Unit 3. Headlines of the articles

EXERCISE 1. Change the following sentences into headlines.

1. The wreck of a I4th century pirate ship has been discovered off Ross Sound.

2. Baroness Amelia Phipps will marry Lord Clement.

3. Large-scale fraud has been exposed at Verne's Bank.

4. Teachers from Belfast have been angered by education cuts.

5. The council is going to impose night-time noise restrictions.

6. The January sales are starting now.

7. The British Broadcasting Corporation are firmly against televi­sion advertising.

8. The roadworks are confusing many drivers in the city.

9. The National Union of Mineworkers will start a two-week strike.

10. UNISEF to launch worldwide campaign against child labour.

11. Generic Engineering – A Curse or a Blessing?

EXERCISE 2. Look at these old headlines. All these things happened some time ago. What happened exactly?

Example: Kostunitca pushes allies of Milosevic to sidelines. - Mr. Kostunitca pushed the allies of Mr. Miloshevic to the sidelines.

1. Supreme Court fails to end US election dispute.

2. US warns of NATO risk in EU rapid reaction force.

3. Oil prices rise as Iraq cuts supply.

4. EU names Ukraine free market economy.

5. EU agrees to support EBRD funds for Ukraine.

6. Poland promotes Ukraine's interests regarding construction of gas pipeline.

7. New US ambassador presents credentials to Ukraine's president.

8. UCC (Ukrainian Canadian Congress) seeks changes to Bill on Citizenship.

9. Leadership conference in Washington focuses on Ukraine's inte­gration into Global Community.

10. Delegation from Kharkiv visits US cities to promote investment.

EXERCISE 3. Look at these headlines and say what exactly is going to happen.

1. Hunters to get year's grace in new bill.

2. Famed Veriovca dance troupe to perform in Morristown.

3. UK to conduct BSE checks in France.

4. Concord fuel safety proposal to be heard.

5. Pinochet to stand trial.

6. Law on succession to be challenged.

7. Britain to drop debt payment.

EXERCISE 4. Read these articles and think about the headlines for them.

1) HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, and President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria are due to fly to Zimbabwe on Thursday for talks on that country's economic and political crisis, officials said on Wednesday.

Mr. Mbeki and Mr. Obasanjo were expected to show solidarity with the President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe in his fight to redistribute land to the country's black majority, a Mugabe spokesman said: "They are coming here to express solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe," said a presidential spokesman, George Charamba.

"To demonstrate their support for the programme that the gov­ernment has embarked on because they release the land problem is not just a Zimbabwean problem but a continental one." He added that the three leaders would also discuss international assistance for land re-form in Zimbabwe ahead of a visit by a UN special envoy, Mark Malloch Brown, on Friday.

2) CAMP ZEIST, Netherlands — Judges in the Lockerbie trial are expected to rule Wednesday on whether charges should be dropped against one of the two Libyans accused in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner.

The ruling will follow a defense motion Tuesday arguing that Lamen Khalifa Fhimah has no case to answer.

A defense attorney, Richard Keen, went through the indictment, arguing that the prosecutors' case against his client was purely cir­cumstantial and contained no evidence to show he had known of any plan to blow up a plane.

3) LONDON — The British government launched a pre-election rural revival plan Tuesday, allowing development of prime farming land, helping England's market towns and abolishing tax relief on second homes.

The deputy prime minister, John Prescott, told Parliament that under a three-year rural program 100 market towns would be allowed to apply formoney from a fund of£100 million ($142 million) to regenerate transportation, recreation and other facilities where they acted as service centers for surrounding rural areas.

Individually owned village shops, pubs and garages will get mandatory tax relief in an attempt to revitalize rural enclaves while local authorities in England will be given discretion to end a 50 percent council tax discount on second homes. Mr. Prescott said that could raise up to £150 million a year, money which would be plowed into rural investment.

4) BEIJING — Calling it a "milestone" for China, the United Na­tions' top Human Rights official signed an agreement here on Monday for cooperation and training on individual rights and the rule of law.

Under the agreement, the United Nations will provide advice to China's erratic police, prisons and courts on sound legal proce­dures. It will also offer detailed scrutiny of legal changes required if China is to comply with two treaties on economic and political rights that it has signed but not yet ratified.

Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for human rights, acknowledged that the agreement came at an awkward time. Worried about social stability and threats to Communist rule, China has inten­sified political repression and its efforts to control information.

"I'm concerned about the lack of progress in freedom of expres­sion, freedom of association and freedom of religion,'¹ Mrs. Robinson said. "But I also think it's important to engage with China in detail on the steps it must take to comply with interna­tional rights treaties". "Criticism is empty unless you 're also willing to offer coopera­tion in building their capacity to comply," added Mrs. Robinson, who signed the "memorandum of understanding" on Monday with Wang Guangya, a deputy foreign minister.

5) THE HAGUE — U.S. lawmakers reacted sharply on Monday to criticism from the President Jacques Chirac of France that the United States was ducking its responsibility to cut greenhouse gas emissions implicated in global warming.

Mr. Chirac opened a crucial second week of UN-backed climate change talks with a direct call to the United States, the world's biggest polluter, to take a lead in cutting pollution that scientists warn could have catastrophic consequences on global weather patterns.

"Each American emits three times more greenhouse gases than a Frenchman," Mr. Chirac told the conference in the Hague.

"It is in the Americans, in the first place, that we place our hopes ofeffectively limiting greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale," he said. "No country can elude its share of the collective effort."

U.S. senators attending the Hague talks responded angrily, say­ing the French leader's comments were "unproductive."

6) MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that strongly protected borders were vital for Russia's future, but he reject­ed any idea of erecting a new Iron Curtain against the outside world.

Mr. Putin told his increasingly influential Security Council advi­sory body that Russia would maintain strong defenses along some 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles) of borderland despite cuts in troop numbers announced earlier this month.

"No one wants to let fall a new Iron Curtain, but the technical means for defending our interests on the external borders of our country should be guaranteed," he said in televised comments.

The RIA Novosti news agency quoted Mr. Putin as saying that although Russia's borders should be strongly defended, he did not want to scare nations away from dealing with Moscow.

"It's essential to guarantee our country's national interests in the security sphere, but on the other hand, create an image of the bor­der as that of a democratic state, open to the whole world," he said.

a) UN and China Sign Rights Agreement;

b) Putin Backs Strong Borders;

c) Chirac Tells U.S. to Reduce Gases;

d) African Leaders to Visit Zimbabwe;

e) U.K. Plans Rural Recovery;

f) Lockerbie Court to Rule on Motion.

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