From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #354 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Thursday, August 10 2000 Volume 01 : Number 354 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:23:50 EDT From: JTLOWE@aol.com Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) 2Queries Hi, Thanks, Colby - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:06:19 +0100 From: Sally light Subject: (abolition-usa) My new email address Hi all, Effective Aug. 9, 2000, my new email address will be: sallight1@earthlink.net. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:45:03 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Nader at peace rally to protest bombing of Iraq Protesters Deride U.N. Sanctions By Stephen C. Fehr Washington Post Staff Writer Monday , August 7, 2000 ; B03 The soggiest people in Washington yesterday were also some of the most devoted: hundreds of protesters marching from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House to rally in the driving rain for an end to the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq. Soaked from head to toe, with only the trees in Lafayette Square to protect him from the rain, Ken Giles of the Jewish Peace Fellowship sought to explain a cause that would bring people out on such a dreary day. "This is an international tragedy that needs to be dealt with," Giles said through claps of thunder. "All sanctions do is hurt the Iraqi people. To allow this human crisis to go on for 10 years is a sin." The Washington rally was one of a few around the world over the weekend to protest the sanctions, imposed by the U.N. Security Council on Aug. 6, 1990, four days after Iraq invaded Kuwait, setting in motion the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The activists--who represent human rights, interfaith and peace organizations--contend that the restrictions cause thousands of malnourished and sick Iraqi children to die while failing to weaken Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "I'm just horrified that the United States--a supposedly loving democracy--is willing to kill these thousands of children to get at a man we haven't got at for 10 years," said Patricia Cullen, of Mount Rainier, huddling futilely under a tree on the saturated, muddy lawn. The demonstrators plan to risk arrest today by sitting down in front of the Treasury Department building and the White House, where sit-ins are prohibited. "We're going to try and say with our bodies that these sanctions must be lifted," said John Dear, executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a New York-based humanitarian group. President Clinton was not at the White House yesterday and the protesters' stand-in was a no-show. Martin Sheen, the actor who plays President Josiah Bartlet on NBC's "The West Wing," was to be on hand, said rally organizers, but his flight from Los Angeles was canceled. Sheen is one of a group of entertainers involved in the movement, which also attracted veteran protest singer Pete Seeger, who sang his trademark peace songs. In international shows of support yesterday, four American activists began a three-day fast outside the United Nations offices in Baghdad and a protester partially climbed a 450-foot-high millennium memorial in London. In Los Angeles, religious groups are preparing protests against the sanctions and other causes during next week's Democratic National Convention. At yesterday's Washington rally, Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader was one of several speakers who took aim at Clinton and his secretary of state, Madeleine K. Albright, who have consistently defended the sanctions. She said last week that Saddam Hussein is trying to portray his regime as a victim of sanctions, masking the fact that his country's misery is his fault. "He hopes his people's suffering will worsen so that the pressure for lifting sanctions will heighten and the revenues he needs to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction will once again begin to flow," Albright wrote in an op-ed piece in the Financial Times of London. Hussein has lied to U.N. weapons inspectors and concealed his ability to build weapons of mass destruction, U.S. officials say. Jim Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister from Los Angeles long active in the civil rights movement, took offense yesterday at Albright's comments, saying she was suggesting the anti-sanctions activists were being duped. Scanning the crowd in Lafayette Square, Lawson said: "If she thinks these housewives, clergy and young people are being influenced by Saddam, she's out of her mind. We're here because we know our nation has more to export than bombs and sanctions." In 1996, the Iraqis were allowed to export oil to buy food, medicine and other items, a program that State Department officials say should provide the means to feed the Iraqi people. "The U.N. sanctions have never prohibited or limited the amount of food or medicine Iraq could import," Albright wrote in the op-ed piece. But the program has failed to supply much of the country with adequate health care, water and electricity, the protesters say. "The children of Iraq are not our enemy," Dear said. "They're suffering more from us than the Iraqi government." Agence France-Presse contributed to this report. