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Spielberg may resign as Olympic adviser


(AFP)
Updated: 2007-08-02 08:43





Beijing's Olympic organizing committee said Wednesday it didn't know
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg might be planning to resign as an
artistic adviser to the 2008 Games.

Spielberg sent an open letter to President Hu Jintao in April urging
China to take a harder line against Sudan over the Darfur crisis. Last
week, ABC News and other U.S. media cited the director's spokesman Andy
Spahn as saying Spielberg was considering dropping out of the Olympics
because of China's inaction during the crisis.

At a news conference Wednesday, the director of cultural activities for
the 2008 Beijing Olympics organizing committee was asked to confirm
Spielberg's possible exit.

"I was not aware of that," Zhao Dongming said. "I had not heard of that."

More than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been uprooted in
the ethnic conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan.

China, which imports two-thirds of Sudan's oil and sells arms to
Khartoum, has been criticized for supporting the African nation. It has
opposed United Nations sanctions.

The U.N. unanimously agreed Tuesday to send a 26,000-strong peacekeeping
force to Darfur by the end of this year.

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