From: Timothy Bruening <tsbrueni@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Subject: (abolition-usa) My First Message of 1999!
Date: 01 Jan 1999 00:28:30 -0800 (PST)

Happy New Year, Happy 40th Anniversary for Fidel Castro, and Happy New
Millenium 365 Eve!


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From: Peace Action - National Office <panukes@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
Date: 03 Jan 1999 16:18:32 -0800 (PST)

You should respond to me at <panukes>  how many do you want and do you 
want them with a 'disarmament clearinghouse'return address or a blank 
return address.

Bruce

 > From owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com  Sun Dec 27 07:27:25 1998
 > From: JTLOWE@aol.com
 > Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:25:00 EST
 > To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
 > Sender: owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 > Reply-To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > With children home (can I blame it on them?) I have lost the address to
 > request postcards. Do you still have it and if so can you forward it to me??
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Colby Lowe
 > member, National Board, Peace Action
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From: Chiapski@aol.com
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:05:39 EST

Bruce, 
I think we've run out of time on this.  We do the mailing on 1/12 and I'm not
willing to plan for them to arrive by then, and risk not receiving them.
Thanks anyway.
Francis Chiappa

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From: JTLOWE@aol.com
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
Date: 04 Jan 1999 08:42:19 EST

Hi Bruce,

I think I hav edone this already. Anyway 10 please wlith Dis. Clearing house
in return label. 

Did you know that 1999 is the last year in the UN 3rd disarmament decade?
Here's hoping it proves fruitful.

All the best in the new year to you,

Colby

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From: DavidMcR@aol.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: VitW Outreach letter
Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:51:30 EST

In a message dated 1/4/99 6:50:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, kkelly@igc.apc.org
writes:

<< ubj:	 VitW Outreach letter
 Date:	1/4/99 6:50:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:	kkelly@igc.apc.org (Kathy Kelly)
 To:	kkelly@igc.apc.org
 
 January 4, 1998
 
 Dear Friends,
 
 Following is a letter we have just sent off to our entire database.  You may
 already be familiar with some of the info that follows--sorry for reruns.
 We'll be very grateful for any help you can give us in circulating the
 "Declaration" form, (newly modified), and in publicizing our forthcoming
 "Walk Away From the Pentagon." 
 
 Our 19th delegation to Iraq left Chicago on December 17 1998, grateful to
 three Palestinians who have up their seats on a Royal Jordanian flight to
 Amman so that we could reach Baghdad as soon as possible.  Enroute, many
 people anxiously wondered aloud, with us, "Would the US continue to bomb
 Iraq on the first night of Ramadan?"  On December 19, arriving in Baghdad,
 the answer became clear as explosions pierced the night sky.  
 
 We are astonished at the dignity and graciousness Iraqi people sustained
 through four days of bombardment.  Yet make no mistake about it, people we
 met experienced stark terror and fear, each night.  Now they wait, anxious
 and vulnerable, for the next attack.  Meanwhile, the deadly embargo
 continues to devastate and destroy people.
 
 On December 7 1998, Voices in the Wilderness received a Prepenalty Notice
 from the
 Department of the Treasury in Washington DC.  The notice included Proposed
 Penalties directed at Voices and four individual delegates: Bert Sacks,
 Randall Mullins, Dan Handelman, and Joe Zito.  We are charged with violating
 the embargo on Iraq through "exportation of donated goods, including medical
 supplies and toys, to Iraq."  The proposed penalty for Voices is $120,000,
 with individual delegates' proposed penalties ranging from $10,000-$12,000.
 
 Ironically, the 'notice' has allowed us to reach many hundreds of new
 supporters.  At a December 30 1998 press conference in Washington DC, we
 announced our response to the penalty notice, acknowledging through a letter
 to the Treasury Department that we violated the embargo by bringing
 "medicine and toys" to Iraqi children and families.  Our letter explains why
 we are determined to continue nonviolently resisting the pitiless embargo
 laws and invites government officials to join us.  Attachments include an
 international law argument by Professor Richard Falk, an historical argument
 by Professor Howard Zinn and a moral argument by Rev. Simon Harak, SJ, along
 with statements by the four individuals who've been served pre-penalty
 notices. Believing that money entrusted to us must be spent to help end the
 sanctions and alleviate misery in Iraq,  we assured the Treasury Department
 that we won't pay any fines and will do all that we can to prevent them from
 seizing or freezing our funds.  
 
 C-Span aired the entire press conference several times.  The response has
 been overwhelmingly positive.  People from all over the country have
 contacted us to learn how they can become involved in the campaign, and many
 have asked to be included as co-conspirators, (see enclosed "Declaration"
form.)
 
 
 Along with circulating and collecting the "Declaration" forms, please
 consider the following urgently needed actions:
 
 * Publicize, support or join the January 15 - January 31  1999 Voices in the
 Wilderness Pentagon - UN Walk, urging the United Nations to walk away from
 the Pentagon, to no longer allow US foreign policy to pervert the UN into
 becoming an instrument of warfare.  Beginning on Martin Luther King's
 birthday, members will leave the Pentagon behind, headed toward the UN, via
 stops in Maryland,  Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.  For
 details and itinerary, call Beth La Voie, at 404-753-9337 (Atlanta, GA).  
 
 * Help organize a National Call-In Week January 11 - 15, 1999
         
         Monday, January 11, Call President Clinton with message "Don't Bomb
 Iraq:
 	       Lift the Sanctions Now!" 202-456-2580/202-456-1111
 
         Tuesday, January 12, Call Sec of State Albright
 202-647-4000/202-647-5291
         
         Wednesday, January 13, Call the OFAC, Mr. Newcomb, to tell your
 opinion about                imposing sanctions on Voices in the Wilderness
 202-622-2510
 
         Thursday, January 14, Call your Senators 202-225-3121
 
         Friday, January 15, Call your Representatives 202-224-3121
 
 * Organize an outreach and education event in your area--contact us for
 speakers, videos (recent C-Span coverage, footage from Dec. '98 VitW action
 in which Iraqi children sing verses of  "We Shall Overcome" in Arabic, or
 other educational videos), enlarged pictures, and/or suggestions about other
 people you can connect with in your area.
 
 * Help us build our campaign by sending a donation to Voices in the
 Wilderness at the address listed below.
 
 Please let us know if you would like to receive copies of the pre-penalty
 notice and our response along with the attachments.  Alternatively, you
 could visit our website at: 
 
 www.nonviolence.org/vitw 
 
 and there you will find all of the documents along with recent reports and
 updates.
 
 In a January 3, 1999 New York Times article, Steven Kinzer described the
 effect of sanctions on ordinary Iraqis as "an almost surreal descent into a
 poverty they believe they do not deserve."  He closes his article with this
 quote:  "First I sold my television, then my furniture, then my car, then my
 house," said Mohammed Abdul Razaq, a retired office worker. "Everything that
 I built up over a lifetime is gone. A bomb is something you hear far away,
 or at worst, it kills you in a second. Sanctions kill you every day."
 
 We look forward to joining our voices with yours as we cry out for an end to
 this humanitarian disaster.  May we live in peace with Iraqi people.
 
 Mike Bremer     Jeff Guntzel     Kathy Kelly     Rick McDowell
 for Voices in the Wilderness
 
  
 
 DECLARATIONS,  1999
 
 In January of 1996, the Voices in the Wilderness campaign sought commitments
 from supporters which included signing a letter of intent to violate the
 sanctions and help send medical relief supplies to children and families in
 Iraq.  In light of  recently proposed penalties amounting to $163,000 which
 the Office of Foreign Assets Control
 may impose on members of this campaign, we invite you to sign the form below
 to indicate your wish to be included as a member of this campaign who has
 intentionally violated the UN/US economic sanctions against Iraq.  
 
 Please return your signed form to the address above.  We will collect the
 forms and submit them to the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets
 Control, which has already received several hundred such Declarations.
 
 Please be aware that by signing this form  and filling in any other
 information,  you may face future consequences for your involvement in this
 effort to publicly violate the sanctions.  The Treasury Department notified
 us that we would have 30 days in which to respond to a pre-penalty notice
 which arrived on December 3, 1998.  We
 have already submitted a letter that explains what we did, along with an
 invitation to OFAC and Treasury Department members to join our continued
 efforts to bring medicine and toys to children and families in Iraq.  
 
 We believe that the proposed monetary penalties should not be assessed
 against us, because the small amount of money in our accounts is badly
 needed to buy medicines for children in Iraq.  Citizens of the United States
 have given us this money in trust to buy medical supplies for these
 children, and to cover the costs of bringing them to
 Iraq, and to campaign for an end to the embargo.
 
 I have intentionally violated the UN/US sanctions against Iraq by one of the
 following actions:  
 
 (  ) Traveling to Iraq 
 
 (  ) Bringing medicines and toys to children in Iraq
 
 (  ) Raising money to buy medicines and toys for distribution in Iraq
 
 (  ) Donating money to assist the Voices in the Wilderness campaign in its
 efforts
 
 (  ) Donating medicines for transport to Iraq.
 
 
 Name: ____________________________      Contact Information:
 ______________________
 
 ____________________________________________________________________________
 __________
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Voices in the Wilderness
 	A Campaign to End the US/UN Economic Sanctions Against the People of Iraq
 1460 West Carmen Ave.
 Chicago, IL 60640
 ph:773-784-8065; fax: 773-784-8837
 email: kkelly@igc.apc.org
 website: http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw
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From: Shundahai Network <shundahai@shundahai.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering 99
Date: 04 Jan 1999 20:45:45 -0800

Healing Global Wounds
PO Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389
phone: (760) 852-4175     fax: (760) 852-4151
hgw@scruznet.com      http://www.shundahai.org/HGW

Re: Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10,
1999, Nevada Test Site

Dear Friends,

We are writing to you to invite your participation in and endorsement of
the largest, most exciting and unique gathering at the Nevada Test Site in
many years. Already organizations, community groups and activists from
around the world are preparing themselves to join us at the Test Site so
that we may unite ourselves together to break the nuclear chain, learn to
heal ourselves and protect Mother Earth. Others are organizing events in
their own local areas in order to visibly demonstrate the links in the
nuclear chain and show widespread solidarity and respect for mothers
standing in defense of their lands, families and cultural rights.

Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10,
1999, will be a celebration of mothers and their contribution to the
environmental and Native Sovereignty movements. In the 1950's it was the
mothers that were the backbone of the international protest against nuclear
testing that resulted in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and in the late 80's
it was the Mothers Day events that created a huge and successful movement
to stop full scale nuclear weapons testing that resulted in the
Comprehensive Test ban Treaty. It is not over yet.

We need you, your voice, your body and your spirit to stand with us as we
demand an end to all nuclear weapons development programs and an immediate
halt to the dumping of deadly nuclear waste on Native Sacred lands.  The
epicenter for the nuclear industry is in Nevada at the Nuclear Test Site.
This is where we will come together Mother's Day weekend, May 7-10 1999.
Standing united we will say No more! No more to Waste and Weapons, No more
to poisons in our Water, Earth and Air.

Enclosed you will find some material about this exciting gathering.
Included is a: Calender announcement for Web pages and newsletters; an
email flyer and an article about the Honoring the Mother Gathering. We hope
that you will help us in our outreach endeavors by including this material
in your local grassroots newsletters, magazines and web. If you would like
to recieve a full hardcopy packet with photo ready flyers and ads please
contact us at shundahai@shundahai.org

Thank you for your strength and spirit in this struggle to defend and
protect Mother Earth. We hope to see you at the Nevada Test Site!

We need you to: 

1)	Endorse this important and herstoric event. (Please email your
endorsement to Jennifer Viereck at hgw@scruznet.com or mail in the enclosed
form)
2)	Help Sponsor this event by sending in a group donation to help cover the
costs of Native and low income activists. (Donations can be made to Healing
Global Wounds and mailed to HGW, PO Box 420, Tecopa, CA, 92389)
3)	Help publicize this event by putting in a Calender Announcement or
article in your local alternative papers or orgazational newsletters.
4)	Join one of the collectives set up to work on this gathering: Logistical
camp set up; Youth Empowerment; Health Care and First Aid; Outreach; Media;
Community Life; Parking; (Please send a brief email message to  Jennifer
Viereck at hgw@scruznet.com or call her at (760) 852-4175, explaining your
skills and interests.)
5)	Bring a carload, a van load, or a bus load of friends and family to the
Nevada Test Site to join our amazingly diverse community
6)	Send a banner from your school, community organization, church or family
to symbolize your participation.
7)	If you are not able to join us at the Nevada Test Site you can organize
solidarity events in your local area.
8)	If you have a website please consider linking to the Healing Global
Wounds page at  http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/ 
 
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Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10, 1999
at the Nevada Test Site

We need you, your voice, your body and your spirit to unite with us as we
demand an end to all nuclear weapons development programs and a halt to the
dumping of deadly nuclear waste on Sacred Native land. Together we will:
Honor women in struggle for their lands and rights in Newe Sogobia and
around the world;  Heal and honor Mother Earth who provides life for all
beings great and  small; Create alliances and strategies to break the
nuclear chain - protect  the future generations of all life; Celebrate the
unique and powerful gifts women bring to the entire  human family;  Occupy
Western Shoshone lands stolen for the creation of the Test  Site, in
healing prayer and celebration. This Spring Gathering will include:
Community building, cultural events and performances; Programs to honor all
ages; Daily Sunrise Ceremony and Sweat Lodges; Information sharing; Atomic
Cafe, campfires and drumming; Nonviolence training's and action planning;
Mother's Day brunch and rally at the Nevada Test Site gates; Reclaiming
Shoshone Land and Shutting Down the NTS!!! 

We hope that you will join us. For more information about this unique and
exciting culturally diverse event pleas contact: Healing Global Wounds
office @ PO BOX 420, Tecopa CA 92389 hone: (760) 852-4175 fax: (760)
852-4151  hgw@scruznet.com website http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/

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HONORING THE MOTHER
HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS SPRING GATHERING
May 7-10, 1999, Nevada Test Site


In 1870, women in the United States proclaimed the first Mother's Day.  Far
from the sentimental Sunday of Hallmark cards and roses, the original
proclamation was a powerful call for women everywhere to unite in
nonviolent resistance to a world of warfare.  129 years later, we ask you
to answer that original call.  

People all over the world are living with nuclear threats, whether you live
near a uranium mine, a nuclear power plant, a nuclear weapons stockpile, or
a nuclear waste dump, or if you live along one of the many nuclear waste
transportation routes.  We can put a stop to this madness.  We must unite
ourselves together and build a better and safer world for our families and
future generations.

Mother's Day weekend, May 7-10, 1999, should be the best Nevada Test Site
Gathering ever. We are planning workshops and ceremonies that will:

Honor women in struggle for their lands and rights in Newe Sogobia and
around the world;
Heal and honor Mother Earth who provides life for all beings great and small;
Create alliances and strategies to break the nuclear chain and to protect
the future generations;
Occupy Western Shoshone lands stolen for the Test Site, in healing prayer
and celebration.

Each day, Healing Global Wounds begins with a Sunrise Ceremony led by
Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney.  Sweatlodges are available
for all wishing to join in healing prayers, followed by breakfast.  The
program for the main portion of each day is followed by a community dinner.

The camp is located on Western Shoshone land at the gates of the Nevada
Test Site.  You can experience the beautiful and fragile desert first hand.
 Join in an incredibly rich and culturally diverse community from all over
the world.  Learn about nuclear and indigenous land rights issues.
Participate in traditional and multi-faith ceremonies.  If so inspired,
join us in nonviolent direct action to shut down the Nevada Nuclear Test
Site and Reclaim Newe (Western Shoshone) Land!

Please come as self sufficiently as possible, with plenty of food and
water. Be prepared for desert camping where there can be hot days and cold
nights. The suggested donation of $30 will help cover the expenses of
meals, portable toilets and first aid. No one will be turned away for lack
of funds.

Healing Global Wounds is an alliance of organizations and individuals
working to break the nuclear chain, and restore respectful sustainable
living with the Earth.  For the latest Healing Global Wounds Newsletter and
information packet, please contact: 

Healing Global Wounds, P.O. Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389 
Phone: (760) 852-4175 Fax: (760) 852-4151 
hgw@scruznet.com website: http:\\www.shundahai.org\HGW

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Healing Global Wounds Article for newsletters and web pages
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Health and Survival Near the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. 
By Michelle Xenos,

On May 7th  thru 10th,  1999, at the gates of the Nevada Test Site, the
seventh annual Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, Honoring the Mother,
will nurture a multi- cultural community effort to break the nuclear chain.
The goal of the gathering is to: Honor women from around the world in their
struggle to protect their lands and rights; Celebrate our strength and
community; to Heal our Sacred Mother Earth and strengthen our commitment to
defend her.

The nuclear cycle has put us in a spiral that threatens all the living
things on Earth.  People are getting very sick in areas around the mining,
processing, research, production, and implementation of nuclear weapons and
energy. The world faces an environmental challenge that it cannot turn the
clock back on and will in fact last for tens of thousands of years.
Associated Press articles refer simultaneously to the scientific evidence
invalidating the Yucca Mountain Project (a proposed high level nuclear
waste repository on Sacred Western Shoshone land), as well as the billions
of dollars being won by the nuclear industry in Federal court rulings
because of high level nuclear waste stockpiles around the country which the
government is legally responsible for.  We know that there is a
proliferation of interest in nuclear weaponry by India, Pakistan, Korea,
and other countries, because of the U.S.'s disregard for the disarmament
process and the Comprehensive Test ban Treaty. Everyday here in Las Vegas,
we are reading about the radioactivity found in the groundwater around the
valley, which by natural law, flows into the Colorado River. All the while,
many of us know that most stories are not told in the newspapers. 

We are the ones responsible for the health and wellness of our families and
communities. And we as mothers bear the weight of this burden, it is our
role to speak for our children when they cannot yet speak for themselves.
Many of us understand the things that are happening right now to the earth
and her children.  There were times that I did not go to the test site
gates in protest, to protect the health of my son and I. There are health
risks in going near the test site, most significantly if you're downwind
(to the northeast). There are many radioactive particles still in the soils
and sands around Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, and further
towards the east. The city water is questionably contaminated in the Las
Vegas Valley and down into the Colorado River. Buildings, tools, and
materials exposed to radioactivity at the test site can be found throughout
Nevada. These are the risks that we face living near the test site. Along
the entire nuclear cycle, communities face these realities. Contaminated
water, radioactive tailings, trucks carrying hot materials, particles in
the air falling down onto their communities and into their soil, all
attributing to the wide spread and serious health problems that many face
today.

I meet so many people from different communities who are directly impacted
by the cycles of the nuclear chain. Who am I to say that one part of the
earth is more important than another, or that one life should bear more
than their share of the burden of exposure. The gatherings that we have at
the gates of the test site have touched so many lives in so many ways,
these circles are all interconnected. Through building our Healing Global
Wounds community we are learning how to live sustainably with the Earth.
Through the movement of our energies together we renew ourselves. In these
natural cycles we will continue to grow, heal and live in defense of Mother
Earth.

I hope that you will be able to join us for the Spring Honoring the Mother
gathering at the Nevada Test Site, May 7-10, 1999. But if you are not able,
don't let that discourage you! We urge you to join with us in solidarity by
creating an action, vigil or ceremony in your own home communities. Be a
part of Healing Global Wounds everywhere by breaking the nuclear chain one
link at a time.

For more information about Healing Global Wounds please contact us at: HGW,
PO Box 420, Tecopa, CA, 92389, ph: (760) 852-4175 fax: (760) 852-4151
email: hgw@scruznet.com web: www.shundahai.org/HGW 

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From: Nisha Baliga <nbaliga@psr.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) JFK quote
Date: 05 Jan 1999 10:07:02 -0500

Hello all,

Physicians for Social Responsibility is putting together of brochure on
nuclear abolition and is in need of some help from fellow abolitioners.
A few months ago a good quote by JFK was posted on abolition caucus by
someone. 

Here it is:

" Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,
hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment
by accident or miscalculations or by madness. The weapons of war must be
abolished before they abolish us."
			-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Former US President

I would really appreciate it if anyone who knows the source and date of
this quote could pass on the information or where I could find it.

Thanks and Happy New Year !

Nisha Baliga
PSR

------------
Nisha Baliga
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1101 14th Street NW Suite 700
Washington DC 20005
nbaliga@psr.org
(202) 898 0150 ext. 231

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From: DavidMcR@aol.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) N.Y. Times on Iraq Sanctions
Date: 05 Jan 1999 10:11:57 EST

For those of you who have not thrown out this week's N.Y. Sunday Times, note
page 5 in the New of the Week - an excellent half page by Stephen Kinzer
reporting from Baghdad: "Smart Bombs, Dumb Sanctions".

Because the N.Y. Times is in so many ways a voice of the Establishment,
Kinzer's stream of reports from Iraq are interesting. This is a real break to
have a solid, on-the-spot reporter really covering things. Does this perhaps
indicate an effort to shift public opinion away from sanctions? (I don't mean
to be cynical about Kinzer's reports which are solid reporting - I just am
always curious about when, where, etc. the N.Y. Times carries stories on
issues such as Cuba, Libya, etc.).

If you still have the News of the Week, don't toss it out but look it up. (And
on the Op Ed page is a nice piece on our truly hateful Mayor here in NYC).

Peace,
David McReynolds

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From: Peace Action - National Office <panukes@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
Date: 05 Jan 1999 09:43:48 -0800 (PST)

Thanks!
   I should have your order in UPS ground today/tomorrow at the latest.

Bruce
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From: Peace Action - National Office <panukes@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
Date: 05 Jan 1999 10:06:44 -0800 (PST)

Francis,
   I'm sorry the Disarmament Clearinghouse did not get back to you.  
The cards will not fit in a normal letter envelope.  I am waiting for 
the news on their weight right now...

They weigh less than 2 oz.

We have these back from the printer today.  January 5.  If you still 
want them I can have them in your hands by the end of the week via UPS.

Bruce
 > From owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com  Mon Jan  4 10:00:04 1999
 > From: Chiapski@aol.com
 > Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:05:39 EST
 > To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
 > Sender: owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 > Reply-To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 >
 > Bruce, 
 > I think we've run out of time on this.  We do the mailing on 1/12 and I'm not
 > willing to plan for them to arrive by then, and risk not receiving them.
 > Thanks anyway.
 > Francis Chiappa
 >
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From: Peace Action - National Office <panukes@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re:  (abolition-usa) JFK quote
Date: 05 Jan 1999 10:27:28 -0800 (PST)

I believe that is the June 10, 1963 speech at the American University 
in Washington, DC.  This was considered one of Kennedy's finest and 
most pivotal moments.  Shortly after his call for a renewed effort on 
behalf of the test ban, a limited test ban treaty was initialed in July 
and ratified by the US Senate in the fall. 

I might take this opportunity to offer an interesting historical 
perspective.  

In the late summer of 1963 Kennedy was on a tour of 
Western states toting his administration's conservation policies.  This 
was sort of the equivalent to a safe good will tour and had little of 
interest for either the president (he wasn't really much of a 
conservationist) or the media.  In one state, during a routine talk on 
conservation, the president also mentioned his desire to see improved 
relations with Russia and that the first step was ratification of the 
test ban treaty being negotiated (it may have already been completed by 
this time I'm winging it here) with Russia and the U.K.  At these words 
the president was met with genuine, as opposed to polite or 
perfunctory, applause and enthusiasm.  Being the savy politican, 
Kennedy went with the 'peace' theme to rave reviews for the rest of his 
western tour.  The president became more engaged and realized that he 
had a 'winner' on his hands.

Many in the administration or closely observing the administration 
believe that had he lived and been re-elected, improving relations with 
Russia and halting the arms race would have been a major objective of 
President Kennedy.

You can double check the source by contacting the Kennedy library via 
the web.

Bruce
 > From owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com  Tue Jan  5 07:04:48 1999
 > Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:07:02 -0500
 > From: Nisha Baliga <nbaliga@psr.org>
 > Organization: Physicians for Social Responsibility
 > To: abolition-caucus@igc.apc.org, abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 > Subject: (abolition-usa) JFK quote
 > Sender: owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 > Reply-To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com
 >
 > Hello all,
 >
 > Physicians for Social Responsibility is putting together of brochure on
 > nuclear abolition and is in need of some help from fellow abolitioners.
 > A few months ago a good quote by JFK was posted on abolition caucus by
 > someone. 
 >
 > Here it is:
 >
 > " Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,
 > hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment
 > by accident or miscalculations or by madness. The weapons of war must be
 > abolished before they abolish us."
 > 			-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Former US President
 >
 > I would really appreciate it if anyone who knows the source and date of
 > this quote could pass on the information or where I could find it.
 >
 > Thanks and Happy New Year !
 >
 > Nisha Baliga
 > PSR
 >
 > ------------
 > Nisha Baliga
 > Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow
 > Physicians for Social Responsibility
 > 1101 14th Street NW Suite 700
 > Washington DC 20005
 > nbaliga@psr.org
 > (202) 898 0150 ext. 231
 >
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From: Stephen Young <syoung@basicint.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Attention please 
Date: 05 Jan 1999 14:10:54 -0500

Dear friends,

Please do not use either Abolition listserv for contacting individuals unless
absolutely necessary. This also would include requests for copies of documents
available, sign-ons to letters, etc. (Originators of sign-on letters should post
lists of those that have signed, fyi.)

Note that, normally, if you reply to an email from a listserv, it goes not to the
original sender, but to the ENTIRE listserv. This is most annoying.

We all get enough emails as it is, and even though it only takes a second to delete,
those seconds add up.

Thanks much for a more effecient new year!

Stephen Young
BASIC


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From: Timothy Bruening <tsbrueni@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Contributing Editor
Date: 05 Jan 1999 20:07:23 -0800 (PST)

On of my goals this year is to become a contributing editor to the Davis
Enterprise.  How do I do so, and without having to work under tight deadlines?


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From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews-US: 1/6/99 - 
Date: 06 Jan 1999 09:13:09 -0500

1. Groups hit Seabrook over deaths of seals  
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/004/metro/Groups_hit_Seabrook_over_deaths_
of_seals+.shtml

2. NY Times WebX Forum: Environmental Hot Spots - Ward Valley
http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?13@^189324@.ee9deeb/0

3. Clinton will request military base closures
http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm

--------------------
http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm

3. Clinton will request military base closures

Boston Globe, 01/04/99

As plant awaits federal exemption, critics ask  officials to impose fines
By Alice Giordano, Globe Correspondent, 01/04/99  SEABROOK, N.H. - Some 54
federally protected  seals have been trapped and killed in underwater
tunnels at the Seabrook nuclear power plant over the past  five years and
environmental groups want the plant fined  up to $25,000 for each seal
killed.  

But the National Marine Fisheries Service, which  enforces endangered
species laws, has imposed no fines  and is considering exempting the plant
from the Marine  Mammals Protection Act of 1972 and allowing up to 34
seals a year to be killed.  

''It's an outrage,'' said Bill Smith, executive director of  Fish
Unlimited, a New York-based group that monitors  the impact of power plants
on marine wildlife. ''If this  was an average commercial fisherman, he'd
have the  National Fisheries [Service] all over him. ... But because  it's
a utility company, they're given a clean slate.''  

Officials from both Seabrook Station and the Fisheries  Service say that no
one wants to prevent the seals from  being killed more than they do, but so
far it's been  impossible to find a solution.  

Chris Mantzaris, chief of the protected resource division  at the Fisheries
Service in Gloucester, said plant officials  have ''bent over backwards''
trying to solve the problem  and were willing to spend $2 million to
install a sonic  device to deter the seals from entering the tunnels.  

But the Fisheries Service, he said, determined the device  would not be
effective.  The plant is served by three 19-foot-wide underwater  intake
tunnels that pull in ocean water to help cool its  reactor. The tunnels are
3 miles long. 

Each tunnel is capped with a mushroom-shape dome, but  seals easily find
the large opening on the dome and swim  into the tunnels, most likely out
of sheer curiosity, said  Greg Early, a marine biologist at the New England
 Aquarium. 

 The seals, said Early, then get disoriented and drown. He  agrees the
plant has a difficult problem to solve.  

Among the seals that have died in the tunnels are harbor,  hood, and gray
seals, the most protected of the seal  species. Mantzaris said seal pups
have been the most  susceptible to getting caught in the underwater tunnels.  

Smith suggested the plant could at the very least place  grates over the
entrances of the tunnels to keep the seals  out.  

But David Barr, a spokesman for the power plant, said the  problem with
screening is that the holes have to be small  enough to keep seals out, but
large enough so they don't  become clogged with seaweed and other debris.
''That  could create even more serious environmental problems  because it
could interfere with the cooling of the plant's  reactor,'' he said.  

The Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, a watchdog group  that monitors the
power plant, says that problem could be  remedied by having divers check
the grates.  Smith said allowing as many as 34 seals to be killed each
year at the plant is also suspect.  ''If they're reporting they had 54
seals in over a five-year  period, why do they need an exemption to kill 34
seals a  year,'' he said.  

Mantzaris confirmed that the Fisheries Service recently  gave the plant
preliminary approval for an exemption  from the Marine Mammals Protection
Act that would  allow the taking of up to 34 seals a year. The number,
which was proposed by the Fisheries Service, he said,  represents 2 percent
of the area's seal population, a  number that can be lost without impacting
its population.  A final determination, he said, will be made in about six
weeks.  

Both the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League and lawyers for  Fish Unlimited
have filed petitions opposing the  exemption.  

Smith said the issue is all about an ''already financially  strapped
corporation not wanting to take money from their  shareholders to save a
couple of seals.'' He vowed, ''If that permit is issued, we're all going to
 court.''


http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?13@^189324@.ee9deeb/0

2. NY Times WebX Forum: Environmental Hot Spots - A look at specific areas
of environmental controversy.  

spot-ox - 11:15am Nov 14, 1997 EST (#1 of 2365)  

Boy... I think I can hear the crickets in here....  
Here's some new info I received yesterday: As you may or  may not know,
there is a fight going on to save Ward Valley, a  spot in the Mohave Desert
(southern California) about 13  miles from the Colorado River and above an
aquifer. The  nuclear industry wants to bury radioactive waste in unlined
dirt pits in this valley. This waste will include any  radioactive
material, just short of spent rods. Among the very  real, and reasonable,
fear that the waste will contaminate the  river and land, there is also the
issue that this land is sacred  for several Indian tribes in the area. It
is also a habitat for the  desert tortoise, and endangered species.  

This is the new news: US Ecology (the company that has been  chosen to bury
the waste) has hired a scientist (for over  $100k) to study the tortoises.
She was supposed to watch and  learn, without intruding upon them. She was
caught digging  them up out of their burroughs. A complaint was filed
against  her by the coalition to save Ward Valley. She was later  caught
(and we have photos) putting transmitters on the  tortoises using epoxy.
These tortoises are given a transmitter  about one fourth the size of the
tortoise itself. It is wrapped up  (I'm not sure what with) and glued to
the back of the tortoise.  The epoxy is all over the transmitter, and
covers the tortoises  back in a circle. The tortoise is released before the
epoxy  dries. What you end up with is a tortoise who is covered with  dirt
that's glued on, and will probably die because the epoxy  will not allow
the shells on the tortoise to grow as it ages. 

This is how the "caring" company studies the area and  animals. If it's any
clue, we should be scared about what they  will do if they ever get that
waste in the ground. 

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http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm

3. Clinton will request military base closures

USA Today, January 6, 1998

...WASHINGTON - President Clinton's defense budget proposal to Congress
next month will include a request for authority to close more military
bases, a White House official said Tuesday. Clinton hopes Congress will
support the base closures to help offset the cost of military modernization
programs, said Robert Bell, senior director of defense programs at the
National Security Council. The administration is counting on saving $2-3
billion from new base closures through 2005. Bell would not say which - or
how many total - bases the administration would like to close. Although
some congressmen favor more closures, many fear the economic backlash felt
in communities dependent on the military.

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From: Bob Tiller <btiller@psr.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Job announcement
Date: 06 Jan 1999 16:42:46 -0500

Friends,

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national membership organization
committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, is seeking an Associate
Director of Security Programs, who will have responsibilities in two
broad areas:

Research and Policy:
     *Provide research and technical expertise on a broad range of
nuclear weapons issues, including: nuclear weapons dismantlement,
fissile material disposition, MOX fuel, cleanup of  DOE's nuclear
weapons complex, nuclear waste disposition, nuclear weapons-related
public health matters, the Stockpile Stewardship program, the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, tritium production and other
nuclear weapons topics.
     *Monitor and report on legislative matters and executive branch
developments in issue areas.
     *Prepare issue briefs, articles and other materials for
decision-makers and for activists.
     *Assist in developing advocacy initiatives.
     *Conduct special projects.

Organizing and Education:
     *Enlarge and strengthen PSR's Security activist network.
     *Maintain regular communication with PSR chapters, activists and
physician experts.
     *Produce educational materials for chapters and activists.
     *Mobilize activists for action.
     *Assist in coordinating national advocacy campaigns.
     *Maintain and update the Security portion of PSR's website.
     *Assist in drafting media statements.
     *Assist in planning and organizing conferences, training programs
and other educational events.

Qualifications:
     *Commitment to abolition of nuclear weapons
     *Knowledge of nuclear weapons-related issues
     *Strong writing and speaking skills
     *Ability to handle multiple tasks and to meet deadlines
     *Ability to work both independently and cooperatively
     *Minimum Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred
     *Minimum of three years of relevant experience

To apply, send resume to:
  Robert Tiller
  Physicians for Social Responsibility
  1101 14th St. N.W.
  Washington D.C. 20005
  E-mail <btiller@psr.org>

Deadline is Jan. 21, 1999.

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From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews-US: 1/7/99 - Trident cuts; NV Plutonium leaks; WA
Date: 07 Jan 1999 07:06:28 -0500

1. Naval Chief Backs Cut In Force of Trident Subs 14 Would Suffice, Admiral
Tells Senate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/07/144l-010799-idx.html

2. Nuclear Blast Seepage Is Found
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/science/sci-plutonium-seepage
.html

3. Spokane tribe is hot about radioactive waste transport   
http://www.indiancountry.com/NW30.html

4. Local Nuke Plant Fire Extinguished (Minnesota)
http://www.wcco.com/news/stories/news-990106-054514.html

5. Clinton to Pledge $7 Billion for Missile Defense System
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/clinton-defense.html

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/07/144l-010799-idx.html

1. Naval Chief Backs Cut In Force of Trident Subs 14 Would Suffice, Admiral
Tells Senate

By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 7, 1999;
Page A23 

The chief of naval operations has told Congress for the first time that he
would like to reduce the number of operational Trident ballistic missile
submarines from 18 to 14, opening the way for Congress to repeal its ban
against cutting U.S. strategic nuclear force levels until the Russian
parliament ratifies the START II treaty.

"My personal belief is that a 14-boat force is the minimum acceptable force
right now," Adm. J.L. Johnson said.

Under present law, if the Russian Duma continues to delay approval of the
1993 strategic arms control treaty as it has done for the past year, the
Navy must plan to spend up to $500 million in fiscal 2000 to stay
operational at the START I level of 18. That number includes four of the
older, giant Tridents that were scheduled to be decommissioned beginning in
2002.

But at Tuesday's Senate Armed Services Committee session, when Chief of
Naval Operations Johnson was asked by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)
whether the Navy would rather have 14 of the subs and use the money for
other priorities, he replied, "Personally I would, yes, sir."

The amendment that froze strategic forces at START I levels was added two
years ago to the defense authorization bill by Sen. Robert C. Smith
(R-N.H.), chairman of the Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee.

Opponents of the provision want to debate the issue "based on what forces
are needed," a senior congressional aide said yesterday, "and not on the
politics associated with the arms control treaties."

Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), chairman of the committee, said before the
hearing that "we have to reevaluate priorities" on strategic weapons. "We
may be able to redirect money from strategic weapons to strategic defense,"
he said. A spokesman said Smith was tied up with meetings yesterday and
unavailable for comment.

Eugene E. Habiger, a retired Air Force general and former head of the U.S.
Strategic Command, which included the Tridents, said "it would make sense"
for the Navy to go down to 14, because "there is no need to stay at the
START I level from a military prospective; although if you stay at that
level it may give you some political leverage" with the Russians. But
Habiger also noted that Moscow's "sub fleet is belly-up."

