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Thursday, 17 March 2005, 4:20 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: Law Suits Filed Two Years After Rachel Corrie's Killing
Ministry of Health Launches Phone Service For Flu Vaccine
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
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Scoop Report: Scoop Improves Functionality For Users
Scoop Report: China Begins Human Trials Of AIDS Vaccine
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Bush Nominates Wolfowitz For World Bank Head
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SCOOP COLUMNS:
Molesworth and Featherston: Politics & Business
Green Left Weekly: East Timor Ripoff Continues
Guest Opinion: No Longer the "Lone" Superpower
Bernard Weiner: The Message Bolton's Appointment Sends
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OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Brash Says Labour Is Nationalising High Country Assets Via DOC
ACC And Plunket Expand Free Child Seat Scheme
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LEAD STORY:
Law Suits Filed Two Years After Rachel Corrie's Killing

[1] Two years after the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie in Jenin two law suits have been filed against Israel and Caterpillar, the company that manufactured specially designed bulldozers so Israel Defence could effectively bulldoze the homes of suspected terrorists and their extended families. See... Palestine: ISM Update Remembering Rachel Corrie [2] EARLIER REPORTS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00280.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00280.htm

Ministry of Health Launches Phone Service For Flu Vaccine

- A freephone information line for people wanting more information about the influenza vaccination programme is now operating. See... Flu Vaccine information phone line available [1] MORE:

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SCOOP NEWS REPORTS:

Scoop Report: Scoop Improves Functionality For Users [1] - Scoop has improved its presentation, navigation, and functionality - including utilities like 'email a friend' and 'print this article' tools. In the upper bar above every Story Page you'll now see icons for ''Email'' and ''Print'' delivering you the options of emailing interesting articles to others or creating ''Printer Friendly'' versions for your reference. See... NEW! Share Information From Scoop.co.nz [2]

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Scoop Report: China Begins Human Trials Of AIDS Vaccine

- Marietta Gross reports China has begun AIDS vaccine tests trials on humans. The first candidate to receive a vaccine was a twenty-year old, reports the public news agency Xinhua. Tests on nine other human-subjects followed. In total there are 49 volunteers available for the test series.See... China Tests AIDS Vaccine On Humans [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00155.htm

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Bush Nominates Wolfowitz For World Bank Head

- WASHINGTON, March 16, 2005 – Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is President Bush’s choice to head the World Bank, the president said here today. Wolfowitz would succeed James D. Wolfensohn, who announced in January that he would not seek a third ... See... President to Nominate Wolfowitz to Head World Bank [1] ALSO:

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SCOOP COLUMNS:
Molesworth and Featherston: Politics & Business

- With its major review of New Zealand’s aid agency due, the OECD argues international aid can too often be a raw deal for both the recipient of aid and taxpayers who fund it. Their argument appears in full for the first time in Molesworth & Featherston. ... See... Molesworth & Featherston (Lobby Edition) – 17/3/05 [1] . See also… Don's Diary [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00164.htm
[2] - http://molesworthandfeatherston.info/satire/

Green Left Weekly: East Timor Ripoff Continues

- ''We went to East Timor to help those people, and now we are slapping them in the face and stealing their oil.'' This is what Chip Henriss-Anderssen, a former major in the Australian military who served with the International Force for East Timor, told reporters on March 7. “We thought we were doing something decent. Now we have to ask the very real question of whether or not we went to East Timor to secure oil assets that aren’t ours.” See... Howard’s Attempted Bribery To Steal Timor Oil [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00163.htm

Guest Opinion: No Longer the "Lone" Superpower

- I recall forty years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O. Reischauer once commented, ''The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan.'' Born in Japan and a Japanese historian at Harvard, Reischauer served as American ambassador to Tokyo in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Strange to say, since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and particularly under the administration of George W. Bush, the United States has been doing everything in its power to encourage and even accelerate Japanese rearmament. See... Chalmers Johnson: Coming to Terms with China [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00158.htm

Bernard Weiner: The Message Bolton's Appointment Sends

- Traditionally, a lame-duck president has a two-year window of opportunity to successfully push his foreign and domestic agenda. Karl Rove knows this well. See... Bush to UN, Screw You! - Bolton's Nomination [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00157.htm

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Brash Says Labour Is Nationalising High Country Assets Via DOC

- National leader Don Brash says the Labour Government is treating New Zealand farmers with contempt by turning the High Country Tenure Review into a Department of Conservation land grab. “That contempt is demonstrated in the responses from Land Information Minister Pete Hodgson and Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons to the concerns about the High Country Tenure Review that I expressed yesterday." See... Labour is guilty of high country land grab [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00363.htm

ACC And Plunket Expand Free Child Seat Scheme

- Strong demand has prompted ACC to expand a low-rental child car seat scheme targeting low income families that was launched last year with Plunket Car Seat Rental Schemes. See… ACC Plunket scheme to get more seats [1]

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