Global News Headlines 07/28

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Wednesday, July 28, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

1) OTC 07/27 ENVIRONMENT-PUERTO RICO: ISLAND TOWN STRUGGLES TO ...SAN JUAN,
Jul. 26 IPS - Little by little, the protesters who are trying to wrest
Vieques from the United States Navy are putting the island-municipality on
the road to sustainable development. Casa Pueblo, a grassroots organization
based in the mountain town  of Adjuntas, is currently installing...

2) Pollutant link seen in breast cancer OTTAWA, July 27 (UPI) --  Scientists
at the World Conference on Breast Cancer in Ottawa have  presented findings
that suggest a link between the disease and pollutants  in the environment,
particularly pesticides. The four-day conference,  which opened today, is
being attended by some 1,000 delegates from 50  countries. Dr Devra  Lee...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

3) Pty Limited The Canberra Times  July  28, 1999, Wednesday Edition SECTION:
Part A; Page 11 HEADLINE: NO  DUMP IN OUR BACKYARD!; JOHN VEEVERS ARGUES
THAT NORTHERN HEMISPHERE NATIONS  CREATED ALMOST ALL THE  NUCLEAR  WASTE,
AND THEY SHOULD HAVE TO BURY THEIR  WASTE IN THEIR OWN GROUND RATHER THAN
EXPORT IT TO AUSTRALIA.  BODY: THE BRITISH Government, through its 80  per...

4) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July  29, 1999, Thursday HEADLINE: Serbia
said to be planning to store  radioactive waste  on Bulgaria's border  [6]
Text of report by Bulgarian newspaper 'Trud' on 24th July Serbia
reportedly intends to store  radioactive waste  along our western border in
the region of Chuprene, Belogradchik district. This became known from a...

5) Chernobyl head sees problems closing in 2000 By Pavel Polityuk  KIEV, July
28 (Reuters) - The head of Ukraine's troubled Chernobyl nuclear 
power plant said on Tuesday the country would face a major shortage
of electricity if the station was closed in early 2000 as planned. We
 should not close the station in the cold season of next year because
we  could...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

(GREENPEACE)
6) AP Worldstream July  27, 1999;  HEADLINE: Spain selling illegal weapons to
West Africa, study says BODY: Spain is responsible for the illegal sale of
arms to West Africa, presumably with government  approval, a  conflict
prevention specialist said Tuesday. Since 1993  Spain has  exported more
than 101,000 missiles, worth 1.5 billion pesetas (dlrs 9.6  million/9...

7) APO  07/28 1025  Hiroshima Mayor Fears New A-Bomb Use By GINNY PARKER
Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) -- The world is forgetting the horror
of the atomic bomb and becoming more likely to use it again, the mayor of
Hiroshima said Wednesday. Just days before the Aug. 6 anniversary of the
bombing, Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba warned that the world no longer sees nuclear...

8) The New York Times July  28, 1999, Wednesday, Late Edition  - Final
SECTION: Section A; Page 8; Column 3; Foreign Desk HEADLINE:  Russian
Premier Warns U.S. Against Role as Policeman BYLINE:  By JOHN M.  BRODER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, July 27  BODY: Sergei V. Stepashin, the new  Prime
Minister of Russia, warned today that the United States should not  assume...

9) Newsweek August  2, 1999, Atlantic Edition SECTION:  EUROPE; Pg. 28
HEADLINE: Seeds of Carnage BYLINE: By Christopher Dickey;  ITALICWith
/ITALICMark DennisITALIC in Pristina,/ITALIC Barbie Nadeau  ITALICin Rome,
/ITALICAmanda BernardITALIC in London and /ITALICJohn BarryITALIC in
Washington/ITALIC  HIGHLIGHT: After the war in Kosovo,  unexploded cluster...