A military source familiar with intelligence said Moscow had a serious
problem with one of the ballistic subs in the Northern Fleet last year when
seawater got into the missile compartment when some seals leaked. The sub
immediately surfaced and was brought back into port. The other alert
Russian ballistic missile sub was brought back from its patrol in the
Pacific for repairs. So for two to three weeks, the Russians for the first
time in recent memory had no ballistic missile subs patrolling on alert.

The Russians do keep at least two other ballistic missile subs on pier-side
alert, one in the Atlantic and the other in the Pacific.

The United States maintains five Trident subs on patrol alert, with five
others either coming or going on patrol and ready to fire their missiles if
needed. The Tridents each have 24 missiles that can carry up to eight
warheads. The warheads have seven times the force of the Hiroshima bomb and
are designed to destroy Russian missiles in hardened silos.

Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who is pushing for the United States to begin
making unilateral reductions in its strategic forces, said yesterday that
"waiting for the Russians to act on START II is a mistake." With their
economy collapsing, their nuclear systems deteriorating and their
experiment with democracy on the line, Kerrey said, members of the Russian
parliament "don't have time to talk about nuclear arms control."

As of today, there are 10 modern Tridents based at Kings Bay, Ga., all
armed with highly accurate D-5 missiles that can travel more than 4,000
miles. Eight older Tridents, fitted with 24 of the earlier C-4 missiles,
are based at Bangor, Wash.

If current law continues, all eight of the older Tridents would have to
have their nuclear engines refurbished and their launching systems would
need to be retrofitted to carry modern D-5 missiles. 

-----------------------

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/science/sci-plutonium-seepage
.html

2. Nuclear Blast Seepage Is Found

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, January 7, 1999

(Stories also found at
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/plutonium990106.html;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_249000/249743.stm;
Reuters:
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/scitech/010699/plutonium.sml)

Traces of plutonium from a test blast in the Nevada desert migrated nearly
a mile through water found underground, a study has found, prompting the
Federal Government to recalculate slightly the risks that would be posed by
an underground nuclear waste storage site. 

Scientists said the amount of radioactivity that could move this way was
too small to endanger the public, and agreement came from the Energy
Department in reassessing the risks of the Government's proposed waste site
beneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada. In a study published Wednesday in the
journal Nature, researchers concluded that minute amounts of plutonium had
flowed downstream on particles of debris suspended in water. 

Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California
and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico looked at a
30-year-old nuclear explosion that reached below the water table on the
Nevada Test Site, where 828 underground nuclear tests were conducted from
1956 to 1992. The site is 70 miles northwest of Las Vegas. 

The Energy Department wants to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca
Mountain, about 90 miles northeast of Las Vegas, to entomb 80,000 tons of
used reactor fuel that will remain deadly for 300,000 years. 

The department took the latest findings into account and concluded that the
seepage would not happen for 10,000 to 100,000 years; even then, the
escaped radiation would be less than the background amount. 

But Bob Loux, executive director of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects,
said he believed that containers holding the waste would fail much more
quickly than the Government estimates, allowing unknown quantities of
contaminants to escape within 500 years.

----------------------------

http://www.indiancountry.com/NW30.html

3. Spokane tribe is hot about radioactive waste transport   

Cate Montana, Indian Country Today staff, Northwest Bureau - January 6,
1999   

WELLPINIT, Wash. - Dawn Mining Co., seeking renewal of a license to
transport radioactive fill material to reclaim a defunct uranium mill on
the border of the Spokane reservation, has run into hot protest from the
tribe. 

At a recent public hearing at the tribe's longhouse, tribal members spoke
out against the mining company's proposal to transport slightly radioactive
fill from sites in New York, Missouri and other states to fill the
40-million-cubic-foot hole at the Ford site in Washington. 

Most members feared the fill would further contaminate Chamokane Creek, the
ground water and the aquifer that supply the tribe's water. Additional
concerns were raised about the safety of transporting the material from the
Spokane rail yards  to the Ford mill site. 

"The road they've chosen is Highway 231," said Alfred Peone, tribal
councilman. "It's one of our main routes from the reservation to Spokane...
. There are a lot of really dangerous spots on it." 

Peone said there is a high incidence of traffic accidents on the route and
in certain areas subject to flooding, highway shoulders have collapsed. 

It is estimated that in the years it would take to fill the impoundment at
the mill, 50,000 trucks would have to travel the rural route heavily used
by school children and tribal members. 

But most of the tribe's concern is over importation of additional
radioactive material to reclaim the mill project. 

"We feel they didn't do enough research," maintains Peone. "Dawn has always
said they don't have any money for any kind of reclamation. Well, they've
got enough money for all these lawyers and travel and stumbling blocks at
all these meetings, yet they don't have enough money for closing that
thing. If we'd done something like that, we'd be held accountable to do
what we're supposed to do to clean it up." 

According to Bob Nelson, general manager of Dawn Mining, the company has
been trying to reclaim and close the project for a long time. But, because
of the complete collapse of the U.S. uranium mining industry during the
past 15 years, funds have not been available to complete the project. 

"The reason we're using 11e(2) byproduct material is that it's a source of
revenue, plus it fills our facility, something that's got to be done
anyway," Nelson said. "It fills the impoundment. It provides money to
reclaim the whole site. Plus we hope to make money enough to reclaim the
mine site also." Nelson also stated that although there's a big need for a
disposal facility in the United States to handle this type of tailings
waste and despite rumors to the contrary, the small town of Ford "is not
the place for a radioactive waste disposal facility. 

"We're just looking to solve a problem that's already here," he said. 

Gary Robertson of the Department of Health's radiation unit, told tribal
members at the meeting that the proposed by-product fill material is no
more radioactive than the tailings  already on the mill site. he said
readings of gamma radiation from the fence line of the mill property is at
a "background level." 

"When we do samplings in Chamokane Creek," Robertson said. "We get the same
readings of 2 to 6 picoCuries per liter at the headwaters above the mill,
prior to any effluent, as we do downstream of the mill." 

The Environmental Protection Agency has listed 300 picoCuries per liter as
the acceptable level of radiation for groundwater. 

"The tribe expressed a lot of fear and concern at the last meeting,"
Robertson said. "And I don't know how to alleviate their fears." 

Currently the tribe is at issue with the Department of Health over the mill
reclamation for several reasons. These and other complaints were filed
against the health department in district court in August: 

- Radioactive and other contaminant's from the mill site have entered and
continue to enter surface waters on the mill site, which in turn have
entered and continue to enter the surface waters of Chamokane Creek at
locations owned by the Spokane tribe as well as interconnected ground water
of the reservation. 

- The Department of Health Final Environmental Impact Statement determined
that the preferred alternatives for filling Dawn Mining's vast tailings
impoundment were to use clean, uncontaminated fill material. One of the
primary reasons for the preference was that using clean fill would present
fewer traffic safety hazards. 

- The Department of Health recommendation that Dawn Mining Co. post a $20
million dollar reclamation bond has not been collected. 

- A supplemental Environmental Impact Statement did not fully consider the
transportation and traffic issues related to the Dawn Mining Co. waste
importation proposal because the company had not selected the proposed route.

 Unlike the tribe's previous participation with the health department in
closing and reclamation of another uranium mine site, Western Nuclear,
Robertson said the tribe refused to participate on reclamation of the
current Dawn Mining project. 

He said it refused to join the Local Citizens Monitoring Committee which
has absolute veto power over what procedures are used in the mill site
reclamation project, and that the tribe also refused to sign a memorandum
of agreement wherein the Department of Health would share all of its
information with the tribe. 

"The tribe is not a participant in this because we didn't use the
material," said Peone. "We had the land that it was on. The federal
government came in and had miners locate it (the uranium). They used the
ore. They used the uranium for nuclear purposes during several years. It
wasn't our part to do it. 

"We got the land, but they're the ones that used the material. We didn't
use any of it. We don't want to be accountable for their mistakes that they
should have taken care of years ago." 

But, according to both the Department of Health and Dawn Mining Co., it was
several tribal members who discovered the uranium deposits in 1954; tribal
members who found funding with Newmont Inc. of Denver, Dawn Mining's
primary shareholder, and tribal members who still hold shares in Dawn
Mining Co. 

"The mill was embraced by the tribe and the local community throughout its
history," said Nelson. "The tribe made a lot of money on this project in
royalties and lease payments and such." 

Dawn Mining's license with the state of Washington to transport the
radioactive material expires in January.  (c) 1999 Indian Country Today


http://www.wcco.com/news/stories/news-990106-054514.html

4. Local Nuke Plant Fire Extinguished (Minnesota)

The Associated Press Posted 5:34 a.m. January 6, 1999

Prairie Island Plant Fire Contained Quickly, No Injuries; Safety Systems
Unaffected, But On Reactor Automatically Shut Down

RED WING, Minn. -- Emergency crews responded to a transformer explosion and
fire at Northern States Power Co.'s Prairie Island nuclear plant.

A reservoir of oil that sits on top of a transformer caught fire after an
explosion at 1:12 p.m. Tuesday, the utility said. The fire was contained
within 30 yards of the equipment.

No injuries or structural damage were reported, and it did not affect the
safety systems of the plant, NSP spokesman Paul Adelman said. No customers
lost power.

The fire was put out quickly, and one reactor automatically shut down,
Adelman said. NSP reported the incident, as required, to the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.

The transformer is located outside and served reactor Unit 1.

Adelman said transformers fail periodically. 

From our archive: 

Nov. 20, 1998: Shut-Down Nuke Plant Restarted Nov. 2: Auto Shut Down At
Nuclear Plant Sept. 19: NSP Closes Nuclear Power Plant Aug. 27:
Monticello's Nuclear Output Cut June 19: Prairie Island Reactor At Full
Power June 9: Prairie Island Plant Temporarily Closed

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[Interesting; also in today's news is an analysis of 10-20% lost business
in aerospace industries Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman (ask and I'll send it to
you).  et]

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/clinton-defense.html

5. Clinton to Pledge $7 Billion for Missile Defense System

By STEVEN LEE MYERS, January 7, 1999 New York Times

WASHINGTON -- Sixteen years after President Ronald Reagan envisioned a
"Star Wars" program to protect the United States from ballistic missile
attacks, President Clinton plans to pledge about $7 billion over six years
to build a limited missile defense system, even though he will leave a
final decision on whether to build it until later, officials said. 

Clinton is not expected to decide whether -- and how -- to build a system
until the summer of 2000. And at this point, no one has proved that such a
system will work. 

But the officials said the decision to set aside money in the Pentagon's
budget now was meant to underscore the Administration's political
commitment to the idea and to head off growing criticism from Republicans
in Congress that Clinton was not doing enough to defend the nation from a
missile strike. 

Since Reagan unveiled his dream of creating an impenetrable shield against
nuclear missiles in 1983, the nation has spent some $55 billion trying to
develop a workable weapon -- so far to no avail. But never before has any
money been put in the budget actually to build one. 

The money, which officials put at roughly $7 billion, is part of the more
than $100 billion in new spending Clinton is expected to propose giving the
Pentagon between now and 2005 when he submits his budget to Congress next
month. 

The White House and Pentagon declined to discuss the spending proposal
today, but the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Henry H.
Shelton, signaled the Administration's intent at an appearance before the
Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. 

General Shelton said the Pentagon had the resources to continue to develop
the program. The Administration is "also putting money into the program so
that at the time that we have the technology, if in fact the threat
justifies it, then we could go ahead with the fielding," he said when
questioned about Clinton's commitment to a missile defense system. 

The system now being developed and tested is a mere shadow of the
space-based network of satellites and lasers that Reagan envisioned to
knock out even the largest Soviet nuclear strike. The Pentagon officially
abandoned that concept in 1993 and has since concentrated on using ground-
or sea-based missiles to intercept perhaps a few missiles launched either
accidentally from a superpower like Russia or deliberately by a hostile
nation like North Korea. 

Even with a pledge of money, the effort remains burdened with economic,
technological, political and diplomatic problems. And there are lingering
doubts that one will ever be feasible. 

The system faces a pivotal test in June. The program's developers, led by
the Boeing Company, plan to launch a dummy missile from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, in California, and try to destroy it in space over the Pacific
Ocean with an interceptor missile fired from Kwajalein Atoll, in the
Marshall Islands. 

Three more tests are scheduled before Clinton makes a decision next year.
Previous tests of interceptor missiles have failed, as have tests of
shorter-range missiles, like those in the troubled Theater High-Altitude
Area Defense program, or Thaad, run by the Army. But officials at the
Pentagon express confidence that a limited system may at last be
technologically at hand. 

"Those of us who work in the program are very confident we're going to have
a working system, and we're going to have it soon," Lieut. Col. Richard A.
Lehner, a spokesman for the National Missile Defense Program, at the
Pentagon, said today. 

Republicans in Congress have long wanted to revive at least part of
Reagan's original vision. Faced with Republican-sponsored legislation
mandating the creation of a national system, Clinton promised to proceed
with research for three years and decide in 2000 on whether the threat
justified building a system by 2003, a policy referred to a "three plus
three." 

A Pentagon official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the
Administration had to include money in the Pentagon's future budgets or its
promise to consider building a system would ring hollow. 

"This is a recognition that we can't have our cake and eat it, too," the
official said. 

Others said the White House and Pentagon had concluded that the threat from
intercontinental missiles from hostile nations was growing, noting North
Korea's test of a three-staged missile on Aug. 31. Although Clinton and his
aides have not yet made a decision, one senior Administration official
said, "they're coming closer." 

Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, a Republican and one of the
strongest proponents of a national missile defense, said he would welcome a
decision to put money in the budget. But Weldon said he remained skeptical
about the President's motives and vowed to press again for legislation to
build a system as soon as possible. 

"It's certainly grudgingly coming around," Weldon said of the
Administration. "I'm still not sure there's a solid commitment there." 

Many arms control advocates argue that a system -- if someday workable --
would violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed by the United States
and the Soviet Union in 1972, which sharply limited the number, type and
placement of missiles that could be used to counter enemy missiles. 

Other critics argue that the effort squanders resources that could better
spent trying to keep terrorists or hostile nations from ever acquiring the
technology to develop weapons in the first place. And even within the
Pentagon, there are those who argue that the real threat of nuclear attack
against the United States is a terrorist armed with a warhead in a car or
truck, not a nuclear-tipped missile fired from thousands of miles away. 

"This does not seem to be a wise and balanced approach to U.S. defense
needs," said Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., president of the Arms Control
Association in Washington.

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From: DavidMcR@aol.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Call to Action on Sanctions
Date: 08 Jan 1999 23:08:59 EST

In a message dated 1/8/99 10:38:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jschaffner@labornet.org writes:

<< ate:	1/8/99 10:38:12 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:	jschaffner@labornet.org (J Schaffner)
 To:	NatCofC@aol.com (CoC - 1)
 
 (This was forwarded on the ZNET list)
 January 8, 1999
 
 A CALL TO ACTION ON SANCTIONS 
 AND THE U.S. WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ
 
 by Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Edward Said, and Howard Zinn
 
 At the end of 1998, the United States once again rained bombs on the
 people of Iraq. But even when the bombs stop falling, the U.S. war
 against the people of Iraq continues through the harsh economic
 sanctions. This is a call to action to end all the war.
 
 This month U.S. policy will kill 4,500 children under the age of 5 in
 Iraq, according to UN studies, just as it did last month and the month 
 before that, all the way back to 1991. Since the end of the Gulf War, at
 least hundreds of thousands -- maybe more than 1 million -- Iraqis 
 have died as a direct result of the UN sanctions on Iraq, which are a
 direct result of U.S. policy.
 
 This is not foreign policy -- it is sanctioned mass-murder that is
 nearing holocaust proportions. If we remain silent, we are condoning a
 genocide that is being perpetrated in the name of peace in the Middle
 East, a mass slaughter that is being perpetrated in our name. 
 
 The time has come for a call to action to people of conscience. We are
 past the point where silence is passive consent -- when a crime reaches
 these proportions, silence is complicity. There are several tasks ahead
 of us.
 
 First, we must organize and make this issue a priority, just as
 Americans organized to stop the war in Vietnam, and to protest U.S.
 policies in Central America and South Africa. We need a national
 campaign to lift the sanctions. 
 
 This kind of work has already begun, and those efforts need our help.
 For the past several years, individuals and groups have been 
 delivering medicine and other supplies to Iraq in defiance of the U.S.
 blockade. Now, members of one of those groups, Voices in the Wilderness
 in Chicago, have been threatened with massive fines by the federal
 government for "exportation of donated goods, including medical supplies
 and toys, to Iraq absent specific prior authorization." Our government
 is harassing a peace group that takes medicine and toys to dying 
 children; we owe these courageous activists our support.
 
 Such a campaign is not equivalent to support for the regime of Saddam
 Hussein. To oppose the sanctions is to support the Iraqi people. The 
 people are suffering because of the actions of both the Iraqi and U.S.
 governments, but our moral responsibility lies here in the United 
 States, to counter the hypocrisy and inhumanity of our leaders.
 
 Also, there has been a virtual embargo on news of the effects of the
 sanctions in the mainstream media. For the most part, the American
 people do not know what evil is being carried out in our name. We must
 continue to apply pressure on journalists at all levels -- from our
 local papers to the network news -- to cover this tragedy. We should
 overwhelm the major press with letters to the editor and put pressure on 
 journalists to cover the story.
 
 And we must realize this could be a long struggle. Preparations should
 begin for all the possible strategies, including civil disobedience 
 once a sufficient number of people are committed. Direct action that
 forces a moral accounting likely is going to be necessary.
  
 Whatever else we are doing, we should treat this as an emergency and put
 it at the top of our agenda. Existing groups can work on the issue, 
 new groups may need to be formed, and national networks need to be
 built. A good central source of information exists on the web at 
 http://leb.net/IAC/.
 
 Without action by us, the horrors will go on, the children will continue
 to die. We must appeal to the natural sympathies of the American people,
 who will respond if they know what is happening. We must therefore bring
 this issue, in every way we can, to national attention. The only way to 
 avoid complicity in this crime is to do everything we can, and much more
 than we have been doing, to end the sanctions on Iraq. This issue must
 be discussed in every household and every public forum across the
 country.
 
 

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From: Timothy Bruening <tsbrueni@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Stop The Presses! Pentagon and the Russian Military Favor
Date: 10 Jan 1999 18:17:06 -0800 (PST)

Below is a draft of a letter to the editor about nuclear arms reductions.
Please suggest improvements in my letter, and feel free to write similar
letters to your newspapers and representatives.

In recent months, both the U.S. and Russian militaries have recommended
reducing nuclear arsenals to save billions of dollars (and trillions of
rubles).  

Due to the Russian economic crisis, the Russian military wants to reduce the
Russian nuclear arsenal.  Russia can no longer afford to maintain an arsenal
of several thousand warheads, according to a report released in October by
Deputy Prime Minister Maslyudov.  Russia can only afford a few hundred
nuclear warheads, so the Maslyudov report urges action on START II and START
III, and the Russian military is pressing the Duma to ratify START II, so
that the U.S. will reduce its nuclear arsenal to a level Russia can match.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reported on November 23, 1998 that "Pentagon
officials are quietly recommending that the Clinton Administration consider
unilateral reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal."  Reducing the U.S.
nuclear arsenal would save money, which could be used to boost troop
readiness.  Over the past two years, the Pentagon has spent $95 million on
weapons which would have been dismantled under START II (stalled in the Duma
for the past 6 years), which would reduce the 2 nations' nuclear arsenals to
3,000 to 3,500 warheads each.  This year, the extra cost will be $100
million.  The Navy will pay over $5 billion between now and 2003 to refuel
nuclear reactors and install new missiles on four Trident subs slated for
dismantling under START II.  Implementing START II could save taxpayers $6.3
billion between now and 2008, and reducing nuclear warheads to the 1,000
anticipated in START III would save even more.  Moreover, reducing the
arsenal would make it unnecessary to produce tritium (at a cost of $9.5
billion over the next 40 years), since tritium could be recycled from
dismantled warheads.  However, a law passed by Congress prevents the
military from reducing the U.S. arsenal to under 6,000 warheads.

I believe that, as Senator Kerry says, we should go "as low as the Russians
are willing to go."  Therefore, I urge you to contact President Clinton
(202-456-1111 between 6am and 2pm on weekdays; president@whitehouse.gov; The
White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., 20500) to urge him
to begin immediate negotiations to drastically reduce Russian and U.S.
nuclear arsenals, call on Congress to repeal that ridiculous law preventing
further reductions in the U.S. arsenal, and reduce the risk of an accidental
nuclear war (caused by the infamous Y2K bug or by other problems) by taking
our missiles off alert, by removing the warheads from their delivery
vehicles, and by calling on Russia to do the same to its nuclear missiles.  

Please also contact Senators Feinstein and Boxer (202-224-3121;
senator@boxer.senate.gov, senator@feinstein.senate.gov, U.S. Senate,
Washington D.C., 20510) to urge them to sponsor legislation to repeal the
ban on nuclear reductions, and sponsor resolutions calling for negotiations
to reduce the U.S. and Russian arsenals and calling on the U.S. and Russia
to take their missiles off alert by remove the warheads from their delivery
vehicles.  


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From: Bob Tiller <btiller@psr.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Job announcement
Date: 11 Jan 1999 23:41:03 -0500

Friends,

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national membership organization
committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, is seeking an Associate
Director of Security Programs, who will have responsibilities in two
broad areas:

Research and Policy:
     *Provide research and technical expertise on a broad range of
nuclear weapons issues, including: nuclear weapons dismantlement,
fissile material disposition, MOX fuel, cleanup of  DOE's nuclear
weapons complex, nuclear waste disposition, nuclear weapons-related
public health matters, the Stockpile Stewardship program, the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, tritium production and other
nuclear weapons topics.
     *Monitor and report on legislative matters and executive branch
developments in issue areas.
     *Prepare issue briefs, articles and other materials for
decision-makers and for activists.
     *Assist in developing advocacy initiatives.
     *Conduct special projects.

Organizing and Education:
     *Enlarge and strengthen PSR's Security activist network.
     *Maintain regular communication with PSR chapters, activists and
physician experts.
     *Produce educational materials for chapters and activists.
     *Mobilize activists for action.
     *Assist in coordinating national advocacy campaigns.
     *Maintain and update the Security portion of PSR's website.
     *Assist in drafting media statements.
     *Assist in planning and organizing conferences, training programs
and other educational events.

Qualifications:
     *Commitment to abolition of nuclear weapons
     *Knowledge of nuclear weapons-related issues
     *Strong writing and speaking skills
     *Ability to handle multiple tasks and to meet deadlines
     *Ability to work both independently and cooperatively
     *Minimum Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred
     *Minimum of three years of relevant experience

To apply, send resume to:
  Robert Tiller
  Physicians for Social Responsibility
  1101 14th St. N.W.
  Washington D.C. 20005
  E-mail <btiller@psr.org>

Deadline is Jan. 21, 1999.

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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: US Navy Backs Cut in Trident Subs, Let's Lobby Senator Kerrey On This One
Date: 11 Jan 1999 23:51:27 -0600 (CST)

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Dear Abolitionists,

     Friends,
              Thanks to Robb for this re-posting. As mentioned in The Post article, Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska is 
pushing for unilateral U.S. reductions in its strategic forces. Let's lobby him to push harder & let's lobby both our 
Senators & our Congressperson on this. The Congressional switchboard can be reached for any Senator or Congressperspon at: 
202-224-3121. Let's all Call Kerrey weather we're one of his constituents or not & then ask each of our Senators & 
Representatives to not just support such a manuever but to initiate & then circulate a "Dear Colleague" letter asking that 
U.S. unilateral reductions be implemented immediately. The Russians pose no nuclear threat to us. The only threats are 
those of accident [including Y2K], continuing pollution, economic drain. We have to stop them, they won't stop themselves.



    -Bill Smirnow


Apologies if you've already seen this.

Best wishes,
Rob Green
Chair, World Court Project UK


>------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>From:          "David Culp" <dculp@igc.org>
>To:            "START II Recipients" <dculp@igc.org>
>Subject:       Navy Backs Cut in Trident Subs
>Date:          Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:00:12 -0500
>
>Naval Chief Backs Cut In Force of Trident Subs
>14 Would Suffice, Admiral Tells Senate
>
>By Walter Pincus
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Thursday, January 7, 1999; Page A23
>
>The chief of naval operations has told Congress for the first time
>that he would like to reduce the number of operational Trident
>ballistic missile submarines from 18 to 14, opening the way for
>Congress to repeal its ban against cutting U.S. strategic nuclear
>force levels until the Russian parliament ratifies the START II
>treaty.
>
>"My personal belief is that a 14-boat force is the minimum acceptable
>force right now," Adm. J.L. Johnson said. Under present law, if the
>Russian Duma continues to delay approval of the 1993 strategic arms
>control treaty as it has done for the past year, the Navy must plan to
>spend up to $500 million in fiscal 2000 to stay operational at the
>START I level of 18. That number includes four of the older, giant
>Tridents that were scheduled to be decommissioned beginning in 2002.
>
>But at Tuesday's Senate Armed Services Committee session, when Chief
>of Naval Operations Johnson was asked by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
>(D-Mass.) whether the Navy would rather have 14 of the subs and use
>the money for other priorities, he replied, "Personally I would, yes,
>sir."
>
>The amendment that froze strategic forces at START I levels was added
>two years ago to the defense authorization bill by Sen. Robert C.
>Smith (R-N.H.), chairman of the Armed Services strategic forces
>subcommittee. Opponents of the provision want to debate the issue
>"based on what forces are needed," a senior congressional aide said
>yesterday, "and not on the politics associated with the arms control
>treaties."
>
>Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), chairman of the committee, said before
>the hearing that "we have to reevaluate priorities" on strategic
>weapons. "We may be able to redirect money from strategic weapons to
>strategic defense," he said. A spokesman said Smith was tied up with
>meetings yesterday and unavailable for comment.
>
>Eugene E. Habiger, a retired Air Force general and former head of the
>U.S. Strategic Command, which included the Tridents, said "it would
>make sense" for the Navy to go down to 14, because "there is no need
>to stay at the START I level from a military prospective; although if
>you stay at that level it may give you some political leverage" with
>the Russians. But Habiger also noted that Moscow's "sub fleet is
>belly-up."
>
>A military source familiar with intelligence said Moscow had a serious
>problem with one of the ballistic subs in the Northern Fleet last year
>when seawater got into the missile compartment when some seals leaked.
>The sub immediately surfaced and was brought back into port. The other
>alert Russian ballistic missile sub was brought back from its patrol
>in the Pacific for repairs. So for two to three weeks, the Russians
>for the first time in recent memory had no ballistic missile subs
>patrolling on alert. The Russians do keep at least two other ballistic
>missile subs on pier-side alert, one in the Atlantic and the other in
>the Pacific.
>
>The United States maintains five Trident subs on patrol alert, with
>five others either coming or going on patrol and ready to fire their
>missiles if needed. The Tridents each have 24 missiles that can carry
>up to eight warheads. The warheads have seven times the force of the
>Hiroshima bomb and are designed to destroy Russian missiles in
>hardened silos.
>
>Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who is pushing for the United States to
>begin making unilateral reductions in its strategic forces, said
>yesterday that "waiting for the Russians to act on START II is a
>mistake." With their economy collapsing, their nuclear systems
>deteriorating and their experiment with democracy on the line, Kerrey
>said, members of the Russian parliament "don't have time to talk about
>nuclear arms control."
>
>As of today, there are 10 modern Tridents based at Kings Bay, Ga., all
>armed with highly accurate D-5 missiles that can travel more than
>4,000 miles. Eight older Tridents, fitted with 24 of the earlier C-4
>missiles, are based at Bangor, Wash.
>
>If current law continues, all eight of the older Tridents would have
>to have their nuclear engines refurbished and their launching systems
>would need to be retrofitted to carry modern D-5 missiles.
>
>
>c Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company

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                   Chair, World Court Project UK

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From: LCNP@aol.com
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Stop The Presses! Pentagon and the Russian Military Favor...
Date: 12 Jan 1999 10:35:39 EST

Dear Timothy,

It would be worth adding in your letter to President Clinton that the
International Court of Justice unanimously concluded that there is an
obligation to conclude negotiations on the total elimination of nuclear
weapons. Such international law overrides any domestic legislation that you
cite preventing progress on elimination. In addition, over 80% of US citizens
(according to two public opinion polls) support the elimination of nuclear
weapons through a nuclear weapons convention.

Peace
Alyn Ware

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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Race for the Superbomb
Date: 12 Jan 1999 11:07:43 -0600 (CST)

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Monday January 11 8:37 AM ET 

PBS examines continuing ``Superbomb'' menace
Race for the Superbomb (Mon. (11), 9-11 p.m., PBS)

By David Mermelstein

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - With the Cold War seemingly safely behind us,
it's easy to see the specter of nuclear annihilation as a past worry.

But Thomas Ott's ``Race for the Superbomb'' should change all that:
his two-hour documentary on PBS' ``American Experience'' series
recalls just why the idea of a nuclear holocaust proved so frightening
-- and just how real such threats remain.

In meticulous detail, and with the invaluable aid of some of the
participants in these historic events, Ott's film chronicles the
development of the so-called Superbomb, or H-bomb, in the years
following World War II. In what is portrayed as a scarily escalating
series of events, this show chronicles how Soviet envy of America's
nuclear weapons program sowed the seeds for what eventually became a
superpower arms race, once that concluded only with the breakup of the
Soviet Union in 1991.

Adopting a primarily nonjudgmental tone, Ott's documentary efficiently
summarizes most of the major developments in nuclear weapons
technology up to the obsession with delivery systems that
characterized the arms race during and after the 1960s. But the
primary focus here is the intense competition between American and
Soviet physicists in the mid-1950s to create weapons that would dwarf
the power of the atom bombs the United States dropped on Japan in the
final days of the Second World War.

The constant presence of the famously driven physicist Edward Teller
is perhaps this program's biggest coup. As the now-90-year-old
scientist vividly recalls the sense of mission that dominated his
activities during the early years of Cold War, viewers are transported
backward in time, where a horrible inevitability underlies the manic
activities of both the American and Soviet weapons teams as they race
toward nuclear primacy -- and the ability to destroy human
civilization with the touch of a button.

Later in the program, attention is paid to how the U.S. government
sold the idea of a nuclear arsenal to its citizens.

Excerpts from public service announcements that would be funny were
they not real demonstrate how easily one can survive global
thermonuclear war with a few simple precautions. That we now see such
propaganda for what it is attests to how far we've come in our
understanding of the awesome, awful potential of nuclear armaments.

One might think that there's little even this well-researched and
polished documentary can reveal about such familiar history, but
``Race for the Superbomb'' astonishes most when it deals with the
obvious. The recently declassified footage of American nuclear testing
is mesmerizing, for instance. There is a terrible, otherworldly
quality to watching this very real hellfire sweep away what man and
God have wrought, and those seeing these images are unlikely to forget
them anytime soon.

Even the many clips of talking heads are employed judiciously and with
the aim of increasing this program's accessibility.

``Race for the Superbomb'' leaves viewers with one of history's great
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From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Stop The Presses! Pentagon and the Russian
Date: 12 Jan 1999 12:16:32 -0500

Dear Friends,
According to an April 1997 poll by the distinguished polling firm, Lake
Sosin Snell, headed by Celinda Lake who is well-known to President Clinton,
87% of all Americans said they would like a treaty to eliminate nuclear
weapons; 84% said they would feel safer if no country had nuclear weapons
including the US.  Alice Slater

At 10:35 AM 1/12/99 -0500, abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com wrote:
>Dear Timothy,
>
>It would be worth adding in your letter to President Clinton that the
>International Court of Justice unanimously concluded that there is an
>obligation to conclude negotiations on the total elimination of nuclear
>weapons. Such international law overrides any domestic legislation that you
>cite preventing progress on elimination. In addition, over 80% of US
>citizens
>(according to two public opinion polls) support the elimination of nuclear
>weapons through a nuclear weapons convention.
>
>Peace
>Alyn Ware
>
>-
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New York, NY 10010
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From: nukeresister@igc.org (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: (abolition-usa) DU Citizen's Inspection Trial
Date: 15 Jan 1999 10:45:44 -0700

        On December 10, 1998, Human Rights Day, six members of a Citizen's
Weapons Inspection Team faced trial in Tucson City Court.  About 50
supporters attended a support rally beforehand and filled the courtroom
throughout the day-long trial.
        Last March 1, the six had gone to Davis Monthan Air Force Base in
Tucson, Arizona to inspect for weapons of mass destruction.  They believed
depleted uranium (DU) was present at the base because flight training for
the A-10 anti-tank aircraft is based at Davis Monthan, and the A-10's were
responsible for firing more than 80% of the DU used during the Gulf War.
The base commander told the inspection team that DU is stored at the base,
but refused their request to inspect.  Col. John Corley instead had them
arrested for trespass when the inspectors insisted on continuing their
work, based on an understanding of their obligations regarding moral
responsibility and  International Law.
        Col. Corley testified for more than an hour as the prosecution's
first witness.  He claimed that although DU is stored at the base, they do
not fly or train with it.   Citing security concerns, Corley refused to
disclose how the DU is transported on and off base.  He stated that if
ordered, he would deploy the DU munitions from Davis Monthan in the event
of war.
        The citizen's weapons inspectors based their defense on
international law and the doctrine of necessity.   The six defendants were
permitted to testify extensively about the motivations which brought them
to Davis Monthan AFB on March 1; about depleted uranium and its effects on
veterans and civilians; about international law and weapons of mass and
indiscriminate destruction; and about the imminent U.S. threat of renewed
bombing of Iraq at the time of their arrest.
         At the end of the trial, City Magistrate Mitchell Eisenberg
complimented the group on their integrity and told them he had never met
anyone with convictions such as theirs.  While convinced that they met two
of the three tests for a successful defense of necessity - imminence of
potential harm and reasonable connection between action taken and harm to
be averted - he ruled that the six had alternative means to get their
message out.  He then found them all guilty of trespass.  Ignoring the
base's request for prison time and three years of probation, Eisenberg
sentenced each to six months of unsupervised probation and 10 hours of
community service.  Feeling that their inspection attempt was itself a
service to the community, the six will continue to speak out about the
dangers of depleted uranium.

xxx

        In addition to press coverage on the trial in local papers, radio
and television, a "Guest Comment" about depleted uranium was published by
the Arizona Daily Star the morning of the trial.  For more information
about the action or trial, or a copy of the guest editorial, please contact
The Nuclear Resister, P.O. Box 43383, Tucson, AZ 85733, phone/fax
(520)323-8697, email: nukeresister@igc.org

        Citizen's Weapons Inspection Team members:   Gery Armsby, Felice
Cohen-Joppa, Carolyn Epple, Lisa Kiser, Dwight Metzger and Carolyn
Trowbridge.



