizing
team also is quick to point out
that in August, when the
Games probably would be
staged, nearly 1 million fewer
people use city transit because
school is out and many New
Yorkers are vacationing.
When the Summer Games
were last held in the United
States, in Atlanta in 1996, traf
fic snarled, confusion reigned
and global Olympic officials
made their displeasure clear.
The lesson was not lost on New
York planners.
“I’ve been to three
Olympics, and just to get to the
games can be frustrating,” said
Cristyne L. Nicholas, who
heads the city’s tourism agency,
NYC & Company. “When you
have to spend an hour or two to
get there, you just prefer not to
go. That’s not going to happen
in New York.”
Still, as they try to woo the
USOC — and, they hope, the
International Olympic Committee
— New York organizers have had
to fight loud opposition.
At the heart of the dispute is
a $1 billion proposal to convert
a rail yard in Manhattan along
the Hudson River into an
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► Natural beauty of area will
draw visitors
► Advanced technology
capabilities
► Almost 70,000 hotel rooms
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and Sacramento
► $2.4 billion budget, $409
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Some New Yorkers, particu
larly in the Hell’s Kitchen sec
tion near where the stadium
would be built, claim the project
would destroy neighborhoods,
displace poor and middle-
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President for release of Haitian
MIAMI (AP) — A congresswoman
pressed Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday to ask
his brother, the president, to order the
release of 200 Haitian immigrants detained
in Florida after they jumped off a freighter
and waded ashore.
The Republican governor was confront
ed during a campaign stop by Rep Carrie
Meek, D-Fla., who said the Haitians
should be treated like Cuban immigrants.
“All you have to do is call — the wet foot-
dry foot policy would take effect,” Meek said.
Normally, Cuban immigrants are
allowed to remain in the United States if
they reach land, while those intercepted at
sea are returned.
The governor said he agrees Haitian
immigrants should be released until their
asylum request is heard, like immigrants
from other countries.
“Haitians should be treated in the same
fashion that Jamaicans, people from the
Bahamas, people from any country in the
world,” Bush said.
A day earlier, the governor said he had
called White House officials regarding the
immigrants, but he did not elaborate
Wednesday or say whether he had spoken
with his brother.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer
said the Haitians were being treated fairly
and humanely and that the president would
not intervene.
“The Immigration and Naturalization
Service will apply the law and make the
proper judgments,” Fleischer said.
The 50-foot wooden freighter carrying
211 Haitians and three Dominicans ran
aground Tuesday on a stretch of beach near
a road south of downtown Miami. Six
Haitian nationals were charged with illegal
smuggling in the case.
The Haitian immigrants included 150
men, 35 women and 26 juveniles, INS
spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said. One
of the minors was hospitalized for dehydra
tion.
If Bush could champion the
issue, he could shift the balance
in the election. The time for lip
service is over. ”
—Ari Fleiscer
white house spokesman
Gonzalez declined to say whether any of
the immigrants had asked for asylum.
The immigrants’ detention sparked
protests by Haitian-Americans who said
U.S. laws discriminate by favoring other
immigrants — particularly Cubans.
Jean Robert Lafortune, president of the
Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition,
said the detention poses a leadership test for
Gov. Bush.
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dangerous voyages aboard rickety,c
boats to flee their impovenshed
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are denied asylum and sent back.
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cepted at sea this year, including
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