DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 1997
International Relations and Conferences
Bosnia |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
Earth Summit
Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
Holocaust Assets
Nato Enlargement |
Peru Hostage Crisis |
Religious Freedom
Documents in the News
Last updated on March 4,
2000
Bosnia
(Netherlands)
- Press releases, U.S. documents, peace
proposals
- European perspective
Bosnia
Home Page (CalTech)
- News releases on war
- Press releases by Bosnian government
Bosnia Virtual Atlas
- Very detailed road maps with an index by place
Peace Agreement, November 21, 1995
United States Military Presence
- Connect to THOMAS
- For debates srrounding S.J.Res.44, passed by the Senate on December
13, 1995 and authorizing the use of troops
- CNN
Coverage
- Searchable archives of news stories, analyses, and maps
- DefenseLINK
(Dept. of Defense)
- Speeches, press releases, briefings, and testimony by the Defense
Department on Bosnia
- Biographies, maps, and fact sheets
- Links to Army and Air Force Bosnia pages
- Department of
State Foreign Affairs Network (UIC)
- State Department speeches and foreign policy
- North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NATO press releases and fact sheets on Bosnian peacekeeping
mission
- United Nations and other international agency publications
- Open Media reports on Bosnia
- White
House Official Press Releases
War Crimes Tribunal
Commemoration of events, Oct. 15-28, 1962
Cuban
Missile Crisis (Yale)
- Full text of 250 official government documents, memoranda, and
telegrams on the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Browsable and Searchable
- Based on the State Department's Foreign Relations of the
United States, 1961-63
Fourteen Days in
October
- Multimedia presentation with timelines, photographs, and audio of Cuban
missile crisis discussions
- Includes declassified texts, biographies of the players
JFK
Executive Orders
- Full text of Presidential orders issued 1961-63
- Includes numerous security measures, including an active duty
call (EO 11058) issued on October 23, 1962
Earth Summit
+5 (UN)
- Official web site of the UN General Assembly meeting to assess the
progress since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio
- Summit held June 23-27, 1997
- Background documents, press releases, and agenda
Pace Energy
Project
- Debates the various issues of global warming
- Links to global warming web sites
- Key governmental and non-governmental documents
- Includes Rio Declaration and Agenda 21
United Nations Framework Convention
Related Materials
Agenda
21
- English text of key document from the United Conference on
Environment and Development held in Rio, 1992
- Includes recommendations on atmostpheric protection and
reforestration
Earth Summit
+5 (UN)
- Official web site of the UN General Assembly meeting to assess the
progress since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio
- Summit held June 23-27, 1997
- Background documents, press releases, and agenda
Pace Energy
Project
- Debates the various issues of global warming
- Links to global warming web sites
- Key governmental and non-governmental documents
- Includes Rio Declaration and Agenda 21
Statistics
- Global Environment
Outlook-1 (UNEP)
- Extensive report on population growth and the status of forestry,
fisheries, land, agriculture, air pollution, water supplies, and urban waste
- Complete report provides text, graphs, and data
- Historical data and projections usually available by continent with
some information also by country
- Global
Warming (EPA)
- Scientific reports and fact sheets on the causes and effects of
global warming
- Statistics embedded in text and as separate tables
- Annotated links to related global warming web sites
- Ozone
Depletion (UNEP/CIESIN)
- Annual reports on ozone depletion and its affects on organisms
- Text and summary contain numerous statistics
United
Nations Web Site [Web]
- Basic information on the United Nations (history, charter, member
countries)
- Press releases, daily highlights
- General Assembly, ECOSOC, and Security Council publications and
resolutions
- Indexed by keyword and type of document
- Major conference documents, catalog of UN sales publications,
audio-visual material
United States Position
- Clinton
Proposal
- News coverage of President Clinton's gradual reduction proposal
- Speech made on October 22, 1997
- Energy
Department Report
- Press release on use of "clean technology" to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions
- Study released on September 25, 1997
- Links to the full text of related documents
- White
House Initiative on Global Climate Change
- Text of President's proposal before the National Geographic
Society on October 22, 1997
- President's remarks to the October White House Conference
and the written opinion of experts
- Links to climate change web sites
See Documents in the News 2000
for updates
Dormant
Swiss Bank Accounts
- Alphabetic list of non-Swiss persons who opened bank accounts in
Swiss banks prior to the end of World War II
- All accounts are dormant
- Provides name, last known city and country, but not the amount
- Web site provides information and claim forms
Holocaust
Assets (State Department)
- Report on U.S. and allied efforts to recover money hidden by
Germany during World War II
- The full text is 1.6 MB in Adobe Acrobat format
- Press briefing in HTML format
Holocaust-Era
Assets (National Archives)
- Finding aid to civilian and military records as well as
declassified documents on assets seized by the Nazis in World War II
- Bibliography of books, articles and web links on Holocaust
assets, including art, banking, trade, legal issues, cold war, labor
camps, and restitution
Spoilation
of Works of Art During the Holocaust and World War II Era
- British list of 350 art works which may have been stolen by the Nazis
during World War II
- Arranged by museum with extensive description of each work of art
Madrid Summit
(NATO)
- NATO documents, press releases, and history
- Inclusion of Russia and Eastern European countries in North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, signed May 27, 1997
Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty
- U.S. radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe on the expansion of NATO
- Archive begins January 1997
State Department
- U.S. State Department background, documents, and press releases
on inclusion of Russia in NATO
Cable
News Network
- Complete and archived news coverage of the hostage crisis
- Links to related information on Latin American terrorism
International Red Cross
- Humanitarian relief being taken
Japan Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
- No comments specifically on hostage crisis
- Web site DOES provide statistics and general foreign policy toward
Peru
- Text in English
Mario's Cyberspace
Station
- Comprehensive links to news about the crisis and information about
the Tupac Amaru
- Long list of hostages
- Web site may take a while to load due to traffic
State Department (U.S.)
- See press briefings under Hot Topics for U.S. policy
Tupac Amaru
Revolutionary Movement
State Department report on religious
freedom throughout the world
Primary focus on persecution of Christians
State Department Press Release
- Extensive press release issued on July 22, 1997
- Summary of situation by country and explanatory material
Full text expected to be available at
State Department Web
Site
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