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From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Nuclear Crossroads program
Date: 18 Jan 1999 15:48:51 -0500

>Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:43:40 -0500
>Subject: Nuclear Crossroads program
>To: bananas-ana@igc.org, aslater@gracelinks.org, healls@aol.com,
> healtm@aol.com, dm4stand@arn.net, tn4stand@arn.net,
> pa4stand@arn.net, tomc@whistleblower.org, dallas41@hotmail.com,
> bcostner@emeraldnet.net, gmello@lasg.org,
> allister@snakeriveralliance.org
>From: tmarshall@igc.apc.org (tmarshall@igc.apc.org)
>
>This is a really good program.  Please pass this message along to others
>who
>might be interested, and call your local public or community radio station.
>
>-Tom
>
>
>
>
>>>Return-Path: <wilsondb@euclid.Colorado.EDU>
>>>Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 06:58:11 -0700 (MST)
>>>From: "David B. Wilson" <wilsondb@euclid.Colorado.EDU>
>>>To: Tom Marshall <tmarshall@igc.apc.org>
>>>cc: tmarshall@igc.org
>>>Subject: Nuclear Crossroads program
>>>
>>>
>>>RETURN TO THE NUCLEAR CROSSROADS
>>>PROTEST AND RESISTANCE 
>>>AT THE ROCKY FLATS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PLANT.
>>>
>>>A special two part documentary presented by Alternative Radio, airing on
>>>public radio stations over the next few weeks.
>>>
>>>Written and produced by David Barrett Wilson
>>>
>>>Call your local public radio station for more details about times.
>>>
>>>OR CALL ALTNERATIVE RADIO AT 1-800-444-1977 TO ORDER COPIES OR TO LEARN
>>>WHERE AR IS BROADCAST IN YOUR AREA.
>>>
>>>------------------------
>>>
>>>For the past three decades, Rocky Flats, located just west of Denver
>>>Colorado, has stood at the center of protest and resistance to nuclear
>>>weapons production.   This sprawling nuclear weapons facility made
>>>plutonium trigggers, small atomic bombs at the
>>>heart of each U.S. warhead.  The plant stopped production in 1989, after
>>>the FBI raided it seeking evidence of environmental crimes.  The raid
>>>confirmed many of the concerns peace and environmental activists voiced
>>>for years.  But that is far from the end
>>>of the stroy.
>>>
>>>Tune in to your local public radio station over the next few weeks as
>>this
>>>highly produced documentary explores the history of protest at Rocky
>>Flats
>>>from the early 1970's through present. Using rare archival tape and
>>recent
>>>interviews, these programs
>>>share the stories of many of the nation's leading anti-nuclear activists:
>>>Daniel Ellsberg, Helen Caldecott, Bonnie Raitt, Pam Solo, and Allen
>>>Ginsberg who read his famous "Plutonium Ode" while blockading the plant
>>in
>>>1978.  These compelling programs will
>>>put you back on the railroad tracks of resistance at Rocky Flats while
>>>bringing you up-to-date in understanding where the nuclear disarmament
>>>movement is headed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>				
>
>				Tom Marshall
>			Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
>				P.O. Box 1156
>				Boulder, CO  80306
>			ph: 303/444-6981	fax: 303/444-6523
> 
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  (212) 726-9161
fax:  (212) 726-9160
email:  aslater@gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
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From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: nukes and Y2K symposium
Date: 18 Jan 1999 16:20:06 -0500

>Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:48:29 -0500
>Subject: nukes and Y2K symposium
>To: nirsnet@nirs.org
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: nirsnet@igc.org
>From: nirsnet@nirs.org (nirsnet@nirs.org)
>
>STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation) is sponsoring a one-day
>symposium on nuclear power and weapons and Y2K issues, March 8 at the
>Cannon Caucus Room in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington,
>DC. The event is co-sponsored by NIRS and BASIC (British American
>Security Information Council).  Tentative speakers list includes Dr.
>Helen Caldicott of STAR; Michael Kraig, BASIC; Paul Gunter, NIRS; Dr.
>Michio Kaku; physicist Ted Taylor; John Pike, Federation of American
>Scientists, and more. For more information, contact STAR at
>carrie@noradiation.org or call STAR at 516.324.0655
>
>In other Y2K news, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has informed NIRS 
>our three petitions for rulemaking on nuclear power and Y2K will be
>published in the Federal Register for public comment "imminently."
>However, the NRC says that at this point it will not support the
>petitions because it is not convinced it needs to "mandate" that
>utilities, for example, ensure their emergency diesel generators are
>operable and have sufficient fuel onsite; that non-Y2K-compliant
>reactors are shutdown by December 1, etc. The full text of NIRS'
>petitions is available at www.nirs.org
> 
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  (212) 726-9161
fax:  (212) 726-9160
email:  aslater@gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
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From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 18 Jan 1999 17:18:11 -0500

Dear Friends,
We are hearing that Clinton will make a big push for CTBT ratification.
Does anyone know what India was promised to buy its ratification of the
CTB?  Originally, we asked that they sign it without conditions--but now
we're hearing that NSA's Sandy Berger thinks India will agree to sign.
Listed below is Clinton's letter to the Senate with the US conditions for
CTB ratification--Lest we forget!!  Peace, Alice



September 23, 1997 

TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:

     I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to
ratification, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (the "Treaty" or
"CTBT"), opened for signature and signed by the United States at New York on
September 24, 1996.  The Treaty includes two Annexes, a Protocol, and two
Annexes to the Protocol, all of which form integral parts of the Treaty. I
transmit also, for the information of the Senate, the report of the
Department of State on the Treaty, including an Article-by-Article analysis
of the Treaty.

     Also included in the Department of State's report is a document
relevant to but not part of the Treaty: the Text on the Establishment of a
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
Organization, adopted by the Signatory States to the Treaty on November 19,
1996.  The Text provides the basis for the work of the Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization in
preparing detailed procedures for implementing the Treaty and making
arrangements for the first session of the Conference of the States Parties
to the Treaty.  In particular, by the terms of the Treaty, the Preparatory
Commission will be responsible for ensuring that the verification regime
established by the Treaty will be effectively in operation at such time as
the Treaty enters into force.  My Administration has completed and will
submit separately to the Senate an analysis of the verifiability of the
Treaty, consistent with section 37 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act,
as amended.  Such legislation as may be necessary to implement the Treaty
also will be submitted separately to the Senate for appropriate action.

     The conclusion of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty is a signal
event in the history of arms control.  The subject of the Treaty is one that
has been under consideration by the international community for nearly 40
years, and the significance of the conclusion of negotiations and the
signature to date of more than 140 states cannot be overestimated.  The
Treaty creates an absolute prohibition against the conduct of nuclear weapon
test explosions or any other nuclear explosion anywhere.  Specifically, each
State Party undertakes not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or
any other nuclear explosion; to prohibit and prevent any nuclear explosions
at any place under its jurisdiction or control; and to refrain from causing,
encouraging, or in any way participating in the carrying out of any nuclear
weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion.[APPARENTLY THIS
DOESN'T INCLUDE SUB-CRITICAL TESTS EXPLOSIONS--A MAJOR OBJECTION RAISED BY
INDIA]
[FIRST HE SAID HE DIDN'T INHALE; THEN HE SAID HE DIDN'T HAVE SEX; NOW HE
SAYS HE'S NOT DOING NUCLEAR TESTS!]

     The Treaty establishes a far reaching verification regime, based on the
provision of seismic, hydroacoustic, radionuclide, and infrasound data by a
global network (the "International Monitoring System") consisting of the
facilities listed in Annex 1 to the Protocol.  Data provided by the
International Monitoring System will be stored, analyzed, and disseminated,
in accordance with Treaty-mandated operational manuals, by an International
Data Center that will be part of the Technical Secretariat of the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization.  The verification regime
includes rules for the conduct of on-site inspections, provisions for
consultation and clarification, and voluntary confidence-building measures
designed to contribute to the timely resolution of any compliance concerns
arising from possible misinterpretation of monitoring data related to
chemical explosions that a State Party intends to or has carried out.
Equally important to the U.S. ability to verify the Treaty, the text
specifically provides for the right of States Parties to use information
obtained by national technical means in a manner consistent with generally
recognized principles of international law for purposes of verification
generally, and in particular, as the basis for an on-site inspection
request.  The verification regime provides each State Party the right to
protect sensitive installations, activities, or locations not related to the
Treaty.  Determinations of compliance with the Treaty rest with each
individual State Party to the Treaty.

     Negotiations for a nuclear test-ban treaty date back to the Eisenhower
Administration.  During the period 1978-1980, negotiations among the United
States, the United Kingdom, and the USSR (the Depositary Governments of the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)) made progress, but
ended without agreement. Thereafter, as the nonnuclear weapon states called
for test-ban negotiations, the United States urged the Conference on
Disarmament (the "CD") to devote its attention to the difficult aspects of
monitoring compliance with such a ban and developing elements of an
international monitoring regime.  After the United States, joined by other
key states, declared its support for comprehensive test-ban negotiations
with a view toward prompt conclusion of a treaty, negotiations on a
comprehensive test-ban were initiated in the CD, in January 1994.  Increased
impetus for the conclusion of a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty by the
end of 1996 resulted from the adoption, by the Parties to the NPT in
conjunction with the indefinite and unconditional extension of that Treaty,
of "Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament"
that listed the conclusion of a CTBT as the highest measure of its program
of action.

   On August 11, 1995, when I announced U.S. support for a "zero yield"
CTBT, I stated that:

   ". . . As part of our national security strategy, the United States must
and will retain strategic nuclear forces sufficient to deter any future
hostile foreign leadership with access to strategic nuclear forces from
acting against our vital interests and to convince it that seeking a nuclear
advantage would be futile. In this regard, I consider the maintenance of a
safe and reliable nuclear stockpile to be a supreme national interest of the
United States.

   "I am assured by the Secretary of Energy and the Directors of our nuclear
weapons labs that we can meet the challenge of maintaining our nuclear
deterrent under a CTBT through a Science Based Stockpile Stewardship program
without nuclear testing.  I directed the implementation of such a program
almost 2 years ago, and it is being developed with the support of the
Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  This
program will now be tied to a new certification procedure.  In order for
this program to succeed, both the Administration and the Congress must
provide sustained bipartisan support for the stockpile stewardship program
over the next decade and beyond.  I am committed to working with the
Congress to ensure this support.

   "While I am optimistic that the stockpile stewardship program will be
successful, as President I cannot dismiss the possibility, however unlikely,
that the program will fall short of its objectives. [HERE ARE THE US
CONDITIONS:]
Therefore,in addition to the new annual certification procedure for our
nuclear weapons stockpile, I am also establishing concrete, specific
safeguards that define the
conditions under which the United States can enter into a CTBT . . ."

   The safeguards that were established are as follows:

   The conduct of a Science Based Stockpile Stewardship program to ensure a
high level of confidence in the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons in
the active stockpile, including the conduct of a broad range of effective
and continuing experimental programs.

   The maintenance of modern nuclear laboratory facilities and programs in
theoretical and exploratory nuclear technology that will attract, retain,
and ensure the continued application of our human scientific resources to
those programs on which continued progress in nuclear technology depends.

   The maintenance of the basic capability to resume nuclear test activities
prohibited by the CTBT should the United States cease to be bound to adhere
to this Treaty.

   The continuation of a comprehensive research and development program to
improve our treaty monitoring capabilities and operations.

   The continuing development of a broad range of intelligence gathering and
analytical capabilities and operations to ensure accurate and comprehensive
information on worldwide nuclear arsenals, nuclear weapons development
programs, and related nuclear programs.

   The understanding that if the President of the United States is informed
by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy (DOE) -- advised by
the Nuclear Weapons Council, the Directors of  DOE's nuclear weapons
laboratories, and the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command -- that a high
level of confidence in the safety or reliability of a nuclear weapon type
that the two Secretaries consider to be critical to our nuclear deterrent
could no longer be certified, the President, in consultation with the
Congress, would be prepared to withdraw from the CTBT under the standard
"supreme national interests" clause in order to conduct whatever testing
might be required.  With regard to the last safeguard:

   The U.S. regards continued high confidence in the safety and reliability
of its nuclear weapons stockpile as a matter affecting the supreme interests
of the country and will regard any events calling that confidence into
question as "extraordinary events related to the subject matter of the
treaty." It will exercise its rights under the "supreme national interests"
clause if it judges that the safety or reliability of its nuclear weapons
stockpile cannot be assured with the necessary high degree of confidence
without nuclear testing.

   To implement that commitment, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy --
advised by the Nuclear Weapons Council or "NWC" (comprising representatives
of DOD, JCS, and DOE), the Directors of DOE's nuclear weapons laboratories
and the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command -- will report to the
President annually, whether they can certify that the Nation's nuclear
weapons stockpile and all critical elements thereof are, to a high degree of
confidence, safe and reliable, and, if they cannot do so, whether, in their
opinion and that of the NWC, testing is necessary to assure, with a high
degree of confidence, the adequacy of corrective measures to assure the
safety and reliability of the stockpile, or elements thereof.  The
Secretaries will state the reasons for their conclusions, and the views of
the NWC, reporting any minority views.

   After receiving the Secretaries' certification and accompanying report,
including NWC and minority views, the President will provide them to the
appropriate committees of the Congress, together with a report on the
actions he has taken in light of them.

   If the President is advised, by the above procedure, that a high level of
confidence in the safety or reliability of a nuclear weapon type critical to
the Nation's nuclear deterrent could no longer be certified without nuclear
testing, or that nuclear testing is necessary to assure the adequacy of
corrective measures, the President will be prepared to exercise our "supreme
national interests" rights under the Treaty, in order to conduct such testing.

   The procedure for such annual certification by the Secretaries, and for
advice to them by the NWC, U.S. Strategic Command, and the DOE nuclear
weapons laboratories will be embodied in domestic law.  As negotiations on a
text drew to a close it became apparent that one member of the CD, India,
would not join in a consensus decision to forward the text to the United
Nations for its adoption.  After consultations among countries supporting
the text, Australia requested the President of the U.N. General Assembly to
convene a resumed session of the 50th General Assembly to consider and take
action on the text.  The General Assembly was so convened, and by a vote of
158 to 3 the Treaty was adopted.  On September 24, 1996, the Treaty was
opened for signature and I had the privilege, on behalf of the United
States, of being the first to sign the Treaty.

   The Treaty assigns responsibility for overseeing its implementation to
the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (the "Organization"),
to be established in Vienna.  The Organization, of which each State Party
will be a member, will have three organs: the Conference of the States
Parties, a 51-member Executive Council, and the Technical Secretariat.  The
Technical Secretariat will supervise the operation of and provide technical
support for the International Monitoring System, operate the International
Data Center, and prepare for and support the conduct of on-site inspections.
The Treaty also requires each State Party to establish a National Authority
that will serve as the focal point within the State Party for liaison with
the Organization and with other States Parties.

   The Treaty will enter into force 180 days after the deposit of
instruments of ratification by all of the 44 states listed in Annex 2 to the
Treaty, but in no case earlier than 2 years after its being opened for
signature.  If, 3 years from the opening of the Treaty for signature, the
Treaty has not entered into force, the Secretary-General of the United
Nations, in his capacity as Depositary of the Treaty, will convene a
conference of the states that have deposited their instruments of
ratification if a majority of those states so requests.  At this conference
the participants will consider what measures consistent with international
law might be undertaken to accelerate the ratification process in order to
facilitate the early entry into force of the Treaty.  Their decision on such
measures must be taken by consensus.

     Reservations to the Treaty Articles and the Annexes to the Treaty are
not permitted.  Reservations may be taken to the Protocol and its Annexes so
long as they are not incompatible with the object and purpose of the Treaty.
Amendment of the Treaty requires the positive vote of a majority of the
States Parties to the Treaty, voting in a duly convened Amendment Conference
at which no State Party casts a negative vote.  Such amendments would enter
into force 30 days after ratification by all States Parties that cast a
positive vote at the Amendment Conference.  The Treaty is of unlimited
duration, but contains a "supreme interests" clause entitling any State
Party that determines that its supreme interests have been jeopardized by
extraordinary events related to the subject matter of the Treaty to withdraw
from the Treaty upon 6-month's notice.     Unless a majority of the Parties
decides otherwise, a Review Conference will be held 10 years following the
Treaty's entry into force and may be held at 10-year intervals thereafter if
the Conference of the States Parties so decides by a majority vote (or more
frequently if the Conference of the States Parties so decides by a
two-thirds vote).

     The Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty is of singular significance
to the continuing efforts to stem nuclear proliferation and strengthen
regional and global stability.  Its conclusion marks the achievement of the
highest priority item on the international arms control and nonproliferation
agenda. Its effective implementation will provide a foundation on which
further efforts to control and limit nuclear weapons can be soundly based.
By responding to the call for a CTBT by the end of 1996, the Signatory
States, and most importantly the nuclear weapon states, have demonstrated
the bona fides of their commitment to meaningful arms control measures.  The
monitoring challenges presented by the wide scope of the CTBT exceed those
imposed by any previous nuclear test-related treaty.  Our current capability
to monitor nuclear explosions will undergo significant improvement over the
next several years to meet these challenges.  Even with these enhancements,
though, several conceivable CTBT evasion scenarios have been identified.
Nonetheless, our National Intelligence Means (NIM), together with the
Treaty's verification regime and our diplomatic efforts, provide the United
States with the means to make the CTBT effectively verifiable.  By this, I
mean that the United States: will have a wide range of resources (NIM, the
totality of information available in public and private channels, and the
mechanisms established by the Treaty) for addressing compliance concerns and
imposing sanctions in cases of noncompliance; and will thereby have the
means to: (a) assess whether the Treaty is deterring the conduct of nuclear
explosions (in terms of yields and number of tests) that could damage U.S.
security interests and constraining the proliferation of nuclear weapons,
and (b) take prompt and effective counteraction.     My judgment that the
CTBT is effectively verifiable also reflects the belief that U.S. nuclear
deterrence would not be undermined by possible nuclear testing that the
United States might fail to detect under the Treaty, bearing in mind that
the United States will derive substantial confidence from other factors --
the CTBT's "supreme national interests" clause, the annual certification
procedure for the U.S. nuclear stockpile, and the U.S. Safeguards program. I
believe that the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty is in the best
interests of the United States.  Its provisions will significantly further
our nuclear nonproliferation and arms control objectives and strengthen
international security.  Therefore, I urge the Senate to give early and
favorable consideration to the Treaty and its advice and consent to
ratification as soon as possible.       
  
WILLIAM J. CLINTON 
   
THE WHITE HOUSE, September 22, 1997



Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  (212) 726-9161
fax:  (212) 726-9160
email:  aslater@gracelinks.org

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From: Peter Weiss <petweiss@igc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 18 Jan 1999 21:41:47 -0500

"Supreme National Interest" has got to go. It's in most arms control
treaties ratified by the US, which makes them all virtually useless. I
don't know why other countries let the US get away with it (well, I do
know).
						Peter

ASlater wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends,
> We are hearing that Clinton will make a big push for CTBT ratification.
> Does anyone know what India was promised to buy its ratification of the
> CTB?  Originally, we asked that they sign it without conditions--but now
> we're hearing that NSA's Sandy Berger thinks India will agree to sign.
> Listed below is Clinton's letter to the Senate with the US conditions for
> CTB ratification--Lest we forget!!  Peace, Alice
> 
> September 23, 1997
> 
> TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:
> 
>      I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to
> ratification, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (the "Treaty" or
> "CTBT"), opened for signature and signed by the United States at New York on
> September 24, 1996.  The Treaty includes two Annexes, a Protocol, and two
> Annexes to the Protocol, all of which form integral parts of the Treaty. I
> transmit also, for the information of the Senate, the report of the
> Department of State on the Treaty, including an Article-by-Article analysis
> of the Treaty.
> 
>      Also included in the Department of State's report is a document
> relevant to but not part of the Treaty: the Text on the Establishment of a
> Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
> Organization, adopted by the Signatory States to the Treaty on November 19,
> 1996.  The Text provides the basis for the work of the Preparatory
> Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization in
> preparing detailed procedures for implementing the Treaty and making
> arrangements for the first session of the Conference of the States Parties
> to the Treaty.  In particular, by the terms of the Treaty, the Preparatory
> Commission will be responsible for ensuring that the verification regime
> established by the Treaty will be effectively in operation at such time as
> the Treaty enters into force.  My Administration has completed and will
> submit separately to the Senate an analysis of the verifiability of the
> Treaty, consistent with section 37 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act,
> as amended.  Such legislation as may be necessary to implement the Treaty
> also will be submitted separately to the Senate for appropriate action.
> 
>      The conclusion of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty is a signal
> event in the history of arms control.  The subject of the Treaty is one that
> has been under consideration by the international community for nearly 40
> years, and the significance of the conclusion of negotiations and the
> signature to date of more than 140 states cannot be overestimated.  The
> Treaty creates an absolute prohibition against the conduct of nuclear weapon
> test explosions or any other nuclear explosion anywhere.  Specifically, each
> State Party undertakes not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or
> any other nuclear explosion; to prohibit and prevent any nuclear explosions
> at any place under its jurisdiction or control; and to refrain from causing,
> encouraging, or in any way participating in the carrying out of any nuclear
> weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion.[APPARENTLY THIS
> DOESN'T INCLUDE SUB-CRITICAL TESTS EXPLOSIONS--A MAJOR OBJECTION RAISED BY
> INDIA]
> [FIRST HE SAID HE DIDN'T INHALE; THEN HE SAID HE DIDN'T HAVE SEX; NOW HE
> SAYS HE'S NOT DOING NUCLEAR TESTS!]
> 
>      The Treaty establishes a far reaching verification regime, based on the
> provision of seismic, hydroacoustic, radionuclide, and infrasound data by a
> global network (the "International Monitoring System") consisting of the
> facilities listed in Annex 1 to the Protocol.  Data provided by the
> International Monitoring System will be stored, analyzed, and disseminated,
> in accordance with Treaty-mandated operational manuals, by an International
> Data Center that will be part of the Technical Secretariat of the
> Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization.  The verification regime
> includes rules for the conduct of on-site inspections, provisions for
> consultation and clarification, and voluntary confidence-building measures
> designed to contribute to the timely resolution of any compliance concerns
> arising from possible misinterpretation of monitoring data related to
> chemical explosions that a State Party intends to or has carried out.
> Equally important to the U.S. ability to verify the Treaty, the text
> specifically provides for the right of States Parties to use information
> obtained by national technical means in a manner consistent with generally
> recognized principles of international law for purposes of verification
> generally, and in particular, as the basis for an on-site inspection
> request.  The verification regime provides each State Party the right to
> protect sensitive installations, activities, or locations not related to the
> Treaty.  Determinations of compliance with the Treaty rest with each
> individual State Party to the Treaty.
> 
>      Negotiations for a nuclear test-ban treaty date back to the Eisenhower
> Administration.  During the period 1978-1980, negotiations among the United
> States, the United Kingdom, and the USSR (the Depositary Governments of the
> Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)) made progress, but
> ended without agreement. Thereafter, as the nonnuclear weapon states called
> for test-ban negotiations, the United States urged the Conference on
> Disarmament (the "CD") to devote its attention to the difficult aspects of
> monitoring compliance with such a ban and developing elements of an
> international monitoring regime.  After the United States, joined by other
> key states, declared its support for comprehensive test-ban negotiations
> with a view toward prompt conclusion of a treaty, negotiations on a
> comprehensive test-ban were initiated in the CD, in January 1994.  Increased
> impetus for the conclusion of a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty by the
> end of 1996 resulted from the adoption, by the Parties to the NPT in
> conjunction with the indefinite and unconditional extension of that Treaty,
> of "Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament"
> that listed the conclusion of a CTBT as the highest measure of its program
> of action.
> 
>    On August 11, 1995, when I announced U.S. support for a "zero yield"
> CTBT, I stated that:
> 
>    ". . . As part of our national security strategy, the United States must
> and will retain strategic nuclear forces sufficient to deter any future
> hostile foreign leadership with access to strategic nuclear forces from
> acting against our vital interests and to convince it that seeking a nuclear
> advantage would be futile. In this regard, I consider the maintenance of a
> safe and reliable nuclear stockpile to be a supreme national interest of the
> United States.
> 
>    "I am assured by the Secretary of Energy and the Directors of our nuclear
> weapons labs that we can meet the challenge of maintaining our nuclear
> deterrent under a CTBT through a Science Based Stockpile Stewardship program
> without nuclear testing.  I directed the implementation of such a program
> almost 2 years ago, and it is being developed with the support of the
> Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  This
> program will now be tied to a new certification procedure.  In order for
> this program to succeed, both the Administration and the Congress must
> provide sustained bipartisan support for the stockpile stewardship program
> over the next decade and beyond.  I am committed to working with the
> Congress to ensure this support.
> 
>    "While I am optimistic that the stockpile stewardship program will be
> successful, as President I cannot dismiss the possibility, however unlikely,
> that the program will fall short of its objectives. [HERE ARE THE US
> CONDITIONS:]
> Therefore,in addition to the new annual certification procedure for our
> nuclear weapons stockpile, I am also establishing concrete, specific
> safeguards that define the
> conditions under which the United States can enter into a CTBT . . ."
> 
>    The safeguards that were established are as follows:
> 
>    The conduct of a Science Based Stockpile Stewardship program to ensure a
> high level of confidence in the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons in
> the active stockpile, including the conduct of a broad range of effective
> and continuing experimental programs.
> 
>    The maintenance of modern nuclear laboratory facilities and programs in
> theoretical and exploratory nuclear technology that will attract, retain,
> and ensure the continued application of our human scientific resources to
> those programs on which continued progress in nuclear technology depends.
> 
>    The maintenance of the basic capability to resume nuclear test activities
> prohibited by the CTBT should the United States cease to be bound to adhere
> to this Treaty.
> 
>    The continuation of a comprehensive research and development program to
> improve our treaty monitoring capabilities and operations.
> 
>    The continuing development of a broad range of intelligence gathering and
> analytical capabilities and operations to ensure accurate and comprehensive
> information on worldwide nuclear arsenals, nuclear weapons development
> programs, and related nuclear programs.
> 
>    The understanding that if the President of the United States is informed
> by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy (DOE) -- advised by
> the Nuclear Weapons Council, the Directors of  DOE's nuclear weapons
> laboratories, and the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command -- that a high
> level of confidence in the safety or reliability of a nuclear weapon type
> that the two Secretaries consider to be critical to our nuclear deterrent
> could no longer be certified, the President, in consultation with the
> Congress, would be prepared to withdraw from the CTBT under the standard
> "supreme national interests" clause in order to conduct whatever testing
> might be required.  With regard to the last safeguard:
> 
>    The U.S. regards continued high confidence in the safety and reliability
> of its nuclear weapons stockpile as a matter affecting the supreme interests
> of the country and will regard any events calling that confidence into
> question as "extraordinary events related to the subject matter of the
> treaty." It will exercise its rights under the "supreme national interests"
> clause if it judges that the safety or reliability of its nuclear weapons
> stockpile cannot be assured with the necessary high degree of confidence
> without nuclear testing.
> 
>    To implement that commitment, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy --
> advised by the Nuclear Weapons Council or "NWC" (comprising representatives
> of DOD, JCS, and DOE), the Directors of DOE's nuclear weapons laboratories
> and the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command -- will report to the
> President annually, whether they can certify that the Nation's nuclear
> weapons stockpile and all critical elements thereof are, to a high degree of
> confidence, safe and reliable, and, if they cannot do so, whether, in their
> opinion and that of the NWC, testing is necessary to assure, with a high
> degree of confidence, the adequacy of corrective measures to assure the
> safety and reliability of the stockpile, or elements thereof.  The
> Secretaries will state the reasons for their conclusions, and the views of
> the NWC, reporting any minority views.
> 
>    After receiving the Secretaries' certification and accompanying report,
> including NWC and minority views, the President will provide them to the
> appropriate committees of the Congress, together with a report on the
> actions he has taken in light of them.
> 
>    If the President is advised, by the above procedure, that a high level of
> confidence in the safety or reliability of a nuclear weapon type critical to
> the Nation's nuclear deterrent could no longer be certified without nuclear
> testing, or that nuclear testing is necessary to assure the adequacy of
> corrective measures, the President will be prepared to exercise our "supreme
> national interests" rights under the Treaty, in order to conduct such testing.
> 
>    The procedure for such annual certification by the Secretaries, and for
> advice to them by the NWC, U.S. Strategic Command, and the DOE nuclear
> weapons laboratories will be embodied in domestic law.  As negotiations on a
> text drew to a close it became apparent that one member of the CD, India,
> would not join in a consensus decision to forward the text to the United
> Nations for its adoption.  After consultations among countries supporting
> the text, Australia requested the President of the U.N. General Assembly to
> convene a resumed session of the 50th General Assembly to consider and take
> action on the text.  The General Assembly was so convened, and by a vote of
> 158 to 3 the Treaty was adopted.  On September 24, 1996, the Treaty was
> opened for signature and I had the privilege, on behalf of the United
> States, of being the first to sign the Treaty.
> 
>    The Treaty assigns responsibility for overseeing its implementation to
> the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (the "Organization"),
> to be established in Vienna.  The Organization, of which each State Party
> will be a member, will have three organs: the Conference of the States
> Parties, a 51-member Executive Council, and the Technical Secretariat.  The
> Technical Secretariat will supervise the operation of and provide technical
> support for the International Monitoring System, operate the International
> Data Center, and prepare for and support the conduct of on-site inspections.
> The Treaty also requires each State Party to establish a National Authority
> that will serve as the focal point within the State Party for liaison with
> the Organization and with other States Parties.
> 
>    The Treaty will enter into force 180 days after the deposit of
> instruments of ratification by all of the 44 states listed in Annex 2 to the
> Treaty, but in no case earlier than 2 years after its being opened for
> signature.  If, 3 years from the opening of the Treaty for signature, the
> Treaty has not entered into force, the Secretary-General of the United
> Nations, in his capacity as Depositary of the Treaty, will convene a
> conference of the states that have deposited their instruments of
> ratification if a majority of those states so requests.  At this conference
> the participants will consider what measures consistent with international
> law might be undertaken to accelerate the ratification process in order to
> facilitate the early entry into force of the Treaty.  Their decision on such
> measures must be taken by consensus.
> 
>      Reservations to the Treaty Articles and the Annexes to the Treaty are
> not permitted.  Reservations may be taken to the Protocol and its Annexes so
> long as they are not incompatible with the object and purpose of the Treaty.
> Amendment of the Treaty requires the positive vote of a majority of the
> States Parties to the Treaty, voting in a duly convened Amendment Conference
> at which no State Party casts a negative vote.  Such amendments would enter
> into force 30 days after ratification by all States Parties that cast a
> positive vote at the Amendment Conference.  The Treaty is of unlimited
> duration, but contains a "supreme interests" clause entitling any State
> Party that determines that its supreme interests have been jeopardized by
> extraordinary events related to the subject matter of the Treaty to withdraw
> from the Treaty upon 6-month's notice.     Unless a majority of the Parties
> decides otherwise, a Review Conference will be held 10 years following the
> Treaty's entry into force and may be held at 10-year intervals thereafter if
> the Conference of the States Parties so decides by a majority vote (or more
> frequently if the Conference of the States Parties so decides by a
> two-thirds vote).
> 
>      The Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty is of singular significance
> to the continuing efforts to stem nuclear proliferation and strengthen
> regional and global stability.  Its conclusion marks the achievement of the
> highest priority item on the international arms control and nonproliferation
> agenda. Its effective implementation will provide a foundation on which
> further efforts to control and limit nuclear weapons can be soundly based.
> By responding to the call for a CTBT by the end of 1996, the Signatory
> States, and most importantly the nuclear weapon states, have demonstrated
> the bona fides of their commitment to meaningful arms control measures.  The
> monitoring challenges presented by the wide scope of the CTBT exceed those
> imposed by any previous nuclear test-related treaty.  Our current capability
> to monitor nuclear explosions will undergo significant improvement over the
> next several years to meet these challenges.  Even with these enhancements,
> though, several conceivable CTBT evasion scenarios have been identified.
> Nonetheless, our National Intelligence Means (NIM), together with the
> Treaty's verification regime and our diplomatic efforts, provide the United
> States with the means to make the CTBT effectively verifiable.  By this, I
> mean that the United States: will have a wide range of resources (NIM, the
> totality of information available in public and private channels, and the
> mechanisms established by the Treaty) for addressing compliance concerns and
> imposing sanctions in cases of noncompliance; and will thereby have the
> means to: (a) assess whether the Treaty is deterring the conduct of nuclear
> explosions (in terms of yields and number of tests) that could damage U.S.
> security interests and constraining the proliferation of nuclear weapons,
> and (b) take prompt and effective counteraction.     My judgment that the
> CTBT is effectively verifiable also reflects the belief that U.S. nuclear
> deterrence would not be undermined by possible nuclear testing that the
> United States might fail to detect under the Treaty, bearing in mind that
> the United States will derive substantial confidence from other factors --
> the CTBT's "supreme national interests" clause, the annual certification
> procedure for the U.S. nuclear stockpile, and the U.S. Safeguards program. I
> believe that the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty is in the best
> interests of the United States.  Its provisions will significantly further
> our nuclear nonproliferation and arms control objectives and strengthen
> international security.  Therefore, I urge the Senate to give early and
> favorable consideration to the Treaty and its advice and consent to
> ratification as soon as possible.
> 
> WILLIAM J. CLINTON
> 
> THE WHITE HOUSE, September 22, 1997
> 
> Alice Slater
> Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
> 15 East 26th Street, Room 915
> New York, NY 10010
> tel:  (212) 726-9161
> fax:  (212) 726-9160
> email:  aslater@gracelinks.org
> 
> GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
> to eliminate nuclear weapons.
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From: Jackie Cabasso <wslf@igc.apc.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 18 Jan 1999 21:11:24 -0800 (PST)

Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking 
for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US 
nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November 
INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND 
ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it 
in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax 
it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the 
CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me 
know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
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From: JTLOWE@aol.com
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 19 Jan 1999 08:52:32 EST

Hi Jackie,
Yes, I would love to see it, if you can email in a form that I don't have to
download that will be good. If not snail mail is best. 

I am troubled by PEace Actions support of CTB and opposition of stockpile
stwerardship as stockpile stewardship is a condition of ctb.

thanks,

Colby Lowe                    phone-203-373-9998
120 Federal Street          email-jtlowe@aol.com
Fairfield CT 06432           fax-203-373-1124

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From: War Resisters League <wrl@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 19 Jan 1999 10:38:18 -0500

Jackie,

I'd like to see a copy of your article.  It sounds interesting and useful.

Chris


At 09:11 PM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking 
>for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US 
>nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November 
>INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND 
>ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it 
>in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax 
>it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the 
>CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me 
>know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
>   ********************************************
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>           1440 Broadway, Suite 500
>             Oakland, CA USA 94612
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>
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From: "David Culp" <dculp@igc.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 19 Jan 1999 11:20:26 -0500

Earlier Peter Weiss <petweiss@igc.org> wrote:

>  "Supreme National Interest" has got to go. It's in most arms control
>  treaties ratified by the US, which makes them all virtually useless. =
I
>  don't know why other countries let the US get away with it (well, I =
do
>  know).

Yes, there is "supreme national interest" clause in most arms control =
treaties, but it has never been invoked by the United States (or by any =
other country).  I am not sure why a clause that has never been used =
makes all arms control treaties "virtually useless".

Why it the clause in there?  You would never get the two-thirds vote =
needed for Senate ratification if it weren't.  I suspect the situation =
in similar with the Russian Duma today.


David Culp
Plutonium Challenge
245 Second Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C.  20002-5761
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From: "mesa's" <cloudflowers@igc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 19 Jan 1999 09:32:19 -0700



Hi Jackie, yes please, on MS Word
Suzanne at CCNS


>Jackie,
>
>I'd like to see a copy of your article.  It sounds interesting and useful.
>
>Chris
>
>
>At 09:11 PM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking
>>for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US
>>nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November
>>INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND
>>ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it
>>in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax
>>it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the
>>CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me
>>know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
>>   ********************************************
>>       WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
>>           1440 Broadway, Suite 500
>>             Oakland, CA USA 94612
>>              Tel: (510)839-5877
>>              Fax: (510)839-5397
>>               wslf@igc.apc.org
>>   ********** Part of ABOLITION 2000 **********
>>   Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
>>
>>
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From: "Sally Light" <sallight@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 19 Jan 1999 13:40:42 -0000

Jackie - I'd like a copy.  MSWord would be just fine.  Thanks, Sally.

