10,000 Jeer Clinton in Anti-U.S. March

Thousands of jubilant demonstrators chanting, “Clinton, fascist, murderer!” marched through Athens after earlier anti-U.S. protests led President Clinton to delay a visit here. Gathering on the day originally slated for Clinton’s arrival, a crowd estimated at 10,000 marched from the city center to the U.S. Embassy in a rally staged by leftist and pacifist groups and supported by the Greek Communist Party. The march, under heavy police presence, ended peacefully. Clinton initially had planned a three-day visit to Greece. But after protests spurred by lingering resentment over the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing of Yugoslavia this year, the White House postponed the visit a week and shortened it to just over a day.