this is 45 seconds whereas the other was more than one minute. I noticed we have audio for this, and a total headline shouldn't be much more than 1 minute

On Thursday, British and US officials are to meet to discuss the current economic sanctions against Iraq which have been in effect since the gulf war.

Current economic sanctions are a blanket approach, and critics claim that the sanctions are responsible for the deaths of more than one million iraqi civilians.

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Finance Minister Priyadi Praptosuharjo pledged that

Indonesia will work hard for an agreement with the

International Monetary Fund following warnings that

a continued standoff would lead to an international

loss of confidence, reports said Tuesday.

The Paris Club of 19 sovereign creditors agreed

last April to reschedule 2.8 billion dollars of

Indonesian debt, but any break with the IMF, over

central bank independence, would risk its cancellation.

thatcher you need to answer some of my questions

NAFTA

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new edit, i added a little to arthur

On Thursday, British and US officials are to meet to discuss the current economic sanctions against Iraq which have been in effect since the gulf war.

While the current sanctions are a blanket approach, there has been movement , toward implimenting so called "smart sanctions." Smart sanctions would focus on arms control and let civilian goods into the country.

Critics around the world are claim that the economic sanctions are responsible for the deaths of more than one million iraqi civilians.

ahhh

Update

We have a big story with a phone interview about a boise, Idaho state senate occupation over farmer workers rights

--we have audio.

We will haev a NAFTA court case update

We have first drafts for: Gaza, India, Iraq, Colombia, Mexico-WEF, Atlanta, Chicago

Next were doing more editing and timings

this is a rough edit

On Thursday, British and US officials are to meet to discuss the current economic sanctions against Iraq which have been in effect since the gulf war.

While the current sanctions are a blanket approach, there has been movement , toward implimenting so called "smart sanctions." Smart sanctions would focus on arms control and let civilian goods into the country.

Critics around the world are claim that the economic sanctions are responsible for the deaths of more than one million iraqi civilians.

is this too old, the same old story, etc, and is it too late?

Inquiry into new claims of poll abuses in Florida
Special report: George Bush's America

Julian Borger in Washington and Gregory Palast
Guardian

Saturday February 17, 2001

The US civil rights commission was yesterday investigating allegations by the BBC's Newsnight that thousands of mainly black voters in Florida were disenfranchised in the November election because of wholesale errors by a private data services company.

this needs editing

Britain and the United States are thinking about easing the sanctions against Iraq. On Thursday, British and US officials are to meet to talk about changing the sanctions against Iraq, perhaps implimenting so called "smart sanctions." Smart sanctions would focus on arms control and let civilian goods into the country.