Rice Visits Greece, Met By Protester

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April 25 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's first official visit to Athens prompted a demonstration against the Iraq war in which protesters threw fuel-bombs. Shops were damaged and cars set alight as a group of about 50 people broke away from marchers in the center of the Greek capital and scuffled with police. Officers had set up a blockade to prevent the demonstrators from reaching the foreign ministry, where Rice was meeting Greece's foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis, state-run television NET showed.

Greece deployed about 5,000 police officers across the city in an attempt to prevent a repetition of rioting that accompanied former U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit in 1999. Greece's communists and other parties organized the demonstration, and said they planned to march on to the U.S. embassy.






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