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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: stats
Date: 01 Apr 1999 11:11:54 -0500

In response to Dave McReynolds stunning statistics, you may want to check out
the World Game website, to see Buckminster Fuller's World Game Institute
amazing one page chart on "What the World Needs and How to Pay For It Using
Military Expenditures".

  http://www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/


Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Knife Aimed at America's Heart
Date: 01 Apr 1999 12:05:54 -0500

Some thoughts in response:

1. If PDD-60 is top secret, how can we trust this (or any) report of
what it says?

2. The U.S. military is required by current U.S. law to maintain
deployment of nuclear weapons at the START I level, i.e. 6,000 warheads
deployed.  Period.  No exceptions.  It is ridiculous, but it's the law.
(By the way, the START II level is not 2,500.  It is 3,500.)

3. Launch-on-warning places everyone at greater risk, because or the
possibility of misreading or misunderstanding the data.  Incinerating
others (and probably ourselves) in response to a warning seems a rather
stupid way to act, because the warning could be about something as
benign as a weather rocket.

4. Satellites will not be downed in a first strike, and communications
capacity will not totally disappear in a first strike.  It is absurd to
say that U.S. naval strategic forces could not withstand a first strike.
Even if half the U.S. Trident force were eliminated, the U.S. could
still launch many hundreds of nuclear weapons from the remaining
Tridents.

5. With the massive deterioration of Russia's military and the shrinkage
of Russia's economy, no serious observer believes that Russia would be
able to launch 4,000 to 6,000 warheads today.

6. Where is the evidence to support the claim that Russia has a
nationwide ABM system?

7. No one in Congress or the Administration has claimed that missile
defense would work against a massive first strike of nuclear weapons
against the U.S.   It just can't be done, and everyone knows that.  The
current debate about missile defense is about protecting against a small
number of weapons (presumably launched by a "rogue" state.)

8. It is impossible for the Clinton Administration to assume credit or
blame for actions taken by the U.S. in 1992.

9. The U.S. is not undertaking unilateral nuclear disarmament.  Rather
the opposite is occuring.  The U.S. is engaging in "subcritical" tests
on plutonium in order to perfect its nuclear weapons, is engaging in
research on pure fusion weapons, and much more. (Also see #2 above.)

10. Finally, why would any sane person discourse about "taking out" all
the nuclear weapons in Russia, or in the U.S.?  If some nation (Russia,
U.S., or any other) uses as few as 40 nuclear weapons, all life on earth
would be radically transformed, especially in the industrialized world.
Every single dimension of our lives -- agriculture, banking, medicine,
transportation, communication, politics, education -- would be so
totally different that we can not even imagine what things would be like
following the use of a small number of nuclear weapons.  After the
launch of a few dozen nuclear warheads, millions of people would be dead
and dying, while millions more would have no electricity, no food
supply, no gasoline, etc.  We can not pretend that using nuclear weapons
is in anyway comparable to dropping some conventional bombs.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller



David Crockett Williams wrote:
>
> [fwd]--One would think that it is a good idea to understand all perspectives
> on the abolition issue.  Here is one perspective supporting need for
> multilateral abolition....
>
>               A Nuclear Knife Aimed at America's Heart
>                            Joel M. Skousen
>                            March 25, 1999
>
> In November 1997, President Clinton signed a top-secret Presidential
> Decision Directive (PDD-60) directing U.S. military commanders to
> abandon the time-honored nuclear deterrence of "launch on warning."
> Ironically, this was done in the name of "increased deterrence."
> Every sensible American needs to understand why this reasoning is
> fraudulent at best and deadly at worst. First, some background.
>
> The impetus to change U.S. strategic nuclear doctrine came on the
> heels of Clinton's demand to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early 1997
> that they prepare to unilaterally reduce America's nuclear warhead
> deployment to 2,500 in eager anticipation of the ratification of the
> START II disarmament treaty. This pact has yet to be ratified by the
> Russian Duma.
>
> Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, responded that
> he couldn't comply, since the U.S. military was still operating on a
> former Presidential Decision Directive of 1981 to prepare to "win a
> protracted nuclear war." A winning strategy couldn't be implemented
> without the full contingent of current nuclear strategic warheads.
>
> According to Craig Cerniello of Arms Control Today (November/December
> 1997 issue), "the administration viewed the 1981 guidelines as an
> anachronism of the Cold War. The notion that the United States still
> had to be prepared to fight and win a protracted nuclear war today
> seemed out of touch with reality, given the fact that it has been six
> years since the collapse of the Soviet Union."
>
> Certainly, the apparent collapse of the Soviet Union is the linchpin
> in every argument pointing toward the relaxation of Western vigilance
> and accelerated disarmament. Indeed, it is the driving argument that
> is trumpeted constantly before Congress, U.S. military leaders, and
> the American people.
>
> Almost everyone is buying it -- even most conservatives who should
> know better.  However, the most savvy Soviet-watchers can point to a
> host of evidence indicating that the so-called "collapse" was
> engineered to disarm the West and garner billions in direct aid to
> assist Russia while inducing the West to take over the economic
> burden of the former satellite states.
>
> But the most ominous evidence is found in defectors from Russia who
> tell the same story: Russia is cheating on all aspects of
> disarmament, and is siphoning off billions in Western aid money to
> modernize and deploy top-of-the-line new weapons systems aimed at
> taking down the U.S. military in one huge, decapitating nuclear
> strike.
>
> Contrast this with the Clinton administration's response. Incredibly,
> while still paying lip service to nuclear deterrence, Assistant
> Secretary of Defense Edward L. Warner III went before the Congress on
> March 31, 1998, and bragged about the litany of unilateral
> disarmament this administration has forced upon the U.S. military:
>
> Warner noted the "success" the Clinton administration has had in
> recent years, which has:
>
> Eliminated our entire inventory of ground-launched non-strategic
> nuclear weapons (nuclear artillery and Lance surface-to-surface
> missiles).
>
> Removed all nonstrategic nuclear weapons on a day-to-day basis from
> surface ships, attack submarines, and land-based naval aircraft
> bases.
>
> Removed our strategic bombers from alert.
>
> Stood down the Minuteman II ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under
> Start I.
>
> Terminated the mobile Peacekeeper and mobile small ICBM programs.
>
> Terminated the SCRAM-II nuclear short-range attack missile.  In
> January 1992, the second Presidential Nuclear Initiative took further
> steps which included:
>
> Limiting B-2 production to 20 bombers.
>
> Canceling the entire small ICBM program.
>
> Ceasing production of W-88 Trident SLBM (submarine-launched missile)
> warheads.
>
> Halting purchases of advanced cruise missiles.
>
> Stopping new production of Peacekeeper missiles (our biggest
> MIRV-warhead ICBM).  "As a result of these significant changes, the
> U.S. nuclear stockpile has decreased by more than 50 percent," Warner
> enthused.
>
> All of this has been done without any meaningful disarmament by the
> Russians.
>
> The Clinton administration would counter this charge by citing the
> "successful" dismantling of 3,300 strategic nuclear warheads by
> Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus, and the destruction of their 252
> ICBMs and related silos -- all paid for with U.S. taxpayer funds to
> the tune of $300 million per year. But the real story is otherwise.
>
> Yes, Americans paid for the dismantling of these systems -- the
> oldest and most out-of-date in the Soviet inventory. They were
> scheduled for replacement anyway, so the U.S. taxpayer ended up
> saving the Russians over a billion dollars, allowing them to use this
> and other Western aid to develop and build new systems, coming on
> line right now. But that isn't all.
>
> What the administration doesn't say is that they allowed the Russians
> to reclaim all the nuclear warheads, and paid them to recycle the
> usable material into new, updated warheads. We didn't diminish the
> threat at all.  We only helped them to transform it into something
> more dangerous.
>
> Thus, the Russians still maintain a more than 3-to-1 advantage over
> the United States in both throw-weight and nuclear delivery vehicles.
> That disparity is widening dramatically with the Clinton
> administration's unilateral disarmament while at the same time
> encouraging the Russians to proceed not only with the deployment of
> 500 new Topol-M missiles (which are mobile-launched and therefore
> difficult to target), but to put three MIRVed warheads on each
> missile instead of the treaty limit of one warhead -- for a total
> deployment of 1,500 warheads.
>
> Not counting the presumed minimum 4,000 to 6,000 warheads in the
> current Russian inventory, these 1,500 new warheads would overwhelm a
> measly 200-interceptor ABM system in North Dakota -- which the
> Clinton administration is insisting should NOT be deployed before
> 2005. I wonder why?
>
> With our 50 Peacekeeper ICBMs scheduled to be decommissioned in 2003,
> that gives the Russians or Chinese a wide-open window for attack,
> should they choose to exercise their first-strike,
> nuclear-decapitation option.
>
> So much for the "new realism" of the Clinton disarmament team and
> their assertion that Russia poses no threat. Judging strictly by
> public data from establishment sources (which is always understated
> due to Moscow's heavy shroud of secrecy) the Russian threat is much
> greater than it ever was, both in quantity and quality of strategic
> nuclear forces. This is thanks, in part, to ongoing technology
> transfers by IBM and other defense contractors with the knowing
> participation and encouragement of this administration.
>
> Now let's take a close look at this presumed "increased deterrence"
> the Clinton Department of Defense is promising. The administration
> claims its brand of deterrence is still based on the "mutual assured
> destruction" (MAD) concept -- a truly appropriate acronym.
>
> This is the presumption that, since both sides have an overwhelming
> capability to destroy each other, that no sane leadership would
> engage in nuclear war. Let's examine this closely. MAD could only
> stand as a viable assumption if:
>
> Both sides had sufficient weapons and delivery vehicles to inflict
> total devastation.
>
> Neither side had an effective anti-ballistic-missile system.
>
> Neither side had electronic jamming capability on its incoming ICBMs.
>
> Neither side had hardened shelters protecting its population and
> leadership.  These assumptions clearly do not exist today:
>
> First, we barely have enough nuclear warheads to take out the Russian
> arsenal as presently constituted if we used them all at once (which
> no sane military commander could afford to do, leaving him with no
> reserves).  Russia, on the other hand, has enough to devastate our
> entire strategic forces and still retain 60 percent of her weapons in
> reserve, for a prolonged conflict.
>
> Second, we have no ABM system to protect against ICBMs at all. Our
> dumbed-down and slowed-down Patriots are theater weapons (built to
> conform to the flawed ABM Treaty) and can barely catch slow,
> low-flying Scud missiles, let alone ICBMs that coming screaming in
> from space at 6 to 12 kilometers per second. The Russians have (in
> violation of the same ABM Treaty) a nationwide system of ABMs tied to
> phased-array radars and satellite guidance systems.
>
> Third, we have no electronic jamming on our missiles to help them
> penetrate the Russian ABM system, and the Russians claim their newest
> Topol-M missiles do have such a capability. Whether or not this claim
> is a bluff is immaterial. The fact is, they are building new,
> high-tech missiles and our technology is 10 years old and stagnant.
> We are not developing or building anything new. This aspect can only
> worsen as time goes on.
>
> Fourth, our civilian population is totally unprotected, while a large
> portion of the Russian cities have public fallout shelter facilities.
> New bunkers are being constructed for the Russian leadership despite
> the economic hardships the people suffer. This should tell us
> something about Russian leadership intentions.
>
> Is this Mutually Assured Destruction? Hardly. It equates to United
> States Assured Destruction! In every category of deterrence, we are
> disarming and stagnant, and the Russians are building and deploying.
> There is, in fact, only one type of deterrence that is capable of
> somewhat balancing the scales: the nuclear response doctrine of
> Launch on Warning.
>
> Launch on Warning takes advantage of the fact that long-range
> ballistic missiles take time to arrive on target -- up to 25 minutes,
> depending on where the missiles are fired from. If the Russians were
> to launch a first strike, our satellites would detect and confirm
> that launch within seconds.  In a Launch on Warning doctrine, our
> missiles (if on alert status) could be launched before the Russian or
> Chinese missiles hit our silos. There is also time to retarget our
> missiles so that they are not wasted on Russian silos that are now
> empty.
>
> Thus, one of the great advantages for a Launch on Warning doctrine is
> that it allows the nation that launches second to have an advantage
> over the nation that launches first. The one to launch first wastes a
> certain number of its missiles on our silos that are now empty. By
> contrast, our missiles (utilizing real-time targeting data from
> satellites) strike targets that are still viable.
>
> Now that is deterrence -- a deterrence that we presently do not have
> due to PDD-60.
>
> Clinton national security aide Robert Bell proudly proclaimed to a
> group of disarmament advocates, "In this PDD, we direct our military
> forces to continue to posture themselves in such a way as to not rely
> on Launch on Warning -- to be able to absorb a nuclear strike and
> still have enough force surviving to constitute credible deterrence."
>
> This is patently preposterous. Respond with what?
>
> We have no mobile missiles to avoid being targeted. We have already
> unilaterally agreed to keep over half of our ballistic missile
> submarines in port at any one time, so they can easily be targeted.
> After all, we don't want our Russian "allies" to feel insecure!
>
> All of our Navy and Air Force strategic forces are incapable of
> withstanding a nuclear strike. Even the remaining Trident subs on
> patrol would be unable to respond when communication links and
> satellites are downed in a first strike.
>
> PDD-60 removes all alternate submarine launch codes so that our subs
> cannot fire without direct communication with the president. Those
> vital communications links will assuredly not survive a massive first
> strike.  When you tell the Russians we are going to absorb a first
> strike, you induce them to make sure they hit us with everything
> necessary to make sure we cannot respond.
>
> This is not deterrence. This is suicide.
>
> Joel M. Skousen is a political scientist by training and former
> chairman of the Conservative National Committee. He is a specialist
> in security matters and consults nationwide on "Strategic Relocation"
> -- the title of his latest book.
>
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From: Peter Weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) In Belgrade, Ramsey Clark calls for end of NATO
Date: 01 Apr 1999 11:17:19 -0500

While I would agree with Ramsey Clark that NATO should have been
dissolved ten years ago and that the bombing violates the UN Charter, it
should also be borne in mind that Ramsey is the lawyer for Radovan
Karadzic in the class action suit brought against Karadzic by the
victims of the anti-Bosnian genocide. And has he said anything about
what is currently going on in Kosovo, or is that solely the fault of the
US?

                        Peter Weiss

David Crockett Williams wrote:
>
> Last night at about 3AM I saw on CSPAN a Serbian Television account of
> former
> Carter Administration Attorney General Ramsey Clark now in Belgrade touring
> hospitals, war damage, meeting with civilians, and an interview with SerbTV
> journalist translated back to English apparently by CSPAN translator.  The
> gist of his message was that NATO should have been dissolved 10 years ago at
> the end of the cold war and that the current military offensive by NATO was
> a violation of the UN charter and should be stopped.   I wonder if this
> interview will make the mainstream news today.  It was announced that the
> University in Belgrade had awarded him an honorary Doctoral degree in
> respect of his efforts for peace.
>
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Duma to vote on impeaching Russian President Yeltsin mid-April
Date: 01 Apr 1999 12:49:11 -0800


-----Original Message-----
Yeltsin mid-April


>Peace.
>
>A friend who lives in Russia has just informed me that the Duma (Russian
>parliament) will be voting on impeachment of Russian President Boris
Yeltsin in
>mid-April.  Hard-liners are poised to take power in Russia, and if they
take
>power, they may well send forces to defend Serbia.
>
>Unless somebody makes NATO understand the consequences of their actions
>(particularly the refusal to consider Serbian President Milosevic's
agreement to
>resume peace talks if the bombing is stopped), there is a realistic
possibility
>that NATO may be in direct conflict with Russia by the end of April or
early
>May.
>
>I'd like to suggest that PeaceBuilders who have contacts with high
government
>officials (particularly in Canda and other nations which might be
receptive) use
>those contacts to try to make NATO see reason.
>
>Yours,
>
>Habib
>Host of The Garden
>Web:   http://www.thegarden.net
>Email: [e-mail]
>ICQ:   7649155
>


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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Russian Nuclear Missiles Are On Their Way!
Date: 01 Apr 1999 21:55:53 -0800 (PST)

Russia, angered by the continued bombing of Serbia, has just launched
nuclear missiles from its subs.  They will arrive at their targets in less
than 15 minutes.




















April Fool!  However, the above scenario is possible.  The U.S. and Russia
remain ready to launch more than 5,000 nuclear warheads on less than
half-an-hour's notice, and nuclear missiles on subs can reach their targets
in 15 minutes.  Thus if either side's early warning system shows that
nuclear missiles are on their way, military leaders and the country's leader
have only a few minutes to determine if enemy missiles are really on their
way and decide whether to launch their own missiles.  This hair-trigger
alert policy leaves the world vulnerable to an accidental nuclear war,
especially with Russia and its military in chaos.  Moreover, there is the
possibility that the infamous Y2K bug will cause the Russian or the U.S.
early warning system to falsely indicate an attack.  This possibility has
even the Pentagon worried.  How can the U.S. and Russia continue to be one
bad call away from a nuclear disaster?

To reduce the risk of an accidental nuclear war, I believe that its
imperative that the world's nuclear nations (the U.S., Russia, China,
Britain, France, India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I hope not North Korea,
Iraq, or Iran) take their missiles off alert, remove the warheads from the
missiles, and begin negotiating a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons.  This
would reduce the risk of an accidental war by reducing nuclear tensions and
by increasing the amount of time it would take to launch nuclear weapons,
thus giving the nuclear nations' militaries more time to determine whether
or not reports of an attack are true.

There is a precedent for such bold steps.  In September 1991, as the USSR
fell apart, President Bush unilaterally ordered a stand-down of U.S.
strategic bombers, which had, for decades, been prepared to take off in
minutes.  Their bombs were later unloaded and stored.  Some missiles were
taken off alert in just a few days, and orders for some new weapons were
canceled.  Soviet President Gorbachev reciprocated within a week.  He
garrisoned the Soviet Union's rail-based missiles, de-activated submarines,
and lowered the alert level of the USSR's strategic bombers.  Within a few
months, both nations had withdrawn most of their tactical nukes from forward
positions.  These steps made a time of turmoil safer.  Let's demand that our
leaders follow the bold example set by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev.

Please contact President Clinton (1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC
20500; [phone]; [e-mail]) to urge him to de-alert our
missiles, remove the warheads from the missiles, call on all the other
nuclear nations to do the same, and call for a treaty to abolish nuclear
weapons.

Please also contact your Congressional Representatives to urge them to
sponsor a resolution calling for the above steps to reduce the risk of an
accidental nuclear war. (Members of Congress [phone].  Senators Boxer
and Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510).  Representatives (U.S.
House, Washington, D.C., 20515)).


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Balkan report from IWPR
Date: 02 Apr 1999 04:07:29 -0800

fwd:


THE KLA'S NEW MOBILISATION

To turn back the Serbian onslaught, The KLA hopes to turn the wave of
refugees into an army of the dispossessed. And they want Western military
support to do it.

By Fron Nazi in Kukes

The Kosovars call it the "besa"--the sworn vow on which an Albanian stakes
his life. Kosovo Liberation Army soldier Shkem Dragobia says NATO made such
a pledge to his people. And broke it.

"When we signed the Rambouillet agreement, we were led to believe that NATO
and the US will help the Albanians. So we stopped arming and mobilising
ourselves," he says.

The KLA was strongly pressured to reduce its military activities. The talk
in France was of decommissioning, and plans to convert the KLA into a force
to peacefully police its own communities. At all costs, they were told, the
KLA was not to take advantage of any NATO action to embark on an offensive
of their own.

The Albanians say they kept their word--on the expectation that NATO would
do its part to prevent the kind of humanitarian catastrophe that is now
unfolding.

"NATO has failed to keep its part of the besa," he adds.

