Global News Headlines 09/09

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Thursday, September 9, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) World's species, forests continue to decline BRUSSELS, 
Sept 9 (Reuters) - Disappearance of the golden toad in 
Costa Rica is a warning that the climate is changing in its 
natural habitat, the World Wide Fund for Nature said on 
Thursday. The toad's extinction is one of the global trends 
that has sent populations into decline for many freshwater ...

 ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
2) 09/08 DJ FTC's Exxon-Mobil Probe May Go Past Sept  -Consumer Grp
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Federal  Trade Commission's review
of Exxon Corp.'s (XON) planned  $83 billion merger with Mobil Corp.
(MOB) may go beyond  September, contrary to earlier expectations,
according to a  consumer advocate who met Wednesday with FTC Chairman ...

(GREENPEACE)
3) Greenpeace oil rig campaign heads south ENDS Daily - 
08/09/99 After its successful campaign for a ban on deep  sea
disposal of offshore oil and gas installations in the  north-east
Atlantic, Greenpeace turned its attention to oil  drilling in the
Mediterranean this week by occupying a  Spanish rig that the group
alleges is being readied to be ...

 FORESTS 

4) Times Colonist (Victoria) Thursday, September 9, 1999 Final
News A3 MacBlo takeover foes out in force: Weyerhaeuser's 
environmental record attacked and fears raised of corporate 
concentration BY Malcolm Curtis Weyerhaeuser's planned 
takeover of B.C.'s largest forests company would needlessly 
boost corporate concentration in the industry, risking more ...

5) Tennessee Timber Firm Invites Environmental Group to Assess
Property By James W. Brosnan, The Commercial Appeal, 
Memphis, Tenn. Sep. 9--WASHINGTON--Westvaco Corp. has 
agreed to let the Nature Conservancy help the company 
devise plans to protect any endangered animal or plant the 
environmental group finds on Westvaco owned land, including ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
6) S.Korea to set GM food-labelling rules this year SEOUL, 
Sept 9 (Reuters) - South Korea's agriculture ministry said 
on Thursday it planned to set specific guidelines for 
genetically modified (GM) food by the end of 1999. "We will 
make specific guidelines about which products are to be 
labelled, how they should be labelled and which ...

7) Jane's Information Group Limited, September 9, 1999 
SECTION: No. 2559 HEADLINE: America vs Europe The Western 
allies are also rivals BODY: FROM high-tech electronic data 
protection to down-to-earth beef and bananas, the European 
Union and the United States will be caught up in a 
near-record number of trade disputes in coming months. ...

(GREENPEACE)
8) Newsweek September 13, 1999, Atlantic Edition SECTION: 
EUROPE; Pg. 22 HEADLINE: The Big Food Fight BYLINE: By 
Kenneth Klee; With John Barry in Washington, Scott Johnson 
in Montpellier, Jay Wagner in Des Moines, William Underhill 
in London and Elizabeth Angell in New York; HIGHLIGHT: 
Europeans are railing against 'Frankenstein foods' -- ...

9) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Farm ministry to check 
snacks for unauthorized GMOs DATELINE: TOKYO, Sept. 9 Kyodo 
BODY: The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 
said Thursday the government will investigate a claim by a 
consumer group that corn snacks sold in Japan contained 
genetically modified organisms ( GMOs) not approved by the ...

(GREENPEACE)
10) DAILY MAIL (London) September 8, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 4 
HEADLINE: Farmer pulls the plug on key GM crop trial; 
NEIGHBOURS' FEARS FORCE LANDOWNER TO THINK AGAIN BYLINE: 
David Derbyshire BODY: A FARMER has abandoned a trial of 
genetically-modified crops, plunging the Government's 
testing programme into crisis. David Rose pulled out of ...

 MILITARY 

11) APEC ministers seen issuing stern message on Timor 
AUCKLAND, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the 
Asia- Pacific and Britain on Thursday were expected to 
demand that Indonesia end the terror in East Timor and 
accept foreign help to end the bloodshed in the troubled 
territory. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and ...

12) Jane's Defence Weekly September 8, 1999 SECTION: 
HEADLINES; Vol. 32; No. 10 LENGTH: 236 words HEADLINE: UN 
peacekeeping force will not intervene in East Timor BYLINE: 
Thalif Deen JDW UN Correspondent BODY: The UN has no 
immediate plans to send in a peacekeeping force to the 
troubled territory of East Timor despite last week's ...

13) Newsweek September 13, 1999 SECTION: ASIA; Pg. 43 
HEADLINE: The Method to the Madness BYLINE: Leon V. Sigal 
HIGHLIGHT: Sure it sounds crazy, but North Korea has a 
clear record of brandishing missiles to press for peace, 
not war BODY: North Korea's threat to test a new ballistic 
missile capable of hitting the United States was greeted in ...

14) The Australian, On-line, Doubts over aid freeze By 
South-East Asia correspondent PETER ALFORD in Jakarta 
10sep99 INDONESIA has responded aggressively to threats of 
suspension of international financial aid over East Timor, 
increasing concern that the Jakarta Government believes it  has
little to lose in a confrontation with foreign donors. ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

15) Slovakia to draw up nuclear plant closure plan BRATISLAVA, 
Sept 9 (Reuters) - The Slovak government will draw up a 
final plan for the closure of its Soviet designed Bohunice 
nuclear power plant by the end of September, the Economy 
Ministry said on Thursday. The late 1970s plant, some 60 km 
from the Austrian border, became a matter of dispute ...

