i'm not sure this is important

Sharon sets deadline for Israel coalition decision

Last updated: 20 Feb 2001 12:46 GMT+00:00 (Reuters)

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By Timothy Heritage

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's Likud party has given the centre-left Labour Party one week to join a broad-based coalition seen as Israel's best hope for Middle East peacemaking.

Iraq makes Canada and Poland pay for backing air strikes, rallies Arabs

Iraq makes Canada and Poland pay for backing air strikes, rallies Arabs
BAGHDAD, Feb 20 (AFP) -

Iraq on Tuesday cut trade links with Canada and Poland for their support of US-British air strikes and sought to stir up Arab opinion against the Middle East tour of new US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

another headline possibity

Police search Brazil prison for guns and corpses

Last updated: 20 Feb 2001 14:18 GMT+00:00 (Reuters)

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By Katherine Baldwin

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - More than 100 policemen gave entered Latin America's biggest penitentiary to continue a cell-by-cell search for weapons and corpses, after a wave of rebellions left at least 16 dead and 77 injured in prisons across Sao Paulo state.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=world&Repository=WORLD_R…

Russia launches rival "Star Wars" plan

Last updated: 20 Feb 2001 14:12 GMT+00:00 (Reuters)

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By Jon Boyle

Mexicans Feel Upstaged by US Raid on Baghdad

from commondreams.org

Mexicans Feel Upstaged by US Raid on Baghdad

Observers find it odd that Bush's visit, bombing of Iraq happened at same time.

by Paul Knox

MEXICO CITY -- Why would George W. Bush set up Vicente Fox Quesada, just to knock him down?

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/UK/02/20/iraq.sanctions/index.html

Britain, U.S. rethink Iraq sanctions

Iraq claims the regime of sanctions and U.S. and British bombing raids are harming innocent civilians

February 20, 2001

Web posted at: 8:34 AM EST (1334 GMT)

LONDON, England -- Britain and the U.S. are considering easing sanctions on Iraq, just days after launching joint air strikes near its capital, Baghdad.

i thought that it might be helpfull to look at what the finnished headlines writing looked like last week. Maybe get a feal for appropriat length # of stories etc. sorry i cant help more.

For Live Wire radio news, this Amoshaun Toft with the independent media center network at the studios of WGDR in Plainfield, Vermont.

guidelines for nrp headlines

Hi all in Seattle and elsewhere:
This is Walter from VT currently visiting a friend in NC; hence, my involvement today will be spotty. More from me again next week.

The following is a digest of an email conversation between Philip and Amoshaun from several weeks ago. Thought it would be good to review for writers and those who edit and especially those who produce. Final editing and tightening of headline script falls on the producers.

this is long. i did it yesterday (mon.) but you may be able to use it.

Deardra Sinate is one of the coordinators for the international action center that helped organiza a massive demonstration in Times Square today, in opposition to us imperialism in iraq and the middle east.

This is alink to george seniors speach when they invaded iraq the first time. (copy right?)

http://www.wakeamerica.com/past/speeches/1990/gbush_011691.html

these headlines are from mondays Voices for Democracy program. I hope that this helps. good luck.