Election Update National Election To Close To Call Gore rescinds concession call to George Bush early this morning, as Florida officials claim their election has a margin less than 1000 votes between the two presidential candidates. An electoral race this close in most states would require a recount. Florida will recount the vote. The Electoral College, which elects the president, will need the outcome of Florida to determine the presidency. IMC post Austrian anti-nuclear activists sealed off the border with the Czech Republic Sunday, the fourth day of renewed blockades aimed at forcing the Czech government to shut down a recently activated nuclear power plant .
International opinion is increasingly negative toward the new plant which is now online .
There are reports of news crews being denied access to the demonstrators. Dialog between Austria and the Czech Republic is increasingly under strain due to the protests. Leaders of the U'wa Indian tribe have protested the Occidental Petroleum Corp. project for years, at one point even threatening a mass suicide should the company be allowed to drill in the area near Colombia's eastern border with Venezuela. Dear Friends, I felt that there is no use in telling anybody what is happening here tonight because I lost hope in anybody being able to do anything, and because there is nothing fair on this earth. Opens in the Sinai, Egypt A summit, aimed at ending the ongoing violence between the Israelis and the Palestinians, began today in the Sinai Peninsula town of Sharam el-Sheikh, Egypt.