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January 25, 1997
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<<< TOXICS >>>

  2 New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad  January  27, 1997
Effluent from factories may have killed fish R. Sittamparam
Kluang KLUANG, Sun. - The death of thousands of fish in Sungai
Semberong Kecil, last Friday, was believed to have been caused

  3 Pesticide Abuse in Zimbabwe HARARE (Jan. 27) XINHUA - A
University of Zimbabwe (UZ) agronomist said the abuse of pesticides
in the country has reached alarming proportions and warned this
poses a serious threat to human  health. NZ Deputy Dean of

<<< NUCLEAR POWER >>>

  4  Mainichi Daily News January  27, 1997,  Groups protest planned
Kushima N-plant MIYAZAKI A mass rally was held Sunday morning in
Kushima, Miyazaki Prefecture, to protest the planned construction
of a  nuclear  power plant here.  Protesters from 14 antireactor

  5 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts  January  28, 1997 Three
nuclear  power plants needed by 2015 VNA news agency, Hanoi
Excerpts from report by the Vietnamese news agency VNA Hanoi, 26th
January: Vietnam will need from two to three major  nuclear  power

  6 Taiwan urges Seoul to calm down in nuclear row By Alice Hung
TAIPEI, Jan 27 (Reuter) - Taiwan on Monday urged South Korea to
accept its deal to ship nuclear waste to impoverished North Korea
so as not to damage ties further.  Despite increasingly militant

  7 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts January 28, 1997 North may
store  nuclear  waste near Seoul, use as bargaining chip Yonhap
news agency, Seoul Text of report by the South Korean news agency
Yonhap Seoul, 27th January: North Korea might use its scheduled

  8 Controversial German reactor gets foundation stone MUNICH,
Germany, Jan 27 (Reuter) - About 50 people protested on Monday as
the foundation stone was laid for a controversial German nuclear
research reactor which the United States says could boost

  9 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts January 28, 1997 Army
demonstrates mobile  nuclear  shelter for command posts Russian
Public TV, Moscow,  A new shelter for command posts, called Liftboy
[Russian: Lifter], will soon  be available for army use. Its

<<< ATMOSPHERE >>>

 10 International Herald Tribune January  27, 1997 Treading Lightly
At Geneva Talks; Q & A / Stephen Ledogar BYLINE: By Robert Kroon;
International Herald Tribune  Over India's objections and after
years of tough negotiations, the United Nations Conference on

 11  Xinhua News Agency JANUARY  27, 1997, floods  force thousands
to leave homes in indonesia jakarta, floods,  caused by heavy
rains, forced the evacuation of thousands of people from their
homes on saturday and sunday in the central java town of kendal

<<< OCEANS >>>

 12 01/27 1240  Russia-Whaling MOSCOW (AP) Russia could not resume
commercial whaling even if it wanted to, an oceanology expert said
Monday. Russia lacks the specialized whaling ships, tackle, and
experienced crew that would be needed, Valery Vladimirov, head of

 13 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts January  28, 1997 Oil cleanup
efforts resume in Sea of Japan Kyodo News Service, Tokyo Excerpt
from report by the Japanese news agency Kyodo Fukui, Japan, 27th
January: Oil cleanup efforts resumed Monday [27th January] as

 14 01/27 Capsized Barge ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) A 400-foot barge
overturned, possibly spilling its cargo and fuel into Alaska's
lower Cook Inlet  Officials believed the barge Oregon lost its
cargo of 12,500 tons of a chemical fertilizer and 1,600 gallons of

 15 Daghestan bans sturgeon fishing in Caspian Sea. MAKHACHKALA,
January 27 (Itar-Tass) - The government of Daghestan, an  ethnic
republic in the North Caucasus, on Monday imposed a ban on  fishing
sturgeon in the Caspian Sea because of a sharp decrease in its

<<< TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY >>>

 16  Nature body says Zaire wildlife threatened by war GENEVA, Jan
27 (Reuter) - A major nature protection body said on Monday the
survival of unique animals like white rhinos, mountain gorillas and
okapi would be threatened if fighting in Zaire spilled over

 17  Rare hearing on Lao dam opens amid controversy Katya Robinson
VIENTIANE, Jan 27 (Reuter) - Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
largely stayed away on Monday from an unprecedented public
discussion of a controversial Laos dam project, questioning

<<< OTHER >>>

 18  01/26 Britain-McDonald's Libel LONDON (AP) -- McDonald's Corp.
acknowledged Sunday that it hired detectives to get information on
environmentalists suspected of distributing leaflets critical of
the hamburger chain.    McDonald's has filed a libel suit again

 19 Global Environment Continues to Degrade: UNEP Wang Jinyu and Xu
Jianmei  NAIROBI (Jan. 27) XINHUA - The global environment
continued to  degrade in the last decade with key environmental
problems deeply  embedded in the socio-economic fabric of nations


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