He is speaking in a tight room, packed with rifles, machine guns, helmets
and other basic military hardware, on the outskirts of the town of Kukes,
Albania. Outside, every hour around a hundred wagons and carts pass the
Albanian-Kosovo border, each one packed with ten, 15 desperate, despairing
people, an entire extended family for each miserable transport.

It is a devastating spectacle, and for Albanians the most bitter
illustration of the failure of the West's strategy. But while the
international refugee agencies and journalists count the numbers, at
Dragobia's base in a small warehouse, others are counting potential
recruits.

According to Dragobia, a field commander reporting to the general staff,
all agreements are now off. If NATO refuses to enter Kosovo with ground
forces, the KLA is calling on the West to provide heavy arms, artillery and
other materiel so that it can take up the fight itself.

"We call on all Albanians and our friends to join us now," he says. "It's
now or never." He asserts that if the West fails to find a way to turn the
tide in the ground war now, the conflict between the KLA and Yugoslav
forces could last for five years.

But since the onset of the NATO campaign, behind the massive displacement
of civilian refugees, despite the daily strikes at the Yugoslav military,
the Belgrade troops have been giving the KLA a hammering.

Like all KLA sources, Dragobia refuses to give details, but it is clear
that fighting has stretched far beyond the central Decani area where the
pre-strikes clashes were concentrated, and throughout the western part of
the province. The town of Pec, the province's second city, has been emptied
and reportedly largely destroyed, and Prizren and Djakovica are said to
have suffered similar fates.

Serbian TV continues to show coverage of the mass evacuation of Pristina.
Refugees claim the Yugoslav forces are storing their military hardware in
Albanian homes and other civilian buildings, especially throughout
Pristina, to evade NATO air power.

The KLA is still active in the mountains, but have suffered from loss of
communications and limitations on movement. The roads and all the towns are
firmly under Yugoslav Army control.

Significantly, a strategy is emerging. Serb authorities are organising
buses for the displaced, but appear to be directing them not to
Macedonia--which for many would be the nearest refuge--but towards Albania.

It suggests a calculated plan by Belgrade to unsettle Albania, which has
directly supported the KLA, while easing the refugee burden on Macedonia.
The West is particularly sensitive to the political disruption that a
massive ethnic Albanian migration could cause to Macedonia's fragile
multi-ethnic balance.

It's a kind of strategic ethnic cleansing.

"We are trying to stop Kosovars first from leaving Kosova by expanding our
control over the territory, and secondly we are trying to stop them from
leaving Albania," says Dragobia--a nom de guerre, taken from a mountain
peak in the province.

Like many other KLA members, Dragobia feels that if the West, in particular
Italy and Greece, take the refugees, without clear hope of their return,
they will be directly aiding Belgrade's campaign of ethnic cleansing.

So the KLA is trying to reassemble a fresh army by recruiting among the
streams of dispossessed, presently as many as 160,000 people, that are now
entering Albania.

Men freshly expelled from their homes and villages are presented with a
quick choice: sign up for the KLA and join the counterattacks or resign
themselves to an uncertain life in a refugee camp.

Dragobia again declined to give numbers, but he said that Albanians from
Albania are also joining the KLA, though they are being kept in reserve.
But the main recruits are from Kosovo itself. Angry and in shock, many
refugees sign on.

To meet Dragobia we pass around 100 KLA soldiers, armed to the teeth with
kalashnikovs and the mixed weaponry of a guerrilla force. Twenty or so
young men, no more than 21 years old, in civilian clothes and possibly
refugees, take the same route.

"We want NATO and the US to keep their original promises," Dragobia
stressed. That would mean the use of Western ground troops. "If not, we
want them to furnish us with arms and to give us time to reorganise and
equip ourselves," he said.

That implies an escalation of the air war against Yugoslav forces and NATO
supply routes and even military advisors within Kosovo. "If this cannot be
done, then our wish is that they leave us alone to resolve our own
problems. We're convinced we can handle the Serbs by ourselves, if we have
to," he said.

As we departed the warehouse, the 20 young Albanians, new recruits, had
been freshly attired in neatly creased camouflage uniforms, new boots and
bright red berets. They looked at each other awkwardly, like students just
signed up to a college sports squad, and getting used to the new
jerseys--yet about to play a very dangerous game.

Fron Nazi is an IWPR senior editor.

IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 15

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Subject: (abolition-usa) LCNP's Events Schedule
Date: 02 Apr 1999 16:00:07 EST

Schedule of Upcoming Events as of April 2, 1999

April 3
*East Timor Action Network New York
  "East Timor: Prospects for Peace and Freedom"
  Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos-Horta on the future of
Indonesia-Occupied East Timor
  With Amy Goodman of WBAI and Pacifica Radio
  777 UN Plaza--  1:00 PM
  $5.00 Donation Requested

April 5
*Abolition 2000 NY Metro
  "Voices from Kosovo and Belgrade: E-mails and letters from the war."
  Celebrity guests include Erica Jong, Tim Robbins, and Rosie Perez
  Helen Hayes Theater, 240 W. 44th St., 7:00 PM
  $10.00 Donation at the door
  Contact: MADRE, 212-627-0444

April 7
*Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS)
 "The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World: Preventing the
   Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction"
  General Charles Horner (USAF-Ret.)
  Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  Full registration, including meals and reception, $50.00
  For more information call Damien LaVera at [phone]
  or Christine Lucas at [phone]

April 7-10
* International Conference on Nonviolence
  Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
  For more information, contact Ms. Arlie Holliday, Conference Coordinator
  92 Piedmont Avenue, Suite C, Atlanta, GA 30303
  Ph.: 404 221 1480 / Fax: [phone] / E-mail: [e-mail]

April 8, 1999
*DPI/NGO Briefing: Issues before the commission on Sustainable Development
  Speakers include: JoAnne DiSano ad Navid Hanif
  10:30 AM Dag Hammarskjold Library

April 15, 1999
*DPI/NGO Briefing: Emerging Disarmament Issues
  Speakers Include: Saul Mendlovitz, Randall Forsberg, and Jonathan Dean
 10:30 AM Dag Hammarskjold Library

April 16-May 27
*American Indian Community House
  Exhibit: "Unmentionables"
  Opening reception: Friday, April 16, 6:00-8:00 PM
  708 Brodway, New York, NY 10003
  Contact: 212-598-0100


April 22-23
*8th International Conference of the World Information Transfer (WIT)
  Health and Environment: Global Partners for Global Solutions--
Environmental Challenges to Health
  Through Key Stages of Life
  Starts 10:00 AM in the Dag Hammarskjold Library, co-sponsored by DPI

April 22-26
* Global Peace Walk
  Walk from Taos to Santa Fe, New Mexico
  Global Emergency Alert Response
  Contact: David Crockett Williams-- 661-822-3309

April 23
*Demostration in Washington against NATO
  Call to eliminate nuclear weapons and to adopt a no-first-use policy
  Meet at 11:00 at 14th St. and Constitution Avenue on SW corner of the Mall
  Free bus ride from NY to DC.
  Contact Felicity Hill ASAP to make reservations--682-1265

April 23-25
* 50th anniversary summit of the NATO in Washington D.C.
  NPT PrepCom meeting will take place in New York (before or after the summit)
  The Fourth Freedom Forum will organize a two-day event in Washington D.C.
before the summit
  Contact Alistair Millar (program director, Fourth Freedom Forum) for more
information:
  733 15th St, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005  ph.: 202 393 5201, fax:
202 39305202

April 29, 1999
*Third UN Conference on Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
  (UNISPACE III)
  Speakers to be confirmed

May 7-10
* Honoring the Mother: Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering
  'Healing Global Wounds' is an alliance of organizations working to break
the nuclear chain
   At Nevada Test Site (the camp is located on Western Shoshone land at the
gates of the Test Site)
   Each day will begin with a Sunrise Ceremony led by Western Shoshone
Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney
   Contact: Healing Global Wounds, P.O. Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389
   Ph.: 760 852 4175 /  Fax: [phone] / e-mail: [e-mail]

May 11-15
* The Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century
  Contact: The Hague Appeal for Peace c/o
  World Federalist Movement, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017
  Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]

May 13-14
*Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction: Why Not Nuclear Abolition?
  General Lee Butler, Admiral Stansfield Turner, and Stephen Schwartz
 Physicians for Social Responsibility, Pittsburgh
 $65 Registration fee before April 15, $75 thereafter.
 Contact:  Kathy McCauley at 412-486-9065

June 18-20
* Nuclear Policy and Security on the eve of the 21st century: St. Petersburg
Conference
  Co-hosted by St. Petersburg Peace Council, RPPNW, IPPNW,  SLMK etc.
  Themes to be covered: International Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weapons,
European Security,
  Russian nuclear policy, and Security in the Baltic Region, among other
thingsà
  Contact: Xanthe Hall, IPPNW Germany
  Ph.: [phone] / e-mail: [e-mail]

August 3-9
*World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
  Annual conference geared towards the total abolition of nuclear weapons
  Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
  Contact: Organizing Committee, 6-19-23 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004
  Japan. Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone], e-mail:
[e-mail]

August 6-8, 1999
*Beyond the Bomb: A New Agenda for Peace and Justice
   Albequerque, N.M.
   Contact: Bruce Hall, Peace [e-mail]

October 10-16
* The 1999 International Conference of NGOs-- The Role of NGOs in the 21st
Century
   Seoul, Korea



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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) fwd:  North Korea on NATO bombing of Serbia  (WWIII brewing)
Date: 02 Apr 1999 20:09:18 -0800

North Korea's reaction to NATO's bombing of Serbia should not be
surprising to observers of current global hotspots. According to DPRK
officials, the bombing campaign has convinced Pyongyang that it is
dealing with "a new Hitler" and that North Korean officials believe that
the Unted States would attack the DPRK like a "vulture" given the
slightest opportunity. Therefore, North Korea will speed up its missile
development and related military programs to deter U.S. "aggression."
The DPRK justifies this as a "matter of survival." More details in the
following Special Report by The Northeast Asia Peace And Security
Network. (http://www.nautilus.org/napsnet/latest.html)

With the continuing air campaign in Iraq and  U.S. Armed Forces spread
throughout the globe such as Somolia, Germany, Japan, Haiti, South
Korea, and other places - the U.S. Military is spread dangerously thin.
Given the hollowing out of the U.S. Armed Forces over the last six
years, the U.S. Military involvement in Yugoslavia puts a further strain
on U.S. Military service personnel and resources.

Our adversaries in North Korea, China, Russia and elsewhere are taking
notes!

NOTE: The "Ethnic Cleansing" taking place in Kosovo is of particular
interest. The "wars and rumors of wars," which Jesus referred to in
Matthew 24:6 as a sign of His coming, is translated by many as "Ethnic
Cleansing."

Rick Woodcock
KIN Intelligence Director
-----------

NORTHEAST ASIA PEACE AND SECURITY NETWORK: SPECIAL REPORT
----------

The following "DPRK Report" is the product of a joint project between
the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute
of
International Studies (Monterey, California, USA) and the Center for
Contemporary International Problems (ICIP) (Moscow, Russia).  It is
written by Russian analysts associated with the ICIP and edited by the
CNS.
THE DPRK REPORT, No. 17 (March-April 1999)

1.  North Korea's Reaction to the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia

NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia has apparently had a very deep impact on
the thinking of North Korean authorities. DPRK representatives say
privately
that their government now "has discarded all illusions about
Washington's intentions." According to these officials, the bombing has
"completely
and irreversibly" convinced Pyongyang that it is dealing with "a new
Hitler" who is "determined to conquer the entire world through
intimidation, pressure, and aggression." Pyongyang reportedly now has no
doubts that, given the slightest opportunity, the United States will
attack the DPRK like a "vulture."

To deter this aggression, North Korea, while continuing to talk and
bargain with Washington, will reportedly speed up its missile
development and related military programs. "It is a matter of our
national survival," said one high-ranking North Korean official, "and
the United States is mistaken if it thinks that it can check the DPRK's
missile development through cooperation with other countries or by any
other tricks." North Korean officials hint that their country intends to
acquire such a significant deterrent force that Washington "will not
dare even to think about attacking the DPRK."

North Koreans believe that Washington, if confronted with stiff
resistance by the Serbs and worldwide condemnation of "NATO aggression"
against Yugoslavia, may become temporarily more flexible in other parts
of the world, including Korea.  In their view, the situation around
Yugoslavia presumably broadens opportunities at this juncture to woo
theUnited States into agreements favorable to the DPRK. The North hopes
to use this advantage to develop formal diplomatic relations with the
United States, remove U.S. economic sanctions, and join international
financial institutions like the World Bank and the Asian Development
Bank.

The situation will be even better, North Korean representatives add, if
the United States gets tied up in Yugoslavia for a long time.  As one
official notes: "Then, Washington will really have to act from the
position of weakness. The myth of American invincibility will be
destroyed. The prestige and influence of the United States in the world
arena will vanish, and the Clinton administration will be seriously
damaged at home."

2. The Status of North Korean Military Maintenance and Readiness

According to various Russian assessments, North Korean conventional
forces are suffering from a shortage of fuel, spare parts, ammunition,
and repair facilities. Though quantitatively the armed forces are
impressive, the qualitative side is rather backward. To overcome the
widening gap compared to the armed forces of the Republic of Korea and
the U.S. troops stationed there, Pyongyang is now trying to upgrade the
technical level of its air force and army. Local research anddevelopment
is being augmented by imports of high-tech weaponry from abroad, which
is being acquired through the export of North Korean missiles.  A
particular emphasis is being made to develop the country's missile
potential as the main deterrent against external threats. It cannot be
also excluded that non-conventional arms are being made as well.

While the technical component of the DPRK's military might leave much to
be desired, the human component should not be underestimated.  Experts
believe that the fighting spirit and physical condition of the officers
and soldiers remain very high. There is no lack of food for the DPRK's
armed forces, so this factor should not be construed as one weakening
the military's readiness.  While they may not be well trained in dealing
with
sophisticated weaponry, North Korean troops may prove superior to their
opponents in any prolonged conflict.




--END--


Koenig's International News - Bill Koenig - http://watch.org/
Post Office Box 671164, Dallas, TX 75367


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RadWaste Remediation ACTION OPPORTUNITY
Date: 04 Apr 1999 12:46:17 -0700

Following is forwarded request for emails to EPA official in support of
RadWaste remediation technologies instead of Yucca Mountain and other
radiation waste burials as now started in New Mexico under "Mobile
Chernobyl" plan.  Reference article below in today's Las Vegas newspaper.


----Original Message-----
<[e-mail]>

Awfully strange time of the day for a government official to
be sending this out. I originally sent the e-mail about two months
ago! Better late than never, I suppose.

I suggest ALL of you send in some kind of
a comment or question asking how come the DOE, EPA, and
other agencies don't want to spend a dime on transmuting
radioactive waste and still spend $6 billion so far on Yucca
Mountain.

Some of you are Las Vegas residents. Today's Review-Journal
in its Las Vegas Sun section has some long articles on
transmutation.

[[DCW:  See "Removing the sting from nuclear waste", By Mary Manning
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/1999/apr/04/508619786.html =
]]

Not a word on the processes that we know about
like Hal Fox's group or Paul Brown's photoremediation process.
The blackout by the mass media still continues. I would protest to
the EPA the blackout.

[[[DCW: note;  Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT) technologies, a
"byproduct" of previously mis-labeled but viable "cold fusion" devices,
actually neutralize radioactive materials.  some website references are s=
how
here. Get more details from Gary Vesperman.

Photo of flake of non-radioactive copper which had been transmuted from
radioactive thorium using low-energy nuclear transmutation (LENT):
http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp

Stories of scientific skeptics proven wrong:
http://www.padrak.com/ine/FABFACTS.html
Possibly the most original alternative physics site is Mike Hanson=92s at=
:
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/6771/magnet.html

I [Gary] am a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for New
Energy.
Information on over 100 energy devices (and Hal Fox's work) is at:
http://www.padrak.com/ine
Cold Fusion Times magazine:  http://www.world.std.com/~mica/cft.html
Long list of cold fusion sites:  http://www.skypoint.com/members/jlogajan
Infinite Energy and Cold Fusion mag:
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/rei/CFdir/CFhome.html
**Mallove, Infinite Energy Magazinehttp://www.infinite-energy.com ]]]

[Gary, continued:]
If you get any responses, forward them to me. I will forward them
back to you all.

-----Original Message-----
<[e-mail]>
>
>Your Comment:
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Hello!
>Below is an e-mail I sent to Hal Fox Thursday.
>We are trying to arrange for sponsorship by the Nevada Governor's office
for the
>LENT demo at the Feb. 16 nuclear waste summit in Carson City. I thought
some of
>your members may like to drive over and see the demo, if it is held. We
have a
>few little nuclear problems like Iraq possibly acting up in preparation =
for
>smuggling  uclear bombs next to some of our nuclear power plants. The
figure I
>remember is that a 1000-megawatt nuclear power plant running at full pow=
er
for
>one year accumulates the radioactive equivalent of 2,300 Hiroshima atomi=
c
bombs.
>One Hiroshima bomb killed, and is still killing, 300,000 people.
>
>Let's assume a complex of two large elderly nuclear power plants in
Illinois has
>in its waste fuel storage pools 10,000 Hiroshima bombs of radioactivity.
Iraq
>smuggles in just one bomb and blows it up. (Notice that I did not say th=
at
an
>ICBM is needed to deliver the bomb.) We would then
>have a situation in our agricultural heartland far worse than Chernobyl.=
 I
>remember reading that Italy alone had to dispose of $750,000,000 worth o=
f
>radioactivity-contaminated food. I still try not to buy food imported fr=
om
>Europe.
>
>I recently saw a report that the inspectors never found and destroyed
Iraq's
>nuclear apparatus. Their technical people are now free to finish buildin=
g
their
>own bombs within a few months.
>Iraq has been acting strangely confident lately with its saber-rattling.
What
>the low-energy nuclear transmutation technology offers is a method of
easily
>transmuting the radioactivity out of the waste nuclear fuel. I had sent =
out
the
>e-mail to the environmental community to try to wake them up and stop
wasting
>time and money on Yucca Mountain. Please support the development of the
LENT
>process so that we can reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism. I don't thi=
nk
we
>have time to lose. Please forward this message to other nuclear activist=
s.
>
>For more information about the conference, call the Nevada Governor's
office
>at 775-684-5670.
>Thank you!
>Gary Vesperman
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>EPA's Reply:
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Dear Mr. Vesperman:
>
>You can learn more about radioactive waste disposal in the United States=
 by
>visiting the following pages:
>
>General Overview - www.epa.gov/radiation/radwaste/
>Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - www.epa.gov/radiation/wipp/
>Yucca Mtn. - www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca/
>
>Let me know if you have any specific questions.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Carey Johnston
>USEPA - Radiation Protection Division
>[e-mail]
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Please contact us if you have additional questions.
>
>
>





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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) fwd:  Kosovo, a "leftist" perspective
Date: 04 Apr 1999 15:08:56 -0700



>This from a leftist perspective, but who can doubt the relevance of the
>information?  When (and if) Kosovo is "liberated", who winds up in contr=
ol
>of the mines?  Anyone who might be making campaign contributions?  Remem=
ber
>the movers and shakers of the NWO are just as amused by the rantings of =
the
>"leftists" as they are by the rantings of "right wing extremists" -- as
>long as the two blame each other and continue to fail recognize their
>common serfdom.  ICE
>************************************************************************=
***
*

