Albion Monitor Issue 67 Early October, 1999
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AND NOW WE ARE SIX Earth population reaches six billion, with explosive growth in the poorest countries in Asia and Africa. 100 years from now, there will be either 2 billion people on a sustainable planet or 12 billion in misery The Population Bomb Explodes Donella Meadows: When Push Comes to Shove Study Says Earth at Crossroad for Year 2100 Legal Victories in Judi Bari Bomb Case Court tells Oakland cops that they can't escape trial Still no Certainty That Pinochet Will Face Trial Ex-dictator linked to 3000 deaths seeks "humanitarian" release FATE OF 500,000 IN TIMOR UNKNOWN See also EAST TIMOR INDEX in last issue Worries Grow Over Fate of E Timor Refugees Numbers just don't add up as UN peacekeepers can't find half-million Indonesian Leaders Ordered Militia, Diplomat Says Senior army commanders sought revenge Militia Makes Plans For Guerrilla War As Indonesia forcibly relocates tens of thousands Humanitarian Aid not Reaching Refugees Partly because nations spent so much on Kosovo help Journalist's Death Shows Who Controlls E Timor Despite UN presence, militias still rampage

Possibility of Terrorism Looms in Japan's Nuclear Accident May have been equivalent protest to Oklahoma City bombing "Keep That Spirit, Keep Talking" Warren Beatty's September 29 speech at Awards Dinner

Washington Merry Go Round

Gary Bauer Self-Destructs Closest advisors of christian right favorite jump ship Buchanan's Worst Enemy One-time presidential candidate John Anderson speaks out Three-year-olds for Bush Fat cats aid George W. by giving campaign limit in children's name House Clamps Down on Class-Action Lawsuits A "backdoor immunity" for cigarette, gun companies Pat Buchanan's New Clan Reform Party is ripe for Buchanan's plucking

Criticized for mixing fact and fiction, Reagan's biographer will be despised by history for failing to answer the most important question: Was the president a brilliant politician or a lucky charlatan?

Section 404 : The Missing News

IN THIS ISSUE:   Now that Dan Quayle has dropped out of the presidential race, we may never learn more about his forgotten involvement with Iran-Contra; also, four important details of East Timor ignored by the American press World Church of the Creator Holds Convention Hate group tied to July 4 massacre gathers in Montana Plutonium to Arrive in Japan Amid Protests Enough to produce at least 60 nuclear weapons And What Does the Darwin - Fish Logo Mean to You? The Scopes trial on evolution continues on our car bumpers, researcher finds Bankers Smell Profit in Pollution "Emissions trading" will be big business for right to pollute KLA Complains That UN Isn't "Cooperating" Terrorist group wants more power, said to be illegally hoarding guns

PG&E to privatize dams nationwide under guise of deregulation

The utility company plan could take drinking water out of state regulation, manipulate the price of electricity and put watersheds in the hands of timber companies Colombia Numb From Daily Reports of Corruption U.S. anti-drug money pouring into one of top ten most corrupt nations B.C. Loggers Attack Forest Activists, Burn Camp Called the most violent assault in 15 years DEA Swoops Down on Birdseed Drug cops inexplainably sieze legal, non-drug crop Bhopal's Legacy: Poisoned Water, Toxic Waste Only sources of drinking water in area contaminated Seed Companies Hauled Into Court Suit charges 5 corporations with trying to dominate global agriculture Organized Crime Thriving Under Globalization Plenty of "exciting opportunities" for enterprising and imaginative criminals Japanese Trying to Patent Curry Stepped-up attempts at biopiracy of regional plants or mixtures Granny D's Crusade Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a 89-year-old great-grandmother, started walking from Los Angeles on January 1. Her destination is Washington, D.C., and her goal is to show Congress that people are sick of dollars being more important than votes in our democracy Remembering My Personal Soviet Spy Embezzling Ukrainian Prime Minister was snitch in 1960s Pending Sale of Largest Alternative Media Papers Offer of Village Voice, LA Weekly spurs fear that "weeklies" may vanish Is Russia Considering Genocide in Chechnya? Want to "physically exterminate" rebels in central Asia

Columnists		MOLLY     IVINS Another Expert "Oops!" D.C. Blind to Real World Problems Finding New Ways to Cheat the Poor Straight Talk From Gov. Jesse Pro Wrestling Over Budget Squinting at the Fed Budget

NORMAN     SOLOMON No Truce in Psychological War on Kids Media Flops on Reporting Fed Budget What to Put in Our Time Capsule?

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN The Feudal State of the Labor Movement Mangling the Constitution East Timor: The Elephant and the Fleas Feinstein's Horrid Quincy Library Bill

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