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Danger seen in sale of nuclear savvy
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The Star
Moscow is pushing to capitalize on nuclear expertise — with few safeguards
MOSCOW AT RUSSIA'S oldest nuclear power station, a rundown establishment near St. Petersburg, some despondent employees have taken to vodka to get them through their shifts.
Others have joined the country's growing legion of hard drug users. Two have died of heroin overdoses.
Meanwhile, in the once-elite, closed "nuclear cities" that dot the Siberian landscape, more than 100,000 skilled nuclear scientists and weapons technicians are figuring out ways to survive on pay that is lower than the cost of living.
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Iran joins a commission on Caspian Sea
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AP
BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Iranian officials participated for the first time Saturday in an international commission responsible for preserving the rich biological resources of the Caspian Sea.
The commission wcs created in 1992 by four of the five countries that border the Caspian: Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Iran had previously only been an observer.
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Iran: Reformist paper comments on US media monitoring activities
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BBC Monitoring Service
In the United States there is a system for tracking overt and open information throughout the world, which prints its daily reports as FBIS. This system has the duty to follow up the most important news from the world's media in the political, economic, social and military fields and to translate these from various languages into English.
The daily FBIS reports are printed in eight volumes in the following groups: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Near East and South Asia, China, Latin America and Africa. (It is possible that this grouping may have changed recently).
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The films Oscar forgot
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SF Chronicle
... "The Day I Became a Woman" (Iran): Marzieh Meshkini tells three interlinking tales of female repression in this brave feminist fable. In the first story a 9-year-old girl has to sever her friendship with her best friend,
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Enriched copper zone being developed in Balochistan
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FT
QUETTA : An enriched copper zone, containing about one billion tonnes copper, discovered by the Geological Survey of Pakistan at Reko Diq, district Chagai, 90 km from Noukundi along ECO railroad network, in Balochistan, close to Iran and Afghanistan, is under the process of development by an Australian mining firm, Tethyan Copper Company.
Official sources here on Saturday said that TCC, a joint venture between two big conglomerates of mining world, Broken Hill Propriety (BHP) and Mincor of Australia, has moved forward, both technically and commercially, for economic exploitation and correct utilisation of this rich copper resource based on original drilling by the GSP.
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Text of Bush Remarks on Middle East
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The Associated Press
This morning I made a series of phone calls to world leaders to express my concern and listen to their concerns about the escalating violence in the Middle East.
We are at this point because there has not been enough done to fight off terror. All of the leaders in the world must stand up against terror and must do everything in their power to cut off funding to terrorist organizations, to prevent terrorist organizations from finding safe haven.
And that especially applies to Chairman Arafat. I believe he can do a lot more to prevent attacks, especially the one that just occurred in Tel Aviv.
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The war that Arafat called forth
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USA News
We have come to the inevitable conclusion that the peace of Oslo that plucked Yasser Arafat from his exile in Tunisia nearly a decade ago and brought him to the Palestinian territories is now a thing of the past.
From the moment he arrived up till last week's Passover massacre in Netanya, the Palestinian leader aided, abetted, and led the forces of radicalism and terror. He operated on the blissful assumption that the other Arabs and powers beyond would come to the rescue, spare him the logic of his own deeds, deem him the best of a bad lot of alternatives.
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Gun battle erupts in Arafat offices
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BBC
Israeli troops have fought a fierce gun battle with the bodyguards of besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in rooms adjacent to his West Bank office.
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Iran: Construction work on four petrochemical complexes to begin soon
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BBC Monitoring Service
Tehran, 31 March: Construction work on four petrochemical complexes is to begin any time in the current year (started 21 March), a member of the board of directors of Iran's National Petrochemical Company, Mohammad Hadi Rahbari, was quoted by the Persian daily Resalat as saying here on Sunday [31 March].
Speaking in an interview with the daily's reporter, he said that construction work on all petrochemical projects envisioned in the third economic development plan (2000-2005) was either begun last year or will begin in current year.
"Construction work on four petrochemical complexes to be built in Bandar Asaluyeh in southwestern Iran has started and is expected to be completed anytime in 2005 or 2006," he said.
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Afghanistan Announces June 10-16 Loya Jirga
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Reuters
KABUL (Reuters) - The commission charged with establishing a broad-based Afghan government announced on Sunday that an emergency Loya Jirga, or council of elders, will be held from June 10 to June 16 to select members of a new government.
"The Loya Jirga will be held from June 10 to June 16," commission chairman Ismail Qasimy told a news conference.
The 21-member commission has been touring Afghanistan for weeks to publicize its work and consider possible participants in a gathering to either endorse the present administration of interim leader Hamid Karzai , in power since mid-December, or elect a new leader and government.
The commission said there would be 1,450 delegates -- 1,051 of them elected -- and including 160 women.
All 21 members of the commission voted themselves onto the Loya Jirga itself.
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Bin Laden Aide May Be Captured
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Fox News
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — U.S. and Pakistani authorities are trying to determine whether an Arab arrested in raids here this week is a key lieutenant of Usama bin Laden, a senior police official said Saturday.
The man bears a strong resemblance to Abu Zubaydah, bin Laden's senior field commander, who is believed to be trying to reorganize Al Qaeda after the collapse of Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
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