>Subject: The Serbian Cash Register A real Eye Opener
>
>Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 30, 1998 issue of
>Workers World newspaper
>------------------------- Kosovo: 'The war is about the mines' By Sara
>Flounders
>
>Wars are at root about economics, and the rapidly expanding war in Kosov=
o
>is no different.  So why have millions of dollars in high-tech weapons
>suddenly become available to the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army by way=
 of
>the U.S. and Germany?
>
>A July 11 report by New York Times Balkans bureau chief Chris Hedges
>describes the KLA's new arsenal=97the latest anti-tank rocket-propelled
>grenades and anti-aircraft weapons.  These weapons are shifting the bala=
nce
>of power toward the KLA, which is funded fully by outside sources, mostl=
y
>from the U.S.  and Germany.
>The KLA is "fed by recruits, money and arms from outside Serbia," Hedges
>confirms. It has an "inexhaustible supply line," he reports.
>
>"Rebel soldiers, in full uniform with the red and black patch of the Kos=
ovo
>Liberation Army, pull thick wads of German marks from their pockets. The=
re
>are also signs that the arrival of dozens of former professional soldier=
s
>as well as some mercenaries are turning the ragtag band into a viable
>military force of several thousand fighters."  In fact, the KLA is
>primarily a mercenary army funded by the kind of shadowy sources that ha=
ve
>long been associated with U.S.  and German intelligence services.  It is=
 a
>contra army.
>
>Kosovo is often portrayed in the media as an isolated mountainous region
>that's poor and without resources.  It might seem, from these accounts, =
to
>be an area of interest only to those who live there.
>The New York Times, for example, has carried dozens of such articles by
>Chris Hedges in the last six months.  Only once, on July 8, did Hedges
>write about the real wealth of Kosovo=97the Stari Trg mining complex.  I=
t was
>a tip-off that something more was at stake in this war.
>
>Hedges' visit to the Stari Trg mining complex is an eye opener.  He
>describes the glittering veins of lead, zinc, cadmium, gold and silver i=
n
>Stari Trg. According to Hedges, "The sprawling state-owned Trepca mining
>complex, the most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans, is worth=
 at
>least $5 billion." According to the mine's director, Novak Bjelic, "The =
war
>in Kosovo is about the mines, nothing else.  This is Serbia's Kuwait=97t=
he
>heart of Kosovo.
>
>...  In addition to all this, Kosovo has 17 billion tons of coal reserve=
s."
>The whole world knows and observed firsthand in the war against Iraq to
>what horrendous extent the Pentagon was willing to go in order to guaran=
tee
>control of the oil wealth of Kuwait. But the enormous mineral wealth of
>Kosovo is never publicly discussed by U.S.  United Nations Ambassador
>Richard Holbrooke, President Bill Clinton or the Pentagon generals.  The=
y
>speak only of "self-determination" of the Albanian population of Kosovo.
>Of course, they never mention what U.S.-imposed "self-determination" mea=
ns.
> It means colonization under the guise of "liberation," like what the U.=
S.
>did to Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines a hundred years ago.
>
>An Internet search for reports on the mines of Kosovo=97the Trepca minin=
g
>complex or Stari Trg=97turned up only the one article by Hedges and a sm=
all
>piece in the June 22 Wall Street Journal.  All other mentions are in
>metallurgical journals. How could this vital fact be omitted from all
>discussion of what is at stake in Kosovo?  It is comparable to describin=
g
>Kuwait and the oil-rich Gulf states as barren deserts. The wealth of Kos=
ovo
>is greater than the rich veins of ore in the mines. Hedges describes the
>mining complex: "The Stari Trg mine, with its warehouses, is ringed with
>smelting plants, 17 metal treatment sites, freight yards, railroad lines=
, a
>power plant and the country's largest battery plant."
>
>The labor power of millions of workers throughout socialist Yugoslavia
>built this mining complex into the powerhouse it is today.  It was their
>wealth that was invested in developing the complex.  It belongs not just=
 to
>those who live in Kosovo, but to the workers of all Yugoslavia. The
>Yugoslav web site www.yugo slavia.com describes Trepca as the "richest l=
ead
>and zinc mines in Europe." Lignite deposits in the Kosovo mines are,
>according to experts, sufficient for the next 13 centuries.  The capacit=
y
>of the lead and zinc refineries ranks third in the world.
>
>Miners work round the clock, day and night, in six-hour shifts. Accordin=
g
>to the mine director, "In the last three years we have mined  2,538,124
>tons of lead and zinc crude ore and produced 286,502 tons of lead and zi=
nc
>and 139,789 tons of pure lead, zinc, cadmium, silver and gold." Although
>the average person watching the news in the evening has never heard of
>Stari Trg, it has been a prize changing hands for two thousand years.
>The wealth of Stari Trg is legendary.  Precious metals were mined there
>more than 2,000 years ago, first by the Greeks, then by the Romans.
>
>These mines were the grand prize in the Nazi occupation of the Balkans
>after Germany grabbed control from the British.  The mines have great
>industrial and military importance.  The Nazis used batteries produced
>there to power their U-boats.  Today submarine batteries are still made
>there. Profits from these mines are helping to keep the Yugoslav Federat=
ion
>afloat.
>
>U.S.  and UN sanctions imposed on Serbia and Montenegro, the two remaini=
ng
>republics of Yugoslavia, have taken an enormous toll. Without investment
>credits, loans for financing industry, imports and exports, the economy =
has
>been stifled.  Inflation has weakened the currency. The mines, which onc=
e
>were the largest employer in the province, have also been affected. The
>most important words in Hedges' article are the description of the compl=
ex
>as "state owned." Throughout this decade, as the capitalist market has
>swept over the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the Sovi=
et
>Union, socialist Yugoslavia has attempted to resist privatization of its
>industry and natural resources. To break this resistance, the Western
>imperialist countries played a major role in the breakup of socialist
>Yugoslavia.
>
>This huge complex of mines, refining, power and transportation in Kosovo
>may well be the largest uncontested piece of wealth not yet in the hands=
 of
>the big capitalists of the U.S. or Europe. The industry, natural resourc=
es
>and transportation of all the former Soviet republics, the socialist
>countries of Eastern Europe, and the secessionist republics of Yugoslavi=
a
>are now being rapidly privatized.  No one within the region has the weal=
th
>or connections to finance capital to buy controlling shares of these vas=
t
>state-owned industries.  The major Western corporations are gobbling the=
se
>industries up.
>
>While the fate of some industries is still in negotiation, the lending a=
nd
>credit conditions of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
>require the breakup of all state-owned industries.  This is true for the
>oil and natural gas wealth in the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea as well a=
s
>the diamond mines of Siberia.
>The decision on who will own or have controlling interest in the 22 mine=
s
>and the many processing plants of the Trepca complex will be made by
>whoever wins the armed struggle raging in Kosovo.  NATO domination on th=
e
>ground would put U.S.  corporations in the best ownership position.
>Nationalist strife advances their position.
>Although being forced to privatize in order to survive in today's global
>market, Yugoslavia has tried to control the process and to propose Balka=
n
>regional development.
>
>According to the June 22 Wall Street Journal, the Yugoslav Federation is=
 in
>negotiations to sell shares in the Trepca mining complex.  Forced by the
>economic crisis, they have been negotiating with a Greek
>investor=97Mytilineos Holdings SA=97for partial ownership. The former ma=
nager
>of the mines, Byrhan Kavaja=97who is now allied with the opposition to t=
he
>Yugoslav government=97has written to all corporations dealing in soft me=
tals
>to tell them not to make agreements with the Yugoslav government.  Kavaj=
a
>says that once a new government is in power, all past decisions on
>ownership will be invalidated.  The opposition will make "new agreements=
."
>Who is likely to be the beneficiary of these agreements?
>
>The progressive movement in the U.S.  and throughout Western Europe must=
 be
>at the forefront in explaining that the billions of dollars spent on the
>U.S./NATO occupation of the region is not in the interests of any of the
>people of the Balkans.  Nor is it in the interests of poor and working
>people in the U.S.  or Europe.  The war is destroying all that was built
>through collective ownership and collaboration in the Balkans. This war
>will mean higher taxes and even more cuts in social programs in the U.S =
and
>Europe.  But the billions of dollars in profit will go to a few wealthy
>stockholders in the U.S.  or in Western Europe.
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) [a response to]  Kosovo, a "leftist" perspective
Date: 04 Apr 1999 17:15:51 -0700

-----Original Message-----


>Readers of Sara Flounders' propaganda for Milosevic need to know that
>she is not exactly a "leftist" but a member of a tiny "revolutionary"
>splinter party that is apparently loyal to Belgrade.  Back in the old
>days, there were "Marxist" parties sworn to Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi,
>Yugoslavia and even Hoxha's Albania, plus others I'm sure.  Each party
>claimed it's particular workers' paradise or dead Communist leader had
>the One True Way to Socialism, with all others being deviationist
>enemies of the people.  The Workers' World Party is one of the few of
>these little groups to survive the Cold War.  I suspect they are being
>supported directly by Belgrade or else by Serbs living in the US.  In
>any case, Flounders in other documents and public speeches denies that
>there has been any genocide or "ethnic cleansing" either in Kosovo or
>Bosnia, in spite of the overwhelming body of evidence.  It's bizarre.
>She denies the Omarska concentration camp, the massacre at Srebrenica,
>the mass rapes of Bosnian Muslim women, and the recent massacre at
>Racak witnessed by the OSCE observers.  Her party is a conspiratorial,
>hierarchical organization which brings thugs to its public meetings in
>order to silence any dissenters in the audience.
>
>As for her point about the mines, it is indeed likely that these mines
>play a role in motivating the current holocaust -- on the Serbian side.
>If, as she claims, the mines are worth $5 billion, that would certainly
>explain Milosevic' determination to hold on to them.  It would not
>explain the US interest in the Kosovo genocide, which is going to end
>up costing the United States a lot more than $5 billion, and in which
>we are risking stakes potentially as high as a nuclear apocalypse.
>
>The notion that these mines are what the conflict is about for the US
>would be laughable, if it were possible to laugh about any of this.
>
>Mark Gubrud
>



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From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Knife Aimed at America's Heart
Date: 04 Apr 1999 20:35:42 -0400

Bob Tiller wrote:
>
> Some thoughts in response:
>
> 1. If PDD-60 is top secret, how can we trust this (or any) report of
> what it says?
>
> 2. The U.S. military is required by current U.S. law to maintain
> deployment of nuclear weapons at the START I level, i.e. 6,000 warheads
> deployed.  Period.  No exceptions.  It is ridiculous, but it's the law.
> (By the way, the START II level is not 2,500.  It is 3,500.)
>
> 3. Launch-on-warning places everyone at greater risk, because or the
> possibility of misreading or misunderstanding the data.  Incinerating
> others (and probably ourselves) in response to a warning seems a rather
> stupid way to act, because the warning could be about something as
> benign as a weather rocket.
>
> 4. Satellites will not be downed in a first strike, and communications
> capacity will not totally disappear in a first strike.  It is absurd to
> say that U.S. naval strategic forces could not withstand a first strike.
> Even if half the U.S. Trident force were eliminated, the U.S. could
> still launch many hundreds of nuclear weapons from the remaining
> Tridents.
>
> 5. With the massive deterioration of Russia's military and the shrinkage
> of Russia's economy, no serious observer believes that Russia would be
> able to launch 4,000 to 6,000 warheads today.
>
> 6. Where is the evidence to support the claim that Russia has a
> nationwide ABM system?
>
> 7. No one in Congress or the Administration has claimed that missile
> defense would work against a massive first strike of nuclear weapons
> against the U.S.   It just can't be done, and everyone knows that.  The
> current debate about missile defense is about protecting against a small
> number of weapons (presumably launched by a "rogue" state.)
>
> 8. It is impossible for the Clinton Administration to assume credit or
> blame for actions taken by the U.S. in 1992.
>
> 9. The U.S. is not undertaking unilateral nuclear disarmament.  Rather
> the opposite is occuring.  The U.S. is engaging in "subcritical" tests
> on plutonium in order to perfect its nuclear weapons, is engaging in
> research on pure fusion weapons, and much more. (Also see #2 above.)
>
> 10. Finally, why would any sane person discourse about "taking out" all
> the nuclear weapons in Russia, or in the U.S.?  If some nation (Russia,
> U.S., or any other) uses as few as 40 nuclear weapons, all life on earth
> would be radically transformed, especially in the industrialized world.
> Every single dimension of our lives -- agriculture, banking, medicine,
> transportation, communication, politics, education -- would be so
> totally different that we can not even imagine what things would be like
> following the use of a small number of nuclear weapons.  After the
> launch of a few dozen nuclear warheads, millions of people would be dead
> and dying, while millions more would have no electricity, no food
> supply, no gasoline, etc.  We can not pretend that using nuclear weapons
> is in anyway comparable to dropping some conventional bombs.
>
> Shalom,
> Bob Tiller
>
> David Crockett Williams wrote:
> >
> > [fwd]--One would think that it is a good idea to understand all perspectives
> > on the abolition issue.  Here is one perspective supporting need for
> > multilateral abolition....
> >
> >               A Nuclear Knife Aimed at America's Heart
> >                            Joel M. Skousen
> >                            March 25, 1999
> >
> > In November 1997, President Clinton signed a top-secret Presidential
> > Decision Directive (PDD-60) directing U.S. military commanders to
> > abandon the time-honored nuclear deterrence of "launch on warning."
> > Ironically, this was done in the name of "increased deterrence."
> > Every sensible American needs to understand why this reasoning is
> > fraudulent at best and deadly at worst. First, some background.
> >
> > The impetus to change U.S. strategic nuclear doctrine came on the
> > heels of Clinton's demand to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early 1997
> > that they prepare to unilaterally reduce America's nuclear warhead
> > deployment to 2,500 in eager anticipation of the ratification of the
> > START II disarmament treaty. This pact has yet to be ratified by the
> > Russian Duma.
> >
> > Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, responded that
> > he couldn't comply, since the U.S. military was still operating on a
> > former Presidential Decision Directive of 1981 to prepare to "win a
> > protracted nuclear war." A winning strategy couldn't be implemented
> > without the full contingent of current nuclear strategic warheads.
> >
> > According to Craig Cerniello of Arms Control Today (November/December
> > 1997 issue), "the administration viewed the 1981 guidelines as an
> > anachronism of the Cold War. The notion that the United States still
> > had to be prepared to fight and win a protracted nuclear war today
> > seemed out of touch with reality, given the fact that it has been six
> > years since the collapse of the Soviet Union."
> >
> > Certainly, the apparent collapse of the Soviet Union is the linchpin
> > in every argument pointing toward the relaxation of Western vigilance
> > and accelerated disarmament. Indeed, it is the driving argument that
> > is trumpeted constantly before Congress, U.S. military leaders, and
> > the American people.
> >
> > Almost everyone is buying it -- even most conservatives who should
> > know better.  However, the most savvy Soviet-watchers can point to a
> > host of evidence indicating that the so-called "collapse" was
> > engineered to disarm the West and garner billions in direct aid to
> > assist Russia while inducing the West to take over the economic
> > burden of the former satellite states.
> >
> > But the most ominous evidence is found in defectors from Russia who
> > tell the same story: Russia is cheating on all aspects of
> > disarmament, and is siphoning off billions in Western aid money to
> > modernize and deploy top-of-the-line new weapons systems aimed at
> > taking down the U.S. military in one huge, decapitating nuclear
> > strike.
> >
> > Contrast this with the Clinton administration's response. Incredibly,
> > while still paying lip service to nuclear deterrence, Assistant
> > Secretary of Defense Edward L. Warner III went before the Congress on
> > March 31, 1998, and bragged about the litany of unilateral
> > disarmament this administration has forced upon the U.S. military:
> >
> > Warner noted the "success" the Clinton administration has had in
> > recent years, which has:
> >
> > Eliminated our entire inventory of ground-launched non-strategic
> > nuclear weapons (nuclear artillery and Lance surface-to-surface
> > missiles).
> >
> > Removed all nonstrategic nuclear weapons on a day-to-day basis from
> > surface ships, attack submarines, and land-based naval aircraft
> > bases.
> >
> > Removed our strategic bombers from alert.
> >
> > Stood down the Minuteman II ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under
> > Start I.
> >
> > Terminated the mobile Peacekeeper and mobile small ICBM programs.
> >
> > Terminated the SCRAM-II nuclear short-range attack missile.  In
> > January 1992, the second Presidential Nuclear Initiative took further
> > steps which included:
> >
> > Limiting B-2 production to 20 bombers.
> >
> > Canceling the entire small ICBM program.
> >
> > Ceasing production of W-88 Trident SLBM (submarine-launched missile)
> > warheads.
> >
> > Halting purchases of advanced cruise missiles.
> >
> > Stopping new production of Peacekeeper missiles (our biggest
> > MIRV-warhead ICBM).  "As a result of these significant changes, the
> > U.S. nuclear stockpile has decreased by more than 50 percent," Warner
> > enthused.
> >
> > All of this has been done without any meaningful disarmament by the
> > Russians.
> >
> > The Clinton administration would counter this charge by citing the
> > "successful" dismantling of 3,300 strategic nuclear warheads by
> > Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus, and the destruction of their 252
> > ICBMs and related silos -- all paid for with U.S. taxpayer funds to
> > the tune of $300 million per year. But the real story is otherwise.
> >
> > Yes, Americans paid for the dismantling of these systems -- the
> > oldest and most out-of-date in the Soviet inventory. They were
> > scheduled for replacement anyway, so the U.S. taxpayer ended up
> > saving the Russians over a billion dollars, allowing them to use this
> > and other Western aid to develop and build new systems, coming on
> > line right now. But that isn't all.
> >
> > What the administration doesn't say is that they allowed the Russians
> > to reclaim all the nuclear warheads, and paid them to recycle the
> > usable material into new, updated warheads. We didn't diminish the
> > threat at all.  We only helped them to transform it into something
> > more dangerous.
> >
> > Thus, the Russians still maintain a more than 3-to-1 advantage over
> > the United States in both throw-weight and nuclear delivery vehicles.
> > That disparity is widening dramatically with the Clinton
> > administration's unilateral disarmament while at the same time
> > encouraging the Russians to proceed not only with the deployment of
> > 500 new Topol-M missiles (which are mobile-launched and therefore
> > difficult to target), but to put three MIRVed warheads on each
> > missile instead of the treaty limit of one warhead -- for a total
> > deployment of 1,500 warheads.
> >
> > Not counting the presumed minimum 4,000 to 6,000 warheads in the
> > current Russian inventory, these 1,500 new warheads would overwhelm a
> > measly 200-interceptor ABM system in North Dakota -- which the
> > Clinton administration is insisting should NOT be deployed before
> > 2005. I wonder why?
> >
> > With our 50 Peacekeeper ICBMs scheduled to be decommissioned in 2003,
> > that gives the Russians or Chinese a wide-open window for attack,
> > should they choose to exercise their first-strike,
> > nuclear-decapitation option.
> >
> > So much for the "new realism" of the Clinton disarmament team and
> > their assertion that Russia poses no threat. Judging strictly by
> > public data from establishment sources (which is always understated
> > due to Moscow's heavy shroud of secrecy) the Russian threat is much
> > greater than it ever was, both in quantity and quality of strategic
> > nuclear forces. This is thanks, in part, to ongoing technology
> > transfers by IBM and other defense contractors with the knowing
> > participation and encouragement of this administration.
> >
> > Now let's take a close look at this presumed "increased deterrence"
> > the Clinton Department of Defense is promising. The administration
> > claims its brand of deterrence is still based on the "mutual assured
> > destruction" (MAD) concept -- a truly appropriate acronym.
> >
> > This is the presumption that, since both sides have an overwhelming
> > capability to destroy each other, that no sane leadership would
> > engage in nuclear war. Let's examine this closely. MAD could only
> > stand as a viable assumption if:
> >
> > Both sides had sufficient weapons and delivery vehicles to inflict
> > total devastation.
> >
> > Neither side had an effective anti-ballistic-missile system.
> >
> > Neither side had electronic jamming capability on its incoming ICBMs.
> >
> > Neither side had hardened shelters protecting its population and
> > leadership.  These assumptions clearly do not exist today:
> >
> > First, we barely have enough nuclear warheads to take out the Russian
> > arsenal as presently constituted if we used them all at once (which
> > no sane military commander could afford to do, leaving him with no
> > reserves).  Russia, on the other hand, has enough to devastate our
> > entire strategic forces and still retain 60 percent of her weapons in
> > reserve, for a prolonged conflict.
> >
> > Second, we have no ABM system to protect against ICBMs at all. Our
> > dumbed-down and slowed-down Patriots are theater weapons (built to
> > conform to the flawed ABM Treaty) and can barely catch slow,
> > low-flying Scud missiles, let alone ICBMs that coming screaming in
> > from space at 6 to 12 kilometers per second. The Russians have (in
> > violation of the same ABM Treaty) a nationwide system of ABMs tied to
> > phased-array radars and satellite guidance systems.
> >
> > Third, we have no electronic jamming on our missiles to help them
> > penetrate the Russian ABM system, and the Russians claim their newest
> > Topol-M missiles do have such a capability. Whether or not this claim
> > is a bluff is immaterial. The fact is, they are building new,
> > high-tech missiles and our technology is 10 years old and stagnant.
> > We are not developing or building anything new. This aspect can only
> > worsen as time goes on.
> >
> > Fourth, our civilian population is totally unprotected, while a large
> > portion of the Russian cities have public fallout shelter facilities.
> > New bunkers are being constructed for the Russian leadership despite
> > the economic hardships the people suffer. This should tell us
> > something about Russian leadership intentions.
> >
> > Is this Mutually Assured Destruction? Hardly. It equates to United
> > States Assured Destruction! In every category of deterrence, we are
> > disarming and stagnant, and the Russians are building and deploying.
> > There is, in fact, only one type of deterrence that is capable of
> > somewhat balancing the scales: the nuclear response doctrine of
> > Launch on Warning.
> >
> > Launch on Warning takes advantage of the fact that long-range
> > ballistic missiles take time to arrive on target -- up to 25 minutes,
> > depending on where the missiles are fired from. If the Russians were
> > to launch a first strike, our satellites would detect and confirm
> > that launch within seconds.  In a Launch on Warning doctrine, our
> > missiles (if on alert status) could be launched before the Russian or
> > Chinese missiles hit our silos. There is also time to retarget our
> > missiles so that they are not wasted on Russian silos that are now
> > empty.
> >
> > Thus, one of the great advantages for a Launch on Warning doctrine is
> > that it allows the nation that launches second to have an advantage
> > over the nation that launches first. The one to launch first wastes a
> > certain number of its missiles on our silos that are now empty. By
> > contrast, our missiles (utilizing real-time targeting data from
> > satellites) strike targets that are still viable.
> >
> > Now that is deterrence -- a deterrence that we presently do not have
> > due to PDD-60.
> >
> > Clinton national security aide Robert Bell proudly proclaimed to a
> > group of disarmament advocates, "In this PDD, we direct our military
> > forces to continue to posture themselves in such a way as to not rely
> > on Launch on Warning -- to be able to absorb a nuclear strike and
> > still have enough force surviving to constitute credible deterrence."
> >
> > This is patently preposterous. Respond with what?
> >
> > We have no mobile missiles to avoid being targeted. We have already
> > unilaterally agreed to keep over half of our ballistic missile
> > submarines in port at any one time, so they can easily be targeted.
> > After all, we don't want our Russian "allies" to feel insecure!
> >
> > All of our Navy and Air Force strategic forces are incapable of
> > withstanding a nuclear strike. Even the remaining Trident subs on
> > patrol would be unable to respond when communication links and
> > satellites are downed in a first strike.
> >
> > PDD-60 removes all alternate submarine launch codes so that our subs
> > cannot fire without direct communication with the president. Those
> > vital communications links will assuredly not survive a massive first
> > strike.  When you tell the Russians we are going to absorb a first
> > strike, you induce them to make sure they hit us with everything
> > necessary to make sure we cannot respond.
> >
> > This is not deterrence. This is suicide.
> >
> > Joel M. Skousen is a political scientist by training and former
> > chairman of the Conservative National Committee. He is a specialist
> > in security matters and consults nationwide on "Strategic Relocation"
> > -- the title of his latest book.
> >
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    Excellent commentary Bob, Helen Caldicott PS get it published in the
same paper where he was published - demand equal time, it works!


