NYMHM: The other Balkan war criminals, water wars of Felton, car crash data public

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   NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * July 23, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 29

   Important but overlooked news from around the world.
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QUOTED:

    "I don't ever again want to be reading another report into
    high death rates at a maternity unit."

    -- Sir Ian Kennedy of Britain's Healthcare Commission, on
    declining maternity-ward services (see "Public Health," below).


CONTENTS:

    *Top Stories*
      Car crash data must go public, court rules
      Newspaper guild alleges retaliatory layoffs

    *War Crimes*
      On the run: Accused Balkan war criminals remain at large

    *Public Health*
      Europe: Birth rate down, maternity wards packed

    *Water*
      A grassroots water grab in California


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  TOP STORIES
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  * Car Crash Data Must go Public, Court Rules

    The public will have access to previously secret
    government data about serious car accidents, a court
    ruled this week.

    The decision, by the federal appeals court in Washington,
    D.C., found that the National Highway Safety Administration
    may not withhold so-called Early Warning data about
    serious accidents collected from manufacturers of
    automobiles, tires, child car seats and other
    related industries.

    The companies have been required to submit the data to
    the government since 2003, under the TREAD Act, which was
    inspired by problems with Ford Explorers bearing Firestone
    tires that resulted in ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005605.html


  * Newspaper Guild Alleges Retaliatory Layoffs

    Recent staff cuts at a group of San Francisco Bay Area
    newspapers are retaliatory against union organizers,
    critics allege.

    The Northern California Media Workers Guild filed a
    grievance with the National Labor Relations Board, claiming
    that Dean Singleton's Bay Area News Group targeted organizers
    behind the recent votes to unionize the Contra Costa Times,
    Oakland Tribune and other newspapers.

    The Associated Press reports that the layoffs came two weeks
    after the vote in favor of union representation, and included
    several strong proponents of ...

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  WAR CRIMES
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  * On the Run: Accused Balkan War Criminals Remain at Large

    A former Serbian leader accused of the massacre of thousands
    of Muslims in the mid-1990s has been apprehended, but several
    other accused war criminals remain at large.

    Radovan Karadzic's arrest Monday leaves Bosnian army chief
    Ratko Mladic and the former president of Croatia's Krajina
    province, Goran Hadzic, wanted for crimes related to the
    Balkans' civil wars.

    Observers are saying Karadzic's arrest will give new life to
    the hunt for Mladic, who is believed to have ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005607.html


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  PUBLIC HEALTH
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  * Europe: Birthrate down, maternity wards packed

    While much has been made in recent years over declining
    birthrates in Europe and other parts of the industrialized
    world, some Western countries' are having difficulty
    providing adequate health care for the births they do have.

    Britain's maternity services are so bad they endanger the
    lives of mothers and babies, according to a report released
    this week by the nation's Healthcare Commission.

    The Independent reports that the study was the largest of
    its kind ever conducted in Britain, and involved all 150
    maternity hospitals in England ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005608.html


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  WATER
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  * A Grassroots Water Grab in California

    The debate about water privatization is global, but many of
    the battles are local.

    One such struggle ended recently, when the mountain community
    of Felton, on California's central coast, won control of its
    water supply from California America Water, a unit of
    international conglomerate Rheinisch-Westfaelisches
    Elektrizitaetswerk.

    According to the Press Banner, a local newspaper, the company
    settled out of court with the San Lorenzo Valley Water District
    to avoid an eminent domain ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005604.html


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