Global News Headlines 08/10

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Sunday, October 8, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) EUROPE TELLS CAR MAKERS MORE EMISSIONS CUTS NEEDED 
BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 6, 2000 (ENS) - The European 
Commission says its strategy to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) 
emissions from cars is working after a report released 
today revealed emissions fell by 5.6 percent between 1995 
and 1999. The strategy is based on voluntary environmental 

2) Globe and Mail 07/10/2000, Canada (Online) Prairie today, 
desert tomorrow? Ottawa finally unveiled a plan yesterday 
to cut greenhouse gases, but nothing, Earth Sciences 
Reporter ALANNA MITCHELL writes, will stop global warming 
from having a profound impact on Canada's breadbasket. Some 
experts look ahead and see the West as just an apocalyptic 

3) The Toronto Star October 7, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NAR 
HEADLINE: REFORESTATION'S CRITICAL FLAW BYLINE: Andrew 
Revkin BODY: Clear-cutting old trees and planting new ones 
just makes global CO problem worse, study shows A July, 
1993, photo of Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island shows 
old-growth rain forest in the foreground and clear-cut 

4) Schroeder opens door to energy tax shift MUNICH, Germany, 
Oct 7 (Reuters) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in a 
speech on Saturday his government would not reverse course 
on plans to raise energy taxes but suggested he was open to 
new ideas about which "instruments" to use. Schroeder 
defended his controversial plans to raise petrol taxes by 

5) The New York Times October 8, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: 1; Page 18; Column 1; National Desk HEADLINE: 
Refuge Inside Arctic Circle Is Also in the Middle of U.S. 
 Energy Debate BYLINE: By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK DATELINE: 
KAKTOVIK, Alaska, Oct. 3 BODY: Roughly 250 miles north of 
the Arctic Circle, hard by the icy Beaufort Sea, this tiny 

(Greenpeace)
6) The Washington Post October 7, 2000, Final Edition SECTION: 
FINANCIAL; Pg. E01 HEADLINE: Gasoline Gamble; BP Amoco 
Seeks Environment-Friendly Image With Cleaner Fuel, but 
Will Drivers Pay More? BYLINE: Peter Behr, Washington Post 
Staff Writer BODY: BP Amoco's bid to brand itself as the 
environmentally friendly oil company is about to be tested 

ENERGY

7) Africa News October 7, 2000 SECTION: NEWS, DOCUMENTS & 
COMMENTARY HEADLINE: Nigeria; Troops Deployment: Fresh 
Tension Grips Niger-Delta BYLINE: Vanguard Daily (Lagos) 
BODY: Lagos - At last, the true agenda of the Obasanjo 
administration for the Niger-Delta appears to have been 
fully exposed. And there could have been no better time to 

FORESTS

8) The Vancouver Sun October 7, 2000, FINAL SECTION: 
Editorial; A21 HEADLINE: Prisoner of conscience in the war 
of the woods: Betty Krawczyk and another Elaho Valley 
logging protester were sentenced Sept. 15 to one year in 
jail for criminal contempt of a B.C. Supreme Court 
injunction in the summer of 1999. She regrets the jail 

9) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: ASEAN to disclose names 
of companies caught for open burning BYLINE: Vivian 
DATELINE: KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia, Oct. 7 Kyodo BODY: 
Environment ministers of Southeast Asian countries decided 
Saturday to disclose the names of plantation owners caught 
open burning, which is blamed for constant haze in parts of 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

(Greenpeace)
10) The Toronto Star October 8, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS 
HEADLINE: WHAT'S FOR DINNER? WHAT'S FOR DINNER? ALTERED 
FOOD TESTED AT THE MARKET BYLINE: Stuart Laidlaw BODY: 
genetically modified foods and that they want labels on 
their food. Well, we're putting that to the test.'
 (genetically modified corn).'

11) The Guardian (London) October 7, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
City Pages, Pg. 25 HEADLINE: City briefing: BASF to invest 
in GM research BODY: German chemicals group BASF will spend 
700m (pounds 420m) over 10 years on research into genetic 
modification of plants, Anja Klatt, spokeswoman for the 
firm's agriculture department, told Reuters. The company 

12) Financial Times ; 07-Oct-2000 NATIONAL NEWS: Aventis 
attacks GM crops hearing chairman 238 words By MICHELA WRONG
Aventis, the life sciences company, yesterday accused the 
chairman of a public hearing of being biased in favour of 
campaigners challenging its bid to have a genetically 
modified maize variety registered for sale. A lawyer acting 