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Nuclear War-Related Links
Date: 04 Apr 1999 18:52:04 -0700


-----Original Message-----


>Below are some good links related to nuclear war, Y2K and nuclear
>issues, and non-intervention.  Remember even in the most peaceful
>of times we are 1/2 hour from nuclear destruction--not to mention
>when we are busy bombing two Russian allies, as we are now!!
>
>Nuclear Information Resource Center http://www.nirs.org/
>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation http://www.napf.org/
>The Bug in the Bomb http://www.basicint.org/y2krept.htm
>Union of Concerned Scientists  http://www.ucsusa.org/about/index.html
>Physicians for Social Responsibility http://www.psr.org/
>Nuclear Control Institute  http://www.nci.org/home.htm
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service http://nuke.handheld.com/
>Big List of Nuclear Related Links
>http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/News/Bigbig.html
>Proposition One Committee's Bigger List of Nuclear Related Links
>       http://prop1.org/prop1/azantink.htm
>Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Atomic Clock
>http://www.bullatomsci.org/clock.html
>Daily Y2K articles, including nuclear related, at:
>http://www.year2000.com/y2karticles
>
>Photos of nuke war http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/peace1e.html
>Nuclear War Related Movies--The War Game, Testament, Miracle Mile,
>Threads,
>The Day After and By Dawn's Early Light--and other good links can be
>found from:
>http://www.ibp-intl.demon.co.uk/nuccult.htm
>
>NonIntervention Pages
>Committee Against U.S. Intervention http://www.antiwar.com
>International Action Center  http://www.iacenter.org/
>NonViolence Web  http://www.nonviolence.org
>DC Demos Photos site http://www.sinkers.org
>
>from Carol Moore
>http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/C&C-news.html
>


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From: Peter Weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) LCNP's Events Schedule
Date: 04 Apr 1999 23:26:16 -0400

Dear Jerrold: Glad to see some contact numbers for the Hague Appeal, but
please let's get them right:

    Hague Appeal for Peace c/o WFM (no need to spell out), 777 UN Plaza,
New York, NY 10017
    phone [phone]
    fax   [phone]
    e-mail [e-mail]
    http://www.haguepeace.org

                    Thanks, Peter

[e-mail] wrote:
>=20
> Schedule of Upcoming Events as of April 2, 1999
>=20
> April 3
> *East Timor Action Network New York
>   "East Timor: Prospects for Peace and Freedom"
>   Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos-Horta on the future of
> Indonesia-Occupied East Timor
>   With Amy Goodman of WBAI and Pacifica Radio
>   777 UN Plaza--  1:00 PM
>   $5.00 Donation Requested
>=20
> April 5
> *Abolition 2000 NY Metro
>   "Voices from Kosovo and Belgrade: E-mails and letters from the war."
>   Celebrity guests include Erica Jong, Tim Robbins, and Rosie Perez
>   Helen Hayes Theater, 240 W. 44th St., 7:00 PM
>   $10.00 Donation at the door
>   Contact: MADRE, 212-627-0444
>=20
> April 7
> *Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS)
>  "The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World: Preventing th=
e
>    Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction"
>   General Charles Horner (USAF-Ret.)
>   Case Western Reserve University School of Law
>   Full registration, including meals and reception, $50.00
>   For more information call Damien LaVera at [phone]
>   or Christine Lucas at [phone]
>=20
> April 7-10
> * International Conference on Nonviolence
>   Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
>   For more information, contact Ms. Arlie Holliday, Conference Coordina=
tor
>   92 Piedmont Avenue, Suite C, Atlanta, GA 30303
>   Ph.: 404 221 1480 / Fax: [phone] / E-mail: [e-mail]
>=20
> April 8, 1999
> *DPI/NGO Briefing: Issues before the commission on Sustainable Developm=
ent
>   Speakers include: JoAnne DiSano ad Navid Hanif
>   10:30 AM Dag Hammarskjold Library
>=20
> April 15, 1999
> *DPI/NGO Briefing: Emerging Disarmament Issues
>   Speakers Include: Saul Mendlovitz, Randall Forsberg, and Jonathan Dea=
n
>  10:30 AM Dag Hammarskjold Library
>=20
> April 16-May 27
> *American Indian Community House
>   Exhibit: "Unmentionables"
>   Opening reception: Friday, April 16, 6:00-8:00 PM
>   708 Brodway, New York, NY 10003
>   Contact: 212-598-0100
>=20
> April 22-23
> *8th International Conference of the World Information Transfer (WIT)
>   Health and Environment: Global Partners for Global Solutions--
> Environmental Challenges to Health
>   Through Key Stages of Life
>   Starts 10:00 AM in the Dag Hammarskjold Library, co-sponsored by DPI
>=20
> April 22-26
> * Global Peace Walk
>   Walk from Taos to Santa Fe, New Mexico
>   Global Emergency Alert Response
>   Contact: David Crockett Williams-- 661-822-3309
>=20
> April 23
> *Demostration in Washington against NATO
>   Call to eliminate nuclear weapons and to adopt a no-first-use policy
>   Meet at 11:00 at 14th St. and Constitution Avenue on SW corner of the=
 Mall
>   Free bus ride from NY to DC.
>   Contact Felicity Hill ASAP to make reservations--682-1265
>=20
> April 23-25
> * 50th anniversary summit of the NATO in Washington D.C.
>   NPT PrepCom meeting will take place in New York (before or after the =
summit)
>   The Fourth Freedom Forum will organize a two-day event in Washington =
D.C.
> before the summit
>   Contact Alistair Millar (program director, Fourth Freedom Forum) for =
more
> information:
>   733 15th St, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005  ph.: 202 393 5201, =
fax:
> 202 39305202
>=20
> April 29, 1999
> *Third UN Conference on Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
>   (UNISPACE III)
>   Speakers to be confirmed
>=20
> May 7-10
> * Honoring the Mother: Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering
>   'Healing Global Wounds' is an alliance of organizations working to br=
eak
> the nuclear chain
>    At Nevada Test Site (the camp is located on Western Shoshone land at=
 the
> gates of the Test Site)
>    Each day will begin with a Sunrise Ceremony led by Western Shoshone
> Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney
>    Contact: Healing Global Wounds, P.O. Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389
>    Ph.: 760 852 4175 /  Fax: [phone] / e-mail: [e-mail]
>=20
> May 11-15
> * The Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century
>   Contact: The Hague Appeal for Peace c/o
>   World Federalist Movement, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017
>   Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
>=20
> May 13-14
> *Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction: Why Not Nuclear Abolition?
>   General Lee Butler, Admiral Stansfield Turner, and Stephen Schwartz
>  Physicians for Social Responsibility, Pittsburgh
>  $65 Registration fee before April 15, $75 thereafter.
>  Contact:  Kathy McCauley at 412-486-9065
>=20
> June 18-20
> * Nuclear Policy and Security on the eve of the 21st century: St. Peter=
sburg
> Conference
>   Co-hosted by St. Petersburg Peace Council, RPPNW, IPPNW,  SLMK etc.
>   Themes to be covered: International Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weap=
ons,
> European Security,
>   Russian nuclear policy, and Security in the Baltic Region, among othe=
r
> things=85
>   Contact: Xanthe Hall, IPPNW Germany
>   Ph.: [phone] / e-mail: [e-mail]
>=20
> August 3-9
> *World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
>   Annual conference geared towards the total abolition of nuclear weapo=
ns
>   Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
>   Contact: Organizing Committee, 6-19-23 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 10=
5-0004
>   Japan. Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone], e-mail:
> [e-mail]
>=20
> August 6-8, 1999
> *Beyond the Bomb: A New Agenda for Peace and Justice
>    Albequerque, N.M.
>    Contact: Bruce Hall, Peace [e-mail]
>=20
> October 10-16
> * The 1999 International Conference of NGOs-- The Role of NGOs in the 2=
1st
> Century
>    Seoul, Korea
>=20
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From: "Chris Davenport" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: US Test EMP Weapon in Yugoslavia?
Date: 04 Apr 1999 23:35:53 -0400

I have received almost a dozen emails surrounding this report.
Is it not possible that this weapon is related to recent tests
(of sub-critical weapons) in the Nevada desert?

Chris Davenport,
ACT for Disarmament.

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>>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:37:27 -0500
>>Subject: US Test EMP Weapon in Yugoslavia?
>>Priority: non-urgent
>>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>>To: [e-mail]
>>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
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>>Dear Abolitionists,
>>
>>During an interview yesterday on Vancouver's CKNW Radio with Stirling
Faux,
>>I was told that they had seen a report from the Russians that a B2 stealth
>>bomber had dropped an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon in Yugoslavia.
>>Made by Los Alamos Laboratories, it apparently produces a similar effect
to
>>a large nuclear weapon in disrupting electronics and communications in
>>order to weaken the enemy's ability to retaliate for some time, but
without
>>the destructive power and radioactive fallout. However, I haven't seen any
>>further report of this.
>>
>>If true, then we are witnessing another field trial for new US weapons.
>>Also, it means that, sensibly, the Russians have a sophisticated
>>intelligence-gathering capability in Yugoslavia, to get first-hand
>>information on how NATO is performing. I saw a report that the first
people
>>to inspect the downed F117 Stealth fighter-bomber were a Russian "trade
>>mission"...
>>
>>Best wishes,
>>Rob Green
>>Chair, World Court Project UK
>>
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>>
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>>                   Chair, World Court Project UK
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Short and Urgent / Kosovo & black arm bands
Date: 05 Apr 1999 01:24:43 EDT


  Friends,

  This comes off the Mennonite list. It strikes me as a powerful and simple
idea - the wearing of black armbands. No slogans, no symbols. We don't even
all have to agree on a single analysis. I assume most of us would wear them
because we are horrified both at the bombing of Yugoslavia, and the expulsion
from Kosova of the Albanians. It is a way of saying "NO" both to NATO and to
Milosevic. It might take off on campuses particularly - therefore IF this
idea appeals to you, consider forwarding it to friends and coworkers.

  Peace,
  David McReynolds

  << Subj:     Re: Kosovo & black arm bands
   Date:    4/2/99 11:53:56 PM Eastern Standard Time
   From:    [e-mail] (Art Pierson, Denver CO)
   Sender:    [e-mail]
   Reply-to:    [e-mail] (Art Pierson, Denver CO),
[e-mail]
   To:    [e-mail]

   Your idea is appealing to me.  Many people in my world are already
concerned
   about the US government's approach in the Balkans.  I'm going to try
wearing
   a black armband.  I'll try to base my responses to questions on Romans
   12:21:

      "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

   Sincerely,
   Art Pierson
   Denver, Colorado
   USA




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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Bombings fuel Cold War sentiments
Date: 05 Apr 1999 00:12:09 -0700

Dear friends,   This article can be found at
http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm
This site is an excellent source for international news stories and
perspectives on the war in Yugoslavia.  I highly recommend it. -- Jackie
Cabasso
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                  Attacks Stir Cold War Feelings in Russia
                  Balkans Conflict Compounds Heightened Suspicions of U.S.,
West

                  By David Hoffman
                  Washington Post Foreign Service
                  Sunday, April 4, 1999; Page A01=20

                  MOSCOW, April 3=97Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov was asked=
 in the
                  lower house of parliament last weekend whether Russia=
 should
send a few
                  warships to the Mediterranean as a show of force against=
 the
NATO
                  bombardment of Yugoslavia.

                  Ivanov quickly rejected the idea. "Just sending ships from
Murmansk to
                  Greece is not going to stop the aggression," he said.

                  But four days later, Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev=
 announced
that Russia
                  was sending a reconnaissance ship to the Mediterranean,=
 and
was
                  preparing to send as many as six more. "We must ensure the
security of
                  Russia," he insisted.

                  The abrupt turnabout speaks volumes about the whirlwind of
antiWestern
                  feeling that the NATO attack on Yugoslavia has stirred=
 here.
For Russia,
                  the airstrikes have been a moment of truth, revealing a=
 vein
of unease and
                  suspicion about the West  especially the United States =
 that
analysts
                  say is stronger than at any time since the collapse of the
Soviet Union.

                  The doubts are the results of various factors and=
 perceived
betrayals=20
                  from pledges that an expanded NATO would be purely=
 defensive
to the
                  U.S. decision to move ahead on an antiballistic missile
system to Russia's
                  economic meltdown last August, which discredited Western
economic
                  ideas here.

                  "It's a fullblown crisis, the first real crisis since the=
 end
of the Cold War" in
                  RussianU.S. relations, said Sergei Rogov, director of the
Institute for the
                  Study of the U.S. and Canada here. "It covers economic
relations, foreign
                  credits, debts, sanctions, arms control, START II, the ABM
treaty and, I
                  am afraid, a few others.

                  "It's a bad crisis which could have very longterm
implications for
                  RussianAmerican relations, producing something between
disengagement,
                  'cold peace' and maybe even something more serious."

                  In recent days, President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister
Yevgeny
                  Primakov have been buffeted by the antiAmerican sentiment.
They have
                  responded with selective withdrawal from military=
 agreements
while
                  holding back from far more serious measures demanded by
nationalists
                  and Communists in parliament.

                  The rhetoric has been whitehot, with Russians accusing the
United States
                  and NATO of "genocide" in Yugoslavia, of supporting Kosovo
Albanian
                  separatists with "narco money," of seeking world diktat=
 and
of using the
                  Balkans as a proving ground for new, hightechnology=
 weapons.

                  In its actions, however, Russia has been more restrained.
Russia canceled
                  meetings with Western military experts, ousted NATO=
 military
attaches,
                  rejected plans for sharing early warning missile launch=
 data
with the United
                  States, and shelved, once again, parliamentary=
 ratification
of the strategic
                  arms treaty. The first ship that Russia is sending to the
battle zone is the
                  Liman, a 27yearold, 60man electronic spying vessel from=
 the
Black Sea
                  Fleet that carries eavesdropping gear but no rockets.

                  Russia so far has not announced plans to break the United
Nations arms
                  embargo and ship weapons to Yugoslavia, and there has not
been a major
                  disruption of U.S.Russian cooperation on nuclear and=
 chemical
arms
                  dismantlement. However, Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, head of=
 the
military's
                  international department, told reporters today that the
Russian Defense
                  Ministry has severed all contacts for the next few months
with countries in
                  the "criminal organization" of NATO.

                  And some analysts worry that sentiments are so strong that
antiWestern
                  reactions could spin out of control.

                  "I'm afraid that now it is serious; we see some sort of
consensus in society
                  which we haven't seen since 1991," said Alexander Pikayev,=
 a
                  nonproliferation specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for
International
                  Peace Center here. "Then, it was a broad anticommunist
consensus.
                  Now, unfortunately, we face a strong antiNATO consensus,
which could
                  have a very dramatic impact on the overall U.S.Russian
relationship.

                  "In August, we saw the collapse of Yeltsin's marketreform
policy and in
                  March, we saw the collapse of Yeltsin's foreign and=
 security
policy."

                  Analysts have predicted that economic hardship and
humiliation could
                  trigger a retreat from market democracy here. But until
recently, the
                  economic woes of postSoviet Russia seemed to have created=
 a
benign
                  isolationism. Russians were too preoccupied with survival=
 to
be outraged
                  about their weakening influence abroad.

                  But the Yugoslav crisis is changing that. "What you have
today is, the
                  antiAmerican sentiment is enormous," said Rogov, of the
U.S.Canada
                  institute. "This is very bad. It is something that can be
used against
                  economic reform, especially since the people who are=
 blamed
for the
                  economic collapse are also the people who are friends of=
 the
United States
                  . . . It was coming to the surface before. Now, it is a=
 sea
change.