 OCEANS 

10) Australia to call for listing tuna endangered species TOKYO, July 28
(Kyodo) -- In a possible blow to Japan in an dispute  over southern bluefin
tuna, Australia is considering a proposal that  would list the species
under an international convention on endangered  animals, sources close to
the convention said Wednesday. Australia is studying placing the tuna...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
11) FINANCE-ENVIRONMENT:  WORLD BANK SETTING UP ... WASHINGTON, (Jul. 26) IPS
- The World Bank is looking for investors  in a pioneering scheme to trade
emissions of "greenhouse gases"  that are blamed for global warming. The
Bank expects to open its "Prototype Carbon Fund" (PCF) to a  select group
of investors in industrialized countries in  mid-November and hopes to...

12) ameriscan ens july 27 CO2 CAPTURE FOCUS OF NEW RESEARCH CENTERS  The
capture and long term storage of carbon dioxide to combat global climate
change will be studied at two new centers established by the U.S.
epartment of Energy (DOE). Carbon dioxide storage on land and in the oceans
is one potential component of future international efforts to reduce the...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

(GREENPEACE)
13) Inter Press Service July  28, 1999, Wednesday HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT-
ECUADOR: MANGROVES NEED PROTECTION FROM SHRIMPS  BYLINE: By Danielle Knight
BODY: Up to her knees in mud, where she is  looking for crabs, and other
shellfish in the coastal mangrove swamps here,  Gladys Cortez shrugs her
shoulders. Before, we could always find hundreds of conch shells and crabs,"...

14) Agence France Presse July  28, 1999 09:54 GMT SECTION: International news
HEADLINE: Pristine Solomons lagoon to be logged  by Malaysians BYLINE:
Michael Field DATELINE: AUCKLAND, July 28  BODY: A  Malaysian  logging
company will Thursday win the right to clear thousands  of hectares (acres)
of rain  forest  in the Solomon Islands near one of the  worlds largest and...

15) The Christian Science Monitor July  28, 1999,  Wednesday SECTION: USA;
GLOBAL REPORT; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: Patent a plant?  Americans do, irking
shamans BYLINE: Colin Woodard, Special to The  Christian Science Monitor
DATELINE: WASHINGTON  BODY: The shamans were  unhappy. Querubin Queta
Alvarado and Antonio Jacanamijoy Rosero, spiritual  leaders of their...

16) The London Free Press July  28, 1999, Wednesday, Final  EDITION SECTION:
NEWS, Pg. A1 HEADLINE: INVESTIGATORS FIND NO CLUES IN  DEATH OF HUNDREDS OF
FISH BYLINE: JOHN MINER, FREE PRESS REPORTER BODY: Investigators from three
government bodies worked through the day yesterday  to unravel the mystery
of what left hundreds of dead fish rotting on the  banks of the Thames River...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
17) The Guardian (London) July  28, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages; Pg.
19 HEADLINE: Trashing the trials; Greenpeace shouldn't go over the
top BODY: Life (in the form  of the fourth Baron Melchett) imitates
art (in the form of Tommy Archer).  The Eton-educated executive
director of Greenpeace was last night still in  custody for
sabotaging field trials of genetically...

(GREENPEACE)
18) BBC Online Wednesday, July 28, 1999 Published at 14:23 GMT  15:23 UK  Lord
Melchett freed for holiday  Lord Melchett is arrested at  the  protest
Greenpeace Executive  Director Lord Melchett  has  been freed on bail,
after being held  in custody since  Monday  over a protest  against
genetically-modified (GM) crops.  A group of Greenpeace protesters were...

(GREENPEACE)
19) The Scotsman July  27, 1999, Tuesday SECTION:  Pg. 4 HEADLINE: TWO FARMS IN
SCOTLAND IN TRIALS BYLINE: Frank Urquhart  BODY: TILLYCORTHIE Farm,  near
Udny in Aberdeenshire, and Boghall Farm,  near Penicuik in Midlothian, are
the only two GM crop test sites currently  operating in Scotland.  Both
are run by the Scottish Agricultural  College and details of the test...

