Global News Headlines 07/11

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Sunday, July 11, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
1) Financial Mail (South Africa) July 9, SECTION: Economy & Business; Pg. 44
HEADLINE: EURO TRADERS JUST WON'T BUY THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS * SA-EU
TRADE BYLINE: Peter Honey, Johannesburg & Shada Islam, Brussels BODY: SA
negotiators may have been 'short-sighted' says EU official SA is fast
finding out it's one thing to sign a free trade pact with the European Union...

2) 07/11  TOXIC' BREAST MILK PROBE LAUNCHED By Martha Linden, PA News A
major scientific study into the extent to which breast milk from
British mothers is contaminated with poisonous chemicals is to get
under way shortly, it was announced today. Around 1,000 mothers are
to be recruited from the Yorkshire area to take part in research led
by Leeds University into toxic chemicals...

3) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) July 10, SECTION: Pg.3 HEADLINE: Dioxin found in
herbicide, ministry says BYLINE: Yomiuri  BODY: The Agriculture,Forestry and
Fisheries  Ministry confirmed that a  herbicide containing dioxin was used
on rice paddies nationwide for about  30 years beginning in the 1960s, the
ministry announced Thursday. Mitsui  Chemicals, Inc. voluntarily stopped...

4) APO 07/10 Chemical Spills Into La. River SHREVEPORT, La. AP -A traincar was
punctured Saturday, spilling 28,000 gallons of liquid chemical into a nearby
river. The accident occurred around 6:30 a.m., when an engine with a car
attached was trying to back up and get hooked up to another car, said Union
Pacific Railroad spokesman Mark Davis. The coupling device, which would have...

5) AAP NEWSFEED HEADLINE: Nabalco reopens alumina refinery after spill  BODY:
NT: NABALCO REOPENS A DARWIN, July 11 - Operations at the Nabalco alumina
refinery in Nhulunbuy on the Gulf of Carpentaria restarted this weekend
after a tank of caustic soda collapsed on Thursday night. Nabalco manager of
technical services David Sutherland said production  began again at midnight...

6) The Toronto Star July 10, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE: BAD AIR DAYS ON
THE RISE BYLINE: Chris Nuttall-Smith  BODY: A  city with no breathing room,
J4; Today's weather map, A27 SMOG IN TORONTO She coughed so hard  from
asthma last summer her ribs cracked. He's an exercise enthusiast who often
cycles 50 kilometres a day. Different people, same problem: They can't take...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
7) AFP HEADLINE: Ships to carry enough plutonium for 60 nuclear bombs:
Greenpeace DATELINE: CHERBOURG, France, July 10 BODY: Two ships scheduled to
transport recycled fuel to Japan this month will have enough nuclear fuel
aboard to make 60 nuclear bombs, the environmental group Greenpeace warned
Saturday. If a government or  paramilitary force seizes this cargo it could...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

(GREENPEACE)
8) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July 12, HEADLINE: Controversy follows
nuclear-powered ship's visit BODY:1] H3.- SOUTH PACIFIC Excerpt from report
by Fijilive web site on 11th July  Government is willing to look into any
loopholes of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty -Treaty of Raratonga
to address the danger of visiting nuclear warships. Minister for Foreign...

9) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) July 10, SECTION: Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Actress to read
A-bomb poetry in U.S. BYLINE: Yomiuri  BODY: Actress Sayuri Yoshinaga on
Friday is making final preparations to give a public reading Monday in the
United States of poetry  written by Hiroshima atomic bomb victims and
translated into English.  For the past two months, she has been practicing...

10) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Journalists board  nuclear  fuel carriers
bound for Japan DATELINE: BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England, July 10 Kyodo  BODY:
A British power generation company in charge of shipping recycled  nuclear
fuel to Japan on Friday showed journalists two armed commercial freighters
assigned to make the shipment. State-owned British  Nuclear Fuels Plc (BNFL)...

11) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 11, SECTION: Pg. 28 HEADLINE:International:
Pakistan arms link to N Korea hardens attitudes over Kashmir BYLINE: by
JULIAN WEST in New Delhi BODY: TENSIONS between India and Pakistan have
intensified after Indian customs agents seized components shipped from North
Korea which they claim were destined for Pakistan's top-secret missile...

12) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July 12, 1999,  HEADLINE: US supply of
nuclear, biological warning system to South denounced by North BODY: Text of
report in English by the North Korean news agency KCNA  Pyongyang,10th July:
A few days ago, the United States reportedly supplied an "alarm system" to
the US Forces' unit present in South Korea allegedly to cope with "germ...

13) The New York Times July 10, Late Edition - Final SECTION:Section A; Page 8;
Column 1; National Desk HEADLINE: Uproar Against Navy War Games Unites
Puerto Ricans BYLINE: By MIREYA NAVARRO DATELINE:VIEQUES, P.R., July 4 BODY:
For two months now, about three dozen people have occupied the eastern tip
of this small island seven miles off Puerto Rico, trespassing on property...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
14) PR Newswire July 9, HEADLINE: 'An Unacceptable Risk' Say Top World
Scientists of Mitsubishi's Baja, Mexico Salt Factory Plan BODY:Thirty-four
of the world's most distinguished scientists,including many Nobel laureates,
have joined together in an unprecedented stance against Mitsubishi's plans
to build a massive salt factory in Laguna San Ignacio, on the Baja...