                  "There is something personal in the attitude of Russian
leaders," he added,
                  recalling earlier claims of a friendship between President
Clinton and
                  Yeltsin. "The president feels that his friend Bill is not
such a friend at all,
                  who simply does not pay attention. 'What friend?' Boris is
saying."

                  [In Washington Friday, Clinton said he believes the=
 Russians
"are looking
                  for ways to continue to oppose what NATO is doing, but to
leave open
                  the prospect that they could play a very constructive role=
 in
making peace.
                  I don't think anyone wants to see this conflict escalate,=
 and
I certainly don't
                  believe the Russian government does."]

                  In a nationwide survey last week, the Public Opinion
Foundation, one of
                  Russia's leading polling organizations, found overwhelming
opposition to
                  the NATO attacks. The group reported that 92 percent of=
 those
surveyed
                  were against the NATO bombing and only 2 percent supported
it. The poll
                  found an unusually high level of awareness about the NATO
strikes; fewer
                  than once percent said they knew nothing about it.

                  Andrei Kortunov, a political analyst, said that Russia has
lost confidence in
                  the West in the wake of the ruble's devaluation and debt
crisis last August.

                  "One of the problems today is that we had a narrow but=
 vocal
stratum
                  which favored better relations with the West," he said.=
 "It
is nearly
                  nonexistent right now. The middle class was a major social
base for better
                  relations with the West, and it is now disintegrating.=
 There
is very little to
                  replace this. . . ."

                  There are still some checks and balances. One is Russia's
continuing
                  dependence on Western financial aid, underscored by the
ongoing
                  negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for new
loans. But this
                  dependence is increasingly unpopular. According to the=
 Public
Opinion
                  Foundation poll, when asked last year whether the IMF=
 brings
benefit or
                  harm to Russia, 17 percent said benefit and 19 percent=
 said
harm and 46
                  didn't know. But today there is a major shift: 14 percent=
 say
benefit, 43
                  percent say harm, and 28 percent know nothing.

                  However, one small contrary sign appeared in a callin=
 survey
by Echo of
                  Moscow, a popular radio station. When listeners were asked=
 if
they were
                  prepared to give up using American dollars to protest the
airstrikes, the
                  answer was unequivocal: 77 percent said no, and 23 percent
said yes.=20

                           =A9 Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company




=20







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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Bombings fuel Cold War sentiments
Date: 05 Apr 1999 04:02:09 EDT

Jackie, (and others getting her post),
Thank God for helping provide these alternative sources of information. I do
not think that either London or Washington realize we are about to "create
our own Afghanistan" and instead of looking for a way out, searching for ways
to step back, reaching out to the Russians (and perhaps the Eastern Orthodox
church) to help mediate, Clinton is "bombing his way" more deeply into a
quaqmire. The "talking heads", the "old grey men" who will not be doing any
fighting, are now hot for arming the KLA (which would, given the chance, do
the Serbs in Kosava, just what the Serb troops have done to the Albanians)
and for sending in ground troops. We have no idea what we are doing. These
people will fight and die against our forces. They Yugos - any part of them -
are not Czechs, French, Italians, or English.

Thanks again.
David McReynolds

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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) fwd:  North Korea on NATO bombing of Serbia  (WWIII brewing)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 09:18:20 -0400

I have never heard or read of a single scholar who believes that the
original text of Matthew 24:6 should be translated "ethnic cleansing."
Did you look at the Greek text before coming up with this translation?

Shalom,
Bob Tiller





David Crockett Williams wrote:
>
> North Korea's reaction to NATO's bombing of Serbia should not be
> surprising to observers of current global hotspots. According to DPRK
> officials, the bombing campaign has convinced Pyongyang that it is
> dealing with "a new Hitler" and that North Korean officials believe that
> the Unted States would attack the DPRK like a "vulture" given the
> slightest opportunity. Therefore, North Korea will speed up its missile
> development and related military programs to deter U.S. "aggression."
> The DPRK justifies this as a "matter of survival." More details in the
> following Special Report by The Northeast Asia Peace And Security
> Network. (http://www.nautilus.org/napsnet/latest.html)
>
> With the continuing air campaign in Iraq and  U.S. Armed Forces spread
> throughout the globe such as Somolia, Germany, Japan, Haiti, South
> Korea, and other places - the U.S. Military is spread dangerously thin.
> Given the hollowing out of the U.S. Armed Forces over the last six
> years, the U.S. Military involvement in Yugoslavia puts a further strain
> on U.S. Military service personnel and resources.
>
> Our adversaries in North Korea, China, Russia and elsewhere are taking
> notes!
>
> NOTE: The "Ethnic Cleansing" taking place in Kosovo is of particular
> interest. The "wars and rumors of wars," which Jesus referred to in
> Matthew 24:6 as a sign of His coming, is translated by many as "Ethnic
> Cleansing."
>
> Rick Woodcock
> KIN Intelligence Director
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
>
> NORTHEAST ASIA PEACE AND SECURITY NETWORK: SPECIAL REPORT
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
>
> The following "DPRK Report" is the product of a joint project between
> the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute
> of
> International Studies (Monterey, California, USA) and the Center for
> Contemporary International Problems (ICIP) (Moscow, Russia).  It is
> written by Russian analysts associated with the ICIP and edited by the
> CNS.
> ------------------------------------------
> THE DPRK REPORT, No. 17 (March-April 1999)
>
> 1.  North Korea's Reaction to the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
>
> NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia has apparently had a very deep impact on
> the thinking of North Korean authorities. DPRK representatives say
> privately
> that their government now "has discarded all illusions about
> Washington's intentions." According to these officials, the bombing has
> "completely
> and irreversibly" convinced Pyongyang that it is dealing with "a new
> Hitler" who is "determined to conquer the entire world through
> intimidation, pressure, and aggression." Pyongyang reportedly now has no
> doubts that, given the slightest opportunity, the United States will
> attack the DPRK like a "vulture."
>
> To deter this aggression, North Korea, while continuing to talk and
> bargain with Washington, will reportedly speed up its missile
> development and related military programs. "It is a matter of our
> national survival," said one high-ranking North Korean official, "and
> the United States is mistaken if it thinks that it can check the DPRK's
> missile development through cooperation with other countries or by any
> other tricks." North Korean officials hint that their country intends to
> acquire such a significant deterrent force that Washington "will not
> dare even to think about attacking the DPRK."
>
> North Koreans believe that Washington, if confronted with stiff
> resistance by the Serbs and worldwide condemnation of "NATO aggression"
> against Yugoslavia, may become temporarily more flexible in other parts
> of the world, including Korea.  In their view, the situation around
> Yugoslavia presumably broadens opportunities at this juncture to woo
> theUnited States into agreements favorable to the DPRK. The North hopes
> to use this advantage to develop formal diplomatic relations with the
> United States, remove U.S. economic sanctions, and join international
> financial institutions like the World Bank and the Asian Development
> Bank.
>
> The situation will be even better, North Korean representatives add, if
> the United States gets tied up in Yugoslavia for a long time.  As one
> official notes: "Then, Washington will really have to act from the
> position of weakness. The myth of American invincibility will be
> destroyed. The prestige and influence of the United States in the world
> arena will vanish, and the Clinton administration will be seriously
> damaged at home."
>
> 2. The Status of North Korean Military Maintenance and Readiness
>
> According to various Russian assessments, North Korean conventional
> forces are suffering from a shortage of fuel, spare parts, ammunition,
> and repair facilities. Though quantitatively the armed forces are
> impressive, the qualitative side is rather backward. To overcome the
> widening gap compared to the armed forces of the Republic of Korea and
> the U.S. troops stationed there, Pyongyang is now trying to upgrade the
> technical level of its air force and army. Local research anddevelopment
> is being augmented by imports of high-tech weaponry from abroad, which
> is being acquired through the export of North Korean missiles.  A
> particular emphasis is being made to develop the country's missile
> potential as the main deterrent against external threats. It cannot be
> also excluded that non-conventional arms are being made as well.
>
> While the technical component of the DPRK's military might leave much to
> be desired, the human component should not be underestimated.  Experts
> believe that the fighting spirit and physical condition of the officers
> and soldiers remain very high. There is no lack of food for the DPRK's
> armed forces, so this factor should not be construed as one weakening
> the military's readiness.  While they may not be well trained in dealing
> with
> sophisticated weaponry, North Korean troops may prove superior to their
> opponents in any prolonged conflict.
>
> Subject:  DPRK Report #17
>
> Date:  Fri, 02 Apr 1999 15:34:18 -0800
>
> From:  [e-mail] (NAPSNet)
>
> --END--
>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Radioactive weapons used by U.S./NATO in Kosovo
Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:43:53 -0400

>Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 00:38:53 -0500
>Subject: Radioactive weapons used by U.S./NATO in Kosovo
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>International Action Center
>39 West 14th Street, #206, New York, NY 10011
>212-633-6646  fax: [phone]
>web site:  http://www.iacenter.org
>email: [e-mail]
>
>Attention: Assignment Editor                Press Contact: Sara Flounders or
>For Immediate Release                                John Catalinotto,
212-633-6646
>April 1, 1999
>
>Radioactive weapons used by U.S. and NATO in Kosovo
>
>The International Action Center, a group that opposes the use of
>depleted-uranium weapons, called the Pentagon's decision to use the
>A-10 "Warthog" jets against targets in Kosovo "a danger to the people
>and environment of the entire Balkans."
>
>The A-10s were the anti-tank weapon of choice in the 1991 war against
>Iraq. It carries a GAU-8/A Avenger 30 millimeter seven-barrel cannon
>capable of firing 4,200 rounds per minute.  During that war it fired
>30 mm rounds reinforced with depleted uranium, a radioactive weapon.
>
>There is solid scientific evidence that the depleted uranium residue
>left in Iraq is responsible for a large increase in stillbirths,
>children born with defects, and childhood leukemia and other cancers
>in the area of southern Iraq near Basra, where most of these shells
>were fired.  Many U.S. veterans groups also say that DU residues
>contributed to the condition called "Gulf War Syndrome" that has
>affected close to 100,000 service people in the U.S. and Britain with
>chronic sickness.
>
>John Catalinotto, a spokesperson from the Depleted Uranium Education
>Project of the International Action Center and an editor of the 1997
>book Metal of Dishonor:  Depleted Uranium, said the use of DU weapons
>in Yugoslavia "adds a new dimension to the crime NATO is perpetrating
>against the Yugoslav people--including those in Kosovo."
>
>Catalinotto explained that the Pentagon uses DU, a waste product of
>the uranium enrichment process used for making atomic bombs and
>nuclear fuel, because it is extremely dense--1.7 times as dense as
>lead. "DU is used in alloy form in shells to make them penetrate
>targets better.  As the shell hits its target, it burns and releases
>uranium oxide into the air. The poisonous and radioactive uranium is
>most dangerous when inhaled into the body, where it will release
>radiation during the life of the person who inhaled it," said
>Catalinotto.
>
>Sara Flounders, a contributing author of Metal of Dishonor:  Depleted
>Uranium and the Co-Director of the International Action Center, said,
>"Warthogs fired roughly 940,000 rounds of DU shells during the Gulf
>War.  More than 600,000 pounds of radioactive waste was left in the
>Gulf Region after the war.  And DU weapons in smaller number were
>already used by NATO troops during the bombing of Serbian areas of
>Bosnia in 1995.
>
>"The use of Warthogs with DU shells threatens to make a nuclear
>wasteland of Kosovo," Flounders said. " The pentagon is laying waste
>to the very people_along with their children--they claim to be saving;
>this is another reason for fighting to end NATO's attack on
>Yugoslavia.
>
>"Worldwide protests against these bombings are growing.  The U.S. use
>of radioactive weapons must be linked to all the protests and
>opposition that is taking place internationally to the bombing.  These
>protests must be joined by environmental activists, veterans groups,
>anti-nuclear groups, and all those who know the long-term destruction
>to the environment and to whole civilian populations that this type of
>warfare will cause."
>
>Flounders said that Metal of Dishonor:  Depleted Uranium, which has
>been translated and published in Arabic and Japanese, will be coming
>out soon with a second edition.
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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fax:  [phone]
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Depleted Uranium
Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:45:31 -0400


>
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 10:10:28 -0500
> Subject: Depleted Uranium
> To: [e-mail]
> From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
> Depleted (DU) uranium is one of the largest categories of radioactive
> waste produced for the nuclear weapons and nuclear reactor industry. It is
> highly toxic to humans, both chemically as a heavy metal and radiologically
> as an alpha particle emitter which is very dangerous when taken internally.
> Recently it has been substitute for lead in bullets and missiles by the US
> and UK, and was first used extensively by the West in the Gulf War. It is
> most likely a major contributor to the Gulf War Syndrome experienced both
> by the veterans and the people of Iraq.
>
> When used in war, the DU bursts into flame from the impact when it hits a
> target. It can pierce tanks and armoured cars, releasing inside of them a
> deadly radioactive aerosol of uranium, unlike anything seen before.
> Concentrated like this, it can kill everyone in a tank. This ceramic
> aerosol is much lighter than uranium dust. It can disperse in air tens of
> kilometres from the point of release, or be stirred up in dust and
> resuspended in air with wind or human movement. It is very small and can
> be breathed in by anyone: a baby, pregnant woman, the elderly, the sick.
> This radioactive ceramic can stay deep in the lungs for years, irradiating
> the tissue with powerful alpha particles within about a 30 micron sphere,
> causing emphysema and/or fibrosis. The ceramic can also be swallowed and
> do damage to the gastro-intestinal tract. In time, it penetrates the lung
> tissue and enters into the blood stream. It can be stored in liver,
> kidney, bone or other tissues, again for years, irradiating all of the
> delicate tissues located near its storage place. It can effect the blood,
> which is the basis of our immune system, and do damage to the renal system
> as it is eventually excreted in the urine. It can also initiate cancer or
> promote cancers which have been initiated by other carcinogens.
>
> In October 1998 the WHO undertook a two year study of the increasing cancer
> rates, especially leukemia in young children, which have been note in
> southern Iraq where most of the war took place.The WHO report is not yet
> out, but newer data from Iraq tells the story of even more dramatic
> increases in cancer rates, especially among the Iraqi
> veterans who participated in the war. In the West, thousands of veterans
> are recognized as seriously ill with an unknown syndrome, and we have been
> able to document DU in their urine as late as 7 or 8 years after the war.
> There is no natural source of DU to explain this phenomena!
>
> It is imperitive that we all denouce this radiation and toxic chemical
> warfare! It has been used by the US and Britain against Iraq and in
> Bosnia. It is now being used in Kosovo (NATO announcement in Europe, 30
> March 1999). It has been condemed by the United Nations Human Rights
> Tribunal (August 1996 Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights,
> Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
> Minorities). The Human Rights Commission has requested that the Secretary
> General prepare a written report on DU and certain other weapons of mass
> destruction (Resolution 1997/36, which also established a UN Rapporteur to
> take over the study of DU and other weapons of mass destruction on behalf
> of the UN). The damage being done will not only cause incredible and
> unending suffering to today's victims, but the genetic damage it may cause
> can be passed on to their offspring. Such weapons and war itself need to
> be condemned as utter barbarianism!
>
> This is certainly not to be interpreted as condoning so called ethnic
> cleasing or any of the nationalistic actions of the Yugoslave government.
> However, as one of the Professors at the University of Toronto said, "I can
> offer a different and more effective policy, but I would not start from
> here". This Kosovo action is resulting from deep seated conflicting ideas
> of "World Order" - that proposed by NATO's vision of itself as a world
> police force, and that of the OSCE (Organization for Security and
> Cooperation in Europe) which sees security rising out of honest cooperation
> and legal resolution of conflicting opinions.>>>
>
>
> Rosalie Bertell, Ph. D., GNSH
> President, ACS (1998-2000)
> President IICPH (1984+)
> 710-264 Queens Quay West
> Toronto ON M5J 1B5 CANADA
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
> Email: [e-mail]
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> eGroups Spotlight:
> "Kosovo-Reports" - Direct reports from Kosovo/Serbia/Yugoslavia.
> http://offers.egroups.com/click/252/0
>
> eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/du-list
> Free Web-based e-mail groups by eGroups.com
>
>



Alice Slater
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New York, NY 10010
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Why, is there a CIA war in Kosovo?
Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:24:45 -0700

[Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?]

Is there a CIA war in Kosovo?
By Gary Wilson

News reports here about the Yugoslav province of Kosovo have presented
greatly exaggerated tales. The stories have been "enhanced" by those
with an interest in either promoting a civil war or weakening the
Yugoslav government.

The Western big-business-controlled media all report the same thing.
They say Yugoslav government forces are engaged in "ethnic cleansing"
in Kosovo, forcing a flood of refugees from Kosovo to Albania.

The Yugoslav government says its military operations against armed
mercenaries entering over the Albanian border ended June 1. It also
says there has been no significant exodus from Kosovo to Albania.

So what is the truth of the situation? First, it should never be
forgotten that the big media like the New York Times and CNN have
close ties to the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon and
other U.S. government agencies.

These media giants usually serve as propaganda arms for U.S. foreign
policy. They can lie about events and frequently do.

Sometimes they admit much later that their original reports weren=92t
exactly true.

KLA is mercenary army

For example, most reports don=92t make it clear that the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army is a foreign mercenary army in the pay of the
Western imperialist powers.

The KLA did not exist until recently. It became active only in the
last few months.

The June 6 New York Times reported that KLA forces are entering Kosovo
through Albania. But they are not from Albania. According to the
report, most of them come from Germany- where they were born- and most
speak only German, not Albanian. The report claims that many of them,
but not all, have parents or grandparents who emigrated from Albania.

All the funds for the mercenary army come from abroad, primarily from
the United States, reported the May 26 Washington Post. The money is
funneled through Albanian immigrant groups. These are the sort of
anti-communist groups long promoted by the CIA.

Since March, the Post reported, the U.S. group has sent $4 million to
the KLA. These are the openly reported funds. There is more "cash
carried in suitcases" that hasn=92t been disclosed, the Post said.

The article said the U.S. State Department has encouraged the transfer
of funds to the KLA. It is all legal, State Department spokesperson
John Russell said, because the KLA has not been classified by the U.S.
government as "terrorist."

This is in contrast to every genuine national liberation movement in
the world. The U.S. government routinely labels them all as
terrorists. For example, groups like the Palestine Liberation
Organization have been labeled as terrorist. Anyone in the U.S.
sending funds to the PLO would risk arrest and prison.

The KLA has no known leaders, political platform, publications or
anything else to indicate that it is a liberation force.

In fact, the tactics used by the KLA are more akin to those used by
fascist terror squads. In its long report of May 26, the Washington
Post buried a paragraph describing how KLA mercenaries have targeted
Serbs. One out of every 10 people in Kosovo is Serbian.

The paragraph described KLA mercenaries stopping a train. They proceed
to search the train, and then abduct a man traveling with his family
because he is a Serb.

"About a dozen Serbs have been kidnapped in the past week. Two have
been found dead," the Post reports.

The mercenaries don=92t just kill Serbs. They also kill Albanians
considered to be friendly to Serbs.

As for the press reports of a mass exodus from Kosovo, none shows
pictures of masses of people. A photo of a family of eight walking
through a field, for example, accompanied the New York Times report.
The caption said "thousands of refugees are fleeing."

In the meantime, the United States is waging a two-pronged war against
Yugoslavia.

Since 1991, Washington has imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia. Sanctions
are like an army surrounding your house. They may not be firing
weapons at the house, but they are stopping all kinds of supplies and
food from entering. It is a policy of starvation once favored during
sieges by medieval armies.

