Global News Headlines 06/22

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Tuesday, June 22, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 TOXICS 

1) Fat supplier head arrested in Belgium's dioxin- scare BRUSSELS, June 22
(Kyodo) -- Belgian authorities have arrested the head  of a fat supplying
company in connection with a recent scandal  involving dioxin-contaminated
food, Belgian officials said Tuesday. The officials at the public
prosecutor's office in Ghent, western  Belgium, said the head of fat...

2) INTERVIEW: USA determined to get beef into EU By Doug Palmer  WASHINGTON,
June 21,Reuters,- The United States remains determined to get the European
Union to open its market to beef from cattle raised with  artificial growth
hormones,a top U.S. trade official told Reuters on Monday. We have certainly
not given up either our hope or our goal of getting our beef back into the...

3) Environmental group calls for computer recycling PALO ALTO, Calif.,June 21
Reuters-A Silicon Valley environmental group called on Monday for mandatory
recycling of old computer equipment to help cope with the escalating problem
of "mountains of obsolete computer junk." The San Jose-based Campaign for
Responsible Technology is also calling for a phase- out of several toxic...

4) COMLINE Daily News Chemicals and Materials June 22, HEADLINE:Endocrine-
disruptors Adsorbed on Resin Driftage BODY: A group led by Assistant
Professor Hideshige Takada at Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology
has confirmed that PCB, nonyl phenol and other endocrine-disturbing
substances are contained in or adsorbed onto resin pellets washed ashore on...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
5) Japan urged to stop planned shipment of plutonium SEOUL, June 22 (Kyodo) --
South Korea's leading environmental group and Greenpeace International
urged Japan on Tuesday to stop its shipments  of 440 kilograms of plutonium
from France and Britain scheduled for  July. In a statement, Greenpeace and
the Korean Federation of Environmental Movements (KFEM) said, "A  shipment...

6) TASS HEADLINE: Radiation source found in Georgia, taken to a safe place
BYLINE: By Eka Mekhuela DATELINE: TBILISI, June 22  BODY: A source of
radioactive radiation was found, rendered harmless and taken to a safe
place for storage by specialists of the Georgian department for emergency
situations on Monday. Itar-Tass learned that the radioactive substance  was...

7) 06/22  DJ Schroeder: 2024 German Nuclear Exit Would Be Big Success
BONN Dow Jones--Closing the last of Germany's 19 nuclear power
stations in 2024 or 2025 would be "a great success," Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder saidTuesday of government plans to phase out this
energy source."But (the industry) hasn't accepted this yet,"
Schroeder said in an interview with Germany's ZDF...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

8) The Washington Times June  22, 1999, Tuesday, Final  Edition SECTION: PART
A; COMMENTARY; EDITORIALS; LETTERS; Pg. A18 HEADLINE:  A big announcement
on the future of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty  BODY: June 20, 1999,
just may go down as a breakthrough day in the history of the United States
and the world.  At an international summit in  Cologne, Germany, Russia...

9) The Washington Post June 22, Final Edition SECTION:FINANCIAL; Pg.E01
HEADLINE: Clinton and EU Move to Head Off Trade Disputes BYLINE: Charles
Babington, Washington Post Staff Writer DATELINE: BONN, June  21  BODY:
President Clinton and European leaders today agreed to an "early warning"
program in an effort to head off potentially contentious  policy proposals...

10) The New York Times June 22, Late Edition-Final SECTION: A; Page 26; Column
1; Editorial Desk HEADLINE: Dangerous Escalation in Kashmir BODY:
India and Pakistan have long engaged in cycles of confrontation and
rapprochement,with war and threats of war followed by pledges of
cooperation. Now the latest promises of peace have yielded to the
worst fighting in decades. The...

11) Pty Limited The Canberra Times  June 22, SECTION: Part A; Page 9 HEADLINE:
UN SANCTIONS VIOLATE HUMAN  RIGHTS; MORE THAN A MILLION IRAQIS, AT LEAST
HALF OF THEM CHILDREN, HAVE DIED, REPORTS SUSAN WAREHAM.  BODY: WALID
spends most of his time on the  streets of Baghdad. He is 14 years old and
shines shoes each day to earn a  meagre existence for his mother and...

