Global News Headlines 09/03

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Friday, September 3, 1999
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 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
1) ENVIRONMENT-HEALTH: AFRICAN AMERICANS JOIN ... WASHINGTON, (Sep. 2) IPS -
David Prince probably never imagined he would someday leave his home in
Louisiana for the U.N.'s European headquarters to press for the phasing out
of toxic chemicals  worldwide. But that was before government officials
discovered that the blood levels of Prince and other residents of the mainly...

2) The New York Times September 3, 1999, Late Edition - Final SECTION: A;
Page 16; Column 1; National Desk HEADLINE: U.S. Doubles Offshore Zone Under
Its Law BYLINE: PHILIP SHENON DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 BODY: The Coast
Guard and Federal law-enforcement agencies will be allowed to enforce
American law and board foreign ships up to 24 nautical miles off the coast,...

3) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: COSTA RICA-AGRICULTURE: COSTA RICA'S ORGANIC
HARVEST BYLINE: Nefer Munoz DATELINE: CIPRESES DE OREAMUNO, Costa Rica, Sep.
3 BODY: Costa Rican farmer Rafael Coto believes that using
agrochemicals could poison him and those who consumed his produce.
For eight years Coto, 51, has belonged to a movement that is
campaigning to expand  organic...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
4) Times Colonist (Victoria) September 3, 1999 Final Canada E8 Canada to test
nuclear warhead fuel: Mayors of nearby Ontario towns raise concerns  OTTAWA
Nuclear fuel containing  plutonium from U.S. and Russian warheads will be
imported through two Ontario communities for a test burn later this year,
federal officials announced Thursday.  Mayors of the two communities...

5) Deliveries of spent N-fuel resume after 11-month lapse AOMORI, Japan, Sept.
3 (Kyodo) About 11 tons of spent nuclear fuel arrived Friday at a
nuclear reprocessing plant currently under construction in Aomori
Prefecture, northern Japan, after an 11-month suspension in the
deliveries due to the falsification of data on the containers used.
The 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru...

6) 09/03 Ukraine-Chernobyl By SERGEI SHARGORODSKY KIEV, Ukraine (AP)
"Serious and unexpected" problems were discovered during repairs on
the Chernobyl nuclear plant's only working reactor, an official
acknowledged Friday -- but added that the plant will still resume
operations this fall. Reactor No. 3 at Chernobyl -- the site of the
world's worst nuclear accident in 1986 --...

7) Reuters China to begin new nuclear power plant in October CHINA: September
3, 1999 BEIJING - China will start the construction of a nuclear
power plant in the eastern  province of Jiangsu next month, an
official said yesterday.  "We will begin pour concrete in October,"
said the official of the Jiangsu Nuclear Power Co based in
Lianyungang.  The plant, a...

8) VIC: Three anti-uranium protestors arrested at North Ltd BYLINE: By Sarah
Timms  BODY: JABILUKA NORTH LEAD MELBOURNE, Sept 3 AAP - Three anti-Jabiluka
uranium mine protesters were arrested today when about 60 demonstrators
again tried to blockade the Melbourne headquarters of North Ltd. Police had
to escort one worker through the protesters in the back laneway of the St...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

9) 09/03 Oil Security Seen Remaining Focus Of U.S. Military Policy By
Campion Walsh WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Even as the 1970s oil shocks
fade into history, concerns about a potential disruption in crude oil
imports continue to drive U.S. military policy. That's not likely to
change anytime soon, analysts and government officials say. Low oil
prices in the 1990s haven't...

10) Calgary Herald September 3, 1999 Final News A12 Defence team downplays
toxic testing BY Mike Blanchfield, for the Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen
The Defence Department has sent an environmental assessment team to Bosnia
to determine whether Canadian peacekeepers were exposed to tonnes of toxic
and radioactive waste. It stresses, however, that the move does not...

 OCEANS 

11) The Times (London) September 3, 1999, SECTION: Home news HEADLINE: Ocean
wildlife losing struggle for survival BYLINE: Nick Nuttall, environment
correspondent BODY: DISEASE is spreading through the world's oceans, killing
dolphins and seals and eradicating vital and economically important marine
life, according to scientists.  Researchers fear that a series of damaging...

12) South Korea warns North Korea against violating sea border by Zeno Park
SEOUL, Sept 3 (AFP) South Korea on Friday issued a stern warning to North
Korea against attempting to cross its disputed sea border with the South,
hinting it could resort to military might to defend the boundary.  Seoul
also put maritime police in the area on alert to protect fishing boats...

13) The Washington Post September 3, 1999, Final Edition SECTION: A; Pg. A07
HEADLINE: Gore Offers Relief to Fishermen; $5 Million Aid Package, Expansion
of Coastal Zone Announced BYLINE: Ceci Connolly, Washington Post Staff
Writer DATELINE: BOSTON, Sept. 2 BODY: Vice President Gore, opening a
critical month of campaigning and fund-raising, wooed frustrated local...

14) Deutsche Presse-Agentur September 3, 1999 HEADLINE: More countries urged
to sign oil spill pact DATELINE: Singapore BODY: Senior shipping officials
wrapping up an oil pollution conference on Friday urged more nations to sign
an international pact encouraging mutual aid in responding to spills.
Gerhard Kurz, president of Mobil Shipping  and Transportation Company,...