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> From: Jackie Cabasso <wslf@igc.apc.org>
> To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com; abolition-caucus@igc.apc.org
> Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 5:11 AM
> 
> Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're
looking 
> for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current
US 
> nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November 
> INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND 
> ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail
it 
> in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax 
> it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the

> CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me 
> know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
>    ********************************************
>        WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
>            1440 Broadway, Suite 500
>              Oakland, CA USA 94612
>               Tel: (510)839-5877
>               Fax: (510)839-5397
>                wslf@igc.apc.org
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> 
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From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT ACTION ALERT: Mobile Chernobyl is back!
Date: 19 Jan 1999 15:58:31 -0500

>Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:56:54 -0500
>Subject: Mobile Chernobyl is back!
>To: nirsnet@nirs.org
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>From: nirsnet@nirs.org (nirsnet@nirs.org)
>
>MOBILE CHERNOBYL ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
>
>Capital Switchboard 202-225-3121 Call now and often!
>
>Mobile Chernobyl, the idea of shipping all of the nation's high-level
>nuclear waste to a parking lot in Nevada is BACK! Although Congress has
>been unable to enact such legislation the past four years, the nuclear
>industry wasted no time this year: on the first day of the
>106th Congress, House members Fred Upton (R-MI) and Edolphus Towns
>(D-NY) introduced a new Mobile Chernobyl bill. This year, it is HR 45.
>
>The new bill is nearly identical to the previous House version of Mobile
>Chernobyl but has some new funding provisions and new dates--to reflect
>the atomic industry's previous failures to pass the legislation. The new
>date for the opening of a centralized storage site for irradiated fuel
>from nuclear power reactors and the military is 2003, which would
>trigger the largest nuclear waste shipping campaign in history.
>
>Transport of high-level nuclear waste from reactor sites, =BE of which are
>east of the Mississippi River, would impact 43 states, according to
>studies conducted by the State of Nevada. The legislation would require
>an ambitious 3,000 metric tons of irradiated fuel a year--or about the
>total amount that has been moved in the last 30 years, each year for the
>next 30 years or more. 50 million Americans live within a half mile on
>either side of the likely train tracks and highways this waste would
>pass by. This is because normal trade routes-major interstate highways
>and
>railroutes--would be used to move the waste. Urban areas should examine
>whether there is a disproportionate impact on some sectors of the
>community. For example, highways and railways often are placed in
>poorer, predominately minority areas.
>
>MOBILE CHERNOBYL IS MOVING FAST. The new Chair of the House Subcommittee
>on Energy and Water is Joe Barton, R-TX, who has long been a "water boy"
>for the nuclear industry. He was, for example, the chief sponsor of
>"one-step" reactor licensing legislation. Barton would like to move the
>bill out of his subcommittee THIS MONTH - with no hearings.
>
>Barton and his nuclear industry allies are counting on us to fold. They
>believe that we have fought this effort so long and hard, that we no
>longer have it in us to fight again. Guess again, Mr. Barton!
>
>National environmental and public interest groups are meeting weekly to
>launch an all-out offensive on Capital Hill. We have stopped this bill
>every year since it was first introduced in 1994. We can stop it now,
>but it requires immediate action from you, your friends and colleagues,
>your organizations.
>
>First target: demand hearings on this legislation. Since the funding
>mechanism has changed - and is really complicated - this is the perfect
>thing to focus on. NO MORE NUCLEAR WELFARE! Even if your U.S.
>Representative is not on the House Commerce Committee, call his/her
>office and demand that he/she:
>
>1) OPPOSE HR 45, the Mobile Chernobyl Act
>2) Demand new hearings: the bill is not the same and there are new
>members of Congress
>3) Focus on the money issues, the transport issue, and the fact that
>this is environmental plunder not environmental protection!!!
>
>While hearings might show the fallacy of the nuclear industry's funding
>schemes-which are intended to put the burden of radioactive waste
>storage on the taxpayer instead of the industry that created the waste,
>hearings are not enough.
>
>In fact, in December, 219 environmental groups demanded a complete end
>to the Yucca Mountain project, for temporary or permanent waste storage,
>because the science is now clear: Yucca Mountain cannot legally be
>licensed as a radioactive waste dump-unless the government changes its
>public health and safety licensing regulations and abandoning any effort
>to isolate this massive load of radioactivity from the environment.
>
>Here are a couple of other points you might want to make to your elected
>representatives and senators. The impeachment trial is certainly slowing
>things down in the Senate, but behind the scenes, the atomic industry's
>gophers, such as Sens. Frank Murkowski, Larry Craig and Pete Domenici,
>are readying new legislation there as well.
>
>HR 45, and any Mobile Chernobyl legislation, is one of the worst
>environmental bills ever. It does not provide a solution for nuclear
>waste, just a "fix" for the nuclear industry that gets to dump their
>waste on Native Shoshone lands, while at the same time making it the
>possession of the tax-payer in perpetuity.  The legislation authorizes
>the Department of Energy to curtail or preempt ALL environmental laws.
>
>HR 45 sets new deadlines that are more unrealistic than the current
>law's missed deadline of 1998.
>
>Yucca Mountain will not isolate nuclear waste from the environment. Data
>in the DOE's own "viability assessment" of the proposed Yucca Mountain
>Repository contradicts any assertion that Yucca Mountain will isolate
>nuclear waste from the environment. The constant seismic activity in the
>area has fractured the soft rock of Yucca Mountain, allowing rain to
>travel through the proposed repository site. The same fractures will
>allow radioactive gases to escape as the waste decays.
>
>A recent study of the funding of the Yucca Mountain Project shows that
>there will be about a 50% shortfall in total project funds. By law the
>funding for this project comes from the customers of nuclear power, and
>the original concept was that they should pay the full bill. A
>proportional 10% to be paid by taxpayers via the military budgets would
>cover the cost of military waste that would go to the same site (10% of
>the total waste). The fund is paid for monthly with the electric bill of
>those who get nuclear power, but at the current rate, this fund will
>deliver $28.1 Billion. The total projected cost of the program with
>centralized storage is  $53.9 Billion. This means that taxpayers would
>end up more than $25 billion in liability if these conservative
>projections are met-and every year the cost projections go higher=85.
>
>Our job is clear. We must stop HR 45 and all related legislation, and we
>must begin now.
>
>First, call your Congressmember at 202-224-3121 and demand that he/she
>actively oppose this bill. Point out the effect transportation of
>high-level atomic waste could have on your state.
>
>Second, write your Congressmember-even if you called. Surveys of
>Congressmembers clearly indicate that handwritten (or typed) letters
>from citizens of the district or state are the single most effective
>means of reaching your Congressmember. Faxes, e-mails, phone calls are
>all ok, but nothing is as effective as a letter in your own words.
>
>Third, organize your community, encourage more letters, phone calls,
>faxes, e-mails. The latest public opinion polls we have available show
>that some 67% of the public opposes Mobile Chernobyl, but only about 1/3
>of the public even knows about it. Moreover, the more people learn about
>it, according to the polls, the more likely they are to oppose it. That
>means we all have to get out and educate and organize, because if we can
>educate just 1/3 more of the public the battle will be over-we will win
>hands down. Let NIRS know what organizing and educational materials you
>need, we'll get them to you. You can also continue to collect signatures
>on the Don't Waste America petitions, although we hope you'll use those
>primarily as an educational tool, and encourage people to write their
>own letters. Try setting up tables at public locations with a few sample
>letters to Congress, focusing on your local situation, and urge people
>to use these samples to write their own letters. Op-eds, letters to the
>editor, press releases-it's time to start them all up again.
>
>It is not too late to get resolutions against the legislation passed at
>municipal and county levels. A resolution against HR 45 on the basis of
>the transport of nuclear waste or any other issue is a very LOUD letter
>to your U.S. Rep. Contact us if you need help with that.
>
>It's time to stop Mobile Chernobyl once and for all. It's time to stop
>Yucca Mountain once and for all. Together, we WILL prevail.
>
>Michael  Mariotte
>Mary Olson
>NIRS
>202-328-0002
>http://www.nirs.org
>=20

Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  (212) 726-9161
fax:  (212) 726-9160
email:  aslater@gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT ACTION ALERT: Mobile Chernobyl is back!
Date: 19 Jan 1999 15:58:31 -0500

>Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:56:54 -0500
>Subject: Mobile Chernobyl is back!
>To: nirsnet@nirs.org
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: nirsnet@igc.org
>From: nirsnet@nirs.org (nirsnet@nirs.org)
>
>MOBILE CHERNOBYL ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
>
>Capital Switchboard 202-225-3121 Call now and often!
>
>Mobile Chernobyl, the idea of shipping all of the nation's high-level
>nuclear waste to a parking lot in Nevada is BACK! Although Congress has
>been unable to enact such legislation the past four years, the nuclear
>industry wasted no time this year: on the first day of the
>106th Congress, House members Fred Upton (R-MI) and Edolphus Towns
>(D-NY) introduced a new Mobile Chernobyl bill. This year, it is HR 45.
>
>The new bill is nearly identical to the previous House version of Mobile
>Chernobyl but has some new funding provisions and new dates--to reflect
>the atomic industry's previous failures to pass the legislation. The new
>date for the opening of a centralized storage site for irradiated fuel
>from nuclear power reactors and the military is 2003, which would
>trigger the largest nuclear waste shipping campaign in history.
>
>Transport of high-level nuclear waste from reactor sites, =BE of which are
>east of the Mississippi River, would impact 43 states, according to
>studies conducted by the State of Nevada. The legislation would require
>an ambitious 3,000 metric tons of irradiated fuel a year--or about the
>total amount that has been moved in the last 30 years, each year for the
>next 30 years or more. 50 million Americans live within a half mile on
>either side of the likely train tracks and highways this waste would
>pass by. This is because normal trade routes-major interstate highways
>and
>railroutes--would be used to move the waste. Urban areas should examine
>whether there is a disproportionate impact on some sectors of the
>community. For example, highways and railways often are placed in
>poorer, predominately minority areas.
>
>MOBILE CHERNOBYL IS MOVING FAST. The new Chair of the House Subcommittee
>on Energy and Water is Joe Barton, R-TX, who has long been a "water boy"
>for the nuclear industry. He was, for example, the chief sponsor of
>"one-step" reactor licensing legislation. Barton would like to move the
>bill out of his subcommittee THIS MONTH - with no hearings.
>
>Barton and his nuclear industry allies are counting on us to fold. They
>believe that we have fought this effort so long and hard, that we no
>longer have it in us to fight again. Guess again, Mr. Barton!
>
>National environmental and public interest groups are meeting weekly to
>launch an all-out offensive on Capital Hill. We have stopped this bill
>every year since it was first introduced in 1994. We can stop it now,
>but it requires immediate action from you, your friends and colleagues,
>your organizations.
>
>First target: demand hearings on this legislation. Since the funding
>mechanism has changed - and is really complicated - this is the perfect
>thing to focus on. NO MORE NUCLEAR WELFARE! Even if your U.S.
>Representative is not on the House Commerce Committee, call his/her
>office and demand that he/she:
>
>1) OPPOSE HR 45, the Mobile Chernobyl Act
>2) Demand new hearings: the bill is not the same and there are new
>members of Congress
>3) Focus on the money issues, the transport issue, and the fact that
>this is environmental plunder not environmental protection!!!
>
>While hearings might show the fallacy of the nuclear industry's funding
>schemes-which are intended to put the burden of radioactive waste
>storage on the taxpayer instead of the industry that created the waste,
>hearings are not enough.
>
>In fact, in December, 219 environmental groups demanded a complete end
>to the Yucca Mountain project, for temporary or permanent waste storage,
>because the science is now clear: Yucca Mountain cannot legally be
>licensed as a radioactive waste dump-unless the government changes its
>public health and safety licensing regulations and abandoning any effort
>to isolate this massive load of radioactivity from the environment.
>
>Here are a couple of other points you might want to make to your elected
>representatives and senators. The impeachment trial is certainly slowing
>things down in the Senate, but behind the scenes, the atomic industry's
>gophers, such as Sens. Frank Murkowski, Larry Craig and Pete Domenici,
>are readying new legislation there as well.
>
>HR 45, and any Mobile Chernobyl legislation, is one of the worst
>environmental bills ever. It does not provide a solution for nuclear
>waste, just a "fix" for the nuclear industry that gets to dump their
>waste on Native Shoshone lands, while at the same time making it the
>possession of the tax-payer in perpetuity.  The legislation authorizes
>the Department of Energy to curtail or preempt ALL environmental laws.
>
>HR 45 sets new deadlines that are more unrealistic than the current
>law's missed deadline of 1998.
>
>Yucca Mountain will not isolate nuclear waste from the environment. Data
>in the DOE's own "viability assessment" of the proposed Yucca Mountain
>Repository contradicts any assertion that Yucca Mountain will isolate
>nuclear waste from the environment. The constant seismic activity in the
>area has fractured the soft rock of Yucca Mountain, allowing rain to
>travel through the proposed repository site. The same fractures will
>allow radioactive gases to escape as the waste decays.
>
>A recent study of the funding of the Yucca Mountain Project shows that
>there will be about a 50% shortfall in total project funds. By law the
>funding for this project comes from the customers of nuclear power, and
>the original concept was that they should pay the full bill. A
>proportional 10% to be paid by taxpayers via the military budgets would
>cover the cost of military waste that would go to the same site (10% of
>the total waste). The fund is paid for monthly with the electric bill of
>those who get nuclear power, but at the current rate, this fund will
>deliver $28.1 Billion. The total projected cost of the program with
>centralized storage is  $53.9 Billion. This means that taxpayers would
>end up more than $25 billion in liability if these conservative
>projections are met-and every year the cost projections go higher=85.
>
>Our job is clear. We must stop HR 45 and all related legislation, and we
>must begin now.
>
>First, call your Congressmember at 202-224-3121 and demand that he/she
>actively oppose this bill. Point out the effect transportation of
>high-level atomic waste could have on your state.
>
>Second, write your Congressmember-even if you called. Surveys of
>Congressmembers clearly indicate that handwritten (or typed) letters
>from citizens of the district or state are the single most effective
>means of reaching your Congressmember. Faxes, e-mails, phone calls are
>all ok, but nothing is as effective as a letter in your own words.
>
>Third, organize your community, encourage more letters, phone calls,
>faxes, e-mails. The latest public opinion polls we have available show
>that some 67% of the public opposes Mobile Chernobyl, but only about 1/3
>of the public even knows about it. Moreover, the more people learn about
>it, according to the polls, the more likely they are to oppose it. That
>means we all have to get out and educate and organize, because if we can
>educate just 1/3 more of the public the battle will be over-we will win
>hands down. Let NIRS know what organizing and educational materials you
>need, we'll get them to you. You can also continue to collect signatures
>on the Don't Waste America petitions, although we hope you'll use those
>primarily as an educational tool, and encourage people to write their
>own letters. Try setting up tables at public locations with a few sample
>letters to Congress, focusing on your local situation, and urge people
>to use these samples to write their own letters. Op-eds, letters to the
>editor, press releases-it's time to start them all up again.
>
>It is not too late to get resolutions against the legislation passed at
>municipal and county levels. A resolution against HR 45 on the basis of
>the transport of nuclear waste or any other issue is a very LOUD letter
>to your U.S. Rep. Contact us if you need help with that.
>
>It's time to stop Mobile Chernobyl once and for all. It's time to stop
>Yucca Mountain once and for all. Together, we WILL prevail.
>
>Michael  Mariotte
>Mary Olson
>NIRS
>202-328-0002
>http://www.nirs.org
>=20

Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  (212) 726-9161
fax:  (212) 726-9160
email:  aslater@gracelinks.org

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to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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From: War Resisters League <wrl@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 19 Jan 1999 17:19:06 -0500

Jackie,

I'd like to see a copy of your article.  It sounds interesting and useful.

Chris


At 09:11 PM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking 
>for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US 
>nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November 
>INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND 
>ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it 
>in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax 
>it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the 
>CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me 
>know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
>   ********************************************
>       WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
>           1440 Broadway, Suite 500
>             Oakland, CA USA 94612
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:34:46 -0500
Date: 19 Jan 1999 15:29:47 -0700


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From: DavidMcR@aol.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Day Without the Pentagon organizer faces judge on war tax resistance
Date: 19 Jan 1999 22:38:21 EST

In a message dated 1/19/99 5:47:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, wrl@igc.apc.o=
rg
writes:

<< Subj:=09 Day Without the Pentagon organizer faces judge on war tax resi=
stance
 Date:=091/19/99 5:47:17 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:=09wrl@igc.apc.org (War Resisters League)
 
 January 19, 1999=09=09Contact: Chris Ney or Ruth Benn
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  =09212-228-0450
 
 
 =09IRS ESCALATES THREATS AGAINST TAX RESISTER
 
 NEW YORK, NY=97In an unusual move, the Internal Revenue Service has gone =
to
 court to force a long-time Brooklyn pacifist and war tax resister to turn
 over his financial records.
 =09Ed Hedemann, who for decades has refused to send his federal income ta=
xes
 to the IRS because of his objection to military spending, has been summon=
ed
 to appear February 1 in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to show cause why
 he should not turn over all his financial records to the IRS. A refusal t=
o
 turn over the records would carry the risk of being sent to prison for
 contempt of court.
 =09The IRS served Hedemann the Order to Show Cause December 11 against th=
e
 backdrop of renewed U.S. air strikes against Iraq. Just days after
 unleashing the largest military action since the Gulf War=97which cost ne=
arly
 2,000 Iraqi lives and more than $500 million of U.S. taxpayers
 money=97Clinton asked Congress for an additional $100 billion for the
 Pentagon over the next six years, representing the largest military
 build-up since the Reagan administration's record spending.
 =09Hedemann began withholding federal taxes in 1972 as a protest against =
the
 Vietnam War.  He has continued to withhold them since then because the
 federal government has continued to spend 50 to 65 percent of federal
 income taxes on present and past military programs.  He files all his tax
 returns and pays state, local, and social security taxes. Instead of a
 check, however, he sends the IRS a note with his federal return explainin=
g
 why he is sending the entire amount of any taxes due to organizations suc=
h
 as Voices in the Wilderness, which provides material aid to Iraqi
 civilians; the New York Times Neediest Cases fund; and a documentary film
 project on the U.S.-aided murder of Jesuit priests in El Salvador.
 =09"Since 1972, the IRS has routinely sent me threatening notices and lev=
ies,
 called me at home, harassed organizations I work for, and looked for
 nonexistent bank accounts and property," notes Hedemann, "but this is the
 first time they've ever taken me to court. I guess they're in desperate
 need of money to pay for all those cruise missiles."
 =09An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people in the U.S. refuse to pay some or =
all
 of their federal taxes because of opposition to war. In the past 30 years
 only a half dozen war tax resisters have been taken to court; the last su=
ch
 case was nine years ago.=09
 =09A support demonstration is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in front of the U.S=
.
 District Court at 225 Cadman Plaza E. in Brooklyn on Monday, February 1,
 just before the 4 p.m. hearing. "I don't know what'll happen in court tha=
t
 day, but I do know that I cannot turn over any papers to the IRS or do
 anything that'll contribute to the war-making effort of this or any other
 country," commented Hedemann.
 -30-
 
 **********
 War Resisters League
 339 Lafayette St.
 New York, NY 10012
 212-228-0450
 212-228-6193 (fax)
 1-800-975-9688 (YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon)
 wrl@igc.apc.org
 web address: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl
  >>


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From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews, U.S.: 1/20/99 - State of Union re nukes; Looser
Date: 20 Jan 1999 08:12:22 -0500

1. Excerpts re nukes from "President Clinton's State of the Union Address"
http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/whouse/articles/980128sou-text.html

2. Federal Regulators Recommend Looser Rein at Millstone Plant
http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+139+
1+wAAA+nuclear

3. State declares it has authority over shipments to White Mesa  
'Ore' is really hazardous waste that can be regulated at state level, Utah says
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30007082,00.html?


1. Excerpts re nukes from "President Clinton's State of the Union Address"

http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/whouse/articles/980128sou-text.html

New York Times, January 20, 1999

We must increase our efforts to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons and
missiles, from Korea to India and Pakistan. 

We must expand our work with Russia, Ukraine, and the other former Soviet
nations to safeguard nuclear materials and technology so they never fall
into the wrong hands. Our balanced budget will increase funding for these
critical efforts by almost two-thirds over the next 5 years. 

With Russia, we must continue to reduce our nuclear arsenals. The START II
treaty and the framework we have already agreed to for START III could cut
them by 80 percent from their Cold War height. 

It's been two years since I signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. 

If we don't do the right thing, other nations won't either. I ask the
Senate to take this vital step: Approve the Treaty now, to make it harder
for other nations to develop nuclear arms -- and to make sure we can end
nuclear testing forever. Thank you. Thank you. 

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-State-of-Union-Foreign.html

(H)e proposed assistance to Russia that would add to the Nunn-Lugar program
aimed at dismantling nuclear weapons. He said it would increase funding by
nearly two-thirds over five years -- $4.2 billion the first year -- to help
redirect the work of Russian scientists from weapons research to peacetime
pursuits. 

http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+7+4+
wAAA+nuclear%7EOR%7Eplutonium%7EOR%7Euranium%7EOR%7Eradioactiv%3F%3F%3F -
Associated Press, January 20, 1999 (not listed on main site):

He proposed $4.2 billion -- a 70 percent increase -- to reduce the threat
from Russia's nuclear arsenal and redirect the work of Russian scientists
from weapons to civilian research. The initiative would help finance the
dismantling and destruction of warheads and dangerous materials and
accelerate Moscow's withdrawal of troops stationed outside of Russia. 


2. Federal Regulators Recommend Looser Rein at Millstone Plant

http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+139+
1+wAAA+nuclear

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, January 20, 1999

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Federal regulators, citing a  much-improved work
environment at the Millstone nuclear complex in Connecticut, recommended
Tuesday that a 1996 order requiring independent oversight at the plant be
lifted. 

If approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the move will represent a
huge step for Northeast Utilities, which had a history of intimidating and
harassing workers, including punishing whistle-blowers. 

Federal regulators have said that climate resulted in the accumulation of
safety problems that led to the shutdown of all three Millstone units, in
Waterford, Conn., in 1995 and 1996. One unit resumed operating last summer,
and another is scheduled to restart in March. The third is being
decommissioned. 

Given the utility's new programs for addressing worker concerns and
stressing safety, the regulatory commission's staff has concluded that the
utility is ready to operate without constant supervision from outside
consultants. 

The Oct. 24, 1996, order required that the utility hire an independent firm
to oversee its employee and worker safety programs. To comply, the utility
hired Little Harbor Consultants as an on-site overseer to assess the
company's progress. 

It is unclear when the regulatory commission will vote on the staff
recommendation. It is possible that the agency could move to lift the order
partly, by requiring, for instance, that Little Harbor continue its work at
the plant in a more limited capacity. 

Northeast Utilities has indicated that it may, on its own, hire the firm to
report quarterly on the status of its worker and safety programs. 

Little Harbor, which concurred with the staff recommendation to lift the
order, also said it would operate a toll-free telephone line as long as it
continued to have some presence at Millstone. Workers or members of the
public could contact the consultants directly. 

Some critics, however, have continued to express concern, especially in the
wake of a recent report by the nuclear commission's inspector general that
questioned why the agency did not punish the utility for the January 1996
firing of workers who raised safety concerns. 

John Markowicz of Waterford, the vice chairman of Connecticut's Nuclear
Energy Advisory Council, said Little Harbor should continue its full-time
oversight until the issues raised in the report are resolved. 


3. State declares it has authority over shipments to White Mesa  
'Ore' is really hazardous waste that can be regulated at state level, Utah says

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30007082,00.html?

By Jerry Spangler Deseret News, January 19, 1999

      The state of Utah is now showing its cards in its high-stakes efforts
to block additional shipments of radioactive waste to the White Mesa Mill
located between the towns of Blanding and Bluff in southeastern Utah. But
is it a winning hand?

      The state's legal strategy is simple: The tailings from upstate New
York are contaminated not only with radiation but with six decades of
cleaning solvents, waste oils, incinerator ash, carbonates, toluene,
catalysts, chloroethene and sludge containing organics and metals  all of
them nasty compounds that constitute hazardous wastes that could
contaminate Utah's groundwater.

      And because they are hazardous wastes, the law is clear. They fall
under the state's regulatory jurisdiction, not that of the federal
government, which regulates radioactive waste through the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.

      "As more and more exotic materials are taken into the mill, the
potential exists for contaminates to escape into groundwater," said Bill
Sinclair, director of the state Division of Radiation Control. And that is
a public health concern the state is required by law to regulate.

      The White Mesa Mill has not been licensed by the state as a disposal
facility. The mill, owned by International Uranium, since last summer has
been accepting 45,000 cubic yards of uranium tailings from the Ashland 2
site near Tonawanda, N.Y. The Utah site began accepting the tailings after
a decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the materials,
targeted for "recycling," constituted ore and not low-level radioactive waste.

      Earl Hoellen, president of the Denver-based International Uranium
Co., owner of the mill, said federal regulations allow the mill to process,
or "recycle," the material in question, and the NRC gave written
authorization to accept it.

      "We are not  I repeat we are not  thumbing our noses at the state,"
Hoellen said. "We have worked with the state for many years, and IUC
continues to work with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.
Sometimes we agree and sometimes we don't. But we are not going to subject
ourselves to unfounded regulatory authority."

      The company is receiving $90 per cubic yard from the federal
government for the Ashland 2 tailings, and it would receive a $110 per
cubic yard fee, plus transportation costs, for accepting the 21,750 cubic
yards of tailings from the two additional sites. The company stands to
receive a total of $6.5 million.

      The state maintains the amount of uranium in the tailings  all of
which averages far less than one-half of 1 percent  is so small that
"recycling" is but a technical means for the company to circumvent state
laws regulating waste disposal facilities.

      The NRC considers the tailings, left over from World War II nuclear
projects, to be "ore" and therefore beyond state environmental laws.

      "Our position has always been the tailings constitute waste that
should be regulated by the state," Sinclair said. "If it is a waste dump,
then the state would impose certain requirements on the facility to collect
information on materials coming into the site. They would be subject to
inspection and review by the state."

      The NRC inspects the White Mesa Mill twice a year, Sinclair noted. By
comparison, state inspectors make almost daily inspections of Envirocare,
the only facility licensed by the state to accept low-level radioactive
wastes similar to those being processed as "ore" by White Mesa.

      "We believe we impose a pretty high standard for protecting
groundwater resources in the state, the number of parameters to be
monitored, the location of wells and the taking of independent samples,"
Sinclair said. "There are differences (between the NRC and state
regulations) that are important as far as the state is concerned."

      According to a legal brief filed by the state, International Uranium
is primarily interested in the disposal fee, not processing the materials
for its uranium. Uranium prices are extremely low, and the costs of
processing ore is high, making the disposal fee the only economic incentive
for taking the tailings.

      The state has been granted legal standing in its challenge of the
Ashland 2 shipments, but for all practical matters, there is nothing the
state can do to stop those shipments. They will have been completed by the
time hearings on the state's petition are held, Sinclair said.

      The state is now focusing its latest efforts on stopping the
shipments of tailings from two other New York sites, called Ashland 1 and
Seaway Area D. And those efforts are targeted at proving the tailings are
not ore, but waste.

"Unless the NRC intends to allow any material to be processed at a uranium
mill, there comes a time when NRC must question the integrity of its
definition of ore," the legal brief states.

      "Surely, NRC would not buy off on the definition of ore if, for
example, the White Mesa Mill collected municipal garbage from San Juan
County residents, and for a suitable recycling fee, processed the garbage
through its mill and disposed of the tailings in its impoundment.

      The Seaway Area D site, also located near Tonawanda, was used as an
industrial landfill for hazardous wastes for the past 60 years. Tailings
from Ashland 1 have an average of .02 percent uranium, and in some areas
the amount of uranium is undetectable, the brief states.
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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: MILLSTONE COVER UP, WHISTLEBLOWERS FIRED
Date: 20 Jan 1999 12:55:21 -0600 (CST)

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This letter was hand delivered to the NRC Commissioners during
yesterday's
NRC/Millstone meeting in Maryland. The OIG report is the tip of the
iceberg.

Rosemary


MA: Box 83 Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
P/F: 413-339-5781/8768
CT: 54 Old Turnpike Road, Haddam, CT 06438 P/F: 860-345-2157
VT: C/O Box 566 Putney, VT 05346 P/F: 802-387-4050
NH: 9 Evens Road, Madbury, NH 03820 P/F 603-742-4261
NY: 924 Burnet Ave, Syarcuse, NY 13203 315-472-5478/ 7923
CITIZENS AWARENESS NETWORK
January 19, 1999

Dr. Shirley Jackson and Commissioners
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555

Re: CAN'S COMMENTS TO BE READ INTO THE RECORD DURING THE JANUARY 19,
1999
NRC COMMISSION MEETING REGARDING MILLSTONE'S RECOVERY.

Dear Dr. Jackson and Commissioners:

We are concerned by the findings in the recent Office of Inspector
General Report 99-01S dated December 31, 1998. Your agency's decisions
not to take enforcement action for a Severity Level 1violation and to
dismiss claims of discrimination by a number of Millstone employees when
no investigation was conducted, leads us to conclude that your agency
continues to be incapable of enforcing its own rules and regulations. It
also leads us to conclude that the decisions your agency has made to
date, including the
decision to permit the restart of Unit 3, are suspect. We have no reason
to believe that the future offers any change.

CAN pointed out in our November 25, 1996, 2.206 petition to the
Executive Director of Operations, "...the Commission must confront its
own chronic, systemic failure to enforce its regulations". Again, at the
June 2, 1998 Commission meeting, we stated that your agency's failure to
regulate at New England reactors did not begin on your watch, but it was
found on your watch. The question was whether or not your would act to
rectify your regulatory deficiencies. Your lack of corrective action
within your own agency is unacceptable to us. You have failed not only
reactor workers, but you have failed the people living in reactor
communities. We can no longer afford your agency the time to become an
effective regulator of this inherently dangerous industry because our
very lives are at stake in this process.

We therefore request the immediate shutdown of Millstone Unit 3 and that
Millstone Unit 2 remain shutdown until a congressional investigation of
your agency has been conducted and we have sufficient reason to believe
that you are capable of protecting the health and safety of reactor
workers, the public and the environment.

Sincerely,



Rosemary Bassilakis
Researcher
54 Old Turnpike Road
Haddam, CT 06438



Debby Katx
President
PO Box 83
Shelburne Falls, MA 01370

Fish Unlimited asked that I forward their letter to the Commission as
well.
 Nancy Burton traveled down to the meeting to present on their behalf.
It
is a good thing!  She told the commission the truth as opposed to the
NRC
staff who appearantly tells the Comnmission what they want to hear.

Dr Shirley Jackson
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555

Dear Dr Jackson and Commissioners:

Fish Unlimited has reviewed the Office of Inspector General Report
#99-01S
dated December 31, 1998. The report documents an extremely troublesome
cover up by NRC of Northeast Utilities retaliatory dismissals of whistle

blowers at the Millstone Nuclear Reactor Complex.  It is clear from
reading
this document that the NRC lied to whistle blowers and public the
retaliatory firings were illegally swept under the rug to speed the
start
up of the Millstone 3 reactor.

Your personal misconduct in this matter has placed the public at a
heighten
risk of nuclear catastrophe, and furthermore your misconduct has swept
away
any pretension of credibility with the public

Based upon the findings of the Office of Inspector General Fish
Unlimited
calls upon the NRC to suspend Northeast Utilities license to operate
Unit 3
and to shut the facility down permanently.

Sincerely,



Bill Smith, Executive Director


Tuesday January 19, 10:32 pm Eastern Time

NRC staff wants end to Millstone nuke oversight

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission staff recommended Tuesday that third-party oversight
of employee-management relations be ended at the Northeast Utilities'
(NYSE:NU - news) Millstone
nuclear plants.

``Conditions which led to third-party oversight have been corrected to
the satisfaction of the NRC,'' said a
document displayed at a Tuesday hearing.

In October 1996, the NRC implemented a program to evaluate and inspect
Millstone management and
allegations they harassed workers who raised safety concerns. Since
then, an NRC spokesman said plant
workers have become a ``very empowered workforce,'' prompting the staff
recommendation for an end to
oversight.

NRC commissioners will decide the issue at a future date.

The NRC staff recommendation was supported by Little Harbor consultants,
the group hired as the
third-party overseer to manage and advise the utility, according to an
NRC spokesman.

Citizens Awareness Network, an interest group opposed to the NRC staff
recommendation, called for
congressional probes into the agency and wants all Millstone plants
closed for safety reasons until the
investigation is undertaken.

``We have no confidence Northeast Utilities can create a safe work
environment,'' said Debby Katz,
president of the Citizens Awareness Network.

Northeast Utilities came under fire after a memo was leaked showing the
company's nuclear oversight
managers tried to assess how to isolate cynics within the workers'
ranks.

Currently, the 1,149-MW Millstone Unit 3 operates, and the company hopes
to have the 880-MW Unit 2
back in operation by the end of March.

Hartford-based Northeast Utilities announced in July it was permanently
shutting Unit 1, a 660-MW
reactor, following analysis that showed it would not be economically
viable for the company to continue
operating the unit.

Northeast has not decided whether to immediately dismantle Unit 1 or put
the unit in safe storage and wait
before dismantlement starts.

On Tuesday, Northeast Utilities' stock rose 1/8 to 16-1/8 a share in
composite New York Stock
Exchange trading.

Copyright =A9 1999 Reuters Limited.

<HTML>
This letter was hand delivered to the NRC Commissioners during yesterday'=
s
<BR>NRC/Millstone meeting in Maryland. The OIG report is the tip of the
iceberg.

<P>Rosemary
<BR>&nbsp;

<P>MA: Box 83 Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
<BR>P/F: 413-339-5781/8768
<BR>CT: 54 Old Turnpike Road, Haddam, CT 06438 P/F: 860-345-2157
<BR>VT: C/O Box 566 Putney, VT 05346 P/F: 802-387-4050
<BR>NH: 9 Evens Road, Madbury, NH 03820 P/F 603-742-4261
<BR>NY: 924 Burnet Ave, Syarcuse, NY 13203 315-472-5478/ 7923
<BR>CITIZENS AWARENESS NETWORK
<BR>January 19, 1999

<P>Dr. Shirley Jackson and Commissioners
<BR>US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
<BR>Washington, DC 20555

<P>Re: CAN'S COMMENTS TO BE READ INTO THE RECORD DURING THE JANUARY 19,
1999
<BR><B>NRC COMMISSION MEETING REGARDING MILLSTONE'S RECOVERY.</B>

<P>Dear Dr. Jackson and Commissioners:

<P>We are concerned by the findings in the recent Office of Inspector Gen=
eral
Report 99-01S dated December 31, 1998. Your agency's decisions not to tak=
e
enforcement action for a Severity Level 1violation and to dismiss claims
of discrimination by a number of Millstone employees when no investigatio=
n
was conducted, leads us to conclude that your agency continues to be inca=
pable
of enforcing its own rules and regulations. It also leads us to conclude
that the decisions your agency has made to date, including the
<BR>decision to permit the restart of Unit 3, are suspect. We have no rea=
son
to believe that the future offers any change.

<P>CAN pointed out in our November 25, 1996, 2.206 petition to the Execut=
ive
Director of Operations, "...the Commission must confront its own chronic,
systemic failure to enforce its regulations". Again, at the June 2, 1998
Commission meeting, we stated that your agency's failure to regulate at
New England reactors did not begin on your watch, but it was found on you=
r
watch. The question was whether or not your would act to rectify your reg=
ulatory
deficiencies. Your lack of corrective action within your own agency is
unacceptable to us. You have failed not only reactor workers, but you hav=
e
failed the people living in reactor communities. We can no longer afford
your agency the time to become an effective regulator of this inherently
dangerous industry because our very lives are at stake in this process.

<P>We therefore request the immediate shutdown of Millstone Unit 3 and
that Millstone Unit 2 remain shutdown until a congressional investigation
of your agency has been conducted and we have sufficient reason to believ=
e
that you are capable of protecting the health and safety of reactor worke=
rs,
the public and the environment.

<P>Sincerely,
<BR>&nbsp;
<BR>&nbsp;

<P>Rosemary Bassilakis
<BR>Researcher
<BR>54 Old Turnpike Road
<BR>Haddam, CT 06438
<BR>&nbsp;
<BR>&nbsp;

<P>Debby Katx
<BR>President
<BR>PO Box 83
<BR>Shelburne Falls, MA 01370

<P>Fish Unlimited asked that I forward their letter to the Commission as
well.
<BR>&nbsp;Nancy Burton traveled down to the meeting to present on their
behalf.&nbsp; It
<BR>is a good thing!&nbsp; She told the commission the truth as opposed
to the NRC
<BR>staff who appearantly tells the Comnmission what they want to hear.