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:31:33 +1000 From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! - If your organisation hasn't yet signed star wars letter please sign - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 09:01:23 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) NAS Report on Cleanup at DOE Hi Friends, Here's a letter to the editor I sent in last night about the National Academy of Science Report on the toxic mess at the nuclear weapons complex. Alice Slater Editor New York Times BY FAX: 556-3622 The conclusion of the National Academy of Sciences, (”Nuclear Sites May Be Toxic in Perpetuity”, 8-8-00) that 109 of the 144 contaminated nuclear weapons sites across our land can not be adequately cleaned up because of “insufficient money, technical skill or political will to do the job”, is a reflection of the skewed priorities of our nation’s leadership. This year, Congress has approved the President’s request for $4.6 billion to the Department of Energy’s weapons labs which will fund the design of new nuclear weapons, and both major Presidential candidates propose a program which will cost at least $60 billion to revive Reagan’s ill-conceived Star Wars. Our Doctor Strangeloves continue to create new sources of toxic waste with sub-critical underground tests of plutonium mixed with high explosives at the Nevada test site and plans to fabricate 6,000 toxic new plutonium pits for nuclear bombs at Los Alamos. Tens of thousands of IQ points are devoted to these provocative programs which threaten to start a new arms race with Russia and China and encourage nuclear proliferation in other countries. Yet, the scientists don’t seem to have a clue about how to protect our earth’s future from the lethal residue of their careless weapons work. We can only hope that the Academy’s recommendation to establish a long-term program that “actively seeks out and applies new knowledge” will be heeded. It has been estimated that the US spent $5.5 trillion on its nuclear weapons program which left us in the mess we in are today. Just as we had a Manhattan project to build the bomb, we need, perhaps, a “Bronx” project to clean up the toxic legacy of the nuclear age which will devote the intelligence, willingness, and resources commensurate with those that were used to cause the disgraceful state we find ourselves in today. 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 http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:38:41 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/08/08 - Daybook etc. - --=====================_266731646==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, August 8, 2000 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200089212653.htm Nagasaki commemoration =97 7 a.m. ... [last of] Hiroshima/Nagasaki 55th anniversary commemoration events. Location: Pentagon [South Entrance].= Contact: 518/589-5103. [Insert from Fellowship of Reconciliation Calendar, http://www.forusa.org/109.htm: Vigil for Disarmament & Peace, 7:00 a.m., Pentagon, South entrance, procession to the River entrance shortly after 9:00 a.m. 510-655-6169.=20 Buddhist Peace Fellowship. People's Campaign for Nonviolence Closing Activity: Interfaith Prayer Service with Religious Leaders, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., Pentagon, Lower Parade Grounds, rain or shine. FOR invites all people of faith to join us at the Pentagon to commemorate the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and to affirm our commitment to creating a culture of nonviolence, through prayers of= confession and prayers of hope. Please come prepared for all weather conditions (bring= an umbrella, raincoat, etc). If you are arriving via metro, plan to arrive no= =20 later than 11:40 a.m. as it takes approximately 10 minutes to walk from the metro to the parade grounds. Directions are available from the Washington DC FOR office. Please call 202-244-0951 or 202-270-3379 (cell phone) for directions, more information or to RSVP.] Weapons technology meeting =97 8 a.m. =97 National Academy of Science= hosts a Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Phase II meeting. Location: National Academies Building, 2100 C St. NW. Contact: 202/334-3527. Naval industry conference =97 all day =97 National Center for Advanced Technologies and Office of Naval Research holds a naval industry research-and-development partnership conference, "Breaking Through the Barriers." Location: Renaissance Washington, DC, Hotel, 999 Ninth St. NW. Contact: 202/371-8458. =20 Film =97 noon =97 The Institute for Policy Studies presents a film,= "Chile, Obstinate Memory," and a discussion, "The Pinochet Precedent." Location:= IPS, 733 15th St. NW, Suite 1020. Contact: 202/234-9382. =20 Turkish energy briefing =97 2:30 p.m. =97 U.S. Energy presents a Turkish= energy regulatory briefing. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW, First Amendment Room. Contact: 202/312-1230. =20 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Al Gore - Tennessee Attends town meeting and reunion with family and hometown friends, Carthage, Tenn. George W. Bush - California 11:25 a.m. - Oxnard, California Rally=20 Location: Oxnard Amtrak Station, Oxnard Blvd. And 4th Street, Oxnard, CA=20 6:25 p.m. - San Luis Obispo, California Rally=20 Location: San Luis Obispo Amtrak Station, 1011 Railroad Ave., San Luis= Obispo, CA 805/541-0505=20 Secretary Cheney - St. Louis MO 1:05 p.m. - Secretary Dick Cheney and wife Lynne, Sunshine Ministries, 1520 North 13th St., St. Louis, MO 314/231-8209=20 Ralph Nader news interviews today 8:20 am Live interview with E.D. Donohey of FOX News Channel 9:10 am Interview with FOX News 12:20 pm Live interview with Greta Van Susterin with "Burden of Proof" 9:00 pm Interview with Forrest Sawyer of "The News with Brian Williams"=20 on MSNBC ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z): George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com -= http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html (Please send other sites of qualified candidates.) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - --=====================_266731646==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, August 8, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200089212653.h= tm