15) Australian Broadcasting Corp Sept 1, 1999 Are Australians 'loving the coast
to death'? Conservationists are calling for a nationwide halt to coastal
development until more  environmentally sound planning procedures are put in
place. Australian Conservation Foundation president Peter Garrett says local
and state governments have not done enough to stop the proposed development...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

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16) FED: Green's global warming bill a world first BODY: CANBERRA Sept 2 AAP
- The world's first greenhouse bill to combat global warming was introduced
to parliament today by Australian Green senator Bob Brown. The move was
immediately welcomed by Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation
Foundation. Senator Brown said the Convention on  Climate Change  Bill puts...

17) Asiaweek September 3, 1999 SECTION: EDITORIALS; Pg. 15 HEADLINE: FOGGY
NOTIONS HIGHLIGHT: No one benefits from Malaysia's ban on pollution data
BODY: Pay attention, travel writers. Air pollution is no longer a problem in
Malaysia.  That faint acrid smell lingering in the air recently was probably
a figment of your imagination. The pale yellow stuff on the horizon was...

18) AFP HEADLINE: Oil spill compensation still slippery, forum told BYLINE:
Lara Parpan DATELINE: SINGAPORE, Sept 3 BODY: Failure to accede to
international conventions and governments' lack of resources are to blame
for difficulties in pursuing compensation for destructive oil spills,
maritime officials said Friday. These were among contentious issues tackled...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

19) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Hot spots multiply in Indonesian forests
DATELINE: JAKARTA, Sept 3 BODY: Indonesian forest and ground fires in
Sumatra and Borneo island are on the rise again after dissipating in recent
rains, satellite images produced by the Indonesia Space Agency showed
Friday. Satellite images dated September 1 showed 43 hotspots in the region...

20) 09/02 Fire At Peru National Park Contained CUZCO, Peru (AP)
Firefighters contained a blaze Thursday that for two days raged over
220 acres of Peru's Manu National Park, considered by scientists to
be the most diverse center of wildlife and fauna on the planet. Park
biologist Juan Carlos Flores told The Associated Press that most of
the fire, primarily burning flat...

21) 09/02 WSJ(9/3):A Clear-Cut Case Spurs Tribal Land Practices Debate By
Jim Carlton Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal TATITLEK,
Alaska  -- This tiny village of native Alaskans sits on a glistening
inlet of Prince William Sound, backed by a jagged, tree-blanketed
peak. What damage remains from the nearby Exxon Valdez oil spill 10
years ago is hard to see. Just to the east,...

22) New Straits Times (Malaysia) September 3, 1999 SECTION: Letters; Pg. 11
HEADLINE: Onus on States to protect tigers BYLINE: By S.M. Mohd Idris BODY:
THE recent killing of cattle by tigers at Felda Chini Dua in Pekan is an
example of the many conflicts between wildlife and man. In such
confrontational approach wildlife will always end up the losers. The tigers'...

23) Vancouver Sun Friday, September 3, 1999 Final Business F11 TimberWest
offers land for mistake: Company offers 20 hectares in compensation for
logging encroachment in Island park. BY Gordon Hamilton, Sun Forestry
Reporter TimberWest Forest Ltd. says it is prepared to add 20 hectares of
its own land to Strathcona Park in compensation for inadvertently logging...

24) BusinessWorld September 3, 1999, SECTION: Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Cagayande Oro
residents barricade highway against loggers' trucks BYLINE: MindanaoPress
Service BODY: CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY  - For 20 days now, an environment group
has organized residents here to take turns barricading a major highway used
by three of the four major loggers in Northern Mindanao and the Autonomous...

25) Environmentalists slam Brazil over fires By Joelle Diderich BRASILIA, Sept
3 (Reuters) - Environmentalists accused the Brazilian government on
Friday of doing too little to prevent and combat fires, set by
farmers, that have cast a thick haze over cities and made people
sick. Satellite images showed a sharp jump in the number of hot spots
-- areas where there is a high...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

26) 09/03 EU Would Accept ADM Corn If It Proves To Be GMO-Free BRUSSELS
(Dow Jones)--The European Union sees no reason why it wouldn't buy
corn from U.S. food processors like Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM)
if they can prove that the corn is not genetically modified, an E.U.
farm official said Friday. The European Union Commission holds an
import tender on behalf of Spain several...

 OTHERS 

27) The Times (London) September 3, 1999, SECTION: Business HEADLINE: Lamy
will not bow to US pressure BYLINE: Alasdair Murray in Brussels BODY: Pascal
Lamy, the new European Trade Commissioner, yesterday revealed he had no
intention of bowing to US pressure to water down European food safety
requirements, leaving the two sides on a collision course over the issue of...

28) EU commissioner-designate vows greater food safety By Timothy Heritage
BRUSSELS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Ireland's David Byrne, pressing his case to be
confirmed as European commissioner responsible for food safety, vowed on
Friday to take decisive action to prevent a repeat of recent food scares in
Europe. The 52-year-old former Irish attorney general told a committee of...

29) Company secretaries concerned about investor activism BODY: INVESTOR
SYDNEY, Sept 3 AAP - Company secretaries have expressed concern over the
growing tide of shareholder activism espousing environmental and political
causes. A survey of 1,000 members of the Chartered Institute of Company
Secretaries in Australia (CICSA) found shareholder activism was a "top...

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