<P>Dr Shirley Jackson
<BR>Nuclear Regulatory Commission
<BR>Washington, DC 20555

<P>Dear Dr Jackson and Commissioners:

<P>Fish Unlimited has reviewed the Office of Inspector General Report #99=
-01S
<BR>dated December 31, 1998. The report documents an extremely troublesom=
e
<BR>cover up by NRC of Northeast Utilities retaliatory dismissals of whis=
tle
<BR>blowers at the Millstone Nuclear Reactor Complex.&nbsp; It is clear
from reading
<BR>this document that the NRC lied to whistle blowers and public the
<BR>retaliatory firings were illegally swept under the rug to speed the
start
<BR>up of the Millstone 3 reactor.

<P>Your personal misconduct in this matter has placed the public at a hei=
ghten
<BR>risk of nuclear catastrophe, and furthermore your misconduct has swep=
t
away
<BR>any pretension of credibility with the public

<P>Based upon the findings of the Office of Inspector General Fish Unlimi=
ted
<BR>calls upon the NRC to suspend Northeast Utilities license to operate
Unit 3
<BR>and to shut the facility down permanently.

<P>Sincerely,
<BR>&nbsp;
<BR>&nbsp;

<P>Bill Smith, Executive Director
<BR>&nbsp;

<P>Tuesday January 19, 10:32 pm Eastern Time

<P>NRC staff wants end to Millstone nuke oversight

<P>WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
<BR>Commission staff recommended Tuesday that third-party oversight
<BR>of employee-management relations be ended at the Northeast Utilities'
(NYSE:NU - news) Millstone
<BR>nuclear plants.

<P>``Conditions which led to third-party oversight have been corrected
to the satisfaction of the NRC,'' said a
<BR>document displayed at a Tuesday hearing.

<P>In October 1996, the NRC implemented a program to evaluate and inspect
Millstone management and
<BR>allegations they harassed workers who raised safety concerns. Since
then, an NRC spokesman said plant
<BR>workers have become a ``very empowered workforce,'' prompting the sta=
ff
recommendation for an end to
<BR>oversight.

<P>NRC commissioners will decide the issue at a future date.

<P>The NRC staff recommendation was supported by Little Harbor consultant=
s,
the group hired as the
<BR>third-party overseer to manage and advise the utility, according to
an NRC spokesman.

<P>Citizens Awareness Network, an interest group opposed to the NRC staff
recommendation, called for
<BR>congressional probes into the agency and wants all Millstone plants
closed for safety reasons until the
<BR>investigation is undertaken.

<P>``We have no confidence Northeast Utilities can create a safe work env=
ironment,''
said Debby Katz,
<BR>president of the Citizens Awareness Network.

<P>Northeast Utilities came under fire after a memo was leaked showing
the company's nuclear oversight
<BR>managers tried to assess how to isolate cynics within the workers'
ranks.

<P>Currently, the 1,149-MW Millstone Unit 3 operates, and the company hop=
es
to have the 880-MW Unit 2
<BR>back in operation by the end of March.

<P>Hartford-based Northeast Utilities announced in July it was permanentl=
y
shutting Unit 1, a 660-MW
<BR>reactor, following analysis that showed it would not be economically
viable for the company to continue
<BR>operating the unit.


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From: Jan Harwood <jahn@cruzio.com>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:34:46 -0500
Date: 20 Jan 1999 11:19:29 -0800

I'm coming to Santa Barbara for the conference on Feb. 12-14, and I think
two or three others from my AB-2000 group are coming, although they haven't
yet committed themselves.  When you say there are 10 openings, does that
mean in addition to the five that each of us who went to Chicago may
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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <wagingpeace@napf.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:34:46 -0500
Date: 20 Jan 1999 13:07:45 -0800

Hi Jan,


	My name is Lori Beckwith and I am taking over Sue's position here at the Foundation for Abolition 2000.  One of my duties is to coordinate the upcoming meeting.

	It was my understanding that the invitations were sent out to those people who attended the Chicago meeting, New York meeting, and a diversity list.  Also, each person on the Interim Coordinating Committee had the option to invite five people.  The 10 additional spaces were for people who have a strong interest in attending the meeting but didn't receive an invitation.  

	I wasn't aware that people who went to the Chicago meeting were also inviting additional people.  I'm in a difficult position because while I don't  want to alienate people, we only have a limited number of spaces at the facility we will be using.

	You will be receiving a letter from me shortly thanking you for all of the petitions you sent in, but I'll thank you now as well.

	I look forward to meeting you in February, and please get back to me soon to clarify the invitation process.



Thanks,


Lori


At 11:19 AM 1/20/99 -0800, you wrote:

>I'm coming to Santa Barbara for the conference on Feb. 12-14, and I think

>two or three others from my AB-2000 group are coming, although they haven't

>yet committed themselves.  When you say there are 10 openings, does that

>mean in addition to the five that each of us who went to Chicago may

>utilize?

>

>

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From: Mark Mebane <mmebane@fourthfreedom.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:34:46 -0500
Date: 20 Jan 1999 17:49:54 -0500

Jan Harwood wrote:
> 
> I'm coming to Santa Barbara for the conference on Feb. 12-14, and I think
> two or three others from my AB-2000 group are coming, although they haven't
> yet committed themselves.  When you say there are 10 openings, does that
> mean in addition to the five that each of us who went to Chicago may
> utilize?
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Dear Ms. Harwood,

As I understand it, no. These additional spots are for individuals who
did not receive the initial wave of invitation letters. Moreover, these
spots can not be acquired from someone other than the interested
person(s).  As of last count we have six spaces still available. Please
have your friends contact me if they are interested in holding a space.
Thank you and I look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara!

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From: JTLOWE@aol.com
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:34:46 -0500
Date: 20 Jan 1999 19:49:37 EST

Hi Lori,

You said in an earlier post that you mailed an invitation to me and to Sonya
Ostrom. I have not received mine, I don't know about Sonya.

What is the scoop?

Thanks, peace and health,

Colby


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From: JTLOWE@aol.com
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:34:46 -0500
Date: 20 Jan 1999 20:28:29 EST

Hi,

I want to attend this meeting. Lori at napf has told me that she mailed an
invitation to me that I have not received at this moment.

Do you know anything about this?

Colby Lowe

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From: Mark Mebane <mmebane@fourthfreedom.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) INVITATION
Date: 21 Jan 1999 11:05:13 -0500

THE ORGANIZING MEETING FOR A USA ABOLITION CAMPAIGN IS BEING HELD 
FEBRUARY 12-14, 1999 IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA.

A LIMITED 6 SPACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE AND ARE BASED ON A FIRST COME,
FIRST SERVE BASIS.

 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE A SPOT PLEASE CONTACT MARK MEBANE AT
mebane@fourthfreedom.org, or by phone: 1-800-233-6786.

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From: Don Larkin <quercus@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) INVITATION
Date: 21 Jan 1999 15:14:35 -0800

I would like to attend the Santa Barbara meeting.  I am:

  Don Larkin
  189 Hollywood Avenue
  Santa Cruz, CA  95060
  (831) 457-2275
  quercus@concentric.net

I work with the Santa Cruz Abolition 2000 group and am an occasional
volunteer for Western States Legal Foundation.

-Don


Mark Mebane wrote:
> 
> THE ORGANIZING MEETING FOR A USA ABOLITION CAMPAIGN IS BEING HELD
> FEBRUARY 12-14, 1999 IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA.
> 
> A LIMITED 6 SPACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE AND ARE BASED ON A FIRST COME,
> FIRST SERVE BASIS.
> 
>  IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE A SPOT PLEASE CONTACT MARK MEBANE AT
> mebane@fourthfreedom.org, or by phone: 1-800-233-6786.
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From: Peter Weiss <petweiss@igc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) INVITATION
Date: 21 Jan 1999 20:30:16 -0500

So would I (like to attend the meeting). I sent a message two days ago
to mark mebane, but it didn't go through. Cora would also like to
attend.
					Peter Weiss, President, LCNP
					fx 718 432 0076
					

Don Larkin wrote:
> 
> I would like to attend the Santa Barbara meeting.  I am:
> 
>   Don Larkin
>   189 Hollywood Avenue
>   Santa Cruz, CA  95060
>   (831) 457-2275
>   quercus@concentric.net
> 
> I work with the Santa Cruz Abolition 2000 group and am an occasional
> volunteer for Western States Legal Foundation.
> 
> -Don
> 
> Mark Mebane wrote:
> >
> > THE ORGANIZING MEETING FOR A USA ABOLITION CAMPAIGN IS BEING HELD
> > FEBRUARY 12-14, 1999 IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA.
> >
> > A LIMITED 6 SPACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE AND ARE BASED ON A FIRST COME,
> > FIRST SERVE BASIS.
> >
> >  IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE A SPOT PLEASE CONTACT MARK MEBANE AT
> > mebane@fourthfreedom.org, or by phone: 1-800-233-6786.
> >
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From: Jan Harwood <jahn@cruzio.com>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:34:46 -0500
Date: 21 Jan 1999 19:15:02 -0800

Dear Lori:  I've heard very good things about you from John Burroughs and
others, and I'm glad you've taken over from Sue, who was so effective and
personable.

Jackie Cabasso's take on the invitations, as she told it to the regional
meeting in Oakland a couple of weeks ago, was that each person who went to
Chicago had five invitations to distribute. I never received any invitation
in the mail, only the generalized ones, but I've encouraged several people
from my AB 2000 group to come, and I think they've contacted Mark Mebane.
I look forward to meeting you there; it should be a very exciting meeting.



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From: Timothy Bruening <tsbrueni@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Military Budget
Date: 21 Jan 1999 20:33:35 -0800 (PST)

What are the latest figures for military spending by the U.S. and other
nations? What military projects would you cut, and how much money would be
saved this year and over the next few years?  I would be interested in
receiving literature on cutting military spending at 1439 Brown Drive,
Davis, CA 95616. 


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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: LEGISLATION RE CHARGING US FOR EVERY TIME WE ACCESS INTERNET, OBJECT! HR-45, Unilateral  Nuclear Reductions, Call Now
Date: 22 Jan 1999 02:54:23 -0600 (CST)

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   Friends,
            Please call both your Senators & your Rep., all available through the Congressional Switchboard at: 202-224-
3121 to object to this. Also, Clinton at: 202-456-1111. Also, please remember to voice your objections to the brand new 
Mobile Chernobyl Bill, HR-45. Check NIRS web site at: www.nirs.org  for more specifics re this & other great material, 
too.Again, the proposal would have high level commercial nuke waste trucked over 43 states for at least 30 years. The waste 
would come within 1/2 mile of where 50 MILLION Americans live- I don't have any data on the proximity the waste would 
travel to Mexicans & Canadians residences & workplaces nor how many Mexicans & Canadians would be within a range of 1/2 
mile or 10 miles. Can anyone pass along info re this? 


   A reminder that Senator Bob Kerrey [D-Nebraska] recently made a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations calling 
for U.S. unilateral nuclear disarmament. Let's call Kerrey's office [The same 202-224-3121 Congressonal switchboard to 
access anyone in the House and/or Senate] and both thank him and ask him to:

1. Continue Raising the issue

2.Write a "Dear Colleague Letter" re this and circulate it

3.Introduce legislation to enact massive unilateral U.S. nuclear weapons reductions as soon as possible


     Let's do the same with our individual Representatives and Senators.                                                                              



 This was forwarded to me this AM. I thought you would like to know
about it.  Please forward the information below for those who may want to
respond.
 Congress will be voting in less than two weeks. CNN stated that the
 Government would, in two weeks time, decide to allow or not allow a
 charge to your phone bill equal to a Long Distance Call EACH time you
access the
 Internet.
Send a message to your representative and tell him/her that you do not
think this is fair. When you go to the Web site, put in your zip code
and
the
 Web site will tell you who your representative is. It will also
provide a
 little form letter for you to write your concerns.
 The address is  http://www.house.gov/writerep/
If you choose, visit the address above and fill out the necessary
form!
 If EACH one of us, forward this message on to others in a hurry, we
may
 be
 able to prevent this injustice from happening!


Please Pass This ON


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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Mobile Chernobyl is back! Fight it!
Date: 22 Jan 1999 02:56:37 -0600 (CST)

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Organization: NIRS

MOBILE CHERNOBYL ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

Capital Switchboard 202-225-3121 Call now and often!

Mobile Chernobyl, the idea of shipping all of the nation's high-level
nuclear waste to a parking lot in Nevada is BACK! Although Congress has
been unable to enact such legislation the past four years, the nuclear
industry wasted no time this year: on the first day of the
106th Congress, House members Fred Upton (R-MI) and Edolphus Towns
(D-NY) introduced a new Mobile Chernobyl bill. This year, it is HR 45.

The new bill is nearly identical to the previous House version of Mobile
Chernobyl but has some new funding provisions and new dates--to reflect
the atomic industry's previous failures to pass the legislation. The new
date for the opening of a centralized storage site for irradiated fuel
from nuclear power reactors and the military is 2003, which would
trigger the largest nuclear waste shipping campaign in history.

Transport of high-level nuclear waste from reactor sites, =BE of which ar=
e
east of the Mississippi River, would impact 43 states, according to
studies conducted by the State of Nevada. The legislation would require
an ambitious 3,000 metric tons of irradiated fuel a year--or about the
total amount that has been moved in the last 30 years, each year for the
next 30 years or more. 50 million Americans live within a half mile on
either side of the likely train tracks and highways this waste would
pass by. This is because normal trade routes-major interstate highways
and
railroutes--would be used to move the waste. Urban areas should examine
whether there is a disproportionate impact on some sectors of the
community. For example, highways and railways often are placed in
poorer, predominately minority areas.

MOBILE CHERNOBYL IS MOVING FAST. The new Chair of the House Subcommittee
on Energy and Water is Joe Barton, R-TX, who has long been a "water boy"
for the nuclear industry. He was, for example, the chief sponsor of
"one-step" reactor licensing legislation. Barton would like to move the
bill out of his subcommittee THIS MONTH - with no hearings.

Barton and his nuclear industry allies are counting on us to fold. They
believe that we have fought this effort so long and hard, that we no
longer have it in us to fight again. Guess again, Mr. Barton!

National environmental and public interest groups are meeting weekly to
launch an all-out offensive on Capital Hill. We have stopped this bill
every year since it was first introduced in 1994. We can stop it now,
but it requires immediate action from you, your friends and colleagues,
your organizations.

First target: demand hearings on this legislation. Since the funding
mechanism has changed - and is really complicated - this is the perfect
thing to focus on. NO MORE NUCLEAR WELFARE! Even if your U.S.
Representative is not on the House Commerce Committee, call his/her
office and demand that he/she:

1) OPPOSE HR 45, the Mobile Chernobyl Act
2) Demand new hearings: the bill is not the same and there are new
members of Congress
3) Focus on the money issues, the transport issue, and the fact that
this is environmental plunder not environmental protection!!!

While hearings might show the fallacy of the nuclear industry's funding
schemes-which are intended to put the burden of radioactive waste
storage on the taxpayer instead of the industry that created the waste,
hearings are not enough.

In fact, in December, 219 environmental groups demanded a complete end
to the Yucca Mountain project, for temporary or permanent waste storage,
because the science is now clear: Yucca Mountain cannot legally be
licensed as a radioactive waste dump-unless the government changes its
public health and safety licensing regulations and abandoning any effort
to isolate this massive load of radioactivity from the environment.

Here are a couple of other points you might want to make to your elected
representatives and senators. The impeachment trial is certainly slowing
things down in the Senate, but behind the scenes, the atomic industry's
gophers, such as Sens. Frank Murkowski, Larry Craig and Pete Domenici,
are readying new legislation there as well.

HR 45, and any Mobile Chernobyl legislation, is one of the worst
environmental bills ever. It does not provide a solution for nuclear
waste, just a "fix" for the nuclear industry that gets to dump their
waste on Native Shoshone lands, while at the same time making it the
possession of the tax-payer in perpetuity.  The legislation authorizes
the Department of Energy to curtail or preempt ALL environmental laws.

HR 45 sets new deadlines that are more unrealistic than the current
law's missed deadline of 1998.

Yucca Mountain will not isolate nuclear waste from the environment. Data
in the DOE's own "viability assessment" of the proposed Yucca Mountain
Repository contradicts any assertion that Yucca Mountain will isolate
nuclear waste from the environment. The constant seismic activity in the
area has fractured the soft rock of Yucca Mountain, allowing rain to
travel through the proposed repository site. The same fractures will
allow radioactive gases to escape as the waste decays.

A recent study of the funding of the Yucca Mountain Project shows that
there will be about a 50% shortfall in total project funds. By law the
funding for this project comes from the customers of nuclear power, and
the original concept was that they should pay the full bill. A
proportional 10% to be paid by taxpayers via the military budgets would
cover the cost of military waste that would go to the same site (10% of
the total waste). The fund is paid for monthly with the electric bill of
those who get nuclear power, but at the current rate, this fund will
deliver $28.1 Billion. The total projected cost of the program with
centralized storage is  $53.9 Billion. This means that taxpayers would
end up more than $25 billion in liability if these conservative
projections are met-and every year the cost projections go higher=85.

Our job is clear. We must stop HR 45 and all related legislation, and we
must begin now.

First, call your Congressmember at 202-224-3121 and demand that he/she
actively oppose this bill. Point out the effect transportation of
high-level atomic waste could have on your state.

Second, write your Congressmember-even if you called. Surveys of
Congressmembers clearly indicate that handwritten (or typed) letters
from citizens of the district or state are the single most effective
means of reaching your Congressmember. Faxes, e-mails, phone calls are
all ok, but nothing is as effective as a letter in your own words.

Third, organize your community, encourage more letters, phone calls,
faxes, e-mails. The latest public opinion polls we have available show
that some 67% of the public opposes Mobile Chernobyl, but only about 1/3
of the public even knows about it. Moreover, the more people learn about
it, according to the polls, the more likely they are to oppose it. That
means we all have to get out and educate and organize, because if we can
educate just 1/3 more of the public the battle will be over-we will win
hands down. Let NIRS know what organizing and educational materials you
need, we'll get them to you. You can also continue to collect signatures
on the Don't Waste America petitions, although we hope you'll use those
primarily as an educational tool, and encourage people to write their
own letters. Try setting up tables at public locations with a few sample
letters to Congress, focusing on your local situation, and urge people
to use these samples to write their own letters. Op-eds, letters to the
editor, press releases-it's time to start them all up again.

It is not too late to get resolutions against the legislation passed at
municipal and county levels. A resolution against HR 45 on the basis of
the transport of nuclear waste or any other issue is a very LOUD letter
to your U.S. Rep. Contact us if you need help with that.

It's time to stop Mobile Chernobyl once and for all. It's time to stop
Yucca Mountain once and for all. Together, we WILL prevail.

Michael  Mariotte
Mary Olson
NIRS
202-328-0002
http://www.nirs.org


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From: Jackie Cabasso <wslf@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 22 Jan 1999 14:40:52 -0800 (PST)

At 05:19 PM 1/19/99 -0500, War Resisters League wrote:
>Jackie,
>
>I'd like to see a copy of your article.  It sounds interesting and useful.
>
>Chris
>
>
At 12:02 PM 1/19/99 +0530, Vijai K Nair wrote:
>Vijai Nair wrote:
>
>Dear Jackie,
>
>Please send me the updated article. Also let me know if I have your permission
>to run it in a News Paper or Journal in India?
>
>Fond regards
>
>Magoo
>
>Jackie Cabasso wrote:
>
>> Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking
>> for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US
>> nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November
>> INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND
>> ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it
>> in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax
>> it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the
>> CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me
>> know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
>>    ********************************************
>>        WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
>>            1440 Broadway, Suite 500
>>              Oakland, CA USA 94612
>>               Tel: (510)839-5877
>>               Fax: (510)839-5397
>>                wslf@igc.apc.org
>>    ********** Part of ABOLITION 2000 **********
>>    Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
>
>
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>At 12:34 AM 1/19/99 -0800, Timothy Bruening wrote:
>At 09:11 PM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking 
>>for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US 
>>nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November 
>>INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND 
>>ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it 
>>in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax 
>>it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the 
>>CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me 
>>know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
>
>Please e-mail it to me as plain text.
>
>At 07:25 PM 1/19/99 -0800, SCN User wrote:
>hey Jackie--Scott McClay here (you may remember me from LAG et seq days). 
>Been in Seattle since 91, working w/ NACC, affliate of WRL. Would you 
>send me your CTBT update, plain text, please? (or if easier, you can fax 
>to 206.547.2631). I look forward to using it.
>
>I occassionally see bay area stuff w/ your name, glad to see you still 
>plugging away relentlessly! Keep it up. Take care.
>
>
>--
>Scott McClay
>Seattle WA
>(206)-323-5695
>
At 10:48 PM 1/19/99 -0500, Peter Weiss wrote:
>Hi Jackie,
>
>	Please forward update. I've been having trouble opening attachments
>lately. I have both Word Perfect and MSWord; would plain text be best?
>					Thanks and regards, Peter
>
>Jackie Cabasso wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking
>> for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US
>> nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November
>> INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND
>> ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it
>> in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax
>> it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the
>> CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me
>> know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
>>    ********************************************
>>        WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
>>            1440 Broadway, Suite 500
>>              Oakland, CA USA 94612
>>               Tel: (510)839-5877
>>               Fax: (510)839-5397
>>                wslf@igc.apc.org
>>    ********** Part of ABOLITION 2000 **********
>>    Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
>> 
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>
>At 09:42 AM 1/19/99 -0800, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation wrote:
>Hi Jackie:
>I would apprecitate it if you would email me (WordPerfect version) your paper.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lori
>
>At 09:11 PM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking 
>>for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US 
>>nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November 
>>INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND 
>>ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it 
>>in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax 
>>it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the 
>>CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me 
>>know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
>>   ********************************************
>>       WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
>>           1440 Broadway, Suite 500
>>             Oakland, CA USA 94612
>>              Tel: (510)839-5877
>>              Fax: (510)839-5397
>>               wslf@igc.apc.org
>>   ********** Part of ABOLITION 2000 **********
>>   Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons 
>>
>>
>*********************************************************
>NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION
>International contact for Abolition 2000
>a Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
>**********************************************************
>1187 Coast Village Road, Box 123
>Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2794
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>At 12:13 PM 1/19/99 -0500, lizzy wrote:
>Jackie, great job and great offer. Please send me Nuclear Hypocrisy
>5-page in plain text if it's not too much trouble.
>
>Lizzy Poole
>lizzy@fkol.com
>
>NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT
AND ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US

Jacqueline Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation

	In 1991, as the Soviet Union was disintegrating, US General Colin Powell 
stated: "You've got to step aside from the context we've been using for the 
past 40 years, that you base military planning against a specific threat. We 
no longer have the luxury of having a threat to plan for. What we plan for 
is that we're a super power. We are the major player on the world stage with 
responsibilities and interests around the world."  More than seven years 
later, despite massive geopolitical transformations, the US continues its 
quest for nuclear superiority and global military dominance. Since the end 
of World War II, the US has fostered the myth of nuclear "deterrence," while 
relying on the threatened first use of nuclear weapons to back up a foreign 
policy based on intimidation and intervention.	

	The nuclear tests by India and Pakistan briefly put the fear of nuclear war 
back on the front page, and demonstrated the fragility of the 
nonproliferation regime. But a deeper look reveals the global weakness of a 
hypocritical "do as we say, not as we do" US nuclear posture, and calls into 
question the basic premises of official US nonproliferation policy.  

	In his May 16, 1998  weekly radio address, President Clinton told the 
American people: "India has pursued this course at a time when most nations 
are working hard to leave the terror of the nuclear age behind." This 
statement is completely at odds with current US policy. Contrary to its 
public pronouncements, the US is modernizing and upgrading its nuclear 
forces and renewing its commitment to reliance on nuclear weapons, a reality 
which threatens the long-term viability of both the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTB).

	Presidential Decision Directive 60 (PDD), signed in December 1997, 
reaffirms the fundamental elements of US nuclear doctrine since World War 
II.  According to newspaper accounts, the PDD re-commits the US to policies 
of threatened first use and threatened massive retaliation, and affirms that 
the US will continue to rely on nuclear arms as a cornerstone of its 
national security for the "indefinite future." In addition, the PDD 
reportedly contemplates nuclear retaliation against the use of chemical and 
biological arms -- a policy called "counterproliferation."  

	The PDD is backed by a major new program to upgrade the US nuclear weapons 
infrastructure. The so-called "Stockpile Stewardship" program is intended to 
retain "all historical capabilities of the weapons laboratories, industrial 
plants and the Nevada Test Site," without underground testing. Stockpile 
Stewardship will provide design capabilities potentially greater than those 
available during the Cold War. It encompasses a test site ready to rapidly 
resume full scale underground testing and a substantial nuclear warhead 
production capacity, computer-integrated with new, high-tech, experimental 
laboratory facilities.  In addition to ensuring the "safety and reliability" 
of the "enduring" arsenal, Stockpile Stewardship is officially and 
explicitly intended to maintain the capability to design and develop new 
weapons, and to train a new generation of nuclear weapons designers. Over 
the next decade, the US plans to invest $45 billion in this program -- an 
amount, in inflation-adjusted dollars, well above the Cold War annual 
spending average for nuclear weapons research, development, testing, and 
production. 

	Stockpile Stewardship will allow nuclear weapons development to continue 
without full-scale underground tests.  Instead, scientists will simulate 
nuclear tests using the world's fastest supercomputers and data collected 
from more than 1000 past tests, coupled with new diagnostic information. 
This information will be obtained from inertial confinement fusion 
facilities,  pulsed power fusion experiments, above-ground hydrodynamic 
explosions, and subcritical "zero yield" tests conducted deep underground at 
the Nevada Test Site. These tests involve hundreds of pounds of high 
explosive material and up to several pounds of weapon-grade plutonium.  They 
are called "subcritical" because they do not generate self-sustaining 
nuclear chain reactions with measurable nuclear yields. The US claims that 
subcritical tests don't violate the CTB, which does not define a nuclear 
test. But the CTB obligates the US "not to carry out any nuclear weapon test 
explosion or any other nuclear explosion."  In view of US condemnation of 
India's and Pakistan's nuclear tests, the subcritical tests, which clearly 
violate the spirit of the CTB, should be called "hypocritical" tests. Since 
signing the CTB in September 1996, the US has conducted five subcritical 
tests. The next one, code-named "Clarinet," is expected in February 1999.

	Some of the key Stockpile Stewardship technologies have been developed as 
"dual-use" scientific facilities that can be used for both high energy 
physics research and bomb science.  The prime example is the multi-billion 
dollar, stadium-sized National Ignition Facility (NIF), presently under 
construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. 
The NIF is designed to focus 192 powerful laser beams onto a pea-sized 
capsule containing deuterium and tritium, forcing the two heavy isotopes of 
hydrogen to combine through compression, and causing a brief thermonuclear 
explosion that will create extremely high temperatures approaching those 
found in full scale underground nuclear tests. If it works, "ignition" will 
be achieved, producing a self-sustaining fusion reaction.  NIF will generate 
sizeable explosions, central to Stockpile Stewardship. This raises serious 
questions about whether NIF -- and the virtually identical "Projet 
Megajoule," under construction in France, -- violates the letter of the CTB.  

	The dangerous development and spread of these technologies is not limited 
to the declared nuclear weapon states, each of which has its own version of 
Stockpile Stewardship. Any country with an advanced inertial confinement 
fusion program has the capability to rapidly develop a sophisticated 
hydrogen bomb. Since the 1970's, India's weapons labs have constructed their 
own "stockpile stewardship" program, complete with inertial confinement 
fusion, thus allowing their designers to develop sophisticated weapons prior 
to "proof" testing.  Much like the final French tests in the Pacific, the 
Indian government announced that its tests served the purpose of generating 
sufficient data to allow scientists to design and deploy weapons in 
confidence, using lab experiments and supercomputers, without the need for 
underground explosions.  Not surprisingly, this capability was obtained with 
US assistance.  Between 1994 and 1996, over 800 Indian scientists visited 
the US nuclear weapons laboratories.  And, it was reported shortly after the 
May tests that IBM had sold an advanced supercomputer capable of running 
simulations necessary to develop nuclear weapons "codes" to a suspected 
Indian nuclear weapons research facility.

	The South Asian tests warn of a frightening trend, in which developing 
nuclear powers can utilize sophisticated laboratory research and "dual-use" 
technologies to design and deploy nuclear weapons with a minimum number of 
explosions.

	The US Stockpile Stewardship program is the result of a "devil's bargain." 
It is the price exacted by the nuclear weapons laboratories in exchange for 
their acceptance of a ban on full scale underground tests. It is being 
widely promoted as an essential condition for Senate ratification of the 
CTB, a stated objective of official US nonproliferation policy. However, 
this "deal" may actually weaken prospects for stemming the spread of nuclear 
weapons.

	When the NPT was originally negotiated, a two-part bargain was struck to 
induce the non-nuclear weapon states to forswear nuclear weapons.  First, 
the nuclear weapon states promised in Article IV to assist the non-nuclear 
weapon states with the development of nuclear power, an unfortunate 
commitment that promoted the very proliferation the NPT was intended to 
prevent. Second, the nuclear weapon states promised in Article VI to 
negotiate the cessation of the nuclear arms race and the elimination of 
their nuclear arsenals. This bargain was reaffirmed in the 1995 decision to 
indefinitely extend the Treaty.  Pursuant to Article VI, the nuclear weapon 
states agreed to conclude a CTB by 1996 and to pursue "systematic and 
progressive efforts to reduce nuclear weapons globally, with the ultimate 
goal of eliminating those weapons."

	These commitments were reinforced and expanded by the historic 1996 
advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice. In what is now the 
authoritative interpretation of Article VI, the Court held unanimously that 
"there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a 
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects 
under strict and effective international control." 

	During the Cold War, the NPT was largely ignored by the nuclear weapon 
states. Now, in the logic of  "counterproliferation," the US military 
establishment has turned the Treaty's original logic upside down. Possible 
proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction has 
become a principal rationale for the US to maintain and upgrade its own 
nuclear forces.  This represents an expansion, rather than a reduction, of 
the role of nuclear weapons and directly contradicts the Article VI 
disarmament obligation. 

	When President Clinton submitted the CTB to the Senate for ratification 
over a year ago, his transmittal letter made clear that his endorsement of 
the Treaty was conditioned on Senate support for the Stockpile Stewardship 
program as a central requirement of "national security strategy" premised on 
maintenance of a robust nuclear "deterrent." 	

	The CTB has been long-sought in the belief that it would constitute an 
effective disarmament measure. However, conditioning adoption of the Treaty 
on the establishment of the Stockpile Stewardship program in order to 
compensate for the loss of underground testing demonstrates a profound US 
disregard for global and historical expectations of the CTB. This may serve 
in the long term to stimulate the spread of nuclear weapons, directly, 
through the development and spread of technology and information, and  
indirectly, by legitimizing continued possession and threatened use of 
nuclear weapons. 

	Today, US Trident submarines patrol the world's oceans at Cold War levels. 
Armed with hundreds of unimaginably powerful nuclear weapons, they remain 
ready to strike targets around the globe in a matter of minutes. The US 
weapons laboratories are currently working on upgrades to the Trident 
warheads and missiles. These upgrades may allow improvement in accuracy for 
large portions of the submarine-launched ballistic missile force.  During 
the Cold War, this kind of "upgrading" raised fears of  a disabling "first 
strike" and was a driving force in the arms race.  Russia, France, the UK 
and China are upgrading their strategic and tactical nuclear forces as well. 

	The US plans to maintain indefinitely a nuclear arsenal of more than 10,000 
intact warheads in various states of readiness, with thousands of additional 
plutonium "pits" in reserve.  The size of this arsenal is not affected by 
the START process, which deals only with deployed "strategic," or long-range 
weapons. Even if START II is ratified by the Russian Duma --  in doubt due 
to NATO expansion, US development of a Ballistic Missile Defense system, and 
political instabilities in Russia -- in 2007 each side will retain some 
3,500 deployed strategic weapons.  The START III framework agreement would 
allow each side to maintain 2,000 or more deployed strategic nuclear 
weapons.  At present, there are no formal arms reduction negotiations underway.

	While US officials publicly proclaim that the CTB will severely constrain 
the further development of nuclear weapons, it appears that the Pentagon has 
sufficient confidence in near-term Stockpile Stewardship capabilities to 
seriously consider developing and deploying modified weapons designs without 
underground testing. In fact, it has already done so. Existing facilities 
have been used to produce and deploy the first US nuclear weapon with 
improved military capabilities since 1989. The B61-11 is an earth 
penetrating gravity bomb with a variable yield ranging from 300 tons to over 
300 kilotons TNT. The US claims that the B61-11 is not a "new" weapon 
because the physics package has not been changed. But in fact, it is a 
weapon with new military capabilities.  And its use has already been 
threatened against Libya and Iraq in connection with alleged chemical and 
biological weapons-capabilities.

	The world reeled when India and Pakistan conducted their nuclear tests.  
But just two months earlier, the US flight-tested the B61-11 in Alaska, 
using a depleted uranium warhead.  Attempts by local tribes and 
environmental groups to focus national attention on this US nuclear test 
fell on deaf ears. Other nuclear weapons projects reportedly underway 
include upgrades to MX warheads and strategic bombs, nuclear glide bombs, 
and -- possibly -- a nuclear warhead for theater defense missiles designed 
to intercept and incinerate biological and chemical warheads.

	In addition, contingency plans are underway to allow US nuclear weapons 
production to quickly increase to "cold war levels of building." Modernized 
plutonium pit manufacturing capability will add to the 12,000 unused pits 
currently in storage and the 12,000 in the current weapon arsenal. In 
addition, the US is preparing to resume production of  tritium, halted in 
1988 for safety reasons. (Tritium is radioactive hydrogen -- the "H" in 
H-bomb.  It is used to boost the explosive power of  nuclear weapons.) Yet 
the current store of tritium could supply a stockpile of 1,000 nuclear 
warheads for the next 50 years.

	Such programs represent the antithesis of the NPT Article VI obligation to 
"pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to 
cessation of the nuclear arms race and an early date and to nuclear 
disarmament," which was unambiguously reaffirmed by the US in conjunction 
with the 1995 NPT extension decision. The reality is that Stockpile 
Stewardship is intended to ensure that nuclear disarmament does not occur as 
a consequence of the CTB.  Moreover, new nuclear weapons designs and 
improvements directly contravene the "cessation of the nuclear arms 
race"Article VI requirement.

	The US National Academy of Sciences, in its 1997 report, The Future of 
Nuclear Weapons, warned: "The absence of change in US nuclear posture and 
practice to reflect the dramatically altered post-Cold War conditions 
weakens the credibility of US leadership in nonproliferation efforts."

	The most appropriate and effective response to the nuclear crisis in South 
Asia is for the US, the world's first and leading nuclear power, to 
commence, without further delay, negotiations on the global elimination of 
nuclear weapons -- its legal obligation under the NPT.  This should be 
coupled with immediate measures to reduce the very real danger of an 
intentional or accidental nuclear launch.  Nuclear forces should be taken 
off  "hair trigger" alert and withdrawn from deployment.  Warheads should be 
separated from delivery vehicles.  And Senate ratification of the CTB should 
be linked to nuclear disarmament instead of being conditioned on the 
Stockpile Stewardship program.  Maybe then the US would be in a position to 
convince India and Pakistan not to alert and deploy their own nuclear 
forces, and to join the CTB and NPT. 

Jacqueline Cabasso is the Executive Director of the Western States Legal 
Foundation in Oakland, California, a founding member of the Abolition 2000 
Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons.  An earlier version of this 
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Subject: (abolition-usa) APOLOGY: HUMAN ERROR!!
Date: 22 Jan 1999 21:29:36 -0800 (PST)

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From: Timothy Bruening <tsbrueni@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Freeing the CTBT from Jessie Helms
Date: 22 Jan 1999 22:36:51 -0800 (PST)

Jesse Helms has bottled up the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty since Clinton
sent it to the Senate in 1997.  Could Senators discharge it from the Foreign
Relations Committee and onto the floor for a vote by collecting signatures
on a discharge petition?


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From: ike <ike@swva.net>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Jessie Helms following John Cabot Lodge's path to war; Re: Freeing the CTBT from Jessie Helms
Date: 23 Jan 1999 17:32:57 -0500

With regards to the following e-mail addressed to me, I really do not 
know enough to comment. 

