these were aird in the headlines on tuesday (today)

bornea violence

iraq, sanctions and weapons inspections

powell in syria about importation of iraqi oil

mexico, cancoon, nafta, protesters, zapatistas

insurance lobby got new law about distribution of medical

info delayed

child citizenship act

bill introduced to demand cleaner coal burning, and

drilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge

this is what was covered on today's Live Wire

Stories:

American Airlines Pilots fined for a "sick out"

Bush and Pastrana meet today to discuss Plan Columbia

reparations for African Americans

Headlines:

Indonesia military to go to Borneo; hundreds dead and thousands flee

Iraq says no to new weapons inspectors; meeting with UN's Annan; critique of sanctions; Powell ending trip to Middle East; call to Syria to stop exporting Iraqi oil

these stories were already aired, on Monday

there were on live wire Moday:

Powell in Middle East,

zapatista caravan,

earthquake in el salvador

arctic national oil (wildlife) and oil spills in Alaska

bush met with state officials about medicade

ideas...

US exporting weapons of torture... (Monday)

Bush lowest approval rating since Dwight Eisenhower at 55% (Tues)

Columbia's UN representative outraged at double-standard of Clinton pardoning US lawyer, Harvey Weinig, convicted of money laudering for the Cali cartel; Columbian Pres. Pastrana and G.W. to meet today (Tues/Mon)

update on the travels of the Zapatistas... anything fresh? (ongoing)

indonesia.

there was a massacre in borneo just now.

I'm hearing it on npr. scoured the net but haven't

seen anything yet.

I need to get to bed now if I'm going to be fresh in the

morning for copyediting.

marco

Here are a lot of very interesting stories. More than we can possibly cover in 5 seconds.

UN website

UN-Iraqi meeting

Macedonia Albanians flee into Kosovo

2 convicted for Ethnic Cleansing

International Criminal Court meetings start

UN troops clash with militia members in Timor

http://www.klipsan.com/elecnews.htm

Voting in Moldova

Voting in Yemen **** big deal, murders, fraud . . .

Voting in Cape Verde

One or two palestinians don't like Powell

kim's going to be walking to 41 states and she started sunday I think by walking

across the george washington bridge.

I think aries got live audio, but I haven't heard it yet.

Kim Denmark

Begins March

Hundreds marched on

the George Washington

Bridge yesterday to

convey a message about

rapidly declining

conditions of the poor,

same old same old if you count all the berkley and amherst takeovers for the past 30 years,

but might be good current events for the newswire.

OCCUPATION AT TRENT UNIVERSITY (english)

by Matthew Beatty 6:05pm Mon Feb 26 '01

TrentAction@GeekUnity.com

Students have taken over the Vice President's office at Trent

University in Peterborough, Ontario.

Another good lead in to the fucked up bush fiasco in oil exploitation in Alaska and around the world. Also kind of a feal good story.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 23, 2001
10:41 AM
CONTACT: Defenders of Wildlife
Brad DeVries, 202-772-0237

Petition to Save Arctic Refuge Overwhelms White House
E-Mail System

this will undoubtedly be in the news tomorow, so we should do a more recent story. but here is what ap said on monday. Also, check chiapas.indymedia.org for the strait shit.

Monday, February 26 7:32 PM SGT

Rebel leader presses on toward Mexican capital in rights campaign

JUCHITAN, Mexico, Feb 26 (AFP) -

Zapatista rebel group leader "Subcomandante Marcos" continued his trek across Mexico Monday, accompanied by an entourage

of some two dozen aides de camp and hundreds of well-wishers supporting his agenda of greater rights for the country's