World IN BRIEF : CHINA : Talk by U.S. Writer Amy Tan Prevented
From Times Wire Reports
Police prevented U.S. author Amy Tan from speaking at a fund-raising dinner, apparently because it was on behalf of Chinese orphans, organizers said. Police first asked the Holiday Inn Lido to cancel the dinner benefiting the Wisconsin-based Philip Hayden Foundation because of permit violations, hosts and guests said. The authorities then allowed it as long as Tan would not speak, decorations for the charity were removed and the 450 guests were divided among three rooms.
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