However, I did read in the Friday, Jan 22, Wall Street Journal, p. A10, 
an article by Jesse Helms titled "Amend the ABM Treaty? No, Scrap It."

I feel the article is worth reading, because Jesse Helms is not only 
stopping the test ban treaty, he is throwing (with great success) the 
whole operation of arms reductions and military moderation into reverse.

This will have an enormous impact in the post-Cold War era and may 
irreversibly lead to war within the next 15 or so years, as it did in 
John Cabot Lodge's case. 

I say this in part because Jesse Helms is now playing a role 
substantially identical to the one which was played by John Cabot Lodge, 
who after WWI saw to it that the United States did not become a member 
of the League of Nations and weakened international organizations to the 
extent that the onset of WWII was GREATLY (!!!) facilitated. 

I wrote at some length in the third section of my book "Forecast and 
Solution: grappling with the nuclear" about this matter. It is quite 
striking the degree to which history appears to be repeating itself and 
how little commentary is made on the similarities between Lodge and 
Helms. For example, both were heads of the Senate Foreign Relations 
Committee, both were Conservative Republicans, both had a venomous 
hatred for the President, and both were masters of manipulating the 
rules of the Senate so that the majority (or in Lodge's case, 
two-thirds) of the Senate do not prevail.

Sorry I was not able to be of more help,
Ike Jeanes



Timothy Bruening wrote:
> 
> Jesse Helms has bottled up the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty since Clinton
> sent it to the Senate in 1997.  Could Senators discharge it from the Foreign
> Relations Committee and onto the floor for a vote by collecting signatures
> on a discharge petition?

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From: DavidMcR@aol.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Peace in many languages
Date: 23 Jan 1999 21:52:10 EST

In a message dated 1/23/99 4:43:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, Chango shk
writes:
Someone sent me this and it might come in handy. Alas, all the spellings are
in English - but far better than nothing.

David McReynolds

<< 
 Shalom all,
 I couldn't resist sending you this link which lists the word for "peace" in
 144 languages.
 
 
 <A HREF="http://www.universe.digex.net/~kkhan/peace_page.html">Peace in many
languages</A>
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From: Bob Tiller <btiller@psr.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Freeing the CTBT from Jessie Helms
Date: 24 Jan 1999 13:24:03 -0500

Senators can do anything they want on the floor.  If they want to bring
up the CTBT, they can do it.  A discharge petition is not required. 
However, unanimous consent is the usual and preferred approach for
proceeding to consideration of any topic in the Senate, and unanimous
consent for CTBT consideration would be impossible right now.

As a matter of practical politics, the Senate is a clubby place where it
is considered inappropriate to challenge the authority of senior
members.  They operate within a comity arrangement which does not
encourage bucking a chairman.  Very few would consider challenging Sen.
Helms on this or any other matter.  But it can be done if the
circumstances are right and a bipartisan group plans its strategies
well.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller




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> Jesse Helms has bottled up the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty since Clinton
> sent it to the Senate in 1997.  Could Senators discharge it from the Foreign
> Relations Committee and onto the floor for a vote by collecting signatures
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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews (US): 1/23/99 - Plutonium; Helms; TMI Obit; Activist
Date: 23 Jan 1999 09:00:22 -0500

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1. U.S. says plutonium stockpiles off-limits 
[Excerpt from http://detnews.com/1999/nation/9901/22/01220208.htm]

2. Helms Sets Arms Treaty 'Deadline'
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Helms-Foreign-Policy.html

3. Nuclear Power Expert Stello Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Stello.html

4. Woman Accused of Setting Fires on Calvert Cliffs Land
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/117l-012199-idx.html

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1. U.S. says plutonium stockpiles off-limits 

[Excerpt from http://detnews.com/1999/nation/9901/22/01220208.htm]

GENEVA -- The United States laid out its position for the world's next major
disarmament treaty Thursday, urging a ban on the material used to make nuclear
bombs but not on the huge amounts already stockpiled. "We will not agree to any
restrictions on existing stocks in a 'cutoff' treaty," John D. Holum, the top
U.S. armament-control official, told the 61-nation Conference on Disarmament.
Efforts are under way among key nations to eliminate their stockpiles of
plutonium and highly enriched uranium, and trying to add the issue to a new
treaty would only backfire, said Holum, acting undersecretary of state for arms
control. 


[Impeach Helms!  He's a hazard to everyone's health.]

2. Helms Sets Arms Treaty 'Deadline'

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Helms-Foreign-Policy.html

By The Associated Press, January 23, 1999

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., says he will put a freeze on
treaties the administration wants unless the White House submits proposed
modifications in the nuclear arms treaty by June. 

``We will consider all of (the treaties) or we will consider none of them,''
Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told a conference of
conservative activists on Friday. 

Helms wants amendments to the 27-year-old Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty brought
to the floor, predicting that the Republican Senate would then vote to pull the
United States out of the entire treaty. 

Among treaties that could become stalled if a standoff develops between Helms
and the White House is the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a top
administration priority. 

The modifications in the ABM treaty were agreed to by President Clinton and
Russian President Boris Yeltsin but have not been sent to the Senate. 

Helms and other conservatives consider the pact dead anyway, because the Soviet
Union with whom it was negotiated no longer exists. 

Helms told the Conservative Political Action Conference that the entire pact
belongs ``in the dustbin of history.'' 

The treaty is standing in the way of proceeding on a GOP plan to establish a
national missile defense system. 

Such a system is prohibited by terms of the existing ABM treaty -- and the
administration contends that Moscow would have to agree to any move by the
United States to set up such a system. 

``I say baloney,'' Helms said to renegotiating the treaty with the Russians.
``Not on my watch, Mr. President.'' 

Helms also demanded the administration submit another treaty likely to be
rejected: a 1997 environmental pact signed by the United States and 37 other
industrial nations in Kyoto, Japan, to limit gases that contribute to global
warming. 

Helms, who is known for holding up measures and nominations, opposes that
treaty, as well. 

In 1997, Helms single-handedly blocked the nomination of former Massachusetts
Gov. William Weld, a fellow Republican, to be ambassador to Mexico by refusing
to hold hearings. 

If that earned him the nickname ``Senator No,'' so be it, Helms told the
standing-room-only audience. 

``Saying no is part of the job of being chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee,'' he said, ``and I plan to say `no' to a few more things
this year.'' 

But Helms said he would not criticize recent steps taken by the administration
to permit more humanitarian aid to reach Cuba, even though he strongly supports
a continuation of a trade embargo against Fidel Castro's regime. 

``I'll (also) go along with letting the Baltimore Orioles play exhibition games
against the Cuban national team -- but on one condition,'' Helms said. ``I want
the Cuban national team to come to Baltimore to play the Orioles first and then
the Orioles can go to Havana. Because when the O's get to Cuba, there will be
no one to play them.'' 


[For nuclear history buffs]

3. Nuclear Power Expert Stello Dies

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Stello.html

By The Associated Press, January 23, 1999

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Victor Stello Jr., a former civilian nuclear power regulator
who played a key role in the response to the accident on Three Mile Island,
died Friday at his home in Potomac, Md. 

Stello, 64, had cancer. 

Until recently, Stello had served as a principal deputy assistant secretary at
the Department of Energy, focusing on safety and quality in defense programs.
He came to the department in 1989, and worked in many areas highlighting his
expertise in nuclear operations safety. 

``He instilled a serious safety culture in everything we do,'' said Dr. Victor
Ries, the department's assistant secretary for defense programs. 

Stello also spent nearly a quarter of a century with the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission and its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission. 

He was involved in the response to the nation's worst commercial nuclear
accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa., in 1979.
Stello later served as the NRC's chief of staff. 

In 1989 Stello was nominated by President Bush to head the Energy Department's
nuclear weapons production program. Stello withdrew his name following a
lengthy fight in the Senate to block his confirmation after nuclear critics
accused him of improprieties during his tenure with the NRC. 

The Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board recently gave Stello an award for his
work as a proponent of nuclear safety. The safety board will administer the
award -- which is named for Stello -- annually. 

[Note:  Here's an article from 1989 about Stello's improprieties from our
archives.]

BUSH TO HIRE FRIEND OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY 

By JACK ANDERSON and DALE VAN ATTA  Column: JACK ANDERSON  Wednesday, June 28,
1989 ; Page E21 Washington Post

President Bush is about to drop a bomb on Americans who live near nuclear
weapons plants. Bush plans to nominate Victor Stello, the best friend that the
nuclear business has ever had, to clean up those environmental disasters.

Stello is a meltdown waiting to happen. In his rise to the top bureaucratic job
at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Stello left his fingerprints on
almost every major nuclear power scandal, beginning with the Three Mile Island
accident.

Now, FBI agents are quietly doing a background check in preparation for Bush to
nominate Stello as assistant energy secretary in charge of defense programs. He
would move from nuclear power plants to nuclear bomb plants.

In the new job, Stello would command the Energy Department's discredited
weapons plants now under criminal investigation for alleged illegal dumping of
radioactive waste and deliberate coverups.

Into this mess will step Stello, with a reputation for thumbing his nose at any
federal investigation that crimps the nuclear energy business's style.

Our associate Stewart Harris has documented Stello's disdain for criminal
inquiries. It started in 1980 during a probe of Three Mile Island. Federal
attorneys were looking into the possibility that leak tests at the plant had
been falsified. Properly handled, the tests could have prevented the accident
at Three Mile Island.

A former federal prosecutor told a Senate committee looking into the NRC in
1987 that Stello and some of his underlings "actively misled" the
investigators. The company that operated the plant eventually pleaded guilty to
falsifying the tests. The prosecutor, Julian Greenspun, told the Senate that
Stello said he did not approve of the investigation because it was "bad for the
operators' morale" at Three Mile Island.

In his response to the Senate, Stello explained that an FBI investigation had
cleared him of wrongdoing. Stello was vacationing and could not be reached for
comment.

Last year, NRC investigators looked into the possibility that the top nuclear
official at the Tennessee Valley Authority had lied about the safety of a TVA
nuclear plant. Stello's top aide put together a panel of eight NRC officials
who concluded that the TVA official did not mean to lie.

The NRC, under Stello, did virtually the same thing in 1986 in an investigation
into the Fermi nuclear power plant in Michigan. The plant accidentally started
its own nuclear reaction before it was licensed, and the owners neglected to
tell the NRC about the mishap until the day after they got their license. An
NRC panel under Stello decided that there was no harm done because the incident
was not significant enough to stop the license. A House subcommittee later
concluded that Stello and others had "undermined" the investigation.

In one of the rare times Stello sanctioned a probe, he botched it. Stello's
office last fall arranged to pay an informant $6,000 in "consulting fees." But
the NRC is not supposed to pay informants. And the allegations about a top NRC
investigator have not panned out. A report on the incident, expected to be
released by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, could come out just in
time to spoil Stello's confirmation hearings.


4. Woman Accused of Setting Fires on Calvert Cliffs Land

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/117l-012199-idx.html

"Investigators said this week they do not believe the fires were motivated by
politics or anti-nuclear sentiment."

[I sure would like to know whether this is true, if anyone in Calvert County
wants to check on it by visiting her -- I recall being arrested outside the
White House next to a huge sign which showed a nuclear explosion and the words
"Strike for Peace, or Have a Nice Doomsday" in 1984.  The newspaper called us
"campers" and said, "It was not certain whether any of those arrested were
protesting at the time."  It would be too bad if she gets lost in the shuffle.
et in dc]

By Annie Gowen Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 21, 1999; Page
M02 

A Calvert County woman has been charged with setting a series of brush fires on
wooded land at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, the Maryland Department
of Natural Resources Forest Service said this week.

Rosemary R. Kohl, 39, of Lusby, turned herself in to the Calvert County
sheriff's office last Thursday after she refused to accept a warrant served
upon her at her home on Rye Court earlier that same day. 

Kohl is accused of starting fires, possibly with an accelerant, on Dec. 7, 15
and 18 and on Jan. 12 and 13, the largest of which burned about a quarter-acre.

Calvert Cliffs public information representative Angela Walters said that
investigators are still trying to determine how Kohl got onto the Calvert
Cliffs property to start the fires. On several occasions, Walters said, Kohl
apparently drove through the main gate, but it is not known how she managed to
get past security.

DNR investigators were led to Kohl by the wife of a nuclear plant employee, who
allegedly saw her next to some burning grass and jotted down her license plate
number.

Investigators said this week they do not believe the fires were motivated by
politics or anti-nuclear sentiment.

Kohl has been charged with five counts of malicious fire-setting and two counts
of trespassing. If convicted, she would face a maximum penalty of five years in
jail and a $2,000 fine on each of the fire-setting charges and 90 days in jail
and a $500 fine for trespassing.

Kohl was being held at the Calvert County Detention Center. Bond was set at
$100,000. 
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<div>GENEVA -- The United States laid out its position for the world's
next major disarmament treaty Thursday, urging a ban on the material used
to make nuclear bombs but not on the huge amounts already stockpiled.
&quot;We will not agree to any restrictions on existing stocks in a
'cutoff' treaty,&quot; John D. Holum, the top U.S. armament-control
official, told the 61-nation Conference on Disarmament. Efforts are under
way among key nations to eliminate their stockpiles of plutonium and
highly enriched uranium, and trying to add the issue to a new treaty
would only backfire, said Holum, acting undersecretary of state for arms
control. </div>
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<div>2. Helms Sets Arms Treaty 'Deadline'</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Helms-Foreign-Policy.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Helms-Foreign-Policy.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>By The Associated Press, January 23, 1999</div>
<br>
<div>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., says he will put a
freeze on treaties the administration wants unless the White House
submits proposed modifications in the nuclear arms treaty by June.
</div>
<br>
<div>``We will consider all of (the treaties) or we will consider none of
them,'' Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told a
conference of conservative activists on Friday. </div>
<br>
<div>Helms wants amendments to the 27-year-old Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty brought to the floor, predicting that the Republican Senate would
then vote to pull the United States out of the entire treaty. </div>
<br>
<div>Among treaties that could become stalled if a standoff develops
between Helms and the White House is the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty, a top administration priority. </div>
<br>
<div>The modifications in the ABM treaty were agreed to by President
Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin but have not been sent to the
Senate. </div>
<br>
<div>Helms and other conservatives consider the pact dead anyway, because
the Soviet Union with whom it was negotiated no longer exists. </div>
<br>
<div>Helms told the Conservative Political Action Conference that the
entire pact belongs ``in the dustbin of history.'' </div>
<br>
<div>The treaty is standing in the way of proceeding on a GOP plan to
establish a national missile defense system. </div>
<br>
<div>Such a system is prohibited by terms of the existing ABM treaty --
and the administration contends that Moscow would have to agree to any
move by the United States to set up such a system. </div>
<br>
<div>``I say baloney,'' Helms said to renegotiating the treaty with the
Russians. ``Not on my watch, Mr. President.'' </div>
<br>
<div>Helms also demanded the administration submit another treaty likely
to be rejected: a 1997 environmental pact signed by the United States and
37 other industrial nations in Kyoto, Japan, to limit gases that
contribute to global warming. </div>
<br>
<div>Helms, who is known for holding up measures and nominations, opposes
that treaty, as well. </div>
<br>
<div>In 1997, Helms single-handedly blocked the nomination of former
Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a fellow Republican, to be ambassador to
Mexico by refusing to hold hearings. </div>
<br>
<div>If that earned him the nickname ``Senator No,'' so be it, Helms told
the standing-room-only audience. </div>
<br>
<div>``Saying no is part of the job of being chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,'' he said, ``and I plan to say `no' to a few
more things this year.'' </div>
<br>
<div>But Helms said he would not criticize recent steps taken by the
administration to permit more humanitarian aid to reach Cuba, even though
he strongly supports a continuation of a trade embargo against Fidel
Castro's regime. </div>
<br>
<div>``I'll (also) go along with letting the Baltimore Orioles play
exhibition games against the Cuban national team -- but on one
condition,'' Helms said. ``I want the Cuban national team to come to
Baltimore to play the Orioles first and then the Orioles can go to
Havana. Because when the O's get to Cuba, there will be no one to play
them.'' </div>
<br>
<div>------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>[For nuclear history buffs]</div>
<br>
<div>3. Nuclear Power Expert Stello Dies</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Stello.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Stello.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>By The Associated Press, January 23, 1999</div>
<br>
<div>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Victor Stello Jr., a former civilian nuclear
power regulator who played a key role in the response to the accident on
Three Mile Island, died Friday at his home in Potomac, Md. </div>
<br>
<div>Stello, 64, had cancer. </div>
<br>
<div>Until recently, Stello had served as a principal deputy assistant
secretary at the Department of Energy, focusing on safety and quality in
defense programs. He came to the department in 1989, and worked in many
areas highlighting his expertise in nuclear operations safety. </div>
<br>
<div>``He instilled a serious safety culture in everything we do,'' said
Dr. Victor Ries, the department's assistant secretary for defense
programs. </div>
<br>
<div>Stello also spent nearly a quarter of a century with the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission and its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission.
</div>
<br>
<div>He was involved in the response to the nation's worst commercial
nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg,
Pa., in 1979. Stello later served as the NRC's chief of staff. </div>
<br>
<div>In 1989 Stello was nominated by President Bush to head the Energy
Department's nuclear weapons production program. Stello withdrew his name
following a lengthy fight in the Senate to block his confirmation after
nuclear critics accused him of improprieties during his tenure with the
NRC. </div>
<br>
<div>The Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board recently gave Stello an
award for his work as a proponent of nuclear safety. The safety board
will administer the award -- which is named for Stello -- annually.
</div>
<br>
<div>[Note:&nbsp; Here's an article from 1989 about Stello's
improprieties from our archives.]</div>
<br>
<div>BUSH TO HIRE FRIEND OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY </div>
<br>
<div>By JACK ANDERSON and DALE VAN ATTA&nbsp; Column: JACK ANDERSON&nbsp;
Wednesday, June 28, 1989 ; Page E21 Washington Post</div>
<br>
<div>President Bush is about to drop a bomb on Americans who live near
nuclear weapons plants. Bush plans to nominate Victor Stello, the best
friend that the nuclear business has ever had, to clean up those
environmental disasters.</div>
<br>
<div>Stello is a meltdown waiting to happen. In his rise to the top
bureaucratic job at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Stello left
his fingerprints on almost every major nuclear power scandal, beginning
with the Three Mile Island accident.</div>
<br>
<div>Now, FBI agents are quietly doing a background check in preparation
for Bush to nominate Stello as assistant energy secretary in charge of
defense programs. He would move from nuclear power plants to nuclear bomb
plants.</div>
<br>
<div>In the new job, Stello would command the Energy Department's
discredited weapons plants now under criminal investigation for alleged
illegal dumping of radioactive waste and deliberate coverups.</div>
<br>
<div>Into this mess will step Stello, with a reputation for thumbing his
nose at any federal investigation that crimps the nuclear energy
business's style.</div>
<br>
<div>Our associate Stewart Harris has documented Stello's disdain for
criminal inquiries. It started in 1980 during a probe of Three Mile
Island. Federal attorneys were looking into the possibility that leak
tests at the plant had been falsified. Properly handled, the tests could
have prevented the accident at Three Mile Island.</div>
<br>
<div>A former federal prosecutor told a Senate committee looking into the
NRC in 1987 that Stello and some of his underlings &quot;actively
misled&quot; the investigators. The company that operated the plant
eventually pleaded guilty to falsifying the tests. The prosecutor, Julian
Greenspun, told the Senate that Stello said he did not approve of the
investigation because it was &quot;bad for the operators' morale&quot; at
Three Mile Island.</div>
<br>
<div>In his response to the Senate, Stello explained that an FBI
investigation had cleared him of wrongdoing. Stello was vacationing and
could not be reached for comment.</div>
<br>
<div>Last year, NRC investigators looked into the possibility that the
top nuclear official at the Tennessee Valley Authority had lied about the
safety of a TVA nuclear plant. Stello's top aide put together a panel of
eight NRC officials who concluded that the TVA official did not mean to
lie.</div>
<br>
<div>The NRC, under Stello, did virtually the same thing in 1986 in an
investigation into the Fermi nuclear power plant in Michigan. The plant
accidentally started its own nuclear reaction before it was licensed, and
the owners neglected to tell the NRC about the mishap until the day after
they got their license. An NRC panel under Stello decided that there was
no harm done because the incident was not significant enough to stop the
license. A House subcommittee later concluded that Stello and others had
&quot;undermined&quot; the investigation.</div>
<br>
<div>In one of the rare times Stello sanctioned a probe, he botched it.
Stello's office last fall arranged to pay an informant $6,000 in
&quot;consulting fees.&quot; But the NRC is not supposed to pay
informants. And the allegations about a top NRC investigator have not
panned out. A report on the incident, expected to be released by the
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, could come out just in time to
spoil Stello's confirmation hearings.</div>
<br>
<div>------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>4. Woman Accused of Setting Fires on Calvert Cliffs Land</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/117l-012199-idx.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/117l-012199-idx.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>&quot;Investigators said this week they do not believe the fires
were motivated by politics or anti-nuclear sentiment.&quot;</div>
<br>
<div>[I sure would like to know whether this is true, if anyone in
Calvert County wants to check on it by visiting her -- I recall being
arrested outside the White House next to a huge sign which showed a
nuclear explosion and the words &quot;Strike for Peace, or Have a Nice
Doomsday&quot; in 1984.&nbsp; The newspaper called us &quot;campers&quot;
and said, &quot;It was not certain whether any of those arrested were
protesting at the time.&quot;&nbsp; It would be too bad if she gets lost
in the shuffle. et in dc]</div>
<br>
<div>By Annie Gowen Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 21,
1999; Page M02 </div>
<br>
<div>A Calvert County woman has been charged with setting a series of
brush fires on wooded land at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, the
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service said this
week.</div>
<br>
<div>Rosemary R. Kohl, 39, of Lusby, turned herself in to the Calvert
County sheriff's office last Thursday after she refused to accept a
warrant served upon her at her home on Rye Court earlier that same day.
</div>
<br>
<div>Kohl is accused of starting fires, possibly with an accelerant, on
Dec. 7, 15 and 18 and on Jan. 12 and 13, the largest of which burned
about a quarter-acre. </div>
<br>
<div>Calvert Cliffs public information representative Angela Walters said
that investigators are still trying to determine how Kohl got onto the
Calvert Cliffs property to start the fires. On several occasions, Walters
said, Kohl apparently drove through the main gate, but it is not known
how she managed to get past security.</div>
<br>
<div>DNR investigators were led to Kohl by the wife of a nuclear plant
employee, who allegedly saw her next to some burning grass and jotted
down her license plate number.</div>
<br>
<div>Investigators said this week they do not believe the fires were
motivated by politics or anti-nuclear sentiment.</div>
<br>
<div>Kohl has been charged with five counts of malicious fire-setting and
two counts of trespassing. If convicted, she would face a maximum penalty
of five years in jail and a $2,000 fine on each of the fire-setting
charges and 90 days in jail and a $500 fine for trespassing.</div>
<br>
Kohl was being held at the Calvert County Detention Center. Bond was set
at $100,000. 
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From: Bob Tiller <btiller@psr.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 24 Jan 1999 17:12:36 -0500

Yes, I would like to receive a copy.  You could bring it to Salt Lake
City for me.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller




Jackie Cabasso wrote:
> 
> Dear Abolitionists.  Regarding US conditions for the CTBT: If you're looking
> for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US
> nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November
> INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND
> ANTI-DISARMAMENT POLICIES IN THE US.  If you'd like a copy I can e-mail it
> in an enclosed file (WordPerfect or MSWord) or plain text, or I can fax
> it or send it by snail mail.  As the convenor of the "virtual" Beyond the
> CTBT working group, I'm pleased to provide this service.  Please let me
> know if and how you would like a copy sent.  Peace, -- Jackie Cabasso
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From: "David Culp" <dculp@igc.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: Freeing the CTBT from Jessie Helms
Date: 25 Jan 1999 09:06:45 -0500

Earlier Timothy Bruening <tsbrueni@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:


>  Jesse Helms has bottled up the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ...
>  Could Senators discharge it from the Foreign Relations Committee
>  and onto the floor for a vote by collecting signatures on a discharge
>  petition?


1.  In the Senate, measures can only be discharged from a committee to =
the Senate floor only by unanimous consent.  In effect this requires the =
approval of the committee.

2.  The House of Representatives does have discharge petitions.  They =
require the signatures of a majority (218) of members.  These are very =
rare.

I believe the best way to "unbottle" the CTBT is to get local citizens =
and groups that have influence with the moderate Republican Senators on =
the Foreign Relations Committee to call for hearings and a committee =
vote on the treaty.


David Culp
Plutonium Challenge
245 Second Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C.  20002-5761
E-mail: dculp@igc.org

CTBT:  Ratification in 1999!


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From: PeaceFirst@aol.com
Subject: Re:  (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB
Date: 25 Jan 1999 14:07:46 EST

Dear Jackie,

Please send us your latest analysis of CTBT via email regular text.

Thanks, John Martin, Director

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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Chance For Public To Express Concern
Date: 25 Jan 1999 23:02:40 -0600 (CST)

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MA: Box 83 Shelburne Falls, MA 01370 P/F: 413-339-5781/8768
CT: 54 Old Turnpike Road, Haddam, CT 06438 P/F: 860-345-8431
VT: C/O Box 566 Putney, VT  05346  P/F: 802-387-4050
NH: 9 Evens Road, Madbury, NH 03820 P/F 603-742-4261
NY: 924 Burnet Ave, Syracuse, NY 13203 315-472-5478/ 7923

CITIZENS AWARENESS NETWORK
HOW DIRTY CAN CLEAN-UP GET!
=93=85. It brings to mind the Office of Circumlocution in Charles Dickens=
=92
Bleak House=85.=94
      Judge Michael Ponzer, Federal District Court, May, 1994
Regarding NRC=92s actions to violate EPA requirement and a public hearing
in the Rowe decommissioning

=93=85.arbitrary, capricious, and utterly irrational=85..=94
      US Court of Appeals July 1995 CAN v NRC
Describing NRC=92s activities in the Yankee Rowe decommissioning

In what may be the only opportunity for the public to express concerns
to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) about the radioactive
pollution Yankee Atomic is leaving behind for us, the NRC will hold a
Pre-hearing, January 26th at the Greenfield Court House. The pre-trial
will establish the boundaries for subject matter for a subsequent
hearing regarding the site release plan for the site of the Yankee Rowe
nuclear reactor. Yankee's lawyers, counsel for the NRC, and Citizens
Awareness Network with other public interest groups including New
England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, will argue before a panel of
three Atomic Safety and Licensing Board judges about how dirty the
clean-up of Rowe can be.  There will be a public comment period,
beginning at 6:30 PM, for citizens to raise concerns over the future of
the reactor site

In November 1998, the NRC Commissioners ordered the elimination of any
discussion of a proposed Dry Cask storage facility on the site for
Yankee Rowe's irradiated fuel with the justification that high-level
waste is the "responsibility" of the Department of Energy (DOE).  This
action attempts to effectively preclude public input into perhaps the
most salient aspect of Yankee's License Termination Plan (LTP).

This may be the only opportunity for members of the public to express
concerns about the dangerous waste Yankee Atomic is leaving behind for
us, its hapless neighbors. The contentions CAN will present at the
hearing include concerns about plans for the creation of an Independent
Fuel Storage Facility.  These concerns are supported by an affidavit by
David Lochbaum, Nuclear Engineer for the Union of  Concerned
Scientists.  In all likelihood the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
will attempt to silence any references to this experimental process.
CAN's eight contentions argue that YAEC's License Termination Plan is
not adequate to protect the health and safety of the public and workers,
and that the NRC has not promulgated clear guidelines and standards for
the remediation of the site.  CAN is requesting that YAEC stop:

? Undermining the EPA and MA State exposure standards by manipulating
its calculations for "safe" exposure to protect the public.  The
"public", in Yankee's philosophy, consists solely of males weighing at
least 200 pounds who "inhabit" the site only 8 hours a day.

? Arbitrarily limiting its scoping (characterization) of the site, the
number of radionuclides tested for, the investigation of areas of
unexpected and unexplained contamination in unaffected areas, and
maintaining a consistent bias in its sampling analysis that allows
Yankee to leave more contaminated soil behind.

? Proceeding in the absence of any independent environmental assessments
or analysis to remediate the site or create an experiment within an
experiment- removal of Yankee's fuel pool and the establishing of a dry
cask storage dump.

? Ignoring the on-going epidemic of disease in the Deerfield River
Valley in formulating acceptable levels of exposure in addition to EPA
standards.

What is seen in on-going events at the site, and in Yankee's LTP, is a
philosophical decision to cut costs, limit clean-up, and thereby relieve
itself of its responsibility to monitor and remove dangerous
contamination from the site and from the river where contamination has
migrated.  This philosophical perspective does not protect the health
and safety of our community, but will lead to the firing of Yankee's
skilled workforce and the removal of Yankee's fuel pool to save money.
What YAEC will leave behind, if NRC abdicates its responsibility to
reactor communities, is not a "Greenfield" but an atomic power legacy of
radioactive contamination and storage site for irradiated fuel rod
waste.

=93It is unacceptable that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission values Yanke=
e
Atomic=92s profit margin over the health and safety of our community.=94
said Deb Katz, President of the Citizens Awareness Network. =93 It is a
travesty if NRC sanctions the violation of EPA radiation standards so
that Yankee can cut costs, cut jobs, and create another dangerous
experiment at Rowe. Rowe=92s site remediation must be relevant and
accountability to its neighbors not its shareholders.=94

=93If NRC gives Yankee Atomic the green light to leave the site
contaminated, all reactors in New England will follow Yankee=92s lead and
leave their deadly garbage behind.=94 said Sal Mangiali, Board member of
CAN and resident of Haddam, CT, host to the decommissioning CT Yankee
reactor.  =93We believe that it would be safer, more cost-effective, and
protective of workers and the community if Yankee would stop its strip
and ship policy, and hold its waste on site until an environmentally
sound and just solution is created. To bury the nuclear fiasco in
someone else=92s backyard only masks the problem of how dirty nuclear
power really is.=94

=93Yankee=92s precedent-setting decommissioning will effect how contamina=
ted
Vermont Yankee will eventually leave its site.  What we see with
decommissioning at Yankee Rowe and CT Yankee is that safe, clean nuclear
power is public relations rather than fact. Vermont Yankee should close
rather than creating more waste for which there is no solution.=94 said
Derrik Jordan, Vermont CAN member.






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From: Kathy Crandall <disarmament@igc.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) THE STAR WARS REVIVAL, THE DISARMAMENT STALL 
Date: 26 Jan 1999 10:50:57 -0500

THE STAR WARS REVIVAL, THE DISARMAMENT STALL
NEWS SUMMARY & ACTION ALERT

ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND:

1) Summary of the Current Situation
2) WHAT YOU CAN DO - with sample letter to the editor
3) State of the Union - Republican Response
4) Cohen Announcement
5) Russia Response to Administration Plans
6) Jesse Helms on STAR WARS & the ABM Treaty
*****************************************************************
1) Summary of the Current Situation

Last week=91s developments on STAR WARS missile defense system will have =
a

major impact on our work as nuclear disarmament advocates in the coming
months.

Starting at the beginning of the week - with Tuesday's State of the
Union Address, Republicans placed missile defense in a high- priority
and high-profile position in their State of the Union Response. STAR
WARS is a key "individual liberty" issue for Republicans. (See excerpts
below # 3)

The following day, On January 20, Secretary of Defense William Cohen
announced major steps toward deployment of a National Missile Defense,
but avoided an outright commitment to a system that is years from
testing. Interpretation and response has varied and has required a great

deal of additional explanation from the White House about U.S.
commitment to the ABM (Anti- Ballistic Missile) Treaty, and actual
deployment plans. (See articles, links to speeches and fact sheets below

#4)

It is clear, however, that the Russian response was especially negative
and will make progress on START II even more difficult. Friday's
Washington Post featured two stories on the same page:
"Pentagon Debates Arms Treaty Changes - Plan Aims to Allow Missile
Defense System " and "Russia Says START II is Imperiled - U.S. Missile
System Plan could End Hopes for Ratification" (See more on Russian
response below #5)

Meanwhile, like a shark smelling blood, Jesse Helms (R-NC Chair of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee) surfaced on Friday, announcing that
his demand that ABM Treaty protocols be considered by June 1 of this
year, so that "If I succeed, we will defeat the ABM Treaty, toss it into

the dustbin of history and thereby clear the way to build a national
missile defense."
Moreover, according to Helms, only after the ABM protocols and the Kyoto

Protocols (on Global Climate Change) are considered, will the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee consider the Test Ban Treaty. (See Helms'
op-ed below #6)


2)WHAT YOU CAN DO

 a. ORDER Disarmament Clearinghouse
  STAR WARS REVIVAL RESOURCE & ACTION KITS -
  AVAILABLE FEB 10, More information coming soon

 b. Write a Letter to the Editor

There is going to be plenty of news in the coming weeks on STAR WARS
Developments. Please take the opportunity to respond with letters to the

editor. For additional assistance, please contact the Disarmament
Clearinghouse.

*Tips on Successful Letters to The Editor*
(From 20/20 Vision)

*Letters to the editor can be submitted by regular (postal) mail, fax,
and often e-mail.

*Be sure to include your return address and day and evening
hone numbers so that the newspaper can verify your letter. The newspaper

will not print your contact information.

*Letters that are educational, personal, and refer to coverage in the
paper are much more likely to be printed. It is helpful if you can
relate your letter to a relevant event.

*Your newspaper's editorial page will often include the
newspaper's policy on publishing letters such as length requirements as
well as the mailing address, fax number and e-mail address where
available for letters to the editor. If you cannot find this
information, contact the Disarmament Clearinghouse for assistance.

For  more information or assistance please contact the Disarmament
Clearinghouse and  please send us all printed   Letters to the Editor:
--
DISARMAMENT CLEARINGHOUSE
Kathy Crandall, Coordinator
1101 14th Street NW #700, Washington DC 20005
TEL: 202 898 0150 ext. 232
FAX: 202 898 0172
E-MAIL: disarmament@igc.org
(A project of: Friends Committee on National Legislation,  Peace Action,

Physicians for Social Responsibility,   and Women's Action for New
Directions)

**SAMPLE LETTER TO THE EDITOR **
(Please modify this to respond to the news coverage in your papers. Also

see additional resources listed below for additional talking points)

Policy makers in Washington are headed the wrong way on nuclear weapons
policy.


Republicans harkening back to the Cold War days have been leading the
revival of the ineffective, costly STAR WARS missile defense system. Now

it seems that the Clinton Administration is falling in step right behind

them.

The Administration plans to spend another $6.6 billion to get closer to
deploying something that probably won't work any time soon. In fact, the

deployment date has been moved back from 2003 to 2005. After over 40
years of research, and over $100 billion since STAR WARS was first
conceived in the 1950's, there is still no defense system that actually
works reliably.

Even a working STAR WARS defense system wouldn't stop terrorists from
smuggling nuclear materials or other weapons of mass destruction via
plane, truck, train or ship. Moreover, I am much more concerned about
the vast uncontrolled Russian nuclear arsenal. Promoting these STAR WARS

plans make it less likely that we can reduce Russian arsenals and
maintain a stable working relationship with Russia.

Instead, the President and Congress should pursue measures to really
make us safer. The U.S. Senate should ratify the nuclear test ban treaty

finally banning nuclear test explosions and hindering the spread of
nuclear weapons to other countries. The President should pursue measure
to reduce U.S. and Russian arsenals, and to lower the alert status of
the thousands of nuclear weapons currently poised on hair-trigger alert.

MORE RESOURCES ON THE STAR WARS REVIVAL/ DISARMAMENT STALL

"Cohen's National Missile Defense Statement: What Did It Mean?"
January 21, 1999 by John Isaacs, Council for a Livable World
http://www.clw.org/pub/clw/coalition/clw12199.htm

For more background on Ballistic Missile Defense see:

Physicians for Social Responsibility Fact Sheet
http://www.psr.org/bmd.htm

"Star Wars Missile Defense =97 A Solution in Search of A Problem"
Women's Action For New Directions Fact Sheet
http://www.wand.ORG/getfacts/star_wars/star_wars.html

and don't miss The Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers Ballistic Missile

Defense page:
http://www.clw.org/pub/clw/coalition/libbmd.htm

More below . . .
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3) State of the Union - Republican Response from Congressman Steve
Largent (R-OK) on Reviving STAR WARS - A key "Individual Liberty" Issue

INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY

                  "First, we must preserve the notion that true liberty
and freedom come from God and are His blessing on this land and that
FREEDOM reigns only as we act responsibly toward God, each other and His

creation. . .