(GREENPEACE)
15) AP, July 10, HEADLINE: Judge orders reconsideration of pollock fisheries
BYLINE: By PAUL QUEARY,DATELINE: JUNEAU, Alaska BODY: A judge has ordered
federal fisheries managers to reexamine the  impacts of the lucrative Bering
Sea and Gulf of Alaska pollock fisheries on  endangered Steller sea lions.
The ruling handed down Friday in Seattle by  U.S. District Judge Thomas...

16) Bristol Bay salmon abundant this season By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE,Alaska,
July 10 (Reuters) - The boom is back for the world's biggest sockeye salmon
fishery, with some 40 million of the fish expected to return to southwestern
Alaska's Bristol Bay this summer. Sockeye salmon returns into Bristol Bay
have been strong this season, catching state officials, fishermen and fish...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

17) The Toronto Star July 10,Edition 1 SECTION: INSIGHT HEADLINE: SAVING WORLD
FROM ACID RAIN COULD CRANK UP GLOBAL HEAT, STUDY WARNS BODY: Seth Borenstein
WASHINGTON AS NORTH America cleans its air dramatically, it will pay a price
in noticeably higher temperatures, a recent report by top climate scientists
says. The United States and other nations have cut sulphur dioxide pollution...

18) The Ottawa Citizen July 10, FINAL SECTION: The Observer; B5 HEADLINE: Well,
then, please just excuse me for  even breathing BYLINE:Naomi Lakritz  BODY:
'Pardonnez-moi for  breathing.' Aren't there days when you feel like saying
that? Inundated by the assorted extremist inanities propounded by the
environmentalist  movement, don't you get the distinct impression you should...

19) National Post July 10, NATIONAL@SERIES= EDITIONS SECTION: FINANCIAL POST:
COMMENT; Pg.D05 HEADLINE: The master plan to slow the economy BYLINE:Terence
Corcoran BODY: In April of last year, the Chretien government signed the
United Nations' Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. Since then, the government
has been trying to figure out what it signed. Above all, it is  also trying...

20) The Toronto Star July 10, Edition 1 SECTION: INSIGHT HEADLINE: THE CITY
WHERE 'GOD IS UNFAIR' BYLINE: Maggie Farley BODY: Just breathing in Lanzhou,
China, is like smoking  a pack of  cigarettes a day Mask offers a veteran
Lanzhou street sweeper  some  protection from the dirtiest urban air on
Earth. LANZHOU, China  JUN-JUN, A 7-year-old with tiny pigtails, has an...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

21) AFP HEADLINE: Another orangutan safe haven disappears in Indonesia BYLINE:
Bernard Estrade DATELINE: JAKARTA, July 11 BODY: Illegal logging and mining
are just two of the dangers which have sounded the death knell for one of
the most important remaining sanctuaries for orangutans in Indonesian
Borneo. The activities of poachers and political upheaval have also forced...

22) Chicago Tribune July 11, CHICAGOLAND FINAL EDITION SECTION: NEWS; Pg.4;
ZONE: C HEADLINE: AMAZON PRIMATOLOGIST SHAKES FAMILY TREE FOR NEW MONKEYS
BYLINE: By Laurie Goering, Tribune Staff Writer. DATELINE: MANAUS, Brazil
BODY: It's hard to walk around Marc van Roosmalen's suburban back yard
without a new species of monkey trying to climb up your arm or stick its...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
23) Financial Mail (South Africa) July 9, SECTION: Economy & Business; Pg. 44
HEADLINE: 'WE DON'T LIKE NOTHIN' IF BABY MAKES A NEW GENE STALK' *SELLING
BYLINE: Shada Islam, Brussels & Peter Honey, Johannesburg BODY: European
consumers are recoiling from food genetics Producing sturdier, hardier and
higher-yielding crops by genetic modification is already a billion-dollar...

24) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 10, SECTION: Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Country: Too
late to worry about honey and GM crops? Sam Westmacott finds that bees have
been in and out of genetically  modified flowers for at least seven years
BYLINE: By Sam Westmacott BODY: Bees are good to us. They provide us with
honey, one of the purest foods in the world. But are we being good to them?...

25) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July  11, 1999,  Sunday SECTION: Pg. 01 HEADLINE:
Fury as CIA admits spying on British  minister BYLINE: by ANDREW GILLIGAN,
ROB EVANS and GREG NEALE  BODY: CIA  AGENTS have secretly investigated the
environment minister Michael Meacher,  The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.  Mr
Meacher said last night that he was  "astonished" after the US  government...

26) The Vancouver Sun July 10, FINAL SECTION: News; B6 HEADLINE: The Miracle
Seed: Wheat: From the staff of life  to the terminator gene, the evolution
of wheat into global super commodity  is also the story of the growing power
of science -- and a furious debate  over  genetic engineering, corporate
hegemonies and the face of farming in  the 21st Century. SERIES: A Simple...

27) The Toronto Star July 10, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE: GENE-ALTERED
FOOD SIERRA'S NEW TARGET BYLINE: Tim Harper  BODY:  OTTAWA BUREAU  OTTAWA -
An influential Canadian  environmental  lobby  group launched a  campaign
yesterday aimed at forcing the country's grocers  to remove  genetically
engineered foods from their shelves. The Sierra  Club of  Canada wants...

28) Pty Limited The Canberra Times July 11, Edition SECTION: Part A; Page 21
HEADLINE: A SHORT CUT WITH RISKS AS WELL AS BENEFITS BODY: FOR MANY years
farmers have improved their crops and farm animals by trying to breed in154
the characteristic that they want. If a breeder needed a very tall sunflower
he would cross tall plants with tall plants and select seeds from tall...

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