Scoop: Top Scoops

Thursday, 7 September 2000, 4:25 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TOP SCOOPS
Sludge Report: Blood Red Justice At Mangaroa
Scoop Is In The House
The Massacre Of Atambua
Scoop World: Talking Peace - Millenium Summit Underway
Scoop World: Speechifying In The Big Apple
Scoop Oopinion: Eco-Economy – Alchemic Economics
Scoop Opinion: Rankin – Tarania Taken Seriously
3143 Children At Risk “Unallocated”
Cervical Cancer Data Dispute

TOP SCOOPS

Sludge Report: Blood Red Justice At Mangaroa

- In Today's Edition: Evening Post At It Again - Mobsters Receive Nine Rapes Worth Of Justice For a Few Bruises See... Sludge Report #27 - Nine Rapes Worth Of Justice? [1] see also... Crown apology for incidents at Mangaroa [2] for the Crown apology for the Mangaroa assaults.

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00032.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00107.htm

Scoop Is In The House

- Paraphrased answers to today's questions will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm. See... Questions For Oral Answer - Thursday, 7 September [1] see also... Yesterday's Questions and Answers [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00102.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00027.htm

The Massacre Of Atambua

- 6 September -- Militia opposed to independence of East Timor attacked today the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in West Timor, killing at least three relief workers. See…Three UN aid workers killed in militia attack [1] and ETAN Calls UN Deaths In West Timor Preventable [2] FULL COVERAGE: - NZ GOVT- PM and Wahid discuss West Timor killings [3] - NZ GOVT - International praise for NZ rescue mission [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00039.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00043.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00110.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00108.htm

Scoop World: Talking Peace - Millenium Summit Underway

- The United Nations Millennium Summit - the largest-ever gathering of world leaders - opened yesterday at UN Headquarters in New York amid calls for seizing the historic occasion to renew the mission and purpose of the Organization. See... Millennium Summit opens in New York [1] and Flurry of treaty signings accompanies summit [2] . See also …Clinton Must Not Drop the Ball on Chechnya [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00041.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00040.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00044.htm

Scoop World: Speechifying In The Big Apple

Scoop has been posting speeches by world leaders in the International wire as they come to hand. - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan [1] - US President Bill Clinton [2] - Russian President Vladimir Putin [3] - Saudi Arabia Deputy PM Prince Abdullah [4] - Jordan's King Abdullah 11 [5] - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami [6] - Chinese Premiere Jiang Zemin's [7] - Israeli PM Ehud Barak [8] - UK PM Tony Blair Speech [9] - Australian PM John Howard [10] MORE INTERNATIONAL STORIES - KASHMIR - Kashmir update – September 4 and 5 [11] - SYDNEY OLYMPICS - IOC Confirms Blood Tests Led To Withdrawal [12] and In The Race For Gold [13]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00052.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00051.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00049.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00054.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00053.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00050.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00048.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00047.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00046.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00045.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00042.htm
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00036.htm
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00038.htm

Scoop Oopinion: Eco-Economy – Alchemic Economics

- Scoop readers are invited to guess the source of this quote from the Book, New Zealand 2001 , published in 1981…. See... Eco- Economy: Alchemists should depart the stage [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00031.htm

Scoop Opinion: Rankin – Tarania Taken Seriously

- Tariana Turia's controversial comments about Maori being victims of “post-colonial traumatic stress disorder” and her analogy between the holocaust and the fate of Taranaki Maori raise a number of issues and deserve to be taken seriously. See... Rankin: Conquest and Trauma in our Archipelago [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00030.htm

3143 Children At Risk “Unallocated”

- Child, Youth and Family had 3143 unallocated cases nationwide as of today. The number has been building steadily this calendar year. See... Child, Youth And Family's "Unallocated" Cases [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/GE0009/S00015.htm

Cervical Cancer Data Dispute

- Director-General of Health Dr Karen Poutasi says she has bent over backwards to comply with a request from the Cervical Screening Inquiry for information from national cancer databases. See... I've Bent Over backwards - Dr Karen Poutasi [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/GE0009/S00013.htm

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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