Global News Headlines 01/10

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Sunday, January 10, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
1) The Toronto Star January 8, 1999 Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE: OTTAWA
TAKES AIM AT TOXIC TOYS BYLINE: Valerie Lawton BODY: Ottawa Health Canada
plans stiff limits on lead levels We at Health Canada have to protect the
Canadian public. If that means we have to take further actions or stronger
measures than they do in other  countries, then that is what we will...

2) South China Morning Post January 9, 1999 SECTION: News; Pg. 2 HEADLINE:
Source of HK water 'heavily polluted' BODY: SHIRLEY KWOK and ANNE STEWART
Drinking water pumped in from the mainland should be drawn from further
upstream as tests show the Dongjiang River is heavily polluted, a pressure
group says. Test results by Civil Force  found samples from the Dongjiang,...

3) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) January 10, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 04 HEADLINE: City:
Don't worry about global resources BYLINE: By LUKE JOHNSON BODY: For many
years, large numbers of social commentators have been making scary
predictions about threats to the world's ecology and the finite limits to
growth. They argue that economic progress cannot continue indefinitely and...

4) The Associated Press January 8, 1999 HEADLINE:  Hundreds of professors,
students march on Supreme Court BYLINE: By JANET McCONNAUGHEY DATELINE: NEW
ORLEANS  BODY: Law  professors did what the deprived and downtrodden have
been doing for years  - they marched to protest perceived injustice. This
time, more than 150 law professors from around the country marched to the...

  NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
5) Press Association Newsfile January 8, 1999 SECTION: HOME NEWS HEADLINE:
SELLAFIELD PLANT "SAFE" DESPITE DISCHARGE DEAL BYLINE: Amanda Brown BODY:
The Government today pledged the future of Sellafield nuclear re-processing
plant was safe despite a deal for "close to zero" discharges of radioactive
waste to sea agreed by EU ministers today.  Deputy Prime Minister John...

6) Krasnoyarsk demands higher price for nuc waste ... KRASNOYARSK, January
10 (Itar-Tass) -  The Krasnoyarsk administration will not let nuclear
waste from Ukrainian nuclear power stations be brought to the
territory of the Krasnoyarsk region in 1999, said Deputy  Krasnoyarsk
Governor Alexandra Kulenkova interviewed by Itar-Tass  on  Sunday.
The deputy regional governor...

7) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Six arrested over nuclear scare in Turkey
DATELINE: ISTANBUL, Jan 10  BODY: Turkish authorities have arrested six
managers of a pharmaceutical company in Ankara on charges of having sold
radioactive material to a pair of scrap dealers, Turkish newspapers reported
Sunday. The arrests on Saturday came a day after the two scrap dealers,...

8) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: German minister to discuss nuclear waste
in Paris: report DATELINE: BONN, Jan 9 BODY: German Environment Minister
Juergen Tritten is to visit Paris this month to discuss the halt of German
nuclear waste for reprocessing in France, the weekly news magazine Focus,
due out on Monday, said. The German environment ministry's spokesman  could...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

9) POLITICS-IRAQ: U.N. LACKS EXPERTISE TO PROBE SPY ... UNITED NATIONS, (Jan.
8) IPS - The United Nations says it has no plans to probe published
reports that some of its arms inspectors in Iraq were U.S. spies
working undercover for U.S. intelligence agencies. The United Nations
is not Scotland Yard," U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters
yesterday. "We have no...

10) 01/09 Inspectors Making Contingency Plans By NICOLE WINFIELD UNITED
NATIONS (AP) -- U.N. weapons inspectors, realizing they may never be
able to resume dismantling Iraqi arms, are drawing up scenarios for a
less rigid system that would merely monitor Baghdad's known weapons
capabilities, U.N. officials say. If the Security Council were to
change the rules and follow...

11) UK: Aust nuclear test disease link to be investigated BYLINE: By Belinda
Tasker BODY: LONDON, January 10 AAP - The British Government is to launch a
new investigation into claims that a rare cancer is killing servicemen who
witnessed Britain's nuclear weapons tests in Australia during the 1950s. The
Ministry of Defence (MoD) agreed to investigate the claims after media...

12) The Washington Post January  10, 1999 Final Edition SECTION: A SECTION;
Pg. A02 HEADLINE: Kissinger Offered China Satellite Data in 1973, Papers
Show BYLINE: Michael Dobbs, Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: Henry A.
Kissinger's memoirs contain a graphic account of his first visit as
secretary of state to China in November 1973. He describes Chairman  Mao...

 OCEANS 

13) Group eyeing wildlife laws for Russian-held islands KUSHIRO, Japan, Jan.
9 (Kyodo) -- A citizens group in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main
island of Hokkaido is proposing the adoption of  legislation to
protect wildlife on four Russian- held islands in the  event they are
returned to Japan. "According to Japan's present laws, there is no
concept of protection of the...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

14) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: NASA planes to participate in Amazon
global warming study DATELINE: RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 9 BODY: NASA planes were
to arrive in Brazil this weekend to take part in a project to study the
biosphere over the Amazon, US officials said. The aircraft were to take part
in a six-year study examining the relationship between the vegetation and...

15) The Canberra Times January 9, 1999, Saturday Edition SECTION: Part C; Page
4 HEADLINE: HEAT RISES AS DEBATE RAGES OVER ALLEGED GLOBAL WARMING
BYLINE: ANDREW HEASLEY BODY: THOSE who suffered through sleepless
nights this week would not need a lot of convincing about the effects
of global warming. As if to  confirm one's intuition, the Bureau of
Meteorology this week...

16) The Times (London) January 9, 1999 SECTION: Features HEADLINE: Greens
savage greens in the fight to save the planet and keep the lights on BYLINE:
Nick Nuttall BODY: As planners blow out another wind farm, it is evident
that UK energy policy is being  derailed by nimbies. Nick Nuttall reports.
An ill wind is thwarting the  British Government's obligation to produce...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY

17) Timber Movement Banned Nairobi (The Nation, January 8, 1999) - The movement
of timber and  logs has been banned in Kwale District. District Commissioner
Nathan  Hirbae said he had taken the step due to the rampant destruction of
the  forest at the Shimba Hills National Park by unscrupulous timber
merchants whom he said were colluding with some forest officials. At the...

18) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Annan condemns beating of Kenyan ecologist
DATELINE: UNITED  NATIONS, Jan 9  BODY: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
condemned Saturday the beating of a Kenyan  ecologist who works with his
advisory board on disarmament. Wangari Maathai suffered serious head
injuries when security guards beat her, supporters and journalists when they...

19) Montreal Gazette Saturday, January 9, 1999 Final The Review B1/BREAK
Nature's ransomers: More and more vigorously, environmental groups are
spending millions to save huge areas of land from development BY KELLY EGAN
Across North America, environmental groups are doing more than lobbying to
save Mother Earth - they're buying her, by the thousands of acres, with...

20) Vancouver Sun, January 9, 1999 Final Business D1/FRONT Stumpage increase
flummoxes eco-loggers BY Gordon Hamilton, Sun Business Reporter When Quesnel
horse loggers Lori and Dean Gunderson received their Jan. 1 stumpage
notices, the reality of logging in B.C. finally hit home: They felt they
were working for the government, not for themselves.  Stumpage rates, they...

 OTHERS 

21) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Unofficial environment group slams
government record DATELINE: BEIJING, Jan 9 BODY: An unofficial environmental
group in the southern province of Henan on Saturday criticised Beijing's
environmental record, calling on Premier Zhu Rongji to ensure environmental
laws were implemented. Government officials at every level must be forced to...

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