These sanctions continue to this day. Now the United States is
proposing to stiffen them.

Will U.S. troops be next?

U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said in London June 7: "The sanctions
regime of the Contact Group led by the U.S. and Great Britain has been
very tight and is poised to tighten further if the situation
deteriorates, and NATO is already making contingency plans if
everything falls apart." (French News Agency, June 7)

The contingency plan Holbrooke referred to is the threat of military
occupation by U.S./NATO forces. U.S. Senate leader Trent Lott
supported a U.S. military operation in Kosovo on CNN=92s "Late Edition"
June 7.

According to news reports, the U.S. State Department recently
confirmed that U.S. policy has not changed since December 1992. That
is when President George Bush declared that the United States would
intervene militarily in Kosovo if it decided that it was "necessary."

The French News Agency reported on June 6 that the United States and
Britain have put into place everything needed to assert authority for
sending a military force into Kosovo.

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-----Original Message-----


> -Caveat Lector-
>
>4-4-1999, Mark wrote:
>>(snip)
>>> As for her point about the mines, it is indeed likely that these
>>> mines play a role in motivating the current holocaust -- on the
>>> Serbian side.  If, as she claims, the mines are worth $5 billion,
>>> that would certainly explain Milosevic' determination to hold on
>>> to them.  It would not explain the US interest in the Kosovo
>>> genocide, which is going to end up costing the United States
>>> a lot more than $5 billion ...
>
>
> Probably this should read '$5 trillion' - (not $5 billion) ...
>
> As posted recently here  ( Kosovo: 'The war is about the mines' )
> [following the same article by Sara Flounders] :
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> from:  http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36fd198d79a4.htm
>
> Topic: Kosovo
>
> There is another factor in this, something the rapacious
> World Bank, IMF and the UN are interested in -- the estimated
> $17 trillion in natural resources in Serbia/Kosovo.
>
> Kosovo has one of Europe's largest reserves of coal and lignite
> while Serbia alone has huge deposits of aluminum ore.  Albania has
> large reserves of crude oil, which was part of the reason why
> Marshal Tito, after WWII, wanted to absorb Albania into Yugoslavia.
>
> The other was that Tito feared an extreme Maoist Albania (which
> retained the USSR Stalinist policy until 1961) being a Red Chinese
> version of Cuba in Europe, one whose seacoast straddled the
> eastern part of the only seaborne way in and out of the Adriatic,
> the Strait of Otranto.
>
> Given the fact that Albania was not absorbed into Yugoslavia,
> Tito for years attempted to keep Tirane's Stalinist/Maoist maniacs
> happy by allowing ethnic Albanian migration into Kosovo beginning
> with some 400,000 being allowed in during 1945-48.  Pre-WWII Serb
> land deeds in Kosovo were cancelled and Albanians were given the
> Eastern European version of "affirmative action" in jobs, housing
> and the like.
>
> In the 1970s, the Albanians began their terror campaign against
> the Serbs, banning the Serb Cyrillic alphabet, banning the works of
> Serb authors and other artists and getting Serbs fired from their
> jobs.  Violence began to escalate in the early 1980s after Tito's
> death, and got so bad by 1988 (the worst being mass rape of Serb
> Orthodox nuns) troops had to be sent in.  This is where Milosevich
> rose to power, in successfully quelling the violence, at least for
> a brief time.
>
> In 1991, the news media insisted that "Albanians represented 1.2
> million in Kosovo."  In 1994 they said 1.4 million.  In 1996 they
> insisted it was 1.6 million.  Today we are told Albanians are "90%
> of 2 million" - as though we are unable to calculate this means
> 1.8 million, another mysterious 200,000 increase.  Borrowing from
> Socrates, "scarcely a word of what they said is true."  The media
> continues to omit that more than 400,000 Albanians are illegal
> aliens who crossed the border into Kosovo as easily as illegals
> cross our border into San Diego, Tucson, El Paso and Brownsville
> each night as we sleep.  How compelling that US troops are
> defending borders in 100 countries, we aren't defending our own.
>
> Today, the US State Department claims Serbs are 10% of Kosovo,
> with no explanation that they claimed Serbs were 14% in 1991.
> Were 4% killed, expelled, or just made invisible?  They also
> tell us the Gypsies are 7%, the Greeks 2.3%, the Turks 1.5%, the
> Montenegrins 2%, and others 1%.  By my calculations that means the
> Albanians can't possibly represent more than 50% of Kosovo, after
> subtracting the 400,000 illegals and the 300,000 who fled to
> England, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, most of whom have no
> desire to return to the poverty and terror in Kosovo.
>
> Another point that hasn't been raised much is that Tito, for all
> of his faults and mistakes in postwar Yugoslavia, never subscribed
> to gun control or disarming the populace.  I recall when I visted
> Yugoslavia in the late 1970s, every home at which I was a guest
> had at least one modern firearm, be it a handgun, rifle or shotgun.
> In fact, at the time, villagers could obtain surplus WWII German,
> Italian, British and even US firearms very easily.
>
> I recall that many Serb villagers especially would coat the weapon
> in some kind of heavy grease, wrap it in plastic and put it in a
> box and bury it in the ground usually near the barn or house.
>
> From: MK ([e-mail]) *
> 03/27/99 10:02:32 PST
>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NATO citizen's summit: please sign on
Date: 05 Apr 1999 18:50:11 -0400

>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:41:20 -0500
>Subject: NATO citizen's summit: please sign on
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>To  :  Abolitionists Everywhere
>From:  Bruce Hall at Peace Action
>Date:  April 5, 1999
>Re  :  NATO citizen's sign-on
>
>Dear folks in NATO Countries -
>   Please have your organizations sign on to the statement below which we
>will deliver to heads of state during the 50th anniversary commemorations
>of
>NATO in Washington, DC on April 23rd.
>        Please be sure to include your organization's name AND THE COUNTRY
from
>which you reside. The statement was drafted by the Fourth Freedom Forum and
>Peace Action.
>
>        See below,
>
>        Bruce
>
>
>Citizen's Summit
>Washington, DC
>Citizen's Communiqu=E9
>23 April 1999
>
>
>We, citizens of the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty
>Organization, have come together in Washington, D.C. on the fiftieth
>anniversary of the Alliance to call on NATO to end its reliance nuclear
>weapons and work toward a nuclear weapons free world as we enter the 21st
>century. The greatest danger the world faces today is the continued
>reliance
>on and physical existence of nuclear weapons. By clinging to these weapons,
>the United States and its allies are violating solemn treaty obligations
>under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and are encouraging other nations to
>follow their example. The continued existence and spread of nuclear weapons
>increase the likelihood that a nuclear catastrophe will occur somewhere on
>the planet through anger, miscalculation, or accident. Such a catastrophe
>would have unimaginable consequences and threaten the very fabric of
>civilization.
>
>The only answer to the present nuclear dilemma is for the United States and
>its NATO allies to disavow the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons.
>The
>World Court has ruled that any such use violates international humanitarian
>law. Nuclear weapons must be stigmatized, de-legitimized, and eliminated.
>For almost 50 years, Europe has been
>the potential flashpoint for a catastrophic nuclear crisis. The Iron
>Curtain, the Warsaw Pact, Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall itself--once
>symbols of Europe's position on the front line of a dangerous nuclear
>standoff--are now history. It is time to relegate NATO's nuclear weapons,
>and all nuclear weapons, to the history books as well.
>
>NATO's nuclear weapons were introduced decades ago to counter a perceived
>threat that no longer exists. Today nuclear weapons have no conceivable
>role
>in guaranteeing the peace and security of Europe and North America. The
>safety of the region and of the entire would be enhanced if these weapons
>were eliminated.
>
>We urge NATO to acknowledge the negative consequences of maintaining
>nuclear
>weapons as it updates its Strategic Concept and redefines its mission for
>the 21st Century. We call upon NATO to commit itself to a
>world without nuclear weapons and to work with other governments to achieve
>a verifiable ban on the possession or use of nuclear weapons. We pledge as
>citizens to work tirelessly to increase public awareness and support for
>the
>goal of a nuclear weapons free future.
>
>
>______________________________________________
>Bruce Hall
>Peace Action Field Organizer
><[e-mail]>
>202.862.9740 x 3038
>Fax: [phone]
> =20
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Useful analysis: NATO action undercuts UN
Date: 05 Apr 1999 21:19:05 -0700

The following commentary can be found at  http://www.startribune.com=20
(search for the author=92s name).  You=92ll also find an excellent =93primer=
=94 on
Kosovo, including basic facts, geography, regional politics, and a history=
 of
regional conflicts.  -- Jackie Cabasso

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                             =20

                            Published Sunday, April 4, 1999=20

                            Commentary: NATO action unwisely undercuts U.N.

                            Peter Erlinder

                            No matter what the outcome of the NATO bombing=
=20
campaign, the fundamental  architecture of international law, centered on=20
the United Nations during the 50 years since World War II, has suffered a=20
severe blow from which it may never recover.

                            The delicate, and sometimes contradictory,=20
balance between "national sovereignty," upon which the U.N. Charter is=20
premised, and "the human rights of individuals against oppressive=20
governments," articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has
been altered forever. The result is likely to be more international chaos,=
=20
war crimes and
acts of genocide, and the American people will be asked to pay the price for=
=20
generations
to come.

                            Under the United Nations Charter and subsequent=
=20
U.N. resolutions, the use of force is banned unless specifically authorized=
=20
by the Security Council, after the Security Council
has determined that peaceful methods have failed, or when "selfdefense" is=
=20
required in the
case of an armed attack. It is a clear violation of fundamental United=20
Nations principles for
one sovereign member state to attack another, even for "humanitarian=20
purposes."=20

                            While this may seem to be an inhumane=20
technicality in the face of apparent acts of brutality, like those alleged=
=20
in Kosovo, there are important historical reasons for this
seemingly irrational respect for national sovereignty. One of the important=
=20
lessons of
WWII was that militarily powerful states can use "humanitarian intervention"=
=20
to justify
military action that expands international conflicts and increases the=20
suffering of innocent
civilians.

                            Germany announced that it was "protecting the=20
rights of oppressed Germans" when it annexed part of Czechoslovakia.=20
Mussolini invaded Ethiopia to "liberate and civilize" the Ethiopian people.=
=20
The Japanese invaded Manchuria to "defend the Manchurians from
Chinese bandits." When the United Nations was founded in 1945, it was well=
=20
understood
that claims of humanitarian intervention were not always humane.

                            Respect for national sovereignty was the=20
mechanism that the U.N. Charter adopted to prevent powerful nations from=20
using "humanitarian intervention" as a guise for military venturism and=20
imperialism. It is the cornerstone of all international legal systems.
                            This respect for national sovereignty, however,=
=20
does not mean that the United Nations and international law holds national=
=20
sovereignty above all else, and ignores the plight of those oppressed by=20
their own governments. The Nazi War Crimes Tribunals made clear that
brutal leaders cannot use "national sovereignty" as a defense for genocide=
=20
and other crimes
against humanity.

                            In 1948 the United Nations Universal Declaration=
=20
of Human Rights set out specific rights that all governments were obliged to=
=20
respect. The United Nations also passed other resolutions outlawing=20
politically motivated rape and other crimes against humanity.=20

                            The recently established War Crimes Tribunals,=
=20
set up in the aftermath of acts of genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, was the=20
first step to creating international juridical bodies capable of punishing=
=20
war criminals and acts of genocide. Under this emerging structure of
international human rights law, leaders like Augusto Pinochet, Slobodan=20
Milosevic or
Saddam Hussein can be held liable for war crimes or acts of genocide, if=20
these U.N.
bodies and international legal principles are fully supported by the member=
=20
states.

                            Unfortunately, as the United States has risen to=
=20
hyperpower status, it has repeatedly undermined the effectiveness and=20
authority of these international bodies. The United States has economically=
=20
crippled the United Nations by refusing to pay more than $1 billion in
back dues. It has refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the World Court=
=20
when the
decisions of that body, such as the decision declaring nuclear weapons=20
illegal, are contrary
to current U.S. policy. The United States also opposed the creation of the=
=20
War Crimes
Tribunal and has refused to cooperate with its investigations, or with=20
seizing war criminals
under indictment. Now, the NATO bombing has further degraded this emerging
international legal structure.

                            The world's only remaining superpower has=20
established the principle that, once again, claims of humanitarian=20
intervention can be used to justify acts of war against a sovereign
nation without U.N. authorization. How this principle might be used to=20
justify U.S. military
intervention in the future is anyone's guess. Should the United States=20
intervene to protect
the Kurds from Turkish depredations? Will it defend the Chechens who are=20
surrounded
and oppressed by hostile Russians? What about the Colombian people being=20
killed in their
thousands by governmentsupported paramilitaries?

                            Of course, the United States cannot intervene=20
every time a brutal regime oppresses its own people, because such oppression=
=20
simply occurs too frequently. It is much more likely  that America will only=
=20
intervene for "humanitarian reasons" when it serves shortterm U.S. policy=20
interests. Even if the United States could apply the policy of humanitarian
intervention evenly, consistently and fairly, the result will not be a more=
=20
stable and humane
world order.

                            At the close of the 20th century, the most=20
powerful nation in the history of the world, and its allies, are=20
establishing the principle that nations with sufficient military power and=
=20
claims of "humanitarian purpose" can act independently of the United Nations=
=20
structure, as long
as an even larger military power does not intervene to stop them. This=20
lesson will not be
lost on future local and regional Hitlers, who have the military means to=20
"liberate" their
"oppressed neighbors."

                            When other countries begin their own=20
"humanitarian interventions" in the next century, the  people of the United=
=20
States may well come to regret the absence of a strong United
Nations. Without the U.N. structure to rely on, the only alternative for=20
addressing future
war crimes and genocide, as well as the "humanitarian intervention" of other=
=20
nations, will
be everescalating and virtually limitless demands on U.S. military power,=20
including the use
of ground troops. Future generations of Americans will pay the longterm=20
costs of this last
great military adventure of the 20th century, no matter what the outcome.

 Peter Erlinder, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul,=
=20
is past president of the National Lawyers Guild.

                                                                            =
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                  =20

                            =A9 Copyright 1999 Star Tribune. All rights=20
reserved.=20



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: MADRE on Yugoslavia
Date: 06 Apr 1999 00:20:24 EDT

I think this is a useful analysis - as we struggle to find our way through
this mess. I personally have a couple of problems with the statement. It is
one thing to brand Milosevic a war criminal - not sure he is really more of
one than Tony Blair or Bill Clinton - but how do you settle the conflict if
you try to make an arrest? Who is going to bell the cat, so to speak? If
peace is to be made, don't we have to make it by negotiations with precisely
the persons most unpleasant to us - in this case, Milosevic, Clinton, et al.

And I would have thought it imperative to spell out the need to bring the
Russians back into the negotiations as swiftly as possible. The conclusions
of this statement - to negotiate peace and indicting Milosevic as a war
criminal - seem to me to run "against each other". For example, the only way
we can hope to see the Kosvars returned to their homes (which MUST be our
objective) is to negotiate the matter and provide from non-NATO forces to
insure their protection. I am glad that Madre correctly judged the KLA for
what it is. They are not the protectors needed.

Again, no answers, but this statement make some good solid points.

Peace,
David McReynolds

I'd also think UN forces are less realistic than the OCSE (I may have put
those initials in the wrong order!)
<< ubj:     MADRE on Yugoslavia
 Date:    4/5/99 11:23:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    [e-mail] (Andrew C. Pollack)
 To:    [e-mail]
 CC:    [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
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[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail]

 Sorry if this is too long, but I found it very useful (despite their
 illusions about the UN), covering many different aspects of the
 situation.

 This is copied from the web site; they also handed it out at their event
 tonight, which featured progressive artists reading messages from people
 in Kosovo and Belgrade -- more on that later.
 Andy Pollack

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 Stop The Bombing, Stop The Genocide:
 MADRE's Notes On The Yugoslav Crisis

 MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, strongly
 condemns the US war against Yugoslavia and calls for a halt to the NATO
 bombing. We abhor the extreme ethno-nationalism promulgated by Yugoslav
 President Slobodan Milosevic and the gross human rights violations
 committed by his forces: more than 2,000 Albanian Kosovars were killed
 and over 400,000 made homeless before the NATO attack this year.

 But bombing has never achieved a reduction of violence and the current
 war is no exception. The air strikes will not end Milosevic's persecution
 of Albanian civilians in Kosovo. US officials stated from the start that
 bombing can only "degrade," and not stop, Yugoslav military capability.
 Furthermore, as US and NATO leaders themselves predicted, the bombing has
 spurred Milosevic to step up ethnic cleansing and a last-ditch effort to
 eradicate the Kosovo Liberation Army, fighting on behalf of the area's
 Albanian majority. The only guaranteed outcome of a bombing is mass
 killing and economic and social devastation for years to come.

 While the bombing is unacceptable, a halt to the airstrikes will not end
 the genocide being waged against Albanians in Kosovo. This is a crisis
 which must be addressed by the international community, through the
 United Nations and not through NATO, which is an exclusive Western
 military alliance being used to pursue US and Western European strategic
 interests.

 What is the root of the crisis?

 The Balkan war of the early 1990's left a fragmented Yugoslavia
 consisting two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, with the smal province
 of Kosovo (which is 90% ethnically Albanian) inside the borders of
 Serbia. The break-up of Yugoslavia as a peaceful, multi-ethnic republic
 fueled extreme ethno-nationalism in many communities engulfed by the war.
 In 1989, President Milosevic revoked the autonomous status that Kosovo
 had won in 1974. Since then his regime has brutally suppressed the
 cultural and political rights of the Albanian majority in Kosovo. In
 response, the Albanian Kosovars developed a mass, non-violent
 independence movement, which the West categorically ignored even as Serb
 repression escalated. As a consequence, more and more people were drawn
 towards the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ultra-nationalist armed
 group that effectively derailed the non-violent movement.

 Why did the situation deteriorate this year?

 Last fall, the US State Department drew up the Rambouillet peace plan
 that included the deployment of 28,000 NATO troops (4,000 of them US
 soldiers) in Yugoslavia. It is difficult to imagine any sovereign leader
 allowing a foreign army to replace his troops on their own >territory.
 This was the dominant Serb pereception of the US demand. Milosevic
 rejected the Rambouillet plan. The US then issued an ultimatum:
 capitulate or submit to NATO bombing. But an ultimatum is a double-edged
 sword. Like Milosevic, the US was left with only two choices: bomb or be
 perceived as making empty threats.

 Is the bombing legal?

 Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter states clearly that only the UN
 Security Council can mandate the use of force. Without UN authorization,
 the NATO bombing is flatly illegal.

 Why didn't the US seek a UN mandate for the bombing?

 Russia and China, which both oppose the NATO attack as a bid for Western
 hegemony, have veto power in the Security Council. Secretary of State
 Albright has acknowledged that the Security Council would not have
 endorsed the air strikes (ABC News, 3/23).

 The UN may authorize the use of force against threats to international
 peace. But Kosovo is inside Yugoslavia - a sovereign country. The crisis
 is therefore widely regarded as an internal Yugoslav conflict not subject
 to UN intervention.

 Why does it matter if the bombing is illegal?

 However flawed, the UN Charter represents the only agreed-upon global
 standard for governing states' conduct. Without it, people would have
 even fewer protections against the abuses of government and no basis upon
 which to claim their human rights.

 The UN Charter provides legal barriers to states' use of force, which
 promote diplomatic negotiations rather than violence. When the US scorns
 these provisions, it sets a dangerous precedent of lawlessness and
 undermines the principle of countries working together to resolve
 disputes (i.e., multi-lateralism).

 The US is being aptly described as a "rogue superpower," accountable only
 to its own narrowly defined interests and quick to destroy anyone that
 stands in its way. This year alone the US has bombed Iraq, Sudan,
 Afghanistan and now Yugoslavia.

