Stress Ruled Out As Cause Of Gulf War Syndrome	by Kris Mullen New study shows that President's special advisory committee erred in assuming that stress caused the chronic symptoms suffered by many Gulf War veterans
Harshest Winter in Century Feared From El Niño	Scientists view with growing alarm the building weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean, leading them to believe that we could experience the most destructive winter of the last 100 years
"Super" El Niño Pattern Discovered	by David Brand A decades-long climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that seems to explain many of the changing North American environmental patterns
Nike Not Fazed By Mounting Criticism	by Farhan Haq "Their main target, 11-to-16-year-olds, are not really affected by articles in The New York Times or in television newscasts," one critic points out as the company enjoys record-high sales
NY Police Review Board Gets Giuliani Veto	by Marvette Darien and Farhan Haq Despite a growing number of protests against police brutality, including recent case of prisoner near death after cops sodomized him with wooden stick
Yeltsin Signs Law: Rusting Nuke Stockpile Now State Secret	by Andrei Ivanov and Judith Perera All information on military bases, including shipyards, labor conditions, and radioactive waste now classified as secret and violations will be handled by agency successor to the Cold War Soviet KGB
Senate Orders CIA To Surrender Info On Honduras "Disappeared"	by Thelma Mejia The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee demands release of documents, which the Agency has stalled for years
States Not Enforcing Clean Water Act	by Elaine Hopkins "Not one of the 50 states has done what the law requires to prevent nonpoint pollution or to safeguard the waters or the people, communities and wildlife that depend on them," stated National Wildlife Federation president Mark Van Putten

Children of a Lesser God	by Mitu Varma There are likely to be 10 million HIV infected children globally by 2000, and many of them will be in India which is slated to be the epicenter of the next AIDS epidemic
A Generation of Orphans	by Thalif Deen By mid-1996, nine million children under 15 had lost their mothers to AIDS, and almost all of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya: Heading Into AIDS Storm	by Moyiga Nduru With one out of ten Kenyans predicted to have AIDS by 2000, the nation tries to legislate solutions
Protecting a Husband's "Rights"	by Lewis Machipisa In Zimbabwe, where one out of ten currently has HIV, lawmakers want to exempt spouses from jail for having knowingly infected their partner, even though women are often unable to practice safe sex because they have little control over their sexual relationships
Laos: Nation in the Balance	by Andrew Forbes Indochina's poorest nations acknowledge growing risk as home to one out of three AIDS cases, caused mostly by problems with prostitution, needle drugs, and slavery, but have few resources to solve
Thailand Builds Successful Program	by Isagani de Castro Rejecting top-down legislation, Thailand relies upon decentralization, strong partnerships between governments and civil society organizations, and consultations with HIV/AIDS victims

New York Sweatshops Increasing, Govt. Study Shows	by Farhan Haq U.S. Labor Department finds as many as 9 of 10 New York garment firms break the country's labor laws underscoring the serious resurgence of sweatshops has in this country
Humans At Risk From Antibiotics In Food Animals	by Gustavo Capdevila Overuse of antibiotics led to the appearance of resistant microbes that can be transmitted through the food chain to humans, says World Health Org
More Japanese WWII Human Experiments Revealed	by Suvendrini Kakuchi Japan has been reluctant to fully discuss those dark pages of its history, and critics find it difficult to produce hard evidence to support reports of Japanese cruelty by thousands of aging Asian survivors
Mammoth China Dam Project Called Risky, Destructive	by Danielle Knight Scheduled for completion in 2009, dam would be built over quake faults and displace more than one million people
U.S. Toxic Waste Dumping Haunts Haiti	by Ives Marie Chanel Four million tons of toxic waste were dumped on Haiti in 1987, and little has been done to identify the exact contents or investigate if it is causing health problems today
Venezuela Builds Anti-Guerrilla Border City	by Jose Zambrano To discourage Colombia's guerrillas that make frequent incursions into the area, dominated by ranching and oil activity
Stock Plunge Just Part of Asian Economic Woes	by Johanna Son Higher unemployment, double-digit inflation lie ahead for many nations in SE Asia; Thailand expects some 100,000 people to lose their jobs before the year ends
Asian TV Network Fights Western Values	by Thalif Deen Asian broadcasts include ads for McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Nike shoes, and Victoria's Secret lingerie
Section 404: Stories Missing From the News	Summaries of under-reported news, short updates on previous Monitor stories