(GREENPEACE)
20) The Independent (London) July  28, 1999,  Wednesday SECTION: LEADER; Pg. 3
HEADLINE: LEADING ARTICLE:  GREENPEACE  TAKES DIRECT ACTION AGAINST ITS OWN
CREDIBILITY  BODY: GREENPEACE  HAS  made direct action a politically
effective method of campaigning. But, in  the case of its destruction of
the genetically modified crop trials in  Cambridgeshire, it has chose the...

(GREENPEACE)
21) The Guardian (London) July  28, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages; Pg. 18
HEADLINE: Trampling crops can be fun; It's the hit-and-run politics of
ambush, conflict and adventure  BODY:  The first slogan on the Activist
Resource Network website says it all:  'Action is what counts . . . Anything
else is posing'. And so there they  were, activists from Greenpeace, lying...

(GREENPEACE)
22) The Herald (Glasgow) July  27, 1999  ECTION: Pg. 7 HEADLINE: GM food
activists destroy farm's experimental crops  BODY: A group of environmental
activists protesting against genetically modified foods have destroyed
experimental crops in Aberdeenshire. It is the second attack in the space of
seven weeks at the farm which is run by Scottish  Agricultural Colleges. It...

(GREENPEACE)
23) 07/28 DJ Australian Green Groups Want 5-Year Ban On Gene-Tech Food
CANBERRA -An alliance of Australian and New Zealand green groups has
proposed a minimum five-year ban on the commercial growing and import
of genetically modified food. The call comes amid rising public
awareness of genetically modified foods and what seems to be
increasing pubic debate about the merits...

(GREENPEACE)
24) Technology Review July 27 Biotech Goes Wild  Genetic engineering will be
essential to feed the world's billions. But  could it unleash a race of
"superweeds"? No one  seems to know. And nobody's in charge of finding out.
By Charles C. Mann A few miles outside Sacramento, several large greenhouses
sit behind a fence. In the  summer the  familiar  heads of sunflowers are...

25) USDA: USDA launches biotech research project for ...  JUL 28, 1999, M2
Communications - WASHINGTON -- As part of the Clinton Administration's
Partnership for Growth and Opportunity for Africa,  Agriculture Secretary
Dan Glickman today launched an innovative  scientific exchange program to
enhance crop biotechnology research in  Sub-Saharan Africa. This start-up...

26) APO  07/28 0128  Manipulated Trees Said Less Harmful By PETER SVENSSON
Scientists in Michigan say they are cultivating genetically modified trees
that grow almost twice as fast as normal trees and may be a more
environmentally friendly raw material for paper. If the trees can be  grown
commercially, they could increase the timber output of forests and  reduce...

27) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July  29, 1999, Thursday HEADLINE: Green
associations protest against  genetically - modified crops BODY: 7]  Text
of report in English by Croatian news agency HINA Osijek  [northeastern
Croatia], 24th July: Three Croatian green associations on  Saturday [24th
July] continued protesting against  genetically -modified  food. Today,...

 OTHER 

28) The Guardian (London) July  28, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Society Pages; Pg. 4
HEADLINE: Eco soundings BYLINE: ??  BODY: The OECD-inspired  multilateral
agreement on investment (MAI) was  to have been the rich  countries' high
watermark of free trade, with who  knows what consequences  for
environmental  and social protection,  sovereignty, the developing  world...

29) The London Free Press July  28, 1999, Wednesday, Final  EDITION SECTION:
NEWS, Pg. A6 HEADLINE: WOMEN IN DARK ABOUT CANCER RISKS:  RESEARCHER
BYLINE: JENNIFER DITCHBURN, CP DATELINE: OTTAWA  BODY: The  money-driven
medical establishment isn't telling women enough about  potential causes of
breast cancer such as the pill and getting a mammogram  too young, says...

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