12) Newsday (New York, NY) June 21, ALL EDITIONS SECTION:  VIEWPOINTS; Page A23
HEADLINE: 500 WORDS OR LESS/RETRIVE THE DRAFT/REVIVE THE DRAFT BYLINE: By
Arthur Dobrin. Arthur Dobrin is the leader of the Ethical Humanist Society
of Long Island  BODY: THE WAR in Yugoslavia is over, but did you talk about
it while it was occurring? If you are anything like me, you didn't. There...

 OCEANS 

13) Globe and Mail Tangled whale spotted, June 22, FREEPORT--A rope-bound right
whale first spotted on Saturday in the Bay of Fundy was seen again by
searchers yesterday, but they were unable to help the huge mammal.Searchers
first found the animal while looking for another entangled right  whale
spotted Friday. That whale  hasn't been seen since then, leading whale...

14) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT-RIGHTS: CANADIAN GOVERNMENT IN
TROUBLE OVER  WHALES BYLINE: By Mark Bourrie DATELINE: OTTAWA, Jun.22 BODY:
Revelations that the government has given money and strategic advice to
international lobbyists who are trying to lift the world-wide ban on trade
in whale meat and its derivatives has outraged animal rights activists....

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
15) The Moscow Times June 22,SECTION: No.1733 HEADLINE: IN BRIEF:Sakhalin Group
Banned From Drilling Test Well  BYLINE: By Eduard Gismatullin  BODY: Staff
Writer A consortium of  U.S., Japanese and Russian oil companies working on
the $ 15 billion oil  production project Sakhalin-1 has been banned from
drilling on an area in  the Far East after the government rejected the...

16) The New York Times June 22, Late Edition-Final Section B; Page 4; Column 5;
Metropolitan Desk HEADLINE: METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; Warning Issued on
Fish From a Third Reservoir BYLINE: AP DATELINE: ALBANY BODY: The Ashokan
Reservoir has become the third of New York City's upstate reservoirs subject
to a State Health Department warning about elevated mercury levels in fish....

17) International Herald Tribune June 22,SECTION: Opinion; Pg. 9 HEADLINE:
Urban Growth Is Harmful To Our Planet's Health; BYLINE: Molly O'Meara;
International Herald Tribune DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: The world's cities
take up just 2 percent of the earth's surface, yet account for roughly 78
percent of the carbon emissions from human activities, 76 percent of...

18) The Vancouver Sun June 22, FINAL SECTION: Business; D1/Front HEADLINE:
Tourists spend more when summer's hot BYLINE: Eric Beauchesne DATELINE:
OTTAWA--Turn up the heat even by one degree and the tourists will come.
That's the  conclusion of a study that  provides more proof that warmer
summers tend to  boost the industry's coffers. A summer that is a mere one...

19) REUTERS, Group blasts Clinton for ignoring hydropower USA: June 22,
WASHINGTON-The National Hydropower Association criticised President Clinton
for leaving hydropower out of an executive order designed to reduce
government greenhouse gas emissions by  requiring more use of renewable
power. The order, issued by Clinton earlier this month, sharply curtails...

20) REUTERS Nations can curb carbon emissions, still grow-report USA: June 21,
WASHINGTON-Developing nations can grow their economies at the same time
they curb dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report from the
Pew Center for Global Climate Change late last week.The findings detail how
countries like India and China can choose alternative paths for building...

21) Globe and Mail SOCIAL STUDIES A daily miscellany of information by Michael
Kesterton Global warming June 21, Recent thoughts: Airliners are responsible
for 3.5 percent of man-made global warming, according to the IPCC, a
creation of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations.
This figure could rise to 15 per cent by 2050.  The Maldives is a nation...

