STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100cD9O.5255284.678250929"> Colombia fighting to host Copa America</A> Colombia fighting to host Copa America Colombia is fighting an 11th-hour battle to host the premier soccer tournament in the Americas next month, rejecting charges it cannot protect players from kidnapping or worse. Colombia's turn to host soccer's oldest tournament had been a source of pride to the world's kidnap capital until this week's abduction of a senior Colombian football official by leftist guerrillas. Outraged members of the South American Football Federation unanimously, but for Colombia, have called for the 19-day Copa America to be transferred to a safer nation. Colombian President Andres Pastrana has issued an emotional plea to the federation not to rob his country of the region's best symbol of peace. Even the guerrillas have got behind the plea, releasing the soccer official, but the South American federation's executive is to meet in extraordinary session to vote on the delegates' transfer request. Friday 29 June, 2001 12:59pm AEST � 2001 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
