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PARIS (AP)- Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China's human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts.

Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm's length of the flame before they were grabbed by police. Officers tackled many protesters and carried off some of them. A protester threw water at the torch but failed to extinguish it and was also taken away.

At the start of the relay, a man identified as a Green Party activist was grabbed by security officers as he headed for 1997 400-meter world champion Stephane Diagana, the president of France's national athletics league, who was carrying the torch from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower. The man was tackled before he got close to Diagana.

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The procession continued but, soon after, a crowd of activists waving Tibetan flags interrupted it for the first time by confronting the torchbearer on a road along the Seine River. The demonstrators did not appear to get close to the torch, but its flame was put out by security officers and brought on board a bus to continue along the route.

Less than an hour later, the flame was being carried out of a Paris traffic tunnel by an athlete in a wheelchair when the procession was halted by activists who booed and chanted "Tibet." Once again, the torch was temporarily extinguished and put on a bus despite protesters' apparent failure to get close.

Some 3,000 officers were deployed on motorcycles, in jogging gear and using inline roller skates. Still, police barely stopped the second rush at the torch, and the attempt to extinguish it with water. Other demonstrators scaled the Eiffel Tower and hung a banner depicting the Olympic rings as handcuffs.

The torch was extinguished for the third time when police interrupted the procession as a precaution because they spotted a crowd of demonstrators on a bridge they were approaching.

Police said they did not immediately have a count of the number of arrests. Mireille Ferri, a Green Party official, said she was held by police for two hours because she approached the Eiffel Tower area with a fire extinguisher. In various locations throughout the city, activists angry about China's human rights record and repression Tibet carried Tibetan flags and waved signs reading "the flame of shame."

Riot police squirted tear gas to break up a sit-in protest by about 300 pro-Tibet demonstrators who blocked the torch route.

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France's former sports minister, Jean-Francois Lamour, said that though the torch had been put out, the Olympic flame itself still burned in the lantern where it is kept overnight and on airplane flights

"The torch has been extinguished but the flame is still there," he told France Info radio.

Police had hoped to prevent the chaos that marred the relay in London a day earlier. There, police had repeatedly scuffled with activists angry about China's human rights record leading up to the Beijing Olympics Aug. 8-24. One protester tried to grab the torch; another tried to snuff out the flame with what appeared to be a fire extinguisher. Thirty-seven people were arrested.

In Paris, police had drawn up an elaborate plan to try to keep the torch in a safe "bubble." Torchbearers were encircled by several hundred officers, some in riot police vehicles and on motorcycles, others on skates or on foot. Boats patrolled the Seine River that slices through the French capital, and a helicopter flew overhead.

About 80 athletes had been slated to carry the torch over the 17.4-mile route that started at the Eiffel Tower, heading down the Champs-Elysees avenue toward City Hall, then crosses over the Seine before ending at the Charlety track and field stadium.

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Across town, City Hall draped its building with a banner reading, "Paris defends human rights around the world."

One torch bearer, two-time French judo gold medalist David Douillet, told RTL radio that he regretted the choice of China, "because it isn't up to snuff on freedom of expression, on total liberty, and of course, on Olympic values."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has left open the possibility of boycotting the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing depending on how the situation evolves in Tibet. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that was still the case.

Activists have been protesting along the torch route since the flame embarked on its 85,000-mile journey from Ancient Olympia in Greece to Beijing.

The torch's round-the-world trip is the longest in Olympic history, and it is meant to shine a spotlight on China's economic and political power. Activists have seized upon it as a backdrop for their causes, angering Beijing.

Beijing organizers criticized London's protesters, saying their actions were a "disgusting" form of sabotage by Tibetan separatists.

"The act of defiance from this small group of people is not popular," said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing Olympic organizing committee. "It will definitely be criticized by people who love peace and adore the Olympic spirit. Their attempt is doomed to failure."

The torch relay also is expected to face demonstrations in San Francisco, New Delhi and possibly elsewhere on its 21-stop, six-continent tour before arriving in mainland China May 4.

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Associated Press writer Angela Doland contributed to this report.

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Across town, City Hall draped its building with a banner reading, "Paris defends human rights around the world."
One torch bearer, two-time French judo gold medalist David Douillet, told RTL radio that he regretted the choice of China, "because it isn't up to snuff on freedom of expression, on total liberty, and of course, on Olympic values."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has left open the possibility of boycotting the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing depending on how the situation evolves in Tibet. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that was still the case.