16) 09/09 North American Power Grid Passes '9/9/99' Test By  Patrick
Connole WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The North American  power grid passed
the "9/9/99" test -- a date change viewed  as a dress rehearsal for
the Year 2000 calendar switch,  U.S. officials said early Thursday.
"The success of the  drills held today is yet another step to assure
electricity ...

17) The Washington Post September 9, 1999, Final Edition 
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A01 HEADLINE: 'Stand Down' Is 
Ordered For Nuclear Plant in Ky. BYLINE: Joby Warrick, 
Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: Energy Secretary Bill 
Richardson ordered a 24-hour "safety stand down" at the 
agency's Paducah, Ky., uranium plant yesterday after a ...

18) BBC Monitoring Europe Economic September 9, 1999 HEADLINE: 
BULGARIAN NUCLEAR PLANT CHIEF DENIES STAFF EXPOSED TO 
RADIATION SOURCE: BTA news agency, Sofia, 8 Sep 99 BODY: No 
cases of staff exposure have been registered in the 25 
years since Unit One of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant 
was brought on stream, says Dr Veselin Bliznakov in the ...

19) BBC Monitoring Kiev Unit September 9, 1999, Thursday 
HEADLINE: UKRAINE: RUSSIA PROMISES TO FUND NUCLEAR REACTOR 
CONSTRUCTION SOURCE: Intelnews news agency, Kiev, 09 Sep 99 
BODY: The Russian government promises to earmark 60-70m 
dollars in its 2000 budget to give a credit to Ukraine to 
complete the construction of energy reactors at the Rivne ...

20) RUSSIA WANTS TO STORE WORLD'S RADIOACTIVE WASTE By 
Ekaterina Chistiakova MOSCOW, Russia, September 8, 1999 
(ENS) - Russia is working towards changing its laws so that 
the country can store spent nuclear fuel and radioactive 
waste from other nations. 
The State Duma and the Federation Council are discussing ...

 OCEANS 

21) 09/08 ENVIRONMENT: SEA OF VOLUNTEERS TO CLEAN UP BEACHES  
WASHINGTON, (Sep. 7) IPS - More than one million people are  headed
for the coastlines and waterways of the world this  month in a giant
effort to rid beaches, lakes and rivers of  garbage. From Belize to
the Philippines, beach lovers from  more than 90 countries will set
to work on Sept. 18 to ...

(GREENPEACE)
22) The Irish Times September 8, 1999 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
HOME NEWS; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Claims of overfishing by EU 
supertrawlers 'not based on fact' BYLINE: By LORNA SIGGINS, 
Marine Correspondent BODY: The "negative publicity" 
generated by Greenpeace and other environmental 
organisations in relation to overfishing by EU ...

(GREENPEACE)
23) ENN, Russia, Japan rekindle whale meat trade September 7, 
1999 By Margot Higgins A recent agreement between Russia  and Japan
to allow the commercial hunt of beluga whales has  re-ignited
international trade in whale meat.  The agreement, which marks the
first ever commercial hunt  of belugas, is being denounced by
conservation groups, ...

 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
24) 09/08 SEVEN DIOXIN HOT SPOTS IN UK' CLAIMS GREENPEACE By  Jackie
Storer, Political Staff, PA News Deadly dioxins  similar to those
which caused many Belgian products to be  taken off supermarket
shelves were found in seven sites  across England and Wales,
Greenpeace claimed tonight.  Campaigners said a global survey
discovered that "some of ...

25) The New York Times September 9, 1999, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: B; Page 6; Column 5; Metropolitan Desk HEADLINE: 
METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; G.E. Disputes Research On PCB 
Contamination BYLINE: AP DATELINE: ALBANY BODY: General 
Electric Company officials called yesterday for an 
independent review of Government research on PCB ...

26) WA; Mussels pulled in arsenic scare BODY: PERTH, Sept 9 
AAP - Health authorities today warned people against 
swimming at Perth's southern beaches and eating seafood 
taken from the area following the flushing of 900kg of 
arsenic into Cockburn Sound. The $12,000-a-day local mussel 
industry was immediately hit with bans on sales and ...

27) The Christian Science Monitor September 9, 1999, SECTION: 
FEATURES; IDEAS; Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Pulling the plug BYLINE: 
David Holmstrom, Staff writer of The Christian Science 
Monitor DATELINE: DEER ISLAND, MASS. HIGHLIGHT: As Boston 
harbor cleanup nears completion, the final hurdle is 
opening BODY: Call it the world's longest tailpipe. And, ...

28) MERCURY CROSSES BARRIER PROTECTING BRAIN FROM TOXINS  
WASHINGTON, DC, September 8, 1999 (ENS) - Researchers say 
they have found the first evidence that mercury can 
circumvent the blood-brain barrier that usually prevents 
toxins from entering the brain. Though the studies involved 
fish, the findings have implications for humans, ...

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