     Nagasaki commemoration =97 7 a.m. ... [last of] Hiroshima/Nagasaki 55th anniversary commemoration events. Location: Pentagon [South Entrance]. Contact: 518/589-5103.

[Insert from Fellowship of Reconciliation Calendar, http://www.forusa.org/109.htm:
    Vigil for Disarmament & Peace, 7:00 a.m.,  Pentagon, South entrance, procession to the River entrance shortly after 9:00 a.m. 510-655-6169.  Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
    People's Campaign for Nonviolence Closing  Activity: Interfaith Prayer Service with  Religious Leaders, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., Pentagon, Lower Parade Grounds, rain or shine. FOR invites  all people of faith to join us at the Pentagon to commemorate the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and  to affirm our commitment to creating a culture of nonviolence, through prayers of confession and prayers of hope. Please come prepared for all  weather conditions (bring an umbrella, raincoat, etc). If you are arriving via metro, plan to arrive no  later than 11:40 a.m. as it takes approximately 10 minutes to walk from the metro to the parade grounds. Directions are available from the Washington DC FOR office. Please call 202-244-0951 or 202-270-3379 (cell phone) for directions, more information or to RSVP.]

      Weapons technology meeting =97 8 a.m. =97 National Academy of Science hosts a Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Phase II meeting. Location: National Academies Building, 2100 C St. NW. Contact: 202/334-3527.

    Naval industry conference =97 all day =97 National Center for Advanced Technologies and Office of Naval Research holds a naval industry research-and-development partnership conference, "Breaking Through the Barriers." Location: Renaissance Washington, DC, Hotel, 999 Ninth St. NW. Contact: 202/371-8458.
 
    Film =97 noon =97 The Institute for Policy Studies presents a film, "Chile, Obstinate Memory," and a discussion, "The Pinochet Precedent." Location: IPS, 733 15th St. NW, Suite 1020. Contact: 202/234-9382.
 
    Turkish energy briefing =97 2:30 p.m. =97 U.S. Energy presents a Turkish energy regulatory briefing. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW, First Amendment Room. Contact: 202/312-1230.
  
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Al Gore - Tennessee

Attends town meeting and reunion with family and hometown friends, Carthage, Tenn.

George W. Bush - California

 11:25 a.m. -  Oxnard, California Rally
Location: Oxnard Amtrak Station, Oxnard Blvd. And 4th Street, Oxnard, CA
  6:25 p.m. -  San Luis Obispo, California Rally
Location: San Luis Obispo Amtrak Station, 1011 Railroad Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 805/541-0505
Secretary Cheney - St. Louis MO
1:05 p.m. - Secretary Dick Cheney and wife Lynne,
Sunshine Ministries, 1520 North 13th St., St. Louis, MO  314/231-8209

Ralph Nader news interviews today

8:20 am Live interview with E.D. Donohey of FOX News Channel
9:10 am Interview with FOX News
12:20 pm Live interview with Greta Van Susterin with "Burden of Proof"
9:00 pm Interview with Forrest Sawyer of "The News with Brian Williams"
on MSNBC




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Quick Route to U.S. Congress:
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http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html= (Representatives' Websites)
http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation -= Search)

Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z):
George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html
(Please send other sites of qualified candidates.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

   Distributed without payment for= research and educational
purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.


