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Hello DeborahN2,

That's the good thing about e-mail relationships -- most people are
not afraid to react honestly when they're being sat on or insulted,
when a lot of real world discussions stay cool, calm and collected when
righteous indignation is really called for. Go for it...

I think your best bet for international news without spending a fortune
would be to start surfing the Internet for news services on line. There
are a lot more than I ever imagined. A clever programmer could write
lynx scripts to go chase just the topics, sources, etc. desired. A
lot of these services are in Europe. Some sample URLs to try:


     <a href="http://www-dw.gmd.de">Deutsche Welle WWW - Language Selection</a>
     <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gerben/news.html">The daily news -- just the
 links - NL</a>
     <a href="http://www.trib.com/news/news.html">News Page</a>
     <a href="http://igc.apc.org">The Progressive Directory @igc</a>
     <a href="gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu">UIUC Wx</a>
     <a href="http://www.sjmercury.com/main.htm">San Jose</a>

In the late 70's I was chief engineer at KALX and we set up a shortwave
receiver and teletype decoder to pick up foreign press services. For a
while we had UPI and Reuters, their channels that were intended for the
Caribbean. But now almost all of that is on satellite. You can still
get the North Korean news agency KCNA, but it isn't worth much.

What station are you shepherding?

Cheers

--
David Josephson / Josephson Engineering / San Jose CA / david@josephson.com