 Why does the US care about Kosovo?

 Unlike other conflicts areas (Rwanda, Sierra Leone, East Timor), where
 the US has ignored communal violence, Kosovo is situated at the
 crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East: It holds a strategic
 interest for the US.

 The humanitarian crisis in Kosovo provides a smokescreen for military
 intervention that will secure US influence over the Balkans. Clinton has
 spoken about the "moral imperative" of defending Kosovo's population and
 its trampled autonomy. Human rights abuses in Kosovo are real and very
 serious.

 But we must ask why comparable abuses committed by Russia in Chechnya,
 the Turks in the Kurdish areas and the British in Northern Ireland do not
 warrant the same lofty rhetoric.

 What is the purpose of NATO?

 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, made up of 19 European countries,
 the US and Canada, was formed by the US in 1949 to "deter and defend
 against" Soviet military might.

 Most of the world viewed NATO as an offensive military coalition from the
 start, created to threaten, and if necessary, attack, Socialist bloc
 countries.

 NATO also provided a much-needed vehicle for the reintegration and
 rearmamentof post-Nazi Germany, a critical US ally throughout the Cold
 War and in the current bombing.

 NATO has served as a cornerstone of the military industrial complex and
 the arms industry worldwide. The B-2 bombers used in the current attacks,
 for example, were built at a cost of over two billion each. NATO's recent
 inclusion of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic is estimated to
 generate nearly $100 billion in weapons sales over the next 10 years.

 Why is NATO being used in this war?

 NATO lost its raison d'etre when the Cold War ended. But instead of
 dismantling NATO, the US broadened its mandate and membership. NATO is
 being transformed from an alliance that functioned inside the territories
 of its member states to a force that can secure the interests of those
 states outside their borders -- and interfere in the internal affairs of
 non-member states. Kosovo is the first real test of this new mission.

 On April 23, NATO's 50th anniversary summit will take place in
 Washington, D.C. The bombing is considered an ideal demonstration of
 NATO's new Post Cold War mission.

 The US has become increasingly dissatisfied with the UN as a vehicle for
 asserting its foreign policy. The structure of the Security Council makes
 US will subject to the veto power of other nations, most notably Russia
 and China. NATO, on the other hand, is an exclusive military club with
 the newly declared prerogative to disregard the UN, making it, as
 Madeleine Albright has said, the US "institution of choice" (New York
 Times, 10/18).

 What is the larger US strategy in the Balkans?

 Using NATO to assert a US-led military presence in the Balkans is seen as
 a way to secure the twin elements of US policy in Eastern and Central
 Europe:
 a) to prevent any move to reverse the "reforms" that dismantled the
 region's communist governments;
 b) to lock these countries into an economic role dictated by the US and
 Western Europe. In the post-Cold War order, former Soviet bloc countries
 are relegated to the same role as the Third World, namely, to provide
 cheap labor, raw materials and markets to benefit the elite in the US and
 Western Europe.

 Transferring the resources of the former Soviet Union to Western
 interests is a top priority of the US. Chevron has already signed a deal
 for rights to the vast oil deposits of Kazakhstan. Such multi-billion
 dollar endeavors require some assurance of regional stability: NATO is
 seen as the guarantee.

 "Stability"on US terms requires that leaders in the region be subservient
 to Western interests. Milosevic has repeatedly overstepped his bounds by
 refusing to allow a US army base in Yugoslav and resisting the
 incorporation of Yugoslavia into a global neoliberal economic order.

 Where should concerned people focus support?

 Neither Milosevic nor the KLA deserve support.

 Milosevic was a war criminal even before he instigated genocide in
 Kosovo.
 But opposition to Milosevic need not translate into support for the NATO
 bombing.

 The KLA espouses an ultra-nationalist ideology and a program of ethnic
 cleansing that differs from Milosevic mainly in that the KLA lacks the
 power to enforce its reactionary vision. But condemnation of the KLA does
 not mean accepting Milosevic's brutality in Kosovo.

 We must move beyond a yearning for "good guys" in the Yugoslav scenario
 and remember that behind the various political formations and armed
 groups are communities of people. In Kosovo, whole towns and villages are
 being burned out and butchered. In Serbia, people are being terrorized by
 a NATO bombing because of the intransigence of their government.

 But in both Kosovo and Serbia there are still some people who insist on a
 democratic, non-nationalist and multi-ethnic solution to the crisis.

 These are the people who MADRE is supporting.

 We call on the US to halt the NATO bombing immediately.

 We call on the international community to:

 Provide humanitarian support to the refugees through democratic,
 multi-ethnic opposition groups.
 Deploy UN forces in Kosovo to end the genocide and prevent renewed
 violence.
 Indict Milosevic as a war criminal under the UN Genocide Convention.

 MADRE has worked for 15 years with community-based women's organizations
 worldwide to provide emergency relief, health care & human rights
 advocacy to communities in crisis. MADRE has worked with multi-ethnic,
 democratic women's organizations in the Former Yugoslavia since 1993.

 For more information, contact us at:
 MADRE
 121 West 27th Street, #301
 New York, NY 10001
 Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone];
 Email: [e-mail]
 website: www.MADRE.org
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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Kosovo: good arguments for negotiation
Date: 05 Apr 1999 21:50:32 -0700

Check out http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm
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 Negotiating to end war will hurt least=20

 By Michael Mandelbaum, Globe Staff, 04/05/99=20

      fter a week of NATO air attacks against military targets in Yugoslavia
and Serb violence
      against ethnic Albanians producing tens of thousands of refugees from
Kosovo, the Atlantic
 alliance and the United States have three unattractive options. A growing
chorus of hawks in
 Washington advocate escalation. The Clinton administration insists on a
continuation of the bombing
 campaign. But the third option, negotiation to end the war, is the least=
 bad
course and the one
 NATO ought now to adopt.

 Escalation would involve expanding the war against the Serbs to include=
 more
intensive bombing;
 military assistance to the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has been fighting=
 for
Kosovo's
 independence; dispatch of NATO ground troops to Yugoslavia; or some or all=
 of
these. Under this
 option, the goals of the war would expand to encompass winning independence
for Kosovo and
 removing Slobodan Milosevic as the Serb leader.

 Those goals, if achievable, could be presented as a victory for NATO. But=
 the
costs would be
 prohibitive.

 A more intensive air campaign would lead to the loss of NATO planes and
pilots. Arming the
 Kosovars would risk spreading the conflict to other parts of the Balkans,
notably neighboring
 Macedonia. Ground troops would have to fight the Serb army on its own soil,
leading to substantial
 Western casualties. Public support for the war in NATO countries, already
shaky, would likely
 vanish long before escalation achieved its objectives.

 Support is likely to erode even if NATO follows what now appears to be its
preferred option: a
 continuation of the bombing. Perhaps the punishment the bombing inflicts=
 will
persuade the Serb
 government to allow NATO troops into Kosovo to enforce the Americandesigned
political
 settlement it has thus far refused to accept. But the record of air power
alone in achieving such
 goals is not encouraging. And if Belgrade does not relent, NATO  at the end=
 of
its air campaign=20
 will have failed to achieve the objective for which it went to war in the
first place.

 Even worse, the world will have witnessed the spectacle of NATO governments
refusing to order
 their own NATO troops, now in Macedonia, to cross the border to help
beleaguered Kosovars
 only a few miles away on the grounds that the troops' mission was=
 peacekeeping
and not combat.
 This would be like a fire brigade that refuses to cross the street to save=
 a
family's burning home
 because its specialty is forests, not residences.

 If the Yugoslav government does not crack, continuing the bombing would=
 simply
provide a
 showcase for the virtuosity of NATO's air power, which was not in question=
 in
the first place and
 did not require a war in the Balkans to demonstrate.

 The third option, negotiation, would involve resuming talks with the Serb
government, perhaps
 through Russian or United Nations intermediaries, but without the previous
NATO demand that
 Belgrade unconditionally accept the text of an agreement for a political
settlement in Kosovo. The
 goal would be a ceasefire throughout Yugoslavia, Serb acceptance of=
 monitors
from some
 international organization other than NATO, and an effort to restore the
political autonomy that
 Kosovo enjoyed under the terms of the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, which was
abrogated by
 Milosevic 15 years later.

 This option would go some way toward achieving NATO's initial goals:=
 stopping
the Kosovo
 killing, securing better political arrangements for the Kosovar Albanians,=
 and
maintaining political
 cohesion within NATO.

 The drawbacks of this option are both obvious and serious. It would require
negotiations with
 Milosevic, who bears responsibility for the outrages in Kosovo that the war
has triggered. Even if
 the NATO governments were willing, directly or indirectly, to negotiate=
 with
him, the failed effort by
 Russia's Prime Minister Yevgeny to start talks suggests that the prospect=
 of
halting the allied
 bombing may not be a sufficient incentive to persuade Milosevic to call off
the killing of ethnic
 Albanians in Kosovo, permit the return of refugees, and allow peacekeepers
into the province.

 Even if he were willing to do so, such an outcome, however disguised or=
 spun,
would count as a
 gain for him and a setback for the West, not to mention a personal=
 humiliation
for the officials
 responsible for western Balkans policy.

 But a setback is now, alas, all but certain. Once the Clinton=
 administration
committed the oldest of
 all strategic blunders by starting a war it did not know how to finish,=
 losses
were unavoidable. Now
 is the time, and negotiation is the way, to cut them.
 Michael Mandelbaum, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of
Advanced
 International Studies, directs the EastWest P roject of the Council on=
 Foreign
Relations.

 This story ran on page A17 of the Boston Globe on 04/05/99.=20
 =A9 Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company.=20



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From: War Resisters League <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NATO citizen's summit: please sign on
Date: 06 Apr 1999 10:32:38 -0400

Please add my name, Chris Ney, Disarmament Coordinator War Resisters
League, New York City

At 06:50 PM 4/5/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:41:20 -0500
>>Subject: NATO citizen's summit: please sign on
>>Priority: non-urgent
>>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>>To: [e-mail]
>>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>>
>>To  :  Abolitionists Everywhere
>>From:  Bruce Hall at Peace Action
>>Date:  April 5, 1999
>>Re  :  NATO citizen's sign-on
>>
>>Dear folks in NATO Countries -
>>   Please have your organizations sign on to the statement below which we
>>will deliver to heads of state during the 50th anniversary commemorations
>>of
>>NATO in Washington, DC on April 23rd.
>>        Please be sure to include your organization's name AND THE COUNTRY
>from
>>which you reside. The statement was drafted by the Fourth Freedom Forum=
 and
>>Peace Action.
>>
>>        See below,
>>
>>        Bruce
>>
>>
>>Citizen's Summit
>>Washington, DC
>>Citizen's Communiqu=E9
>>23 April 1999
>>
>>
>>We, citizens of the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty
>>Organization, have come together in Washington, D.C. on the fiftieth
>>anniversary of the Alliance to call on NATO to end its reliance nuclear
>>weapons and work toward a nuclear weapons free world as we enter the 21st
>>century. The greatest danger the world faces today is the continued
>>reliance
>>on and physical existence of nuclear weapons. By clinging to these=
 weapons,
>>the United States and its allies are violating solemn treaty obligations
>>under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and are encouraging other nations to
>>follow their example. The continued existence and spread of nuclear=
 weapons
>>increase the likelihood that a nuclear catastrophe will occur somewhere on
>>the planet through anger, miscalculation, or accident. Such a catastrophe
>>would have unimaginable consequences and threaten the very fabric of
>>civilization.
>>
>>The only answer to the present nuclear dilemma is for the United States=
 and
>>its NATO allies to disavow the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons.
>>The
>>World Court has ruled that any such use violates international=
 humanitarian
>>law. Nuclear weapons must be stigmatized, de-legitimized, and eliminated.
>>For almost 50 years, Europe has been
>>the potential flashpoint for a catastrophic nuclear crisis. The Iron
>>Curtain, the Warsaw Pact, Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall itself--once
>>symbols of Europe's position on the front line of a dangerous nuclear
>>standoff--are now history. It is time to relegate NATO's nuclear weapons,
>>and all nuclear weapons, to the history books as well.
>>
>>NATO's nuclear weapons were introduced decades ago to counter a perceived
>>threat that no longer exists. Today nuclear weapons have no conceivable
>>role
>>in guaranteeing the peace and security of Europe and North America. The
>>safety of the region and of the entire would be enhanced if these weapons
>>were eliminated.
>>
>>We urge NATO to acknowledge the negative consequences of maintaining
>>nuclear
>>weapons as it updates its Strategic Concept and redefines its mission for
>>the 21st Century. We call upon NATO to commit itself to a
>>world without nuclear weapons and to work with other governments to=
 achieve
>>a verifiable ban on the possession or use of nuclear weapons. We pledge as
>>citizens to work tirelessly to increase public awareness and support for
>>the
>>goal of a nuclear weapons free future.
>>
>>
>>______________________________________________
>>Bruce Hall
>>Peace Action Field Organizer
>><[e-mail]>
>>202.862.9740 x 3038
>>Fax: [phone]
>> =20
>Alice Slater
>Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
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From: "T.Damjanov" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Infos re NATO's war
Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:38:24 +0200

Being on the Project Staff of the "International Network of Scientists
and Engineers for Global Responsibility" (INES), I have started,
straight after NATO began its aggression, to mail to interested people a
(daily updated) compilation of
--- Internet references
--- Articles
--- Statements + Appeals

Being aware of the email flood many people are angry about, I am
distributing this only to those who send me a request to receive this
compilation. Further, I do not send the items in full, but first a
listing only. Then, you can make your choice which item you would like
to reveice in full (either from me or from the source indicated)

DO YOU WANT TO SEND ME A REQUEST?
Simply send me an email with
>> NATO War List <<
in the Subject line

First, you will get the list in full. Following your request, I will
send you daily updates.

NOTE: Since I am based in Germany being involved in the German peace
movement, this compilation also contains always information in German
language, as well. IF YOU DO WANT TO ADDITIONALLY RECEIVE GERMAN
LANGUAGE INFORMATION, PLEASE WRITE IN THE SUBJECT LINE:
>> NATO War List+German <<

Separately, take note of the following:

INES is publishing an electronic newsletter named "What's New In INES?"
(WNII), of which I am the editor. WNII appears weekly. Its edition of
last week (No. 13/1999) was a "SPECIAL ISSUE ON NATO AND YUGOSLAVIA":
Contents:
[+] Sources + references
--- NATO war against Yugoslavia: press coverage overview
--- Kosovo crisis resources
--- Selected media
--- Websites of state and military authorities
--- References in other languages
--- Reuters articles re Airstrikes, March 25, 1999 5 a.m.

[+] Statements + Appeals
--- NGOs' Appeal from Russia
--- Statement of War Resisters=92 International on Kosovo
--- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Regarding the NATO-Yugoslavia conflict, the current edition (No.
14/1999, issued on 5 April 99) contains the following:
--- Letter from INES member Branka Jovanovic (Belgrade)
--- Letter from JoAnn M. Valenti, USA
--- Russia: Statement of the Socio-Ecological Union International
--- Letters to the German government coalition by INES member Dr. F.
Greulich
--- Statement by the German Scientists' Initiative Responsibility for
Peace and Sustainability
--- New mailinglist for discussion of Kosovo-related issues (Listserver
yugoslavia-discuss)

IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE ONE OF THE WNII ISSUES;
SEND ME A MAIL WITH THE FOLLOWING SUBJECT LINE:

>> WNII 13/99 <<
and/or
>> Extracts WNII 14/99 <<

=3D=3D=3D > It goes without saying, that you might forward this message t=
o any
other people/adresses interested!

Peacefully yours,
Tobias Damjanov
Project Staff
International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global
Responsibility (INES)
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) NATO WAR LIST
Date: 06 Apr 1999 11:58:59 EDT

Please send, also include how to get off list.

Thank you,

Colby Lowe

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) WWIII? Articles (http://38.201.154.103/articles/?a=1999/3/30/63301)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 11:23:38 -0700

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: THE ECLIPSE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
Date: 06 Apr 1999 12:45:14 -0700

-----Original Message-----


Dr. Milos Aleksic
Professor at the University of Belgrade


THE ECLIPSE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
(HAS THE WORLD LOST DEMOCRATIC HOPE AND THE IDEAL OF HUMAN LIBERTY?)

   Yugosavia has suffered aggression from the most powerful military force
in the world - the NATO. This military organization carries out the USA
policy and creates New Totalitarian World Order. The technological Fascism,
contrary to the Nazi-Fascism, differs in the lack of ideology and abuse of
the polysemic term "globalization". Technology and money, together with the
organized mafia, represent the base of the new way of ruling the world,
whereas new weapons for mass destruction of people and material goods are
the means of its realization.Yugoslavia has been experiencing great horrors
these days. We are being punished just because we do not want to accept the
two great forces which want to solve our problems in their own way. It was
never the case in the Original Fascism.

   The peoples of Yugoslavia have always aspired to freedom in this
country. They were not able to gain any experience in liberal-democratic
governing during the fight for national freedom in the past, as well as in
the first half of this century. That is why the majority of citizens
hopefully accepted the national-democratic as well as the self-managing
political order after World War II. We really believed that it included the
rule of the majority, not the minority, as it is the case in liberal
societies. The social crisis which spread in the real-socialist countries
in the beginning, and then in Yugoslavia, and the necessity for the
transition of the social order were also provoked by the lack of political
freedoms of a single-party system. That is why a new hope aroused in the
policy of liberal democracy. We had had no experience with such a type of
political organization in the past. It was believed that pattern of
democracy brought rights and freedom to each man.

   In mean time, a new concept of the New World Order appeared, without any
theoretical or ideological foundations, with the policy which indicated
that new military totalitarianism would appear in all spheres of human
life: economy, politics, culture, information. Individuals are totally
depersonalized and passive in such systems. It is a new and most difficult
eclipse of mankind and their freedoms.

   The peoples of Yugoslavia have been experiencing this horrible and
traumatic eclipse these days: they hide their children, wives and old
people in basements and shelters , they are witnessing the dead and the
wounded all around, they watch the destroyed houses, streets, and ruined
factories.

   The citizens of this country keep asking themselves: which are the
long-term goals of the transition on the crossroads of our development,
after tragical experiences in our socitey and the world-wide process of the
NATO globalization as a new form of totalitarianism. After having searched
for freedom and democracy in this century, after having lost hope in the
western democracy pattern, we keep asking ourselves how people could
realize their freedoms in a free society, and which type of democracy which
would provide the rule of majority with paying due respect to the
minorities was realistically achievable.

   During my recent visit to Moscow, I attended rallies against the
American Globalization Pattern. What I could hear there was: rise Stalin
the Great, while you lived, there was enough bread, enough hope and enough
freedom. Today, we have no bread, no hope and no freedom at all!

   Shocked by all this, I managed to contact the organizers of a rally and
I asked them what this unexpected message meant. They said that those
people did not want Stalin back, but what the new world order offered was
much more horrible and depersonalizing than in it was then. The way of
thinking which is being created by the policy and practice of the NATO
threatens and warns. Are the policy makers aware of the horrifying fact?

   The decisions of the world masters to "discipline" Yugoslavia by killing
and occupation as well as by putting us in chains, all in the name of
"human rights, freedom and democracy" will not make their conquering
interests come true. It is also proved by the general protest of people all
over the world. Only during the last four days of unjustified terrors
against an innocent nation has the wave of protesting against an "open
society" and the so called "western democracy" spread all over the world.
The protest rallies, as the conscience of mankind, forced the majority, or
a significant minority, in the parliaments of the great powers to ask
themselves with shame: what are we doing, for whom are we doing that, where
does it all lead at the dawn of the new millenium?