 - --=====================_266731646==_.ALT-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:28:43 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/08/10 - Daybook etc. - --=====================_6037970==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, August 10, 2000 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200081021368.htm Hiroshima Nagasaki commemoration =97 1:30 p.m. =97 Atomic bomb survivors participating in Hiroshima/Nagasaki 55th anniversary commemoration events. Location: Perry School, 128 M St. NW. Contact: 518/589-5103. State Department briefing =97 3:30 p.m. =97 State Department holds a= briefing on Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's upcoming travel to Santa Fe,= N.M., to attend the third U.S.-Canada-Mexico Trilateral Meeting and her subsequent trip to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. Location: State Department,= Press Briefing Room 2118, 2201 C St. NW. Contact: 202/647-6607. - --- 2) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES George W. Bush - California 10:05 a.m. - National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St, Salinas, CA, 831/775-4720=20 11:20 a.m. - Salinas, California Rally, Salinas Amtrak Station , 11 Station Place, Salinas, CA, 831/422-7458=20 5:25 p.m. - Lodi, California Rally, Lodi Amtrak Station, 24 South Sacramento St., Lodi, CA, 209/333-6800=20 Dick Cheney - Ohio and Kentucky 8:45 a.m. - Tussing Elementary School, 7117 Tussing Rd.,= Pickerington, OH 43147, 614/759-3400=20 2:40 p.m. - Anderson County High School, 1 Bearcat Dr.,= Lawrenceburg, KY, 502/839-5118=20 5:45 p.m. - Holland, Michigan Airport Arrival, Tulip City Air, 1581= S. Washington St., Holland, MI, 616/392-7831=20 Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman - Atlanta today, St. Louis 8/14 * Today - Gore and Lieberman will be joined in Atlanta by Roy E. Barnes, Governor of Georgia; James B. Hunt, Governor of North Carolina; Paul E.= Patton, Governor of Kentucky; and Don Siegelman, Governor of Alabama. The event will= be carried via live webcast starting at 12:30 EDT. To watch, log on to http://www.alore2000.com. You'll need a RealPlayer or a Windows Media= Player. August 14 - Convention kick-off rally with Al & Tipper Gore and Joe &= Hadassah Lieberman on Monday, August 14, 2000, in downtown St. Louis. The gates will open at 4:00 p.m. and the program begins at 5:15 p.m. For specific details,= =20 call the ticket distribution locations listed below. Holden for Governor Campaign Office=20 (314) 567-1946=20 (314) 567-1492 fax=20 Weekday hours: 9:00am =AD 5:00pm=20 Carnahan for Senate Campaign Office=20 (314) 993-0100=20 (314) 993-0299 fax=20 Weekday hours: 9:00am =AD 8:00pm=20 The People=92s Loan Store=20 (314) 381-2600=20 (314) 381-2298 fax=20 Weekday hours: 9:00am =AD 6:00pm=20 Saturday hours: 9:00 =AD 2:00pm Tri-County Legislative Club=20 (636) 928-8573 or (636) 928-8601=20 (636) 928-0816 fax=20 Weekday hours: 10:00am =AD 5:00pm=20 Saturday hours: 10:00am =AD 5:00pm=20 Sunday hours: 12:00pm =AD 5:00pm Ralph Nader Sunday, August 13, 12:00 pm EDT - NBC: Interview One on One with John McLaughlin. Not all NBC affiliates carry this show. Local listings can be obtained at the TV Guide website. Pat Buchanan, Thursday, August 10, 2000 MSNBC The News with Brian Williams REFORM PARTY CONVENTION Begins=20 3) World Scene Washington Times, August 10, 2000 http://www.washtimes.com/world/worldscene-200081021501.htm Nagasaki remembers day of second bomb=20 TOKYO =97 A thousand lanterns were sent floating down a river in Nagasaki yesterday, casting a glow on banks where residents died 55 years ago as they sought solace from the heat generated by the world's second atomic bomb= attack. The luminous paper flotilla commemorated those who were driven to the river= in a desperate search for water in the aftermath of the blast on Aug. 9, 1945. Amid growing concern that tensions between India and Pakistan =97 the= world's newest nuclear powers =97 could lead to atomic warfare, Nagasaki Mayor Itcho= Ito urged renewed efforts to eliminate such weapons of mass destruction. "The people of the Earth must not forget that there are approximately 30,000= nuclear weapons still in existence," Mr. Ito said. Indigenous people offer peace prayer=20 NEW YORK =97 A Lakota Indian chief performed a sacred pipe ceremony on= the grounds of the United Nations and offered a prayer for world peace yesterday= to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous People. The event highlighted U.N. efforts to raise the profile of indigenous people and treat their suffering as more than just a footnote in the wider struggle for human rights. It was also the first time the annual day was celebrated since the= U.N. Economic and Social Council decided late last month to establish a permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The forum will have 16 representatives and for= the first time give indigenous people a separate voice within the U.N. system. ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z): George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com -= http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html (Please send other sites of qualified candidates.) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - --=====================_6037970==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, August 10, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200081021368.h= tm

Hiroshima Nagasaki commemoration =97 1:30 p.m. =97 Atomic bomb survivors participating in Hiroshima/Nagasaki 55th anniversary commemoration events. Location: Perry School, 128 M St. NW. Contact: 518/589-5103.

