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By Ronald G. Shafer

Wall Street Journal / NBC News Poll
A Special Weekly Report From The Wall Street Journal's Capital Bureau

April 23, 1999 Seattle is bracing for protesters at a trade meeting in November. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club plan big showings at a World Trade Organization gathering, to protest environmental harm from globalization. Steelworkers hope to turn out 50,000 people to protest labor disparities. The Web site of activist group Public Citizen says: "Mobilization on Globalization. If you oppose the WTO, you must go to Seattle."

Seattle's City Council takes a stand on treaty talks, voting to make the city a global-investment-treaty-free zone. China could be a new WTO member at the November round of global talks. Americans, by 60% to 26%, think China joining the WTO would have a major impact on the U.S. economy.

Planners picked Seattle partly because of its experience with environmental protesters; "It's going to be like Chicago '68," says one trade lobbyist.

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