   The American Government must understand that the temporary submission
under which the NATO holds or wants to hold some countries is not
permanent. The submitted individual or a group of people are much more
decisive in claiming their right to be free as soon as an opportunity
appears, and their wish and urge to revenge because they lost their dignity
and became slaves is much more expressive. This kind of regularity can be
seen in the fall of all empires and tyranies throughout history, as well as
the fight for liberty of the people from all over the world.

   The way the USA and NATO behave has denounced the Charter of the United
Nations, who have been helpless for a long time and forced to carry out
only the interests of the USA as the "the interests of mankind". The
members of the NATO inspired other countries which are not the members of
this organisation to think about forming an alternative community of people
which will establish a new democratic order, since the USA and NATO
destroyed and antagonized the world.

   The great bourgeous revolution of 1789 proclaimed: "liberty, fraternity,
equality". Two hundred years after that epochal event, people all over the
world tried to carry out this message. However, the New World Order has
eclipsed and suspended the liberty, the freedom and the equality. Are we
moving back two hundred years ago searching for the postulates of the free
society?

   While I am writing these lines, I' m reading the official order of the
NATO headquarters on SKY NEWS to start the second phase of the NATO
aggression against Yugoslavia, which includes killing "personnel" on the
roads, in bases and vehicles from the vicinity. The commanders of death
claim that there are three phases more in the process of establishing the
submissive democracy in this country and her "democratization" in accepting
the NATO occupation. The citizens of Yugoslavia and the democratic people
all over the world desperately ask this question: is the new world order
establishing the Orwell conception of the world in which no one is free, in
which the society itself is not free? As enthusiasts, we still hope that
this will be stopped by the liberal and democratic world, and that people
will be given some hope of a more just world.

   Still, the conscience of each and every individual forces them to ask
themselves - are the tyrants who are violating freedom walking the world
today, at the end of the twentieth century?


Dr. Milos Aleksic
March 31, 1999
Belgrade, Yugoslavia


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[+] Anonymizer.com Surfing:
http://www.egroups.com/list/kosovo-reports
http://community.cnn.com/cgi-bin/WebX?14@@.ee721ec
http://www.kosovo.com
http://www.anonymizer.com/kosovo

[+] Websites des serbischen Informationsministeriums und Informationszent=
rums:
http://www.gov.yu/kosovo
http://www.serbia-info.com

[+] Jugoslawische Nachrichtenagentur Tanjug:
http://www.tanjug.co.yu

[+] OSZE und Kosovo:
http://www.osce.org/e/kosovo.htm

[+] Britische Luftwaffe:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/kosovonews.html

[+] "Action against NATO Bombing in Yugoslavia"
http://members.tripod.co.uk/~STOPNATO/
(NB case-sensitive: STOPNATO must be in CAPITAL LETTERS)
[under construction; 31 March 1999]

[+] Case against the bombing, prepared by the Coordinating Committee of T=
he
Greens/Green Party USA:
http://www.lbbs.org/ZMag/greens.htm

[+] BBC regularly-updated site, with links to sites representing all side=
s of
the conflict, on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/

[+] NATO Headquarters Military Briefings:
http://www.usia.gov/regional/eur/balkans/kosovo/

[+] The leader of the moderate Kosovo-Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova, called a=
t the
NATO to stop the air-raids against Yugoslavia:
http://www.dwelle.de/today/nrdeu.htm

[+] eGroups Spotlight:
"Kosovo-Reports" - Direct reports from Kosovo/Serbia/Yugoslavia
http://offers.egroups.com/click/252/0

[+] U.N. Security Council Resolution 1199
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/un_980923_res_kosovo.html

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[+] Die besten Seiten (mit zahlreichen weiteren Verweisen):
http://www.transnational.org/links/yu_alb.html
http://www.basicint.org
http://www.cdi.org/issues/Europe/kosovo.html

[+] search "Yugoslavia" on Infoseek: (more than 44.000 sites)
http://www.infoseek.com/Titles?qt=3Dyugoslavia


[+] Kosovo crisis and Ex-Yugoslavia resources

[+] Albania resources

[+] Websites of state and military authorities

[+] Selected media websites


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ARTICLES
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2 #: Anonymizer.com launches Kosovo Privacy Project

30 #: Making the World Safer for Business. Instability and aggression are
regarded as a threat to the global stability upon which U.S. markets depe=
nd
(Los Angeles Times, 2.4.99)
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/COMMENT/t000029304.html


[+] Rambouillet Talks:
--- Background on Rambouillet Accords (U.S. State Department):
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/fs_990301_rambouillet.html

0 /1: Statement NATO SecGen on the outcome (Press Release (99)21/23 Febru=
ary
1999)
0 /2: Prof. Jan Oberg: Rambouillet - Imperialism in Disguise (TFF-Pressin=
fo
#55, 16.2.99)
0 /6: Von Dayton nach Rambouillet (Junge Welt, 01.03.1999)
0 /7: Rambouillet without Russia (Izvestia, 23.2.99)
0 /8: Ausz=FCge  [Artikel 6, 8 und 10 des milit=E4rischen Annex B] aus de=
m Abkommen
von Rambouillet (nach: "die tageszeitung", 6.4.99)
0 /9: Weitreichende Bestimmungen im Annex des Kosovo-Abkommens ("taz",  6=
.4.99)

[+] "The Progressive Response", 2 April 1999, Vol. 3, No. 12: Kosovo
(Publication of "Foreign Policy In Focus", a joint project of the
Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies in =
the
USA)
Contents:
-- False Assumptions (By Julianne Smith, BASIC)
-- Bombing Can't Stop Serb Violence (By Rear Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr=
., USN
(Ret.))
-- Hell Bent on Destroying National Sovereignty

[+] The NATO attack
1 /5: Press Conference of NATO SecGen and SACEUR 25 March 1999
1 /6: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore David
Wilby, SHAPE (26.3.99)
1 /7: Proposals Floated to Arm Kosovars, Target Milosevic (AP, 25.3.99)
1 /7a: Embassy Row: Arming the KLA? (Washington Times, 26.3.99)
1 /8: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore David
Wilby, SHAPE (27.3.99)
1 /9: China Mounts All-Out Verbal Assault on Air Raids (NYT, 26.3.99)
1 /9a: China President Criticizes NATO (AP, 27.3.99)
1 /10: The Current Bombings (by Noam Chomsky)
1 /12: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (29.3.99)
1 /13: What if the bombing was 'legal?' (brief article by J. Vernon, UK)
1 /14: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (31.3.99)
1 /15: NATO sets precedent in deciding to violate a border (Christian Sci=
ence
Monitor, 25.3.99)
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/03/25/f-p8s1.shtml
1 /17: Clinton's Fraud: There is no "Kosovo Agreement" for the Serbs to S=
ign
(The Rockford Institute): http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/hotspots.html
2 /52: Polona Sepe (Slovenia) to Jean Hudon, Initiator of the Call for a =
Global
Peace Vigil
2 /11a: Notes on Kosovo by Karel Koster (Netherlands) + comments by Comma=
nder
Rob Green, Royal Navy (ret.)
7 /1: Georg Schoefbanker: NATO planes violating Austrian air space (31 Ma=
rch
1999)
1 /26: Disagreement of the PCF and the Green Party in the French Governme=
nt
over the issue of the NATO Bombings (Le Monde, 29 March 1999)
1 /29: Lies, Deceit and Betrayal (by Robert Fisk, Correspondent, The
Independent)
1 /20: (US) Military Fears Image May Be Damaged (AP, 1.4.99)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-Kosovo-Air-Power.html
1 /21: The air war takes toll on pared-down U.S. military (The Washington
Times, 31.3.99)
http://www.washtimes.com/news/news2.html#link
1 /30: NATO's Balkan Blunders Dossier (by Commander R. Green, Chair, Worl=
d
Court Project UK)
1 /22: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (2.4.99)
2 /27b: Radio B92 Closed Down and Sealed Off
1 /31: Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Canada): Only NATO had a Choice
1 /32: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (3.4.99)
1 /37: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (4.4.99)
1 /33: "CounterPunch" Magazine (USA): How the US State Dept. Recruited Hu=
man
Rights Groups to Cheer On the Bombing Raids:Those Incubator Babies, Once =
More?
http://www.counterpunch.org/
1 /34: Facts at Briefings Scarce, But Polemics Are Abundant (New York Tim=
es,
3.4.99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/040399kosovo-nato.html
1 /35: "Bombs Away!" (by Immanuel Wallerstein)
http://www.zmag.org/waller.htm
1 /36: Alan Mayne (Union of International Associations, Brussels): And wh=
en the
bombing stops?
1 /39: Crimes against truth. The relentless propaganda war is trivialisin=
g epic
suffering (The Independent)
1 /40: There IS an Alternative to Bombing (by J. Power, Transnational
Foundation for Peace and Future Research)
1 /41: Protecting the Kosovars ("Dawn" (Pakistan's leading English newspa=
per),
3.4.99)
http://www.dawn.com
1 /43: Military Analysis: NATO Force Sent to Albania Could Serve as Vangu=
ard
for a Kosovo Invasion (New York Times, , April 5, 1999)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/040599kosovo-military.html
1 /44: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (5.4.99)
1 /45: NATO action unwisely undercuts U.N. (Peter Erlinder, "Star Tribune=
"
[USA], 4.4.99)
http://www.startribune.com (search for the author=92s name)
1 /46: Negotiating to end war will hurt least (Boston Globe [USA], 5.4.99=
)
1 /48: South African comment on Nato's campaign ("Business Day", South Af=
rica,
6.4.99)
http://www.bday.co.za

[+] Two articles on possible ground attack from "Liberazione" (April 1-2,=
 1999)

[+] 2 /62: Wartime ZNetUpdate: information on NATO war on Yugoslavia:
As of Monday morning (5 April 1999), the Kosovo/NATO section of ZNet,
accessible from the top page of ZNet (www.zmag.org) or directly at
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/kosovo.htm, includes:
--- The Current Bombings: Behind the Rhetoric - Noam Chomsky
--- Protecting The Kosovars -- Edward Said
--- Thoughts About Bombings - Michael Albert
--- Atrocities Management - Edward Herman
--- NATO's Humanitarian Trigger - Diana Johnstone
--- Message from A Serbian Green in Belgrade
--- Stop the Bombing, Stop the Genocide (MADRE's Excellent Statement on t=
he
events)
--- Statement of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights
--- Statement of the Greens/Green Party USA
--- Statement of the War Resisters League
--- Comment from TFF (Transnational Foundation) on NATO/KOSOVO
--- The Clinton Doctrine - Michael Klare
--- War is Peace? - Andre Gunder Frank
--- Contextualizing the history and particularly the role of NATO
--- Bombs Away - Immanuel Wallerstein
--- Dismantling Yugoslavia...- by Michel Chossudovsky
--- Another Diana Johnstone Link
--- Refugee Chic - Mark Steel (An article from the English Guardian...not=
 your
usual fare)
--- CounterPunch Comments
--- David McReynolds on NATO/Kosovo
--- Bombing Serbia... - Stephen Zunes
--- A Call for a New Peace Front - Jan Myrdal

David Cortright/Alistair Millar (Fourth Freedom Forum, USA): Commentary o=
n the
Kosovo Crisis ("The Progressive Response", 30 March 1999, Vol. 3, No. 11)

[+] Russia
3 /1: Russia Quits NATO Partnership
3 /2: Tactical n/missiles could be moved back into Belarus
3 /3: Azerbaijan Detains Russian Mig Shipment (NYT, 24.3.99)
3 /4: Report says Russia asked to deploy nukes in wake of NATO attacks
3 /6: U.S. Urges Russia Not To Arm Serbs (AP, 26.3.99)
3 /7: Peter Coombes: Kosovo, Russia and Nuclear Weapons?
3 /8: Russia Helping Iraq Upgrade Air Defenses [suspected collaboration b=
etween
Serbia, Iraq and Russia] (STRATFOR's Global Intelligence Update, March 31=
,
1999)
3 /9: Valentin Yemelin: The Balkan Crisis [incisive summary of the Russia=
n
reaction]
3 /18: Oleg Odnokolenko: General Staff and Duma ponder pre-emptive nuclea=
r
strikes (Segodnya, 1.4. 1999)
7 #: Kosovo Crisis Deepens Political Divisions in Ukraine (26.3.99)
3 /19: UN Security Council rejection of Russian resolution re Kosovo on 2=
6.3.99
(extracts)
3 /20: Attacks Stir Cold War Feelings in Russia (Washington Post, 4.4.99)
http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm
or:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-04/04/166l-040499-idx.ht=
ml

[+] Albania
6 /1: Albania Would Allow Arms to Kosovo (NYT, 30.3.99)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-UN-Albania.html

[+] Macedonia
4 /1 To NATO via Kosovo (AIM Skopje, 11 March 1999)
4 /2 Macedonia - A Country on the Edge (Yves Debay)
4 /3 Anti-NATO Protest Rocks Macedonia (AP, 26.3.99)

[+] Greece
5 /1: Greco Turkish Dispute Threatens to Deepen Fissures in NATO (30 Marc=
h
1999)

[+] Protests Reports
4 /1: White House Targeted by Protesters (NYT, 30.3.99)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-Kosovo-Protests.html
4 /2 Russians protest air strikes (Philadelphia Inquirer, 28.3.99)
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Mar/28/national/RUSS28.htm
4 /3: Paris Kosovo demonstration 1 April 1999 (D. Durand, Mouvement de la=
 Paix)

4 /4: Arrests at NATO HQ, Brussels, over the war (Forum voor Vredesactie,
Belgium)
4 /6: Peace movements from Europe met in Strasbourg on 4 April 1999 / Apr=
il
9-10: days of action against the war in Yugoslavia and ethnic cleasing

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STATEMENTS + APPEALS
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2 /10: McReynolds (War Resisters League, USA), quick analysis of Kosovo
2 /16: Quakers: Kosovo: Information & Analysis
2 /17: Mouvement de la Paix on Don=92t Add War To War! (25.3.99)
2 /17a: Mouvement de la Paix: Call for Strasbourg Demonstration 4 April
2 /19: Statement US Coalition for Peace and Justice
2 /22: Green Party of Canada condemns NATO strikes (26.3.99)
2 /23: War Resisters' International Statement on Kosovo
2 /24: WILPF Kosovo statement
2 /25: Appeal by the Federation of Peace and Conciliation, the Russian Pe=
ace
Committee, the Russian Fund for Peace, the UN Association of Russia and t=
he
Centre "Eco-Accord"
2 /26: Karel Koster (Netherlands): Comments on Developments on the Balkan
(26.3.99)
2 /27: Support the B92 Campaign
[Unterst=FCtzung f=FCr den freien jugoslavischen Radiosender B92:
http://helpB92.xs4all.nl ]
2 /28: British Quaker opposition to UK/NATO bombing of Kosovo/a
2 /30: Australian Peace Committee (SA Branch): Open Letter to the Autrali=
an
Government
2 /31: Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Canada
2 /32: Jan Myrdal calls for a new Peace Front
2 /39: Letter from INES member Branka Jovanovic (Belgrade)
2 /42: Appeal from Kosova trade unions, 25 March 1999
2 /43: US Fellowship of Reconciliation calls for End of US Bombing and fo=
r
Creative Resistance to Genocide
2 /50: Information Forum "Block-free Europe" (Czech Republic): Open lette=
r to
NATO member states
2 /55: Russia: Statement of the Socio-Ecological Union International on t=
he
Balkan Conflict
2 /56: Belgrade Law Professors Appeal for Help in Ending Attacks, Resumin=
g
Kosovo Talks
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/appeal.htm
2 /56a: Commentary by Carl S. Kaplan, New York Times, 3.4.1999
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/cyber/cyberlaw/02law.html
2 /57: Statement from Amnesty International re: the war on Yugoslavia
2 /59: US Psychologists for Social Responsibility: Letter to President Cl=
inton
(5.4.99)
2 /60: MADRE: Stop The Bombing, Stop The Genocide
[MADRE is a US-based international women's human rights organization]
2 /61: Philipp B. Smith (INES): Kosovo and Machiavelli (3.4.99) plus comm=
ent by
Haldun M. Ozaktas (Turkey)
2 /63: "Les Bombardements de l'OTAN ne sont pas la bonne reponse aux exac=
tions
des Forces Armees Serbes" (Statement Syndicat National des Chercheurs
Scientifiques (France), 27.3.1999)

1 /38: Statement of the North Atlantic Council (following the meeting bet=
ween
representatives of the NATO Member States, the EU Member States, the OSCE=
 CiO,
the UNHCR, the Council of Europe and the Western European Union), Brussel=
s, 4
April 1999 [also available in French]


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 Belgrade, 24 march, 99
 2pm.


 dear friends,

 we have received many letters of support, calls from our friends
 from Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia, thank you.
 The situation:
 Many women are affraid more or less.  last night some of us  have
 worked in the Womens Center untill 9pm, and after that the town was
 calm and empty, and some citizens were around entrance of houses and
 some in the cellers.
 The parts of the town near the military bases felt hard detonations
 and saw the fire.  Those in the center of town did not.
 The telephone lines have  become difficult.


 The worry of pacifists is the situation on Kosovo.
 First, most artillery the serbian army has concentrated in the region
 of Kosovo. Last night i finally caught the telephone lines with
 Pristina and talked to my friend, and she said that the biggest worry
 is the vengeance of serbian army against albanian population.
 The CNN and BBC TV stations are obviously very pro-violence oriented
 and they have inflicted much fear into people in Kosovo, on top of
 the facts that are fearfull in themselves. The serbian officials have
 cut electriciy in Pristina last night, and tuned in this morning.
 The cutting of electricity was clearly the act of producing more fear
 on the one already there.  So you can imagine the mood in Pristina.
 This morning there is no bread and milk in most of the shops  in
 Belgrade and Pristina.
 and it is a beautifull sunny day.


 The fact that enrages is that serbian regime has totally and
 apsolutelly taken the control  of all the media.  Which means that
 only few words come in, and that language of hatred, production of
 enemies and vengeance politics is increasing every minute.   Four
 TV stations fused in one and two others in the other one.  The people
 who do not have satellite TV get few news per hour, about shelters
 and enemies, and nothing else.  This is as well frightening.

 Many women did not sleep last night,
 and sirenas are on and off every couple of hours. So some of us are
 constatly on the phone with those who feel bad.


 Once again feminists and pacifists from Belgrade are again this time
 sending sisterly tender words for our friends and Albanian women and
 their families in Kosovo.


 lepa mladjenovic

 autonomous women's center against sexual violence
 tirsova 5a,  beograd, fr yugoslavia
 tel/fax:  [phone]
 e-mail: [e-mail]


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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Strategy Meeting on Defense Spending
Date: 07 Apr 1999 12:40:08 -0400

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>Dan McGlinchey of Rep. Barney Frank's office asked me to pass
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NucNews-Yugoslavia
Date: 07 Apr 1999 12:51:46 -0400


>7. Well-Armed and Very Dangerous
>
>Belgrade: The obstacles to Yugoslavia's acquisition
>and use of unconventional weapons are not that great.
>
>April 4, 1999 Los Angeles Times, By WILLIAM C. POTTER, JONATHAN B. TUCKER
>http://www.latimes.com/excite/990404/t000029798.html
>
>As NATO mounts its air campaign against Yugoslavia, much has been made of
>the mismatch of the combatants' conventional weapons capabilities. Although
>that imbalance is unlikely to change, too little attention has been given
>to Belgrade's weapons of mass destruction potential. In the near term, this
>danger principally involves chemical weapons. A longer-term, but not
>distant, threat relates to nuclear arms.
>
>Before the breakup of socialist Yugoslavia in 1991, its army had an
>advanced chemical weapons program dating back to the 1960s. According to
>the late Croatian Gen. Zlