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Global News Headlines 06/25
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Sunday, June 25, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) Associated Press. June 24, 2000, HEADLINE: Protesters
threatening further demonstrations if no changes BYLINE: By
MELISSA EDDY, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: VIENNA,
Austria BODY: Austrian environmentalists ended their
29-hour blockade of a main mountain highway Saturday but
threatened future roadblocks if new limits are not placed
2) 06/23 EPA Wins Court Decision for Cleaner Eastern Air By
Patrick Connole WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Clinton
administration on Friday claimed a major victory for clean
air after a federal appeals court upheld a plan to cut
nitrogen oxide emissions from blowing into Eastern states
from mostly Midwestern coal-fired power plants. The
3) Los Angeles Times June 24, 2000, Home Edition SECTION: Part
A; Part 1; Page 2; Foreign Desk HEADLINE: WORLD PERSPECTIVE;
ECONOMY; INTENSE DROUGHT ADDS TO WOES OF SERBIAN FARMERS;
WHEAT GROWERS AGAIN STRUGGLE AFTER SURVIVING NATO RAIDS AND
WINTER FLOODS. BYLINE: RICHARD BOUDREAUX, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: VOJKA, Yugoslavia BODY: In the fertile Vojvodina
ENERGY
4) The New York Times June 25, 2000, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section 1; Page 3; Column 1; Foreign Desk
HEADLINE: Brownouts in Kenya Highlight Its Chaos and Misrule
BYLINE: By IAN FISHER DATELINE: NAIROBI, Kenya, June 24
BODY: The generator, somewhere out back, groaned and the
bare bulbs blinked. Smokin Wanjala, a lawyer who studies
5) Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 25, 2000, HEADLINE: Four
killed, 49 injured in Kuwait refinery explosion DATELINE:
Kuwait City BODY: A massive explosion Sunday at Kuwait's
biggest refinery killed four people and injured 49,
according to latest reports. Crude oil exports from the
Gulf state have not been affected by the early morning
6) Africa News June 24, 2000 SECTION: NEWS, DOCUMENTS &
COMMENTARY HEADLINE: South Africa; Environmental Disaster
Feared After Ship Sinks Off Cape Town BYLINE: Panafrican
News Agency BODY: CAPE TOWN, South Africa (PANA) - Cape
Town is facing its worst environmental disaster ever after
oil from an enormous bulk ore carrier which sank within
7) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: 1,000 oil-coated penguins
treated on S. Africa's Robben Island DATELINE: CAPE TOWN,
June 24 BODY: More than 1,000 penguins coated with oil from
a sunken cargo ship are being treated and cleaned on South
Africa's Robben Island, off Cape Town, a conservation
official said Saturday. Volunteers have recovered about
8) 06/23 DEVELOPMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS QUESTION DAM ...
WASHINGTON, (Jun. 22) IPS - World Bank funding should not
go into building a large hydroelectric dam in Uganda when
smaller-scale renewable energy projects, like wind and
solar, would more likely benefit the East African nation's
rural poor, according to environmental groups here. The
9) Reuters: Clinton urges Congress to act on electric
restructuring USA: June 23, 2000 WASHINGTON - President
Bill Clinton yesterday urged Congress to go ahead and pass
a law he has proposed for restructuring the electric power
industry, saying it would aid consumers by making the
sector more efficient. The push by Clinton comes one day
FORESTS
(Greenpeace)
10) Brazilian loggers turn tables on Greenpeace RIO DE JANEIRO,
June 23 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 angry loggers and timber
industry workers confronted Greenpeace activists on Friday,
preventing them from launching an environmental protest at
a northern port in Brazil, a report said. The workers
marched into the port of Belem where a Greenpeace boat was
11) APwo 06/23 Abdullah dismisses illegal logging claim, NEW
STRA...
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.-Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today the Malaysian army is not
involved in illegal logging in Kalimantan as claimed by the
Indonesian authorities. "Our army does not do that kind of
12) Associated Press. June 24, 2000, HEADLINE: Mexico City
thirsts for water - and battles floods BYLINE: By LISA J.
