Bush urged to reconsider Olympic attendance
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Two United States Congressmen are urging the president, George W Bush, to rethink attending the Beijing Olympic Games after they were prevented from meeting Chinese human rights activists.
Congressmen Frank Wolf, a Republican from Virginia, and Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, say they went to Beijing to meet Chinese citizens pressing for greater political and religious freedoms.
But they say Chinese authorities pressured or forced nearly all the activists from seeing them.
The American politicians say such actions, and other repressive steps taken by the Chinese Communist Party, have cast a shadow over the Games and over President Bush's vow to attend them.
