Mayor Gavin Newsom revealed the first scant details Thursday about plans for the Beijing Olympic torch's April 9 stop in San Francisco, including the likelihood that it won't pass through Chinatown, and he emphatically stated that no one would be denied the right to protest its presence. Newsom made his comments hours after the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco was attacked by arsonists early in the morning and shortly before a Board of Supervisors committee heard 4 1/2 hours of public testimony mostly critical of China's human-rights record. Despite the emotional pleas for supervisors to condemn China over human rights,...