ADAMS, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: MEXICO CITY BODY:
For days at a time, sometimes even weeks, Rosa Maria Camacho
doesn't take a bath, wash clothes or cook for her large
family. She's not on strike or giving up household chores
13) TASS HEADLINE: 44,000 hectares of Russian Far East forests
on fire BYLINE: By Viktor Panchenko DATELINE: KHABAROVSK,
June 24 BODY: Heavy rains falling all over the Amur region
of Russia on Friday put out most of the forest fires,
having brought the blazing space from 50,000 hectares down
to 12,400. According to the regional forest preservation
(Greenpeace)
14) Agence France Presse June 24, 2000, LENGTH: 125 words
HEADLINE: Seven Greenpeace activists arrested over ship
occupation DATELINE: LONDON, June 23 BODY: Seven Greenpeace
activists were arrested Friday after the three-day
occupation of a ship loaded with rainforest timber moored
near London. Three men and a woman were being questioned
15) AMAZON RAINFOREST RESEARCH FACILITY NEARS COMPLETION
GREENBELT, Maryland, June 23, 2000 (ENS) - A new field
research facility in the Amazon rainforest sponsored by the
Brazilian government and the U.S. National Aeronautic and
Space Administration (NASA) will be completed this month as
part of an experiment to study the region's impact on
GENETIC ENGINEERING
16) Reuters: Australia introduces gene technology bill
AUSTRALIA : June 23, 2000 CANBERRA - The Australian
government tabled gene technology legislation in parliament
yesterday which proposes a regulator to ensure the country
maintains the highest safety standards. "The sole purpose
of the Regulator will be to protect the health and safety
17) Time to go it alone on GM food: Democrats BODY: Food
ADELAIDE, June 25 AAP - South Australia must "go it alone"
on genetically modified food labelling, the state Democrats
said. Consumer Affairs spokesman Ian Gilfillan MLC plans to
introduce a Bill in state parliament ensuring clear, simple
information on labels of all GM foods, no matter what the
18) French government confirms knew of GM content PARIS, June
24 (Reuters) - The French government has confirmed it knew
as early as February this year that there were traces of
genetically modified (GM) material in maize seed imported
into France by the U.S. seed company Golden Harvest. The
area planted, all in southwest France, covered 3,000
19) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 25, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 35
HEADLINE: Features: Sunday Comment: This is the key to life
but not the secret of a perfect one The unveiling tomorrow
of the human genome will not mark a new era, says Dr
Anthony Daniels BYLINE: By Dr Anthony Daniels BODY: THERE
are two golden ages: the mythical one in the past, and the
MILITARY
20) The Ottawa Citizen June 24, 2000, FINAL SECTION: World; B6
HEADLINE: China boosts missiles aimed at Taiwan DATELINE:
WASHINGTON BODY: WASHINGTON -- The Chinese military plans
to increase the number of short-range missiles aimed at
Taiwan as it focuses military preparations on a possible
clash with Taiwan involving the United States, the Pentagon
21) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Colombo mum on reported
Israeli missile tests near Sri Lanka BYLINE: Hilary
Rajakarunanayake DATELINE: COLOMBO, June 25 Kyodo BODY:
Lankan defense authorities said Saturday they have no
information about a British newspaper report that Israel
tested nuclear -capable cruise missiles near the island.