State Department briefing =97 3:30 p.m. =97 State Department holds a briefing on Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's upcoming travel to Santa Fe, N.M., to attend the third U.S.-Canada-Mexico Trilateral Meeting and her subsequent trip to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. Location: State Department, Press Briefing Room 2118, 2201 C St. NW. Contact: 202/647-6607.

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2)  PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

George W. Bush - California
        10:05 a.m. - National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St, Salinas, CA, 831/775-4720
        11:20 a.m. - -  Salinas, California Rally, Salinas Amtrak Station , 11 Station Place, Salinas, CA, 831/422-7458
        5:25 p.m. - - Lodi, California Rally, Lodi Amtrak Station, 24 South Sacramento St., Lodi, CA, 209/333-6800

Dick Cheney - Ohio and Kentucky
        8:45 = ; a.m. - Tussing Elementary School, 7117 Tussing Rd., Pickerington, OH 43147, 614/759-3400
        2:40  p.m. -  Anderson County High School, 1 Bearcat Dr., Lawrenceburg, KY, 502/839-5118
        5:45  p.m. - Holland, Michigan Airport Arrival, Tulip City Air, 1581 S. Washington St., Holland, MI, 616/392-7831

Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman - Atlanta today, St. Louis 8/14

* Today - Gore and Lieberman will be joined in Atlanta by Roy E. Barnes, Governor of Georgia; James B. Hunt, Governor of North Carolina; Paul E. Patton, Governor of Kentucky; and Don Siegelman, Governor of Alabama. The event will be carried via live webcast starting at 12:30 EDT. To watch, log on to http://www.alore2000.com. You'll need a RealPlayer or a Windows Media Player.

August 14 - Convention kick-off rally with Al & Tipper Gore and Joe & Hadassah Lieberman on Monday, August 14, 2000, in downtown St. Louis. The gates will open at 4:00 p.m. and the program begins at 5:15 p.m. For specific details,  call the ticket distribution locations listed below.

Holden for Governor Campaign Office
(314) 567-1946
(314) 567-1492 fax
Weekday hours: 9:00am =AD 5:00pm

Carnahan for Senate Campaign Office
(314) 993-0100
(314) 993-0299 fax
Weekday hours: 9:00am =AD 8:00pm

The People=92s Loan Store
(314) 381-2600
(314) 381-2298 fax
Weekday hours: 9:00am =AD 6:00pm
Saturday hours: 9:00 =AD 2:00pm

Tri-County Legislative Club
(636) 928-8573 or (636) 928-8601
(636) 928-0816 fax
Weekday hours: 10:00am =AD 5:00pm
Saturday hours: 10:00am =AD 5:00pm
Sunday hours: 12:00pm =AD 5:00pm

Ralph Nader

Sunday, August 13, 12:00 pm EDT - NBC: Interview One on One with John McLaughlin. Not all NBC affiliates carry this show. Local listings can be obtained at the TV Guide website.

Pat Buchanan,
Thursday, August 10, 2000
MSNBC The News with Brian Williams
REFORM PARTY  CONVENTION Begins

3)  World Scene Washington Times, August 10, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/world/worldscene-200081021501.h= tm

Nagasaki remembers day of second bomb

TOKYO =97 A thousand lanterns were sent floating down a river in Nagasaki yesterday, casting a glow on banks where residents died 55 years ago as they sought solace from the heat generated by the world's second atomic bomb attack. The luminous paper flotilla commemorated those who were driven to the river in a desperate search for water in the aftermath of the blast on Aug. 9, 1945. Amid growing concern that tensions between India and Pakistan =97 the world's newest nuclear powers =97 could lead to atomic warfare, Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito urged renewed efforts to eliminate such weapons of mass destruction.  "The people of the Earth must not forget that there are approximately 30,000 nuclear weapons still in existence," Mr. Ito said.

Indigenous people offer peace prayer

      NEW YORK =97 A Lakota Indian chief performed a sacred pipe ceremony on the grounds of the United Nations and offered a prayer for world peace yesterday to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous People.  The event highlighted U.N. efforts to raise the profile of indigenous people and treat their suffering as more than just a footnote in the wider struggle for human rights. It was also the first time the annual day was celebrated since the U.N. Economic and Social Council decided late last month to establish a permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The forum will have 16 representatives and for the first time give indigenous people a separate voice within the U.N. system.



