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DATE=10/10/00

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

NUMBER=2-267705

TITLE=IVORY COAST / UNREST (S-O)

BYLINE=LUIS RAMIREZ

DATELINE=ABIDJAN

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INTRO: Ivory Coast's military government says it is extending a state of emergency because it fears attacks by supporters of an opposition party that was shut out of the upcoming presidential elections. V-O-A's Luis Ramirez reports from Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan.

TEXT: The state of emergency was to have ended Monday. But the government of General Robert Guei said it decided to extend the measure after an attack by demonstrators on Ivory Coast's embassy in Paris.

Demonstrators stormed the chancery, smashing windows and setting fires to several floors to protest the military government's decision to ban opposition leader Alassane Ouattara from running against General Guei.

Mr. Ouattara was among 14-candidates that the Ivorian supreme court disqualified from running in the elections that are to return the country to civilian rule from the coup last year that put General Guei in power. The supreme court left only four challengers, most of them minor candidates, to face Mr. Guei in the presidential race.

/// OPT /// While the state of emergency has been extended, the government says the curfew that was imposed as the supreme court's decision was being read will expire Monday as scheduled. /// END OPT /// (SIGNED)

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