22) TASS HEADLINE: Russian Chief of General Staff out for cuts
in nuclear arms BYLINE: By Pavel Koryashkin DATELINE:
MOSCOW, June 24 BODY: Chief of the Russian Armed Forces
General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin on Saturday came out for
reduction of the strategic offensive weapons. He told
reporters that "Russia should not overstock nuclear arms,
NUCLEAR POWER
23) Labor launches nuclear waste petition BODY: Nuclear
ADELAIDE, June 25 AAP - A five-year-old boy's letter about
nuclear waste dumping in South Australia has prompted the
Labor opposition to launch a statewide petition. The
petition calls on the South Australian parliament to "take
all steps to prohibit the establishment of a national
24) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 24, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 14
HEADLINE: News: International: Schroder is saved by Green
vote BYLINE: By Toby Helm in Munster BODY: GERMANY'S Green
Party saved Gerhard Schroder's coalition government from a
full-blown crisis last night when a majority of delegates
accepted a compromise plan to shut all the country's 19
25) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts June 24, 2000, HEADLINE:
Bulgarian, Moldovan premiers discuss transit of spent
nuclear fuel SOURCE: Source: BTA web site, Sofia, in
English BODY: Excerpt from report in English by Bulgarian
news agency BTA web site Sofia, 22nd June: Moldova wants to
export electricity via Bulgaria and to be allowed to use
26) OTC Tanzania Go Deep Into Uranium searching Dar Es Salaam
(TOMRIC Agency, June 23, 2000) - Following in-depth study
which Tanzania had embarked into about twenty years ago to
search for uranium in various places of the country, recent
report indicate a prospecting positive result. This was
confirmed by the Deputy Minister for Energy and Minerals,
(Greenpeace)
27) UK CURBS RADIOACTIVE MARINE DUMPING LONDON, United Kingdom,
June 23, 2000 (ENS) - The UK government will cut
radioactive discharges into the sea to virtually nil by
2020, Environment Minister Michael Meacher has pledged. The
plan will mean that within 20 years, no member of the UK
public will be exposed to a dose of radiation more than
28) The Scotsman June 24, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 10 HEADLINE:
DOUNREAY REPROCESSING FEARS RAISED BY COUNCILS BYLINE:
Angus Macdonald BODY: CONVENERS of councils in the
Highlands and Islands are renewing their calls for the
Scottish executive to hold a public inquiry into plans to
restart the reprocessing of nuclear fuel from Dounreay.
OCEANS
29) 06/24 Dolphin Research Makes Breakthrough in Hong Kong By
Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Hong Kong
have scored a world first by successfully inseminating a
dolphin artificially, paving the way to preserve endangered
dolphin species and eliminate inbreeding in captivity.
Using ultrasound techniques, scientists at the Hong Kong
30) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts June 24, 2000, HEADLINE:
Government allocates 155m dollars to fisheries SOURCE:
Source: IRNA news agency, Tehran, in English BODY: [1] Text
of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA Klarabad,
Mazandaran Province, 15th June: An official in the Iranian
Fishery here Thursday [15th June] said that Iran's Supreme
(Greenpeace)
31) TASS LENGTH: 134 words HEADLINE: Japan fishes away in
Russia, owes 720 mln yen in toll BYLINE: By Pyotr
Tsyrendorzhiyev DATELINE: YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, June 24 BODY:
Japan's debt to Russia for fishing offshore southern Kuriles
stands at 720 million yen, a spokesman for the Sakhalin
regional administration told Itar-Tass on Saturday. The
(Greenpeace)
32) Russia hurts intself granting fishery rights -- ...
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - By granting
fishery rights to Japanese fishermen in the Kurile economic
zone, Russia dents interests of its own fishermen, Russian
members of the international environmental group Greenpeace
said at a press conference on Saturday. The press
TOXICS
33) The Ottawa Citizen June 24, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; A1 /
Front HEADLINE: New safe-water law to be 'toughest in the
world': Ontario plans powerful drinking-water legislation
in wake of Walkerton E. coli tragedy BYLINE: Michael Harris
BODY: After weeks of taking it on the chin over the tainted
water tragedy that has claimed as many as 18 lives in
34) The Ottawa Citizen June 24, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; A17
HEADLINE: Scents and sensitivity BYLINE: Filip Palda BODY:
Standards of pollution have changed since those
freewheeling days when we could toss a McDonald's bag from
the car while coasting down the highway. The case last
month of the student expelled from school for wearing
35) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Saudi Arabia renews ban on
Belgian products DATELINE: RIYADH, June 24 BODY: Saudi
Arabia has decided to renew a year-old ban on Belgian food
products because of fears of dioxin contamination, a
financial newspaper reported on Saturday. Al-Iqtissadiya
said the June 1999 ban on meat and poultry products from
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