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Posted on Tue, Aug. 05, 2008 01:39 PM

China breaks Olympic promises on rights, media, pollution
By JACK CHANG AND TIM JOHNSON
McClatchy Newspapers

With four days left before the start of the 2008 Summer Games, Chinese
officials have not lived up to key promises they made to win the right
to host the Olympics, including widening press freedoms, cleaning up
their capital city's polluted air and respecting human rights.

The failures were evident Monday:

-A thick pall of smog covered Beijing, raising concerns that endurance
events such as long-distance races would have to be moved out of the
city. Some still held out hope that emergency measures would clear the
city's air by Friday.

-Near Tiananmen Square in the heart of the city, police scuffled with
protesters who said they were evicted from their homes to make way for
Games-related development.