                  And the good news is that after six years of cutting
spending for our armed forces, the president has signaled that he is
ready to join us in strengthening our national defense.

                  "We must never be complacent in what is still a
dangerous world. Terrorists and rogue nations are rapidly acquiring
technology to deliver weapons of mass destruction to our very doorstep.
Most Americans are shocked to discover that our country is unshielded
from the accidental or ruthless          launch of even a single missile

over our skies. Mr. President, we urge you to join Congress in
establishing a viable missile defense system to protect the United
States.. .


4) Cohen Announcement
On January 20, Secretary of Defense William Cohen announced major steps
toward deployment of a National Missile
Defense, but avoided an outright commitment to a system that is years
from testing.
 See COHEN ANNOUNCES PLAN TO AUGMENT MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan1999/b01201999_bt018-99.html
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/news99/t01201999_t0120md. htm
&
Cohen's National Missile Defense Statement: What Did It Mean?
January 21, 1999 by John Isaacs, Council for a Livable World
http://www.clw.org/pub/clw/coalition/clw12199.htm



Apn  01/23 1131  Missile Threats

By ROBERT BURNS
 Associated Press Writer
   WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the six years since President Clinton's
first defense secretary declared "the end of the Star Wars era," the
administration has come nearly full circle in weighing the threat posed
to America by long-range nuclear missiles.
   After years of insisting the threat lay far in the future, the
administration says the future has arrived.
   "We are affirming that there is a threat, and the threat is
growing," Defense Secretary William Cohen declared last week in
announcing that the administration is asking Congress for $6.6 billion
over the next five years to build a national defense against missile
attack.
   Cohen's statement provoked criticism from Russia and China --
the only countries with nuclear missiles that can reach American
territory. The comment also marked a turning point in the
administration's view about whether small-scale nuclear wannabes like
North Korea, Iran and Iraq can develop ballistic missiles with
intercontinental range.
   As well, it brought the Democratic administration's approach
closer in line with the Republicans, who have argued for years that
Clinton was underestimating the missile threat. The Republicans favor a
crash program to build missile defenses as soon as possible.
   At a flashy news conference in the Pentagon on May 13, 1994,
then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin declared that the end of the Cold War
and dissolution of the Soviet Union meant the United States had no
further need to invest heavily in a futuristic shield against all-out
nuclear attack. Aspin officially killed the Strategic Defense Initiative

that President Reagan launched in 1983, which became known as Star Wars
for its emphasis on space-based weaponry to shoot down missiles.
   "This signals the end of the Star Wars era, and it signals the
end of a battle that has raged in Washington for a decade over the best
way to avoid nuclear war," Aspin declared.
   Aspin relegated the national missile defense work to a
"technology" program -- meaning mainly lab work rather than engineering
an actual weapons system. His successor, William Perry, began a
turnaround in April 1996 by upgrading the program to "deployment
readiness," to make the technology ready by 2000 for fielding as early
as 2003. Perry saw a widening missile threat on the horizon but none on
the doorstep.
   As recently as last year the view of U.S. intelligence
agencies was that a long-range missile threat from potential Third World

adversaries was unlikely to emerge before 2010.
   Cohen now says the threat has arrived, and a missile system
must be built. Remaining questions are whether it can be made to work,
how much it will cost and whether the United States will have to
abrogate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in order to deploy it.
   Cohen said a formal decision on fielding a national missile
defense will be made in June 2000.
   "We have many new threats with which to deal, and we need to
make sure that we are able to fulfill our responsibilities regarding our

own defenses," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Friday.
   Among questions this new emphasis on missile defense raises is
"Why now? What's changed?"
   "What's changed over the last six or seven months has been an
acceleration in the threat" from efforts by North Korea and Iran to
develop and deploy long-range missiles -- "missiles that have the
potential to reach our homeland if launched," said Robert Bell, senior
director of defense programs and arms control on the White House's
National Security Council.
   Last August North Korea fired a three-stage missile over
Japan, signaling a surprising advance in missile technology, but it has
no missile now that could reach U.S. soil.
   Air Force Lt. Gen. Lester Lyles, director of the Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization -- created by Aspin to replace the Star
Wars program office -- said the perceived missile threat is so great now

that the Pentagon is willing to push its missile defense effort to a
"high risk" pace.
   No other defense projects are being accelerated at this pace
with as little testing done, he said. "We are doing this," he said,
"because of the urgency of the need" for a defense.
   Some defense analysts are skeptical that the administration
really intends to deploy missile defenses.
   Baker Spring, senior policy analyst at the conservative
Heritage Foundation, said he doubts either Cohen or Clinton is
interested in accomplishing a national missile defense. But he saw
"really good news" in Cohen's talk of the missile threat being
immediate.
   "They have given up the idea that they can run away from the
threat," Spring said.
*****************************************************************
For more background on Ballistic Missile Defense see Physicians for
Social Responsibility Fact Sheet http://www.psr.org/bmd.htm


5) Russia Response to Administration Plans

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline
Friday, January 22, 1999

START-II BLASTED BY LEBED

In an article in "Nezavisimaya gazeta" on 21 January, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Governor and possible presidential contender Aleksandr Lebed slammed the

START-II treaty, urging the Duma not to ratify it. He said that
ratification of the treaty "may cause irreparable damage to Russia's
national security." Lebed called for a more drastic cut in the number of

strategic offensive weapons owned by Russia and the U.S than that
provided for by START-II, from 3,000-3,500 nuclear warheads to
1,500-1,700 each. The same day, Defense Minister Igor Sergeev praised
the treaty, calling it "necessary and beneficial for Russia."

START-II LINKED WITH ABM TREATY

Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, head of the Defense Ministry's
Department for International Military Cooperation, told Interfax on 21
January that the U.S.'s plans to review the ABM treaty could harm
chances for ratification of the START-II treaty. The Duma is scheduled
to debate the treaty in March. Ivashov said that "attempts to bypass the

ABM treaty will upset strategic stability." In a letter sent to
President Boris Yeltsin last week, U.S. President Bill Clinton proposed
lifting the deployment of anti-missile defense systems, ITAR-TASS
reported on 22 January. However, according to the agency, Robert Bell,
special aide to Clinton on defense policy and arms control, said that
deployment of such a system may not require amending the ABM treaty but
that if modification is necessary the U.S. will work with Russia to
reach an agreement.

***************************************************************

6) Jesse Helms on STAR WARS & the ABM Treaty

Amend the ABM Treaty? No, Scrap It
   By Jesse Helms

   01/22/99
   The Wall Street Journal

   Under pressure from the Pentagon and congressional conservatives,
President Clinton reluctantly decided to request $6.6 billion over six
years in his new budget for missile-defense research. And Defense
Secretary William Cohen announced yesterday that the administration
wants permission from Russia to  renegotiate the Antiballistic Missile
Treaty.

   But administration officials have made it clear that unless the
Russians are willing to give that permission, they have no intention of
actually deploying a nationwide missile defense system. Why? Because the

administration believes that any such deployment would violate the ABM
Treaty. And, as National   Security Adviser Samuel Berger affirmed in a
speech just last week, "We remain strongly committed to the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty [as] a cornerstone of our security."

   What that means is that in Mr. Berger's view, deploying even the most

limited missile defense would require getting permission from Russia to
revise the ABM Treaty. Consider that for a moment: The Clinton
administration wants to negotiate permission from Russia over whether
the U.S. can protect itself from ballistic missile attack by North
Korea.

   The ABM Treaty is the root of our problems. So long as it is a
"cornerstone" of U.S. security policy, as Mr. Berger says, we will never

be able to deploy a nationwide missile defense that will provide real
security for the American people.

   We do not need to renegotiate the ABM Treaty to build and deploy
national missile defense. We can do it today. The ABM Treaty is dead. It

died when our treaty partner, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist. But
rather than move swiftly to declare the treaty dead, and to build and
deploy a national missile
defense, the Clinton administration is attempting to resuscitate the ABM

Treaty with new protocols to apply its terms to Russia and all the other

nuclear states that were once part of the Soviet Union.

   The world has changed a great deal since the ABM Treaty was first
ratified 27 years ago. The U.S. faces new and very different threats
today -- threats which  are growing daily. China has 19 intercontinental

ballistic missiles, 13 of which   are aimed at the U.S. As recently as
1997 a senior Chinese official issued a veiled nuclear threat, warning
that the U.S. would never come to the defense of Taiwan, because we
Americans "care more about Los Angeles than we do Taipei."

   Saddam Hussein is doggedly pursuing nuclear, chemical and biological
weapons and the long-range missiles to deliver them, and the will of
the  international community to confront and disarm him is crumbling.
Iran, which is also developing a nuclear capability, just tested a new
missile -- built with Russian, Chinese and North Korean technology --
which can strike Israel and Turkey, a NATO ally. And, according to the
Rumsfeld Commission, Iran "has acquired and is seeking advanced missile
components that can be combined  to produce ballistic missiles with
sufficient range to strike the United States." If Iran succeeds, the
commission warns, it will be capable of striking all the way to St.
Paul, Minn.
   North Korea's unstable communist regime is forging ahead with its
nuclear weapons program, and test-fired a missile over Japan last August

which is capable of striking both Alaska and Hawaii. And Pyongyang is
close to testing a new missile, the TD-2, which could allow it to strike

the continental U.S.
   America is today vulnerable to ballistic missile attack by unstable
outlaw regimes, and that missile threat will increase dramatically in
the early years of the 21st century. What are we doing today, in this
waning year of the 20th  century, to defend ourselves against these
emerging threats? Practically nothing.
   When the Senate votes on the new protocols expanding the ABM Treaty
to Russia and other post-Soviet states, we will in fact be voting on the

ABM Treaty itself. For the first time in 27 years, the Senate will have
a chance to re-examine the wisdom of that dangerous treaty. If I
succeed, we will defeat the ABM Treaty, toss it into the dustbin of
history and thereby clear the way to    build a national missile
defense.
   The Clinton administration want to avoid that at all costs. So the
president has delayed sending the new protocols to the Senate for
approval. But Mr. Clinton does not have a choice -- he is required by
law to submit the ABM protocols to the Senate. On May 14, 1997, Mr.
Clinton agreed to explicit, legally binding language that he submit the
protocols, a condition that I required during the ratification of
another treaty, the Conventional Forces in Europe Flank Document. It has

been 618 days since Mr. Clinton made that commitment under law. I am
going to hold him to it.
   Today I am setting a deadline for the president to submit the ABM
protocols to the Senate. I expect them to arrive by June 1. In the
meantime, I will begin ratification hearings on the treaty shortly, so
that the Foreign Relations Committee will be ready to vote and report
the treaty to the full Senate by June 1. I say to the president: Let
your administration make its case for the ABM  Treaty, we will make our
case against it, and let the Senate vote. If I have my way, the Senate
this year will clear the way for the deployment of national missile
defense.
   Not until the administration has submitted the ABM protocols and the
Kyoto global-warming treaty, and the Senate has completed its
consideration of them, will the Foreign Relations Committee turn its
attention to other treaties on the president's agenda.
   Mr. Clinton cannot demand quick action on treaties he wants us to
consider, and at the same time hold hostage other treaties he is afraid
we will reject. The president must submit all of them, or we will
consider none of them.



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From: Bob Tiller <btiller@psr.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) New brochure
Date: 26 Jan 1999 12:41:25 -0500

Physicians for Social Responsibility is pleased to announce that in
February we will publish a new four-color brochure on abolition of
nuclear weapons, intended for mainstream distribution.  The abolition
movement needs some easy-to-read pieces that are intended for the
general public, and we hope that this one will help to bring more people
into our effort and enlarge our base.

The brochure was explicitly written so that other organizations will be
able to distribute it.  While it mentions in two places that it is
produced by PSR, that fact is not featured prominently.  Indeed, it
urges people to "join a group working to eliminate nuclear weapons," so
our hope is that other groups will want to distribute it.

The back panel is left blank, but it is not a self-mailer.  Thus you can
not only put your own mailing labels and postage, but also put on your
own return address.  The size is approximately 5x7 inches.

We will provide up to 50 brochures free to any organization that wants
them, though we will not pay for overnight mail.  If you want more than
50, please contact me and we will discuss a price.

For those who will be in Santa Barbara next month, I expect to have some
copies available for you there.

We hope that this brochure will be helpful to you and to the abolition
effort.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller, Physicians for Social Responsibility
phone 202-898-0150, ext. 220
fax 202-898-0172
e-mail <btiller@psr.org>

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From: DavidMcR@aol.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) (Fwd) False saviors
Date: 26 Jan 1999 14:57:46 EST

 Friends,
 
 This is one case where I will leave all "headers" intact in case you want to
follow up. I personally do not respond to or forward petitions for two simple
and not very honorable reasons. (1) I'm never quite sure how to sign and
forward a petition and (2) I get between 60 and 150 posts a day and literally
cannot cope with this flow. As a result I delete automatically any petitions -
I always hope someone else is doing the right thing. As it turns out, these
are not really helping anyone.
 
 In addition the petition on Afghan women has hit my monitor a dozen times,
and one about gays and lesbians and (I think) American Airlines has come my
way about 24 times in the last TWO YEARS.
 
 Consider the material below. And when circulating petitions, you need to
understand that human limits force me to simple delete without action as soon
as I find it is a petition.
 
 Peace, 
 David McReynolds
 
 << Subj:	 (Fwd) False saviors
  Date:	1/26/99 10:20:07 AM Eastern Standard Time
  From:	mcpjc@mail.sssnet.com (Mennonite Church Peace and Justice Committee,
Orrville Ohio)
  Sender:	err.processor@MennoLink.org
  Reply-to:	mcpjc@mail.sssnet.com (Mennonite Church Peace and Justice
Committee, Orrville Ohio), menno.org.peace@MennoLink.org
  To:	menno.org.peace@MennoLink.org
  
  Friends,
  
  Any time an e-mail protest/chain letter appears, I get several, or
  many, copies sent my way. Is the following basically accurate?
  Opinions?
  Thanks!
  Susan Mark Landis
  
  
  ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
  From:          "Judi Broutin" <lostwind@hotmail.com>
  To:            dunfeld@juno.com, jbjohnson@ambs.edu, caroleeb@juno.com,
                 keshlema@umich.edu, fierystudios@HOTMAIL.COM, BManko@cch.org,
                 mcpjc@sssnet.com, JanisMM@umich.edu, ENafziger@juno.com,
lsn@pvi.org,
                 agparker@provide.net, LWaaSmith@provide.net,
GWarkentin@juno.com,
                 ifway@gwbmail.wustl.edu, sweaverd@umich.edu,
carowill@hhs.net,
                 LAMiller@umich.edu, dzaerr@ambs.edu
  Subject:       False saviors
  Date:          Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:12:21 PST
  
  Re: afghanistan women
  Kathy and other friends...
  As important a subject as this is, I regret to inform you that e-mail
  chian letters are an improper form of protest.  Read on to find a memo
  from Brandeis University, which is the school of origination.  at the
  bottom, you will also find a link to the "urban legends" website, where
  this memo came form.  I'm sorry to say, all this e-mailing is doing is
  perpetuating useless junk, IT IS NOT HELPING ANYONE.
  
  Brandeis memo:
  The information above is accurate and the cause worthy. Unfortunately,
  the well-meaning individual who created this message chose the wrong
  means by which to accomplish her goal. Here is Brandeis University's
  explanation for having cancelled that person's email privileges and
  deleting all submitted copies of the petition unread:
  
  Please read this message carefully, especially the next two sentences.
  Do not reply to this email. Do not forward this email to anyone else.
  Anyone who needs a copy, already has one. Do not make things worse. Do
  not "help" by forwarding this message to everyone who has corresponded
  with you on this subject. Due to a flood of hundreds of thousands of
  messages in response to an unauthorized chain letter, all mail to
  sarabande@brandeis.edu is being deleted unread. It will never be a valid
  email address again. If you have a personal message for the previous
  owner of that address, you will need to find some means other than email
  to communicate.
  
   sarabande@brandeis.edu was not an organization, but a person who was
  totally unprepared for the inevitable consequences of telling thousands
  of people to tell fifty of their friends to tell fifty of their friends
  to send her email.
  
  It is our sincere hope that the hundreds of thousands of people who
  continue to attempt to reply will find a more productive outlet for
  their concerns. There are several excellent organizations and
  individuals doing real work on the issues raised. Some of them were
  mentioned in sarabande's letter. None of them authorized her actions. We
  suggest that you contact them through non-virtual channels to help. They
  all have web sites with information and contact points. Unlike
  sarabande, they can channel your energy in useful directions. Do not let
  this incident discourage you.
  
  Please do not forward unverified chain letters,
   no matter how compelling they might seem.
  Propagating chain letters is specifically prohibited by the terms of
  service of most Internet service providers; you could lose your account.
  
   The URL of this page is:
  http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blafghan.htm
  >>

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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: $50 Billion in Nuclear Liabilites
Date: 26 Jan 1999 21:23:59 -0600 (CST)

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Sender: owner-nukenet@envirolink.org
Organization: Public Citizen
        nuke-waste@igc.org (***NUKE-WASTE)
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X-Sender: Auke Piersma <apiersma@citizen.org>
 
Public Citizen News Release

For Immediate Release:					Contact: Jim Riccio, (202) 546-4996
Jan. 26, 1999    						Auke Piersma, (202) 546-4996
									        
STUDY SHOWS ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION COULD CAUSE UNFUNDED NUCLEAR WASTE 
LIABILITIES THAT MAY EXCEED $50 BILLION

	WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new study released today, Stranded Nuclear Waste, 
documents alarming funding shortfalls for decommissioning and nuclear waste 
storage. Authored by Synapse Energy Economics, the study indicates that 
electric utility deregulation will force early closure of many nuclear 
plants, facing policy-makers with difficult and controversial choices 
regarding future funding of nuclear plant decommissioning and waste storage 
costs totaling as much as $54 billion nationally. Of the 103 nuclear plants, 
as many as 90 could be forced to close before their scheduled retirement 
dates as a result of the competitive pressures expected from deregulation.

	"It has been evident for decades that nuclear power is expensive and 
dangerous," said Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass 
Energy Project. "As the nuclear era dies out, the costs of nuclear power 
continually rise, and as a result ratepayers are forced to pay for the 
bailout of nuclear utilities."

	Because funding under current law assumes plants will run until their 
licenses expire, these economically driven plant closures would create an 
unfunded liability for nuclear plant decommissioning, potentially rising to 
$15.3 billion. "Since nuclear utilities are being unjustly enriched with a 
nuclear bailout, they should pay for the decommissioning of reactors," said 
Jim Riccio, a staff attorney with Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy 
Project.

	Early plant retirements will also create an unfunded liability for 
long-term storage of high level nuclear waste. This could total as much as 
$46.5 billion if economics force early closure of these plants, and a recent 
independent estimate of the total cost of the planned Yucca Mountain waste 
storage facility proves accurate. To make matters worse, H.R. 45, the 
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999, exacerbates the problem by reducing the 
fees paid by the industry for nuclear waste storage. "It is outrageous that 
the nuclear industry is not paying the full costs of nuclear waste storage, 
but for Members of Congress to support a reduction of the fees is 
unthinkable," said Auke Piersma, a energy policy analyst with Public 
Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project.

	"Public Citizen will oppose any attempts to burden ratepayers or taxpayers 
with additional decommissioning or nuclear waste storage costs," Hauter 
said. "The utilities' past mistakes and bad management require that utility 
profits be used to balance the books."


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From: Jan Harwood <jahn@cruzio.com>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) New brochure
Date: 26 Jan 1999 20:31:33 -0800

Santa Cruz AB 2000 will certainly want to look at your brochures, and be
glad to pay postage. Several of us will also be at Santa Barbara, so see
you there.



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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Pass the Plutonium, Please
Date: 27 Jan 1999 01:22:23 -0600 (CST)

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Attached is a front page story from Monday, January 25th, 1999 Colorado
Daily, regarding the government plan to pipe plutonium-contaminated
Superfund site wastes from the Lowry Landfill southeast of Denver into metro
Denver area sewer lines, to be trucked as "fertilizer" for eastern Colorado
farmland bought with taxpayer dollars.

Adrienne Anderson
Denver

Adrienne Anderson, Instructor
Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies & INVST Program 
University of Colorado at Boulder
CB 339 (Ketchum, 24E)
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0339

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From: "Ross Wilcock" <rwilcock@pgs.ca>
Subject: *** WARNING *** FW: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Pass the Plutonium, Please
Date: 27 Jan 1999 02:42:55 -0500


***** WARNING *****
The attachment sent contains a macro virus - in CoDaily-LowryStory.doc
***** WARNING *****

Ross Wilcock
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Attached is a front page story from Monday, January 25th, 1999 Colorado
Daily, regarding the government plan to pipe plutonium-contaminated
Superfund site wastes from the Lowry Landfill southeast of Denver into metro
Denver area sewer lines, to be trucked as "fertilizer" for eastern Colorado
farmland bought with taxpayer dollars.
Adrienne Anderson
Denver

Adrienne Anderson, Instructor
Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies & INVST Program
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Boulder, Colorado 80309-0339

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From: Andrew Lichterman <alichterman@igc.apc.org>
Subject: VIRUS WARNING Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Pass the Plutonium, Please
Date: 26 Jan 1999 23:43:55 -0800

THE ENCLOSED FILE IN THE MESSAGE ABOVE CONCERNING PLUTONIUM WASTE CONTAINS A VIRUS.  DO NOT OPEN IT. IF YOU
HAVE OPENED IT CHECK YOUR COMPUTER FOR VIRUSES USING SOFTWARE WITH CURRENT VIRUS LISTS.  The virus was
detected on opening by my virus software. 

SENDER-- PLEASE CHECK ENCLOSURES FOR VIRUSES BEFORE FORWARDING TO A LIST.

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From: "David Culp" <dculp@igc.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) *** WARNING *** Virus on Abolition-USA Mailing List
Date: 27 Jan 1999 08:12:35 -0500

Earlier Ross Wilcock <rwilcock@pgs.ca> wrote:

> ***** WARNING *****
> The attachment sent contains a macro virus - in=20
> CoDaily-LowryStory.doc
> ***** WARNING *****


I found the virus also.  It was in the document "CoDaily-LowryStory.doc" =
attached to the message "(abolition-usa) Fwd: Pass the Plutonium, =
Please" from Robert Smirnow <smirnowb@ix.netcom.com>, dated Wednesday =
January 27, 1999.

Don't open the file.  Delete the message.

David Culp
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From: Rosalie Tyler Paul <handinhand@clinic.net>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) New brochure
Date: 27 Jan 1999 09:39:07 -0500

Thank you - Peace Action Maine would like to start with 50 and may well
want more after seeing them. Please send them to Peace Action Maine, POBox
3842, Portland, ME 04104. Rosalie Paul, Chair.



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From: Sean Donahue <nhpeaceact@igc.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: criminal defense]
Date: 27 Jan 1999 14:42:02 -0600

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Sean:  Please distribute the following as widely as you can, along with
my
e-mail address.  Thanks.

I represent several people who peacefully went on the property of a
defense
contractor to protest the company's manufacture of war machinery.  In a
state court trial for trespass, they attempted to assert as a defense an
obligation to do such acts pursuant to international law and the
provisions
of several treaties.  The defense was not allowed.  I am handling the
appeal, and am looking for cases where such a defense was asserted,
whether
successfully or not.  Any help is appreciated.



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e-mail address.  Thanks.

I represent several people who peacefully went on the property of a defense
contractor to protest the company's manufacture of war machinery.  In a
state court trial for trespass, they attempted to assert as a defense an
obligation to do such acts pursuant to international law and the provisions
of several treaties.  The defense was not allowed.  I am handling the
appeal, and am looking for cases where such a defense was asserted, whether
successfully or not.  Any help is appreciated.



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From: Harry Rogers <cprcrogers@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) New brochure
Date: 27 Jan 1999 02:58:17 -0800

Carolina eace Resource Center would like 50.
Thanks
Harry Rogers
Carolina Peace Resource Center
305 South Saluda Ave
Columbia SC 29205

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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews (US): 1/27/99 - Oak Ridge; Livermore plutonium in
Date: 27 Jan 1999 15:33:53 -0500

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1. Oak Ridge possible temporary storage site for uranium from Ohio
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/021400.htm

2. Tests confirm metal at park. Questions on source of plutonium remain
http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/plutonium26.htm

3. Opponents: WIPP Must Wait Groups File Brief To Block Shipments Until Permit
OK'd 
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-26.htm

4. Solon answers criticism over nuclear dump 
http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/guerra/2601bcja.shtml


1. Oak Ridge possible temporary storage site for uranium from Ohio

http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/021400.htm

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP January 26, 1999) -- Oak Ridge could be a temporary
storage site for 3,800 metric tons of uranium that the U.S. Department of
Energy must remove from an Ohio plant by Sept. 30.

 The uranium is now at DOE's Fernald site near Cincinnati.

 The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant and the East Tennessee Technology Park at Oak
Ridge are possible sites. DOE's uranium-processing plant at Paducah, Ky., and
the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, also are alternatives.

 A DOE environmental impact investigation is under way to look at each possible
site.  Y-12 is the principal site for storing weapons-grade uranium in the
United States.  The technology park at Oak Ridge, formerly known as the K-25
site, has millions of pounds of uranium hexafluroide once used in preparing
uranium for fuel in nuclear reactors.

 Steve Wyatt, a DOE spokesman at Oak Ridge, said some of the Fernald uranium is
depleted, which means most of the material that could cause the chain-reaction
release of energy known as fission has been removed.

 Other stocks are enriched, which means they have more than the normal amount
of U-235, which can create fission.

 Wyatt said DOE is looking for an indoor storage site for a couple of years
until other uses can be found for the uranium.

 Fernald processed uranium and other materials for nuclear weapons from 1951 to
1989 and the uranium is left over from that program. Plant workers have been
working to clean up the plant and nearby areas polluted by the operations.


2. Tests confirm metal at park Questions on source of plutonium remain

http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/plutonium26.htm

January 26, 1999, San Jose Mercury News 

BY ANDREA WIDENER Contra Costa Times 

Plutonium is laced throughout a Livermore park but at levels that should not
threaten local residents' health, test results released Monday confirmed.

The study found that contamination at Big Trees Park, less than a mile from
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, did not exceed health standards set by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Discovered in 1993

The plutonium was discovered in 1993 as the EPA took samples to determine the
amount of plutonium in the soil. It found in some parts of the park 1,000 times
more plutonium than was expected -- higher than expected background levels but
not within any danger range.

The new testing was recommended by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry to determine the extent of contamination.

Lab scientists say the study's results support their theory that
plutonium-laced sludge was used as mulch because the highest levels are around
the park's shade trees.

But community groups and other state and federal agencies say further data
analysis is needed to answer the more vexing questions: how the plutonium got
there in the first place and what, if anything, should be done about it.

Theory challenged

Marylia Kelley, president of the lab watchdog group Tri-Valley Communities
Against a Radioactive Environment, doesn't subscribe to the lab's theory. She
said the results are above background levels throughout the park and do not
conclusively point to the sludge as the source of contamination.

State and federal agencies say they will have to analyze the data themselves
before taking a position.

After an initial study of the area, the health investigators suggested the
plutonium may have come from the laboratory through the air or water. Plutonium
is a radioactive heavy metal that isn't naturally occurring in the environment,
but it has been used for years at the laboratory as part of its nuclear weapons
work.

Lab researchers countered with their own explanation that the plutonium was
carried into the park as mulch after an accidental release into the city's
sewer system.


3. Opponents: WIPP Must Wait Groups File Brief To Block Shipments Until Permit
OK'd 

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-26.htm

The Associated Press / Albuquerque Journal, January 26, 1999 

A group that has long fought the federal government's plan to bury nuclear
waste in salt beds near Carlsbad is repeating its contention that no waste
should go to the repository until it has a state permit. 

The Southwest Research and Information Center, in a brief filed Monday in
federal court in Washington, D.C., asked U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn
to prohibit shipments from Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant if no permit is in place. 

The filing by the Albuquerque-based group and three other environmental groups
came in a lawsuit that has been pending for most of the decade. 

In 1991, then-Attorney General Tom Udall and the environmental groups sued the
U.S. Department of Energy. The next year Penn issued an order preventing the
DOE from opening the repository without environmental controls beyond what the
agency proposed. That order remains in place. 

The DOE concluded last year some drums of waste at Los Alamos contain only
radioactive elements, rather than being mixed with hazardous chemicals, and
that those drums can be shipped to the $2 billion WIPP without a state permit. 

The state has jurisdiction over so-called mixed waste but not over waste that
contains no hazardous chemicals. 

The state Environment Department plans to issue a permit for mixed waste
between July and September. 

Nathan Wade, a spokesman for the Environment Department, said last week the
agency would not try to stop limited shipments from Los Alamos but might take
action if the Energy Department tried to increase shipments before the state
permit was issued. 

The environmental groups argued Monday that shipping waste to WIPP before it
has a permit would undermine any permit because the presence of waste
beforehand would hamper the state's ability to regulate it. 

The DOE disagrees, arguing that shipping radioactive waste would have no impact
on a permit for mixed waste. 

On Friday, Attorney General Patricia Madrid, who took office this month,
announced she's trying to settle the lawsuit. Penn agreed to delay the deadline
for filing briefs until Feb. 1 so Madrid's office and the DOE could negotiate. 

Don Hancock, head of the Southwest Research and Information Center, said Monday
his group "is proceeding full speed ahead regardless of what the attorney
general is or isn't doing." 

While campaigning last year, Madrid said she would not continue Udall's battle
over opening WIPP and would try to get more compensation from the federal
government. 

Eventually, DOE plans to dispose of 850,000 drums of rags, tools and debris
contaminated with plutonium from defense work. Waste would be entombed in rooms
excavated from salt beds 2,150 feet underground.


4. Solon answers criticism over nuclear dump 

http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/guerra/2601bcja.shtml

San Antonio Express - January 26, 1999

As the nation's second most populous state and home to some of the world's most
advanced medical complexes and a rapidly growing industrial hub, Texas is the
nation's second-largest producer of radioactive waste. 

But we don't have our own nuclear garbage dump. 

Sunday, I reported a proposal was filed to create such a dump in West Texas,
near Andrews, that is already taking nonradioactive hazardous waste. 

This isn't the first proposal for a Lone Star nuclear dump. 

Plans for a low-level radioactive disposal facility in Sierra Blanca were
scrapped last year after locals complained they weren't given say in its
creation and scientists argued the site was on a dangerously unstable
geological fault. 

But others labeled it environmental racism because Sierra Blanca residents are
primarily poor, politically powerless and Mexican-American. 

And the Mexican government protested that the site was within the border zone
where nuclear waste disposal sites are prohibited by treaty. 

In truth, Sierra Blanca was chosen because in the early 1980s, the Legislature
specified a nuclear waste disposal facility could only be established within a
400-square- mile area in sparsely populated Hudspeth County. 

Alpine Rep. Pete P. Gallego of Hudspeth County has filed a bill to establish a
radioactive waste dump in Andrews County. But unlike the Sierra Blanca
facility  which would have been owned and operated by the state  Gallego's bill
would allow for a dump to be privately operated. 

Upon receiving its license to accept nuclear waste, however, ownership of the
dump  and presumably, the liability for any mishaps that might occur on it 
would shift to the state. 

This has led to charges of "privatizing profits while socializing long-term
responsibilities." 

Gallego explains he filed his bill with several purposes in mind. 

"It's a starting point for a conversation because there are a lot of big,
long-term public policy decisions that will have to be made along the way," he
says. "I wanted to start early so we wouldn't get a bill (to establish a
nuclear dump) at the last moment and have to make a rushed decision on it. 

"We've got some preeminent facilities that are major producers (of radioactive
waste)," he says, referring to Texas' growing cancer treatment facilities, "and
we have to provide for them so they can keep on developing." 

As for a private party operating it while the state assumes liability, he says:
"We've made no policy decision on who needs to own the license or the site;
nobody's married to it or tied to it." 

What is he committed to? 

"We've got to have a fear opening up a site that's open to everybody's waste,
so we're trying to figure a way to keep it (just) for us." 

And why is he pushing a plan that would put the nuclear dump in Andrews County,
a community he doesn't even represent? 

"Where it goes is another policy decision that has to be made," he answers, but
adds Andrews' residents seem to welcome the facility. "My feeling is that if
you have a willing seller and a willing buyer, and the geology is right in
Andrews and the people there want it, fine. 

"My priority is to get it out of Hudspeth," he adds. "At least it gets it out
of a county I'm responsible for representing." 