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LIGER OMNI IDIOT MAX"]400-meter world champion in...
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Across town, City Hall draped its building with a banner reading, "Paris defends human rights around the world."
One torch bearer, two-time French judo gold medalist David Douillet, told RTL radio that he regretted the choice of China, "because it isn't up to snuff on freedom of expression, on total liberty, and of course, on Olympic values."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has left open the possibility of boycotting the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing depending on how the situation evolves in Tibet. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that was still the case.
Now ana-ana you have to admit that Liger has a deep seated pysc problem? This vegetable was a gift from Fidel to the uS. Now that I see where my tax dollars are going I cry. He is not taking his meds

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Hey Mapuchito!
I like your new character at this forum.It's a very sweet person.You are improving my 'dear'spoiled black child!HE!HE

I rue the day you found out I was from CHILE. My Mapucho brothers are incensed enough to disown me. I am now a Zapotec. LOL, GRACIAS FIDEL, QUE BURRO! ja ja ja ja

The Horror at 37,000 Feet: EU Allows In-Flight Cell Phone Use
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By Chris Maxcer
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04/07/08 11:30 AM PT

Airline passengers who want to talk on their cell phones mid-flight may be able to do so as early as this year -- at least when they're flying over Europe. The European Commission has introduced new regulations concerning cell phone use on planes. Chatting it up at 35,000 feet will be allowed, provided the plane is equipped with devices that create an on-board cellular network.
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I just love being a Cuban-American!!!!!!!!!

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Cuban-Americans are very successful here for a reason. Cuba was at the center of Spanish colonization, so the most important Spanish figures were in Cuba. We're their descendants.

Spain called Cuba "the jewel of Spain" and with so much Colonial Spanish architecture to be seen in Cuba, it's pretty obvious what the most important colony was and why the most important figures settled there. We, the Spanish descendants Cubans, are the descendants from the best Spaniards.

WhiteCuban wrote:

Cuban-Americans are very successful here for a reason. Cuba was at the center of Spanish colonization, so the most important Spanish figures were in Cuba. We're their descendants.
Spain called Cuba "the jewel of Spain" and with so much Colonial Spanish architecture to be seen in Cuba, it's pretty obvious what the most important colony was and why the most important figures settled there. We, the Spanish descendants Cubans, are the descendants from the best Spaniards.

True! But don't rub it in, that's why they envy us!

WhiteCuban wrote:

Cuban-Americans are very successful here for a reason. Cuba was at the center of Spanish colonization, so the most important Spanish figures were in Cuba. We're their descendants.
Spain called Cuba "the jewel of Spain" and with so much Colonial Spanish architecture to be seen in Cuba, it's pretty obvious what the most important colony was and why the most important figures settled there. We, the Spanish descendants Cubans, are the descendants from the best Spaniards.

Well said!
That's exactly why those indians envy you people!

hey,

let's stop the fights and get super cool shirts,

we cubans and american ones ;)

Cubans suck!
The only reason you can get an education in Miami is because the education system there is a joke.

joker2 wrote:

Cubans suck!
The only reason you can get an education in Miami is because the education system there is a joke.

Can you teel us..where is not a Joke for Jokers like you?? My children made it to Law School. both..born here from an emmigarnt like me. If you are serious in life...you make it!! and God Bless America!!!

In the end, Cubans comprise less then 4% of the population in the U.S.A. Though we shouldn't be here argueing (needless to say) If you take a few white people, or a few black people, and throw them into an eqation where they are of lower preportion of course it's going to look good. What I'm saying is it all boils down to that small 4% so they can say 90% this, and 90% that, but it's simply 4% of the us, i'm sure i could find 4% of any giving race to be really smart, it's not a big number.

This one is for whe white people, the initial post was simply a statement, telling of cubans in the recent years, no need to get bent out of shape, and get upset.

This one is for the cubans: Even if you'd like to take the initial statement and throw yourself higher then anyone, just remember, cubans have been here (in the US) for a short amount of time and have progressed a lot according to the statements made by the U.S. Census Bureau, but cubans have also been in cuba longer, and havn't made much progression (to be blunt, in lame terms)

So, logic would dictate, that diversity has actually helped cubans, let me make it easier to understand. Cubans in Cuba, are not even doing as well as cubans in the US. Cubans can't take 100% credibility for their progression, it seems that the fundamentals of this country, and the system, actually works in some order (that's what it goes to show)

Also, someone mentioned Cubans turnning Miami into a "peace of shit" They also stated how it used to be "alot better befor they showed up".

I do have the ability to argue with this statement, simply because of how biest it is, but your statement is so FALSE that i'd much rather rely on your ignorance.

Miami has done NOTHHING but progress, sense it's original marketing progression. It turnned into a new york-like city, faster then new york itself, Miami is one of the most diverse cities in FL, witch is why Miami is also one of the only cities that matters, do you think anyone will be hoping on a plane anytime soon to visit Sweet Water, FL?
Or Miami, FL? I rest my case, this is no dumb land, if it is, then why the hell does my Miami have the highest bar on visits from abraod reccreation then any other city? Yes, that right more then NY and LA.

I'm black by the way.