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1: New Reports on U.S. Planting WMDs in Iraq

BASRA - Fifty days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00164.htm


2: Colin L. Powell On Release of Japanese Hostages

MR. KANEHIRA: Thank you so much, Secretary. We just received the good news from Baghdad that three Japanese civilian hostages have been released in Baghdad.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00167.htm


3: Ramallah: Israeli Troops Take it Out on Children

RAMALLAH - - The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) violently confronted with the demonstrations that erupted after the extrajudicial execution of Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi, shooting three children and wounding them, two of them critically.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00191.htm


4: Govt Held High Powered Secret Meeting On Spy Cas

Scoop understands that a high-powered New Zealand Government crisis meeting was held in the last week of March after the Prime Minister was informed that two suspected Mossad connectives had been arrested in Auckland.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00141.htm


5: Why Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For Milk?

MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering in New Zealand.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0310/S00003.htm


6: Michael King's Last Interview - Transcript

Long live the King The following is a transcript of the last interview Michael King gave before his untimely passing. It aired March 22, 2004 on 95bFM . Interviewer is Simon Pound, transcriber Matt Nippert. From: http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00011.htm


7: Images: Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te Papa

In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces a world exclusive and a bold ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0210/S00234.htm


8: Security Council Ready To Implement Cyprus Plan

Security Council Ready To Help Implement Cyprus Plan If It Is Approved - President Members of the United Nations Security Council today said they were ready to help Cyprus implement a plan to reunify the island nation ahead of its entry into the ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00181.htm


9: A Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In LA

The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0310/S00118.htm


10: The most anti-Israeli American president ever

Another assassination [translation of Hebrew Gush Shalom Avnery on Sharon and the most anti-Israeli American president ever

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00175.htm


11: PM responds to passport case

Prime Minister Helen Clark said today she was aware of a case in the Auckland District Court related to an attempt to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0404/S00267.htm


12: Removal Of Equipment, Buildings From Iraq Concerns

UN Nuclear Watchdog Concerned By Removal Of Equipment, Buildings From Iraq The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency says it is concerned that equipment - even entire buildings - and contaminated scrap have been removed from sites in ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00184.htm


13: Bush Blair Comments Pre-empt Israel Assassination

Remarks by the President and United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair in Press Availability Rose Garden

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00173.htm


14: Stateside: Liar, Liar, Tie's On Fire!

I missed the president's press conference on Tuesday night - it was on at 5.30 on the West Coast and I was on my way to night class - but I got the gist of it as I passed by the newspaper vending machines the next morning. Most of the headlines ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00143.htm


15: OpEd: Is Economic Growth a Turn-on, or a Turn-off?

There was a time when being small and distant from international markets was seen as a burden New Zealand had to bear. Although partially offset by the fact that grass grows well here and the scenery is superb, the wisdom was that a small, remote, agriculture-based ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00144.htm


16: Kiwis say 'show us a different ladder'

Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says a new survey confirming New Zealanders question the value of conventional economic growth shows the Government should abandon its obsession with climbing the OECD 'ladder'.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0404/S00288.htm


17: The Letter Monday 19 April 2004

The signing of a Free Trade Agreement with China may prove to be the Clark Government's most significant achievement.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0404/S00281.htm


18: IOF Statement: Abdel Aziz Rantisi Killed

Leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, killed during a security forces operation in the northern Gaza Strip

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00171.htm


19: Environment In For Close Scrutiny At Intl. Conf.

Scientists from 21 countries will gather at Te Papa today for a week-long conference on using isotopes to study the environment. Participants will discuss the latest developments in isotope research in areas such as studies of animal nutrition and ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0404/S00060.htm


20: Treaty of Waitangi website launched

State Services Minister Trevor Mallard today officially launched - www.treatyofwaitangi.govt.nz - a website which will play a key role in the government's Treaty of Waitangi Information Programme.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0404/S00290.htm


21: Child Used as Human Shield after Beating

1) Child Used as Human Shield after Beating 2) Palestinian prisoner solidarity _TAKE ACTION 3) 'Picking their battles'_Aviv Lavie, Haaretz

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00179.htm


22: Cyprus: Security Council Pledge To Help All Sides

Cyprus: Annan Hails Security Council Pledge To Help All Parties United Nations Secretary-General this evening welcomed the willingness of the Security Council to help all parties fully meet their commitments under the proposed comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00177.htm


23: Launch of Treaty of Waitangi website - Speech

I extend my greetings to the tangata whenua, whose ancestors signed the Treaty of Waitangi here in Wellington, in fact 164 years ago in ten days time - on 29 April 1840.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0404/S00289.htm


24: Public Address 19/04/04 - Auckland Weekend

A police pipe band, footfalls locked to the spare beat of a snare, bisects a line of happy Asians, who clutch long incense sticks as they wait to pay tribute to the giant Buddha whose stage fills one side of Aotea Square...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00142.htm


25: Pinocchio And Pacific Patsy’s Double Act at the UN

This year it’s Honduras’ turn to ‘pass-the-parcel’. That we might just be able to understand, but word is out that it is co-sponsored by New Zealand?!!! Que Linda! Whose dumb idea was this?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00133.htm


26: The Real Deal: 9-11 Profiteering

A Framework for Building the ''Cui Bono?'' UnAnswered Questions - Much has transpired since September 11, 2001. Something does not add up. Someone has something to hide.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00244.htm


27: Ariel Sharon: A Man Without A Conscience

Ariel Sharon was born in Palestine in 1928, grandson of a Russian migrant family and the son of farmers. When he was 13, his father gave him a knife. Sharon remembers, "The knife was symbolic, to

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0102/S00060.htm


28: Kiwis will Support Growth if it Supports Kiwiness

Kiwis do not scare easily when it comes to threats of impending economic doom or of a slide down the OECD ratings. They have heard these threats too often and they have lost impact, according to research undertaken by the Government-sponsored Growth ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0404/S00183.htm


29: Make NZ known the world over for design - speech

If you draw a 2200-mile circle around Wellington, it will take in a lot of fish and some penguins.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0404/S00279.htm


30: GPJA Condemns Israel and Calls for NZ Govt Action

Global Peace and Justice Auckland is calling on the government to cut all diplomatic links with Israel in protest against yesterday’s assassination of yet another Palestinian leader – Hamas political leader Rantisi.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0404/S00104.htm

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