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<html><div>1. Oak Ridge possible temporary storage site for uranium from
Ohio</div>
<div><a href="http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/021400.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/021400.htm</a></div>
<br>
<div>2. Tests confirm metal at park. Questions on source of plutonium
remain</div>
<div><a href="http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/plutonium26.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/plutonium26.htm</a></div>
<br>
<div>3. Opponents: WIPP Must Wait Groups File Brief To Block Shipments
Until Permit OK'd </div>
<div><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-26.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-26.htm</a></div>
<br>
<div>4. Solon answers criticism over nuclear dump </div>
<div><a href="http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/guerra/2601bcja.shtml" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/guerra/2601bcja.shtml</a></div>
<br>
<div>-----------------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>1. Oak Ridge possible temporary storage site for uranium from
Ohio</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/021400.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/021400.htm</a></div>
<br>
<div>OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP January 26, 1999) -- Oak Ridge could be a
temporary storage site for 3,800 metric tons of uranium that the U.S.
Department of Energy must remove from an Ohio plant by Sept. 30.</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;The uranium is now at DOE's Fernald site near
Cincinnati.</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant and the East Tennessee
Technology Park at Oak Ridge are possible sites. DOE's uranium-processing
plant at Paducah, Ky., and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in
Piketon, Ohio, also are alternatives.</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;A DOE environmental impact investigation is under way to look
at each possible site.&nbsp; Y-12 is the principal site for storing
weapons-grade uranium in the United States.&nbsp; The technology park at
Oak Ridge, formerly known as the K-25 site, has millions of pounds of
uranium hexafluroide once used in preparing uranium for fuel in nuclear
reactors.</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;Steve Wyatt, a DOE spokesman at Oak Ridge, said some of the
Fernald uranium is depleted, which means most of the material that could
cause the chain-reaction release of energy known as fission has been
removed.</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;Other stocks are enriched, which means they have more than the
normal amount of U-235, which can create fission.</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;Wyatt said DOE is looking for an indoor storage site for a
couple of years until other uses can be found for the uranium.</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;Fernald processed uranium and other materials for nuclear
weapons from 1951 to 1989 and the uranium is left over from that program.
Plant workers have been working to clean up the plant and nearby areas
polluted by the operations.</div>
<br>
<div>-----------------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>2. Tests confirm metal at park Questions on source of plutonium
remain</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/plutonium26.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/plutonium26.htm</a></div>
<br>
<div>January 26, 1999, San Jose Mercury News </div>
<br>
<div>BY ANDREA WIDENER Contra Costa Times </div>
<br>
<div>Plutonium is laced throughout a Livermore park but at levels that
should not threaten local residents' health, test results released Monday
confirmed.</div>
<br>
<div>The study found that contamination at Big Trees Park, less than a
mile from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, did not exceed health
standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.</div>
<br>
<div>Discovered in 1993</div>
<br>
<div>The plutonium was discovered in 1993 as the EPA took samples to
determine the amount of plutonium in the soil. It found in some parts of
the park 1,000 times more plutonium than was expected -- higher than
expected background levels but not within any danger range.</div>
<br>
<div>The new testing was recommended by the federal Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry to determine the extent of
contamination.</div>
<br>
<div>Lab scientists say the study's results support their theory that
plutonium-laced sludge was used as mulch because the highest levels are
around the park's shade trees.</div>
<br>
<div>But community groups and other state and federal agencies say
further data analysis is needed to answer the more vexing questions: how
the plutonium got there in the first place and what, if anything, should
be done about it.</div>
<br>
<div>Theory challenged</div>
<br>
<div>Marylia Kelley, president of the lab watchdog group Tri-Valley
Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, doesn't subscribe to the
lab's theory. She said the results are above background levels throughout
the park and do not conclusively point to the sludge as the source of
contamination.</div>
<br>
<div>State and federal agencies say they will have to analyze the data
themselves before taking a position.</div>
<br>
<div>After an initial study of the area, the health investigators
suggested the plutonium may have come from the laboratory through the air
or water. Plutonium is a radioactive heavy metal that isn't naturally
occurring in the environment, but it has been used for years at the
laboratory as part of its nuclear weapons work.</div>
<br>
<div>Lab researchers countered with their own explanation that the
plutonium was carried into the park as mulch after an accidental release
into the city's sewer system.</div>
<br>
<div>-----------------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>3. Opponents: WIPP Must Wait Groups File Brief To Block Shipments
Until Permit OK'd </div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-26.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-26.htm</a></div>
<br>
<div>The Associated Press / Albuquerque Journal, January 26, 1999 
</div>
<br>
<div>A group that has long fought the federal government's plan to bury
nuclear waste in salt beds near Carlsbad is repeating its contention that
no waste should go to the repository until it has a state permit. 
</div>
<br>
<div>The Southwest Research and Information Center, in a brief filed
Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., asked U.S. District Judge
John Garrett Penn to prohibit shipments from Los Alamos National
Laboratory to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant if no permit is in place.
</div>
<br>
<div>The filing by the Albuquerque-based group and three other
environmental groups came in a lawsuit that has been pending for most of
the decade. </div>
<br>
<div>In 1991, then-Attorney General Tom Udall and the environmental
groups sued the U.S. Department of Energy. The next year Penn issued an
order preventing the DOE from opening the repository without
environmental controls beyond what the agency proposed. That order
remains in place. </div>
<br>
<div>The DOE concluded last year some drums of waste at Los Alamos
contain only radioactive elements, rather than being mixed with hazardous
chemicals, and that those drums can be shipped to the $2 billion WIPP
without a state permit. </div>
<br>
<div>The state has jurisdiction over so-called mixed waste but not over
waste that contains no hazardous chemicals. </div>
<br>
<div>The state Environment Department plans to issue a permit for mixed
waste between July and September. </div>
<br>
<div>Nathan Wade, a spokesman for the Environment Department, said last
week the agency would not try to stop limited shipments from Los Alamos
but might take action if the Energy Department tried to increase
shipments before the state permit was issued. </div>
<br>
<div>The environmental groups argued Monday that shipping waste to WIPP
before it has a permit would undermine any permit because the presence of
waste beforehand would hamper the state's ability to regulate it. 
</div>
<br>
<div>The DOE disagrees, arguing that shipping radioactive waste would
have no impact on a permit for mixed waste. </div>
<br>
<div>On Friday, Attorney General Patricia Madrid, who took office this
month, announced she's trying to settle the lawsuit. Penn agreed to delay
the deadline for filing briefs until Feb. 1 so Madrid's office and the
DOE could negotiate. </div>
<br>
<div>Don Hancock, head of the Southwest Research and Information Center,
said Monday his group &quot;is proceeding full speed ahead regardless of
what the attorney general is or isn't doing.&quot; </div>
<br>
<div>While campaigning last year, Madrid said she would not continue
Udall's battle over opening WIPP and would try to get more compensation
from the federal government. </div>
<br>
<div>Eventually, DOE plans to dispose of 850,000 drums of rags, tools and
debris contaminated with plutonium from defense work. Waste would be
entombed in rooms excavated from salt beds 2,150 feet 
underground.</div>
<br>
<div>-----------------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>4. Solon answers criticism over nuclear dump </div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/guerra/2601bcja.shtml" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/guerra/2601bcja.shtml</a></div>
<br>
<div>San Antonio Express - January 26, 1999</div>
<br>
<div>As the nation's second most populous state and home to some of the
world's most advanced medical complexes and a rapidly growing industrial
hub, Texas is the nation's second-largest producer of radioactive waste.
</div>
<br>
<div>But we don't have our own nuclear garbage dump. </div>
<br>
<div>Sunday, I reported a proposal was filed to create such a dump in
West Texas, near Andrews, that is already taking nonradioactive hazardous
waste. </div>
<br>
<div>This isn't the first proposal for a Lone Star nuclear dump. </div>
<br>
<div>Plans for a low-level radioactive disposal facility in Sierra Blanca
were scrapped last year after locals complained they weren't given say in
its creation and scientists argued the site was on a dangerously unstable
geological fault. </div>
<br>
<div>But others labeled it environmental racism because Sierra Blanca
residents are primarily poor, politically powerless and Mexican-American.
</div>
<br>
<div>And the Mexican government protested that the site was within the
border zone where nuclear waste disposal sites are prohibited by treaty.
</div>
<br>
<div>In truth, Sierra Blanca was chosen because in the early 1980s, the
Legislature specified a nuclear waste disposal facility could only be
established within a 400-square- mile area in sparsely populated Hudspeth
County. </div>
<br>
<div>Alpine Rep. Pete P. Gallego of Hudspeth County has filed a bill to
establish a radioactive waste dump in Andrews County. But unlike the
Sierra Blanca facility&nbsp; which would have been owned and operated by
the state&nbsp; Gallego's bill would allow for a dump to be privately
operated. </div>
<br>
<div>Upon receiving its license to accept nuclear waste, however,
ownership of the dump&nbsp; and presumably, the liability for any mishaps
that might occur on it&nbsp; would shift to the state. </div>
<br>
<div>This has led to charges of &quot;privatizing profits while
socializing long-term responsibilities.&quot; </div>
<br>
<div>Gallego explains he filed his bill with several purposes in mind.
</div>
<br>
<div>&quot;It's a starting point for a conversation because there are a
lot of big, long-term public policy decisions that will have to be made
along the way,&quot; he says. &quot;I wanted to start early so we
wouldn't get a bill (to establish a nuclear dump) at the last moment and
have to make a rushed decision on it. </div>
<br>
<div>&quot;We've got some preeminent facilities that are major producers
(of radioactive waste),&quot; he says, referring to Texas' growing cancer
treatment facilities, &quot;and we have to provide for them so they can
keep on developing.&quot; </div>
<br>
<div>As for a private party operating it while the state assumes
liability, he says: &quot;We've made no policy decision on who needs to
own the license or the site; nobody's married to it or tied to it.&quot;
</div>
<br>
<div>What is he committed to? </div>
<br>
<div>&quot;We've got to have a fear opening up a site that's open to
everybody's waste, so we're trying to figure a way to keep it (just) for
us.&quot; </div>
<br>
<div>And why is he pushing a plan that would put the nuclear dump in
Andrews County, a community he doesn't even represent? </div>
<br>
<div>&quot;Where it goes is another policy decision that has to be
made,&quot; he answers, but adds Andrews' residents seem to welcome the
facility. &quot;My feeling is that if you have a willing seller and a
willing buyer, and the geology is right in Andrews and the people there
want it, fine. </div>
<br>
<div>&quot;My priority is to get it out of Hudspeth,&quot; he adds.
&quot;At least it gets it out of a county I'm responsible for
representing.&quot; </div>
<br>
To leave a message for Carlos Guerra, call ExpressLine at 554-0500 and
punch 4410, or e-mail cguerra@express-news.net&nbsp; 
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From: hcaldic <hcaldic@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) New brochure
Date: 27 Jan 1999 09:32:03 +1100

Harry Rogers wrote:
> 
> Carolina eace Resource Center would like 50.
> Thanks
> Harry Rogers
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	Dear Harry, I know this is off the point but I am organising a
symposium called Nuclear Y2K on March 8 in the Canon Caucus Room in the
Congress dealing with potential problems in both the global nuclear
reactors and weapons systems. For more information you can call Carrie
Clark on 5164320655. All are welcome at this really important event.
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From: Clayton Ramey <crramey@igc.apc.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Something fun to read while you're in the trenches, furiously
Date: 28 Jan 1999 09:06:33 -0800 (PST)

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The First draft of President Clinton's State of the Union Address, announcing the historic NATIONAL HAMBURGER INITIATIVE

>>
>>Good evening, my fellow Americans, and Sammy Sosa, too:
>>
>>I'm pleased to address you tonight, and to reassure you that the State of
our Union is strong- provided, of course, that we keep it a Union, and that
none of you entertain the idea that those folks in Puerto Rico will ever get
to  become something other than a colo.. that is, a Commonwealth.
>>
>>With the help of Vice President Gore- a man of the people, a man of
dynamism,  vision and humor, who, contrary to some opinions is not nearly as
stiff as former President Richard Nixon is right now- I'm pleased to announce a
revolutionary initiative that will propel our great nation to new heights,    more vitality,  and the  good, solid, meat-driven aggression that makes us the only superpower      in the world This great and revolutionary federal initiative is the National Hamburger Initiative, or the N.H.I.
>>
Beginning in June, 1999, and for a period of not less than twenty years,
our great government, bolstered by a budget surplus of billions of your income tax dollars,
 will subsidize the purchase of unlimited hamburgers and french fries, available at absolutely no cost to every
American citizen over the age of 10 !! ( Proof of citizenship will be required). That's right- FREE  BURGERS!  And
I'm pleased to further announce that, in keeping with our record levels of military spending and even more spending than the Pentagon is willing to ask for, we're going to devote all of our excess Pentagon appropriation to free
and unlimited milk shakes, and those cute little apple pie things, for our fighting men and women- and even our fighting men who fight women-as a small token of our national esteem for these  brave troops, especially those who risk their very lives to push those buttons that send those brave cruise missiles that blow up all of those bad hospitals and grain silos and water treatment plants in the land of that treacherous and very bad guy, Saddam.
>>
>>Yes, my fellow Americans.  Burgers are good.  Burgers are American. They
make people happy.  Our wondrous technology can grow a cow on hormones and
food additives, kill her, grind her up, and make a product that any American
would be proud to consume.  The whole free world loves our hamburgers.  As
most of you can tell, I love 'em too. 
>>
>>But our enemies hate hamburgers. And that makes hamburgers even better.  Just
think about it, my fellow Americans:  There are no burger joints in downtown
Baghdad or Pyongyang, or even in Havana.  That must tell you that God is on
our side in this great venture.
>>
>>And think of the economic benefits to all Americans when this plan is
fully implemented!  Millions more cows will need to be raised to supply the
demand for this beef- and the big cattle ranchers will profit.  Millions
more acres of potatoes will need to be planted  - and the big farmers will
profit.  Millions and millions of  extra gallons of gasoline will be needed to
fuel the trucks that speed these beef burgers-well, at least partially beef-
to your designated food outlets.  And the big oil companies ... well, you get the picture.
>>
But just as important, our National Hamburger I initiative will create JOBS!
Yes,  we calculate that at least 5 million new jobs, all at a pay scale
that's absolutely not less than minimum wage, will be created as a result of
this tax-subsidized program.  Jobs for inner city kids, jobs for
unemployed white kids from rural America, jobs for Native American kids on
reservations,  jobs for seniors who are tired of eating cat food ( and FREE
burgers for them, too)... even jobs for our record number of incarcerated
citizens.  These jobs, of course, will be far below minimum wage.  But after all, they are in jail, aren't they?
>>
>>Jobs.  Food.  Happiness.  And all from those surplus  tax dollars that you've been
faithfully sending in to out Treasury department, each and every year.
>>
>>Now before we go on, I want to acknowledge that all of you may not be
pleased with plan.  You vegetarians, for one, won't want to eat the burgers.  You
Jews and Muslims won't be too thrilled, either, because we'll be adding.. well, pork-
 into the meat mix to keep the pig farmers happy about this little gift to our beloved citizens.  And you environmental
extremists who keep babbling about animal waste in your drinking water, huge amounts of grain for animal feed, and  hormones in the meat supply.. well, too bad.  But you can be good, loyal Americans by just eating the fries.  Just go along with us on this
one, OK?  OK.
>>
>>Yes, we'll be bigger and fatter as a nation.  Yes, the rate of cardiovascular disease in America will undoubtedly go up.  Yes, our health care system, for those of you who can afford it, may be under a little more pressure to treat those extra cases of illness.
>>
>>But this great National Hamburger Initiative will make us a happier nation.  And a happy nation is a good thing,
especially when, after all, when you getting it for FREE.
>>
>>But there is one final thing that I must tell you.  After extensive
consultation with my economic advisors, my administration has concluded that we owe it to you, our taxpayers, to distribute this free food in the most cost effective way possible.  So we have decided that a subsidiary of a.. umm.. Japanese corporation- Mitsubishi will be responsible for constructing, operating, and managing the outlets for the National Hamburger Initiative.   We understand
that corporations like Burger King and McDonalds may suffer from, well, some temporary market pressure, since they'll be trying to sell something that your government will be giving away for free  But them, as they say, is the breaks of our marvelous free enterprise system.  Or is it our free enterprise-government subsidy system?  Or our monopoly capitalist system? I dunno.  But sorry, anyway.
>>

So I conclude, my fellow Americans, with this prayer:  May the God of
American Free Enterprise and Abundant Fat Caloric Intake bless us in this noble
venture,  May he strengthen those who defend our shores from the military threat of Cuban and Iraqi and Libyan nuclear weapons.
May he bless those noble immigrant folk who toil in our fields, almost for free, to  put huge quantities of  meat on our tables. 

>>
Moni..I mean, Hillary, and I, wish all of you, happy, happy, eating, and
we thank you, again, for the tax dollars that will make this enterprise the
envy of all human civilization.
>>
>>Good evening.  God bless you all.  Bon Appetit!   
>>
>

Clayton Ramey ( Ibrahim Malik Abdil-Mu'id) coordinates the Peace and
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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: ALERT, Y2K/Nukes public comment, Pleasr Call or Write!
Date: 28 Jan 1999 15:30:48 -0600 (CST)

On 01/27/99 15:47:53 you wrote:
>


You can also reach NRC Public Comments Office at:301-415-2845. If you don't have the time to write, please at least make a 
phone call. Enough of us calling will make a difference.


-Bill Smirnow


>ALERT! LETTERS TO NRC NEEDED NOW!
>The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has now published NIRS' three
>petitions for rulemaking on nuclear power and Y2K issues (Federal
>Register, January 25, 1999, Vol. 64, No. 15, pp 3789-3793). Public
>comment is being accepted through February 24, 1999. Your comments are
>needed now to ensure that the NRC acts decisively to address potential
>Y2K problems.
>
>The Federal Register notices and the full text of the petitions for
>rulemaking, along with background documents, are available on NIRS'
>website (www.nirs.org).
>
>The NIRS petitions, if adopted, would establish new rules for the atomic
>power industry and the NRC. These rules would:
>
>1) (Docket# PRM 50-65) require the shutdown, by December 1, 1999, of any
>nuclear reactor that is not demonstrably Y2K compliant, until such time
>as they are compliant. There is a widespread belief that the NRC has
>ordered the shutdown by July 1, 1999 of nuclear reactors that are not
>Y2K compliant. This is untrue. The NRC so far only has ordered the
>nuclear utilities to report by July 1 as to whether they are "Y2K ready"
>and if not, when they will be ready. The NRC has NEVER threatened to
>close any nuclear reactor for non-readiness. Rather, the NRC has said it
>will evaluate reactors that do not report readiness by July 1, "on a
>case-by-case basis."
>
>The purpose of this proposed rule is to ensure that there are standard
>criteria that the utilities must meet to demonstrate Y2K compliance (a
>stricter standard than "readiness"), and that the NRC will apply these
>criteria uniformly across the industry. The pressure to NOT apply
>uniform criteria will be great. Consider, for example, the NRC's Draft
>Contingency Plan on Y2K, which attempts to redefine the agency's mission
>of protecting the public health and safety to include ensuring that
>reactors are operating at the turn of the millenium (see below, public
>comments are being accepted on this as well). And consider that the NRC
>so far is not requiring utilities to test "vendor-certified" systems,
>despite the fact that tests (at the Hope Creek reactor, for example) of
>some such "vendor-certified" systems have shown that the systems were,
>in fact, not Y2K compliant (or ready). The NIRS definition would require
>testing of all systems. The first test of these systems must not come on
>01/01/00.
>
>Nuclear reactors should not be allowed to operate on December 31, 1999
>if compliance is not demonstrated, as the potential interactions among
>non-compliant and compliant systems presents an unknown, but foreseeable
>risk to the public. 
>
>2) (Docket# PRM 50-66) require each nuclear site to hold a full-scale
>emergency response exercise during 1999 that includes a Y2K-related
>component.
>
>The purpose of this proposed rule is to build an industry-wide
>storehouse of knowledge that can be called upon if Y2K problems do
>evidence themselves. Until July 1996, all nuclear sites were required to
>hold annual emergency response exercises; now they must hold them
>biannually. This proposed rule would simply, for one year only, return
>the industry to an annual exercise and require the Y2K component. The
>NRC and the nuclear utilities are all preparing Y2K contingency plans,
>and are to be commended for this. However, there is a vast difference
>between an untested contingency plan and an actual exercise, in which
>nuclear utility personnel must respond to events as if they actually
>were happening. This type of training is invaluable, particularly for
>the type and range of problems Y2K issues could present.
>
>3) (Docket# PRM 50-67) require each reactor to have both of its
>emergency diesel generators declared operable, as of December 1, 1999;
>have a 60-day supply of diesel fuel available on site for each
>generator; declare irradiated (or "spent") fuel pools to be Class 1E (or
>safety-related and thus requiring back-up power); and require utilities
>to install an additional source of back-up power for each reactor by
>December 1, 1999.
>
>This proposed rule addresses what may be the most important Y2K
>issue-the possibility of local, regional, or widespread blackouts.
>Nuclear reactors require offsite electrical power to cool the reactor
>core and fuel pool. The scenario of losing electrical power is called by
>the NRC "station blackout," and according to the agency's own safety
>studies, this scenario represents about 50% of the risk of operating
>atomic reactors. In short, if an operating reactor loses power for any
>significant amount of time (several hours to a couple of days), the
>reactor will melt down.
>
>To compensate for this, reactors are required to have emergency diesel
>generators, each capable of powering the entire plant. The NRC claims
>these generators are 95% reliable--an uncomfortably low reliability
>factor for an industry that requires just about 100% perfection in
>operations. But NIRS' own research suggests that generator reliability
>is considerably lower than that (see the appendix to NIRS petition,
>available on the NIRS website). Moreover, one of the two emergency
>generators is often out-of-service for routine maintenance.
>
>This proposed rule would require both emergency diesel generators to be
>operable, and to have enough fuel onsite to compensate for potential
>fuel delivery problems caused by unrelated Y2K disruptions.
>Astonishingly, irradiated fuel pools, which also require cooling, are
>not even considered safety-related by the NRC, and thus are not subject
>to backup power requirements. This proposed rule would remedy that
>situation. Finally, because of the high failure rate of emergency diesel
>generators, this proposed rule would require utilities to install an
>additional source of dedicated back-up power (which could be added to
>the electrical grid once the Y2K issue is fully addressed). The petition
>does not specify the source of back-up power, although NIRS' preference
>is that it be locally-appropriate renewable energy sources.
>
>There is considerable misinformation on the Internet and among
>Y2K-concerned people about the need for electrical power for reactors
>and how long a reactor must be closed before offsite power is no longer
>needed.
>
>These issues are actually somewhat complex, and depend considerably on
>when the reactor last refueled (i.e., how long it has been operating
>since refueling). As a general rule of thumb, however, a reactor (with
>electrical power available) can reach "cold" shutdown within a day or
>two, and within about a month does not need circulating water around the
>core (in other words, does not need electrical power for pumps)-as long
>as the reactor vessel head is not opened. If the vessel head has been
>opened (for example, for refueling), evaporation and then boiling can
>occur quite quickly, and circulating water is needed for several months. 
>
>It should be noted that it is nearly impossible to reach a "cold"
>shutdown without electrical power. The reactor probably would melt down.
>
>The fuel pool, where the high-level atomic waste sits, may also need
>circulating water depending on how recently waste has been added to the
>pool. This waste is not only extremely radioactive, it is thermally very
>hot. If fuel rods have been added recently, the fuel pool can begin to
>boil within a matter of days without water circulation and circulation
>(and electrical power) is needed for many months. Evaporation at a pool
>is also an issue, but a pool with only older fuel in it may be able to
>operate without circulating water for some weeks or months; eventually,
>however, circulation would need to be resumed. Generally speaking,
>high-level waste requires water cooling for about five years. 
>
>Thus, we believe that our proposed date in our petitions (December 1,
>1999) is adequate, though probably not ideal. If you would prefer to see
>an earlier date for shutdown for non-compliance, for diesel generator
>operability, etc., you should say so in your comments on the proposed
>rules.
>
>Our conversations with the NRC staff indicate that the staff is
>sympathetic to our proposed rules, but do not believe that we have fully
>made the case for them, especially the case that the utilities should be
>mandated to meet these objectives. The NRC believes that the agency is
>probably doing enough, and that the utilities are taking steps on their
>own to address some of these issues. For example, we have learned that
>many utilities are planning to start up their diesel generators on
>December 30 or 31, 1999 and simply keep them running in case they are
>needed (although this could lead to overheating problems).
>
>Thus, it would be most helpful if your comments supported the concept
>that the NRC should require utilities to meet specified criteria to
>operate after December 1, that the NRC should require emergency response
>exercises, and that the NRC should require additional steps to protect
>against offsite power loss. Comments that draw on your personal
>knowledge, experience, and situation are also quite helpful. Likewise,
>comments bearing signatures of organizations or local officials are also
>helpful.
>
>There is no doubt that both the NRC and the nuclear utilities are aware
>of the potential problems with Y2K and are actively seeking to address
>them. Our disagreement is over how aggressive the NRC should be at
>regulating these issues, and over whether the NRC's mandate to protect
>the public health and safety should take clear precedence over any
>perceived need for electrical power from reactors.
>
>In this regard, the NRC's draft contingency plan is now available for
>public comment through February 15, 1999. The draft plan is already
>available on NIRS' website (www.nirs.org), and our comments will be
>posted in the next couple of days. Briefly, while we appreciate the
>NRC's effort to develop such plans, this particular plan places an undue
>emphasis upon ensuring power production. In fact, it redefines the NRC's
>mission by arguing that ensuring power production IS a public health and
>safety issue. If this ploy works for Y2K, it could work anytime
>anywhere. It simply must not be allowed to stand. In addition, because
>of this new emphasis, the NRC currently intends to short-circuit the
>normal process for utilities to obtain amendments and exemptions to
>their operating licenses to make split-second decisions on them simply
>to keep the reactors operating. This also sets a terrible precedent for
>public involvement in regulatory decisions and upends the NRC's public
>health and safety mandate.
>
>The NRC has told us they are hoping for a lot of comment on our
>petitions. We are too.
>
>Your comments should be sent to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
>Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Attention: Rulemakings and
>Adjudications Staff.
>    Deliver comments to 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland,
>between 7:30 am and 4:15 pm on Federal workdays.
>    For a copy of the petition, write: Chief, Rules and Directives
>Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration,
>U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 (petitions
>are also available on NIRS website (www.nirs.org)
>    You may also provide comments via the NRC's interactive rulemaking
>website through the NRC home page (http://www.nrc.gov). This site
>provides the capability to upload comments as files (any format), if
>your web browser supports that function. For information about the 
>interactive rulemaking website, contact Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301)
>415-5905 (e-mail: CAG@nrc.gov).
>
>
>Michael Mariotte
>NIRS
>January 26, 1999
>
>
>




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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Mobile Chernobyl is back! ACT NOW, DECISION COULD BE MADE IN JANUARY!!! HR-45
Date: 28 Jan 1999 22:13:10 -0600 (CST)

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    Please call, write, fax again. They need to hear from us in DROVES an=
d they need to hear from us NOW. We don't need 30=20
years of trucking high level commercial nuclear waste vacross 43 states. =
LET'S STOP THEM NOW!


-Bill Smirnow


=09
MOBILE CHERNOBYL ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

Capital Switchboard 202-225-3121 Call now and often!

Mobile Chernobyl, the idea of shipping all of the nation's high-level
nuclear waste to a parking lot in Nevada is BACK! Although Congress has
been unable to enact such legislation the past four years, the nuclear
industry wasted no time this year: on the first day of the
106th Congress, House members Fred Upton (R-MI) and Edolphus Towns
(D-NY) introduced a new Mobile Chernobyl bill. This year, it is HR 45.

The new bill is nearly identical to the previous House version of Mobile
Chernobyl but has some new funding provisions and new dates--to reflect
the atomic industry's previous failures to pass the legislation. The new
date for the opening of a centralized storage site for irradiated fuel
from nuclear power reactors and the military is 2003, which would
trigger the largest nuclear waste shipping campaign in history.

Transport of high-level nuclear waste from reactor sites, =BE of which ar=
e
east of the Mississippi River, would impact 43 states, according to
studies conducted by the State of Nevada. The legislation would require
an ambitious 3,000 metric tons of irradiated fuel a year--or about the
total amount that has been moved in the last 30 years, each year for the
next 30 years or more. 50 million Americans live within a half mile on
either side of the likely train tracks and highways this waste would
pass by. This is because normal trade routes-major interstate highways
and
railroutes--would be used to move the waste. Urban areas should examine
whether there is a disproportionate impact on some sectors of the
community. For example, highways and railways often are placed in
poorer, predominately minority areas.

MOBILE CHERNOBYL IS MOVING FAST. The new Chair of the House Subcommittee
on Energy and Water is Joe Barton, R-TX, who has long been a "water boy"
for the nuclear industry. He was, for example, the chief sponsor of
"one-step" reactor licensing legislation. Barton would like to move the
bill out of his subcommittee THIS MONTH - with no hearings.

Barton and his nuclear industry allies are counting on us to fold. They
believe that we have fought this effort so long and hard, that we no
longer have it in us to fight again. Guess again, Mr. Barton!

National environmental and public interest groups are meeting weekly to
launch an all-out offensive on Capital Hill. We have stopped this bill
every year since it was first introduced in 1994. We can stop it now,
but it requires immediate action from you, your friends and colleagues,
your organizations.

First target: demand hearings on this legislation. Since the funding
mechanism has changed - and is really complicated - this is the perfect
thing to focus on. NO MORE NUCLEAR WELFARE! Even if your U.S.
Representative is not on the House Commerce Committee, call his/her
office and demand that he/she:

1) OPPOSE HR 45, the Mobile Chernobyl Act
2) Demand new hearings: the bill is not the same and there are new
members of Congress
3) Focus on the money issues, the transport issue, and the fact that
this is environmental plunder not environmental protection!!!

While hearings might show the fallacy of the nuclear industry's funding
schemes-which are intended to put the burden of radioactive waste
storage on the taxpayer instead of the industry that created the waste,
hearings are not enough.

In fact, in December, 219 environmental groups demanded a complete end
to the Yucca Mountain project, for temporary or permanent waste storage,
because the science is now clear: Yucca Mountain cannot legally be
licensed as a radioactive waste dump-unless the government changes its
public health and safety licensing regulations and abandoning any effort
to isolate this massive load of radioactivity from the environment.

Here are a couple of other points you might want to make to your elected
representatives and senators. The impeachment trial is certainly slowing
things down in the Senate, but behind the scenes, the atomic industry's
gophers, such as Sens. Frank Murkowski, Larry Craig and Pete Domenici,
are readying new legislation there as well.

HR 45, and any Mobile Chernobyl legislation, is one of the worst
environmental bills ever. It does not provide a solution for nuclear
waste, just a "fix" for the nuclear industry that gets to dump their
waste on Native Shoshone lands, while at the same time making it the
possession of the tax-payer in perpetuity.  The legislation authorizes
the Department of Energy to curtail or preempt ALL environmental laws.

HR 45 sets new deadlines that are more unrealistic than the current
law's missed deadline of 1998.

Yucca Mountain will not isolate nuclear waste from the environment. Data
in the DOE's own "viability assessment" of the proposed Yucca Mountain
Repository contradicts any assertion that Yucca Mountain will isolate
nuclear waste from the environment. The constant seismic activity in the
area has fractured the soft rock of Yucca Mountain, allowing rain to
travel through the proposed repository site. The same fractures will
allow radioactive gases to escape as the waste decays.

A recent study of the funding of the Yucca Mountain Project shows that
there will be about a 50% shortfall in total project funds. By law the
funding for this project comes from the customers of nuclear power, and
the original concept was that they should pay the full bill. A
proportional 10% to be paid by taxpayers via the military budgets would
cover the cost of military waste that would go to the same site (10% of
the total waste). The fund is paid for monthly with the electric bill of
those who get nuclear power, but at the current rate, this fund will
deliver $28.1 Billion. The total projected cost of the program with
centralized storage is  $53.9 Billion. This means that taxpayers would
end up more than $25 billion in liability if these conservative
projections are met-and every year the cost projections go higher=85.

Our job is clear. We must stop HR 45 and all related legislation, and we
must begin now.

First, call your Congressmember at 202-224-3121 and demand that he/she
actively oppose this bill. Point out the effect transportation of
high-level atomic waste could have on your state.

Second, write your Congressmember-even if you called. Surveys of
Congressmembers clearly indicate that handwritten (or typed) letters
from citizens of the district or state are the single most effective
means of reaching your Congressmember. Faxes, e-mails, phone calls are
all ok, but nothing is as effective as a letter in your own words.

Third, organize your community, encourage more letters, phone calls,
faxes, e-mails. The latest public opinion polls we have available show
that some 67% of the public opposes Mobile Chernobyl, but only about 1/3
of the public even knows about it. Moreover, the more people learn about
it, according to the polls, the more likely they are to oppose it. That
means we all have to get out and educate and organize, because if we can
educate just 1/3 more of the public the battle will be over-we will win
hands down. Let NIRS know what organizing and educational materials you
need, we'll get them to you. You can also continue to collect signatures
on the Don't Waste America petitions, although we hope you'll use those
primarily as an educational tool, and encourage people to write their
own letters. Try setting up tables at public locations with a few sample
letters to Congress, focusing on your local situation, and urge people
to use these samples to write their own letters. Op-eds, letters to the
editor, press releases-it's time to start them all up again.

It is not too late to get resolutions against the legislation passed at
municipal and county levels. A resolution against HR 45 on the basis of
the transport of nuclear waste or any other issue is a very LOUD letter
to your U.S. Rep. Contact us if you need help with that.

It's time to stop Mobile Chernobyl once and for all. It's time to stop
Yucca Mountain once and for all. Together, we WILL prevail.

Michael  Mariotte
Mary Olson
NIRS
202-328-0002
http://www.nirs.org


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From: Peter Weiss <petweiss@igc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: criminal defense]
Date: 30 Jan 1999 13:24:58 -0500

Dear Joshua Gordon,

	I assume you are in touch with Francis Boyle (see address above), who
is the world's leading expert on this subject. I have also asked the
LCNP staff to send you some cases.

	I'm afraid you've got a tough case. It's hard enough to get this kind
of evidence into civil disobedience directed at illegal weapons. Do any
of the ones involved in your case fall into that category. Even if not
illegal per se, can they be categorized as inherently aggressive weapons
and therefore in violation of Art. 2(4) of the UN Charter?

	I'll be glad to look at your brief if you want to send me a draft at
the Center for Constitutional Rights, 666 Broadway, New York NY 10012,
ph 212 614 6449, fx 212 614 6499.

					Peter Weiss 

Sean Donahue wrote:
> 
> Sean:  Please distribute the following as widely as you can, along with
> my
> e-mail address.  Thanks.
> 
> I represent several people who peacefully went on the property of a
> defense
> contractor to protest the company's manufacture of war machinery.  In a
> state court trial for trespass, they attempted to assert as a defense an
> obligation to do such acts pursuant to international law and the
> provisions
> of several treaties.  The defense was not allowed.  I am handling the
> appeal, and am looking for cases where such a defense was asserted,
> whether
> successfully or not.  Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Law Office of Joshua Gordon
> 26 S. Main St., #175
> Concord, NH 03301
> (603) 226-4225
> e-mail:  jlgordon@totalnetnh.net
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject: criminal defense
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:16:57 -0500
> From: "Joshua Gordon" <jlgordon@totalnetnh.net>
> To: "Sean Donahue" <nhpeaceact@igc.org>
> 
> Sean:  Please distribute the following as widely as you can, along with my
> e-mail address.  Thanks.
> 
> I represent several people who peacefully went on the property of a defense
> contractor to protest the company's manufacture of war machinery.  In a
> state court trial for trespass, they attempted to assert as a defense an
> obligation to do such acts pursuant to international law and the provisions
> of several treaties.  The defense was not allowed.  I am handling the
> appeal, and am looking for cases where such a defense was asserted, whether
> successfully or not.  Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Law Office of Joshua Gordon
> 26 S. Main St., #175
> Concord, NH 03301
> (603) 226-4225
> e-mail:  jlgordon@totalnetnh.net
> This message may contain attorney privileged information.  Please keep
> confidential.



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From: Peter Weiss <petweiss@igc.org>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: $50 Billion in Nuclear Liabilites
Date: 30 Jan 1999 12:44:38 -0500

Just a short note to make your day: Merril Lynch's specialist on
electric utilities, a fellow named Steve Fleishman, said on last night's
Lou Rukeyser show: "Merril Lynch is very bullish on nuclear plants." In
the small comfort department, he added: "But we don't expect any new
ones to be built."
					Peter Weiss

smirnowb@ix.netcom.com wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:41:00 -0500
> From: Auke Piersma <apiersma@citizen.org>
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> Organization: Public Citizen
> To: nukenet@envirolink.org (****NUKE-NET*****),
>         nuke-waste@igc.org (***NUKE-WASTE)
> Subject: $50 Billion in Nuclear Liabilites
> Reply-To: apiersma@citizen.org
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> 
> Public Citizen News Release
> 
> For Immediate Release:                                  Contact: Jim Riccio, (202) 546-4996
> Jan. 26, 1999                                                   Auke Piersma, (202) 546-4996
> 
> STUDY SHOWS ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION COULD CAUSE UNFUNDED NUCLEAR WASTE
> LIABILITIES THAT MAY EXCEED $50 BILLION
> 
>         WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new study released today, Stranded Nuclear Waste,
> documents alarming funding shortfalls for decommissioning and nuclear waste
> storage. Authored by Synapse Energy Economics, the study indicates that
> electric utility deregulation will force early closure of many nuclear
> plants, facing policy-makers with difficult and controversial choices
> regarding future funding of nuclear plant decommissioning and waste storage
> costs totaling as much as $54 billion nationally. Of the 103 nuclear plants,
> as many as 90 could be forced to close before their scheduled retirement
> dates as a result of the competitive pressures expected from deregulation.
> 
>         "It has been evident for decades that nuclear power is expensive and
> dangerous," said Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass
> Energy Project. "As the nuclear era dies out, the costs of nuclear power
> continually rise, and as a result ratepayers are forced to pay for the
> bailout of nuclear utilities."
> 
>         Because funding under current law assumes plants will run until their
> licenses expire, these economically driven plant closures would create an
> unfunded liability for nuclear plant decommissioning, potentially rising to
> $15.3 billion. "Since nuclear utilities are being unjustly enriched with a
> nuclear bailout, they should pay for the decommissioning of reactors," said
> Jim Riccio, a staff attorney with Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy
> Project.
> 
>         Early plant retirements will also create an unfunded liability for
> long-term storage of high level nuclear waste. This could total as much as
> $46.5 billion if economics force early closure of these plants, and a recent
> independent estimate of the total cost of the planned Yucca Mountain waste
> storage facility proves accurate. To make matters worse, H.R. 45, the
> Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999, exacerbates the problem by reducing the
> fees paid by the industry for nuclear waste storage. "It is outrageous that
> the nuclear industry is not paying the full costs of nuclear waste storage,
> but for Members of Congress to support a reduction of the fees is
> unthinkable," said Auke Piersma, a energy policy analyst with Public
> Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project.
> 
>         "Public Citizen will oppose any attempts to burden ratepayers or taxpayers
> with additional decommissioning or nuclear waste storage costs," Hauter
> said. "The utilities' past mistakes and bad management require that utility
> profits be used to balance the books."
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