SEATTLE CANCELS NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION

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SEATTLE'S NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION CANCELED

The mayor of Seattle has scrubbed the city's planned New Year's Eve celebration below its trademark Space Needle, where an estimated 50,000 people had been expected to gather. "We do not want to take chances with public safety," Mayor Paul Schell said Monday. While federal officials have not advised of any specific threat to the city, "it is safer to be prudent," he said.

City's nerves strained in recent weeks .... http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/28/seattle.2000.cancel.ap/index

-- Jean Wasp (jean@sonic.net), December 28, 1999


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