(Greenpeace)
13) BBC Online UK 8 October, 2000, Small-scale GM trials 
revealed The small-scale trials have been under way for a 
year Small-scale trials of genetically-modified crops are 
being carried out at locations across England, it has been 
revealed. The trials of GM maize, sugar-beet and oil-seed 
rape have been under way for more than a year but have not 

14) 10/08 GM CROP TRIALS `DEEPLY DISTURBING' By Jo Willey and 
Andrew Woodcock, PA News Environmentalists today criticised 
"secret" genetically-modified crop trials being carried out 
on land across England. Friends of the Earth said the 
trials of GM maize, sugar beet and oilseed rape on tennis 
court-sized patches of land were "arrogant, secretive and 

MILITARY

15) FEATURE-Nervous world eyes nuclear-armed India and Pakistan 
By Jack Redden ISLAMABAD, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The world's 
oldest nuclear adversaries avoided armed conflict for fear 
of the potential consequences. Its two newest nuclear 
powers engage in daily artillery battles. Ever since 
Pakistan and India staged tit-for-tat nuclear tests in May 

16) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) October 08, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 30 
HEADLINE: Baltic threatened by chemical weapons Dumped 
World War II shells disintegrating BYLINE: by GUY CHAZAN in 
Moscow BODY: NAZI chemical weapons sunk by the Allies in 
the Baltic after the Second World War are beginning to 
disintegrate, according to a new study by Russian 

(Greenpeace)
17) 10/07 Activists Rally Military Space VANDENBERG AIR FORCE 
BASE, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities arrested 23 peace 
activists, including actor Martin Sheen, during a protest 
Saturday against military space technology. The 23 people 
arrested were cited for misdemeanor trespassing and failure 
to disperse, warned in writing not to return to the base 

NUCLEAR POWER

18) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Austrian chancellor calls on 
Prague to stop nuclear power plant DATELINE: VIENNA, Oct 8 
BODY: Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel called again 
Sunday on Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman not to open a 
controversial nuclear reactor near the two nations' border 
and said the start-up of the facility would undermine 

19) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Antinuclear activist 
Jinzaburo Takagi dies at 62 DATELINE: TOKYO, Oct. 8 Kyodo 
BODY: Jinzaburo Takagi, known for his antinuclear 
activities and stinging criticism of big science and 
technology, died Sunday of cancer of the rectum at a 
hospital in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, his family said. He was 62. 

20) 10/08 DOUNREAY CHIEFS PREPARE TO ANNOUNCE DECOMMISSIONING 
PLA By Hugh Dougherty, PA News Atomic energy chiefs were 
today preparing to announce how they intend to decommission 
the Dounreay nuclear plant. The reprocessing plant, in the 
far north of Scotland, is due to close in 2004 and has come 
under fire repeatedly over its safety record. The total 

21) Press Association Newsfile October 7, 2000, SECTION: HOME 
NEWS HEADLINE: FOOD 'NOT AFFECTED BY SIZEWELL DISCHARGE' 
BYLINE: Brian Farmer, PA News BODY: Food safety officials 
have admitted carrying out checks on milk and grass after a 
"higher than normal" radioactive "discharge" at a nuclear 
power station. But the Food Standards Agency said food had 

22) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: US nudges Taiwan to continue 
controversial nuclear power plant project DATELINE: TAIPEI, 
Oct 8 BODY: The United States has put pressure on Taiwan's 
new government to reverse a ecision to scrap an ongoing 
nuclear power plant project, official and newspapers said 
Sunday. The economic ministry last week proposed scrapping 

OCEANS

23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: New sightings of oil off 
Singapore shores DATELINE: SINGAPORE, Oct 8 BODY: New oil 
slicks from a tanker spill have been sighted along the 
coasts of Singapore and some surrounding islands, the 
Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said in a statement 
Sunday. The authority said it was raising the number of 

TOXICS

24) The Toronto Star October 8, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS 
HEADLINE: DUMPING GARBAGE IN A HOLE? THE PLAN JUST STINKS 
BODY: I'M VOTING FOR the garbage guy. Oh, I know, mayoral 
candidate Tooker Gomberg has lots of other serious , 
transit, the arts, homelessness. But it's the current Adams 
Mine dump debate that led me to stumble across him. He's 

25) Truck spills 10 tonnes of cyanide into Chinese river 
BEIJING, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A tributary of China's main 
waterway, the Yangtze river, was fouled with 10 tonnes of 
toxic sodium cyanide after a chemical truck plunged into 
the water, Daily reported on Saturday. The official 
newspaper said emergency measures prevented deaths from the 

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