Published by: World Tibet Network News ISSUE ID: 97/10/20

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (AFP) - Top officials in President Bill Clinton's administration have warned Chinese President Jiang Zemin that protesters may meet them during their upcoming visit to the United States, a leading US news weekly reports.

Clinton National Security Adviser told the Chinese they could face protests over everything from their occupation of Tibet to human rights and labor conditions, US News and World Report writes in the upcoming issue.

"They think we can control everything that happens here," an unnamed senior US official tells the magazine. "Of course, they're wrong."

US officials believe Jiang Zemin's visit to Harvard University will be the most troublesome, the magazine reports.

The human rights group Amnesty International and a broad coalition that includes labor, environmentalist and pro-Tibet grous plan to protest at every stop on Jiang's six-day tour, which will begin October 26 in Honolulu and take him to Washington, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.

At the high point of Jiang's visit -- the first Sino-American summit since 1989, to be held at the White House October 29 -- China's critics are planning a massive demonstration across the street in Lafayette Park.