Argentina braces for torch protests (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

Argentina is billing its Olympic torch run Friday as an easygoing street fiesta, set to a tango beat. At the same time, worried officials are sending in thousands of police after chaos in other cities and warnings by anti-China groups of a Buenos Aires "surprise." The Olympic flame headed here Thursday from San Francisco, where police cut the torch's route in half and shifted it away from...

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