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http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation -= Search)

Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z):
George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html
(Please send other sites of qualified candidates.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

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 - --=====================_6037970==_.ALT-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:04:31 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: WAND Capitol Hill Action >Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:55:51 -0400 >Subject: WAND Capitol Hill Action >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: wand@wand.org (wand@wand.org) > >Welcome to the WAND Capitol Hill E-mail Action for the week of August 7, >2000. The House and Senate are in recess for the month of August and will >be returning to Washington after Labor Day. > >SENATE MINI-NUKE PLAN COULD LEAD TO NUCLEAR TESTING - TAKE ACTION BELOW! > >The Defense Authorization Bill has passed both the House and the Senate. >During the recess staff are being the conference process in working >through the differences of the two bills. One provision WAND is >particularly concerned about is Section 1018 in the Senate version. > >The Senate version of the defense authorization bill for Fiscal Year 2001 >contains a provision to allow development of a new nuclear weapon, a >"mini-nuke" with an explosive yield of less than 5 kilotons. Senators John >Warner (R-VA) and Wayne Allard (R-CO) placed this provision in the bill. > >This plan, if implemented, would lead to increased nuclear weapons design >and development activities at the Energy Department weapons labs. Further, >this provision pushes the U.S. closer to a renewal of nuclear testing as >the >scientists seek to prove to the military that their new designs work. That >would wreck the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and could promote a new arms >race, greatly increasing nuclear dangers. > >Senators Warner and Allard acted in response to an Air Force request that >would require the weapons labs to develop an earth-burrowing nuclear >warhead >that could be used in regional wars, such as the Gulf War or Kosovo, to >destroy underground bunkers. The aim would be to kill national leaders, >such >as Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevic, or to destroy stocks of biological >or chemical weapons held by so-called "rogue" states. > >Such a weapon would undermine the 50-year taboo on using nuclear weapons in >war. The military would regard it as "usable," given the relatively small >5 >kiloton (KT) explosive yield (the Hiroshima bomb was a 15 KT weapon). The >United States has condemned India and Pakistan for going to the brink of >nuclear war, but now the Dr. Strangeloves in Congress and the Air Force >want >the United States to be able to wield atomic weapons on the battlefield. > >Development of a "mini-nuke" has been banned since 1993 when Reps. >Elizabeth >Furse (retired) and John Spratt (D-SC) ensured passage of a measure >preventing the labs from doing design and development work on "mini-nukes." >The House and Senate Armed Services Committees supported this 1993 ban and >the Warner-Allard language threatens to reverse the good that they >accomplished. > >The House version of the FY 2001 defense authorization bill does not >contain >this "mini-nukes" clause. This presents an opportunity to strike the >provision altogether when the House-Senate conference committee meets in >September. > > >ACTION: Write and call your Representative and/or Senator listed below. >All will be on the conference committee. Make clear your opposition to >development of a "mini-nuke." Ask her/him to support removal of the >Warner-Allard provision from the final language of the FY 2001 defense >authorization bill. > > >State Representative Defense Aide Phone Fax > Area code (202) >AR-2 Snyder Mike Casey 225-2506 225-5903 >CA-1 Thompson David Flanders 225-3311 225-4335 >CA-10 Tauscher Jeff Cohen 225-1880 225-5914 >HI-1 Abercrombie Mike Velasquez 225-2726 225-4580 >IL-17 Evans Tom O'Donnell 225-5905 225-5396 >MA-5 Meehan Bob Schubert 225-3411 226-0771 >ME-1 Allen Todd Stein 225-6116 225-5590 >MO-4 Skelton Jim Schweiter 225-4158 225-3623 >MS-5 Taylor Stephen Peranich 225-5772 225-7074 >SC-5 Spratt Hugh Brady 226-7200 226-7233 > > >State Senator Defense Aide Phone Fax > Area code (202) >MA Kennedy Menda Fife 224-4543 224-2417 >ME Snowe Thomas Vecchiolla 224-5344 224-1946 >MI Levin Richard Fieldhouse 224-3871 228-0036 >NM Bingaman Wayne Glass 224-5521 224-2852 >VA Robb Bill Sutey 224-4024 224-8689 > > > > > > >Kimberly Robson, WAND Director of Policy and Programs > >Women's Action for New Directions, WAND >110 Maryland Avenue, NE >Suite 205 >Washington, DC 20002 >Phone: 202-543-8505 >Fax: 202-675-6469 >wand@wand.org >http://www.wand.org > >WAND's mission is to empower women to act politically to reduce violence >and militarism and redirect military resources toward human and >environmental needs. > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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