22) Norway ponders US emissions trading model ENDS Daily-17/06/ Scandinavian
environmental policy experts have met for the second time this year to
debate international trading of greenhouse gas emissions. At a seminar in
Oslo today,participants discussed recent modelling work by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA and its applicability to possible...

23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Corruption, political scheming worsen Mexico
City's pollution BYLINE:Patrick Moser DATELINE:MEXICO CITY,June 22 BODY: The
lung-burning pollution for which Mexico City is notorious has been widely
blamed on industrial plants that fringe the city and the heavy traffic that
chokes it, but some analysts say corruption and shady politics also play a...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

(GREENPEACE)
24) The Vancouver Sun June  22, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; A4 HEADLINE: U.S.
giant urged to honour  environmental  deals: A U.S. professor says
Weyerhaeuser is the greenest company in the country, but some B.C. groups
are concerned that it won't meet commitments  made by MacMillan Bloedel.
BYLINE: Tom Barrett and Justine Hunter BODY: As environmentalists expressed...

25) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: CAMBODIA: HILL TRIBES TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT
NATIVE LAND BYLINE: By Debra Boyce DATELINE: BAN LUNG, Cambodia, Jun. 22
BODY: The O'Remakhal  forest  has been a sacred site for decades for the
indigenous Kreung people, who believe the spirits will seek revenge on them
if they fail to protect it. So when bulldozers showed up one day last March...

26) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: THREE GORGES DAM PUTS
BEIJING ON THE SPOT BYLINE: By Antoaneta Bezlova DATELINE: BEIJING, Jun. 22
BODY: Renewed public criticism at home against the Three Gorges Dam project
is giving  environmental  activists hope that the Chinese government  would
have a change of heart and pull the plug of the mammoth waterworks  going...

27) UN:Five Central Asian countries at risk of flood. JUN 22, M2 Communications
-GENEVA--International experts just returned from Tajikistan have concluded
that early warning systems and preparedness for a breach of the Sarez Dam in
the remote Pamir Mountains of Central Asia could mitigate whatis potentially
the worst natural disaster in human history. Scientists believe that while a...

28) Pty Limited The Canberra Times  June 22, SECTION: Part A; Page 5 HEADLINE:
BULLDOZER PARTS MAKE MUSIC TO SAVE THE FORESTS BYLINE: HELEN MUSA BODY:Arts
Editor The winter solstice, the turning point of the season, was welcomed
into Canberra last night 21 in an unusual ceremony and performance at the
Carillon. A performance was presented by a group of environmentalists  using...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

29) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 22, SECTION: Pg. 29 HEADLINE:City:Zeneca
puts GM banana and rice on the menu BYLINE:Andrew Clark BODY:ASTRAZENECA is
expanding its activities in genetically  modified foods. The drugs and
agrochemicals company is forming a joint venture with Japan Tobacco to grow
paddy fields of transgenic rice, which it hopes will offer a better taste...

30) Asia faces dilemma over ``Frankenstein food'' By David Brunnstrom  BANGKOK,
June 22,Reuters-Asian commodity exporters are in a dilemma over whether to
grow genetically modified crops, which are demonised in  Europe as
"Frankenstein food" but offer attractive commercial incentives, Thai experts
said on Tuesday. Proponents of biotechnology, which is being promoted by the...

 OTHER 

31) The Guardian (London) June 22, SECTION: Guardian City Pages; Pg.25HEADLINE:
Turning the tables on green slackers; News Analysis Firms pressed to be
responsible BYLINE: Roger Cowe BODY: Roger Cowe The government is aiming to
produce 'green league tables' to step up the pressure on companies not
taking environmental issues seriously. Michael Meacher, the environment...

32) The Boston Globe June 22, ,City Edition SECTION: OP-ED; Pg. A15 HEADLINE:
Torture in Tibet; CESAR CHELALA; Dr. Cesar Chelala is an international
medical consultant. BYLINE: By Cesar Chelala BODY: Today's discussion by the
World Bank board of governors of a project in  northwestern Tibet refocuses
attention on China's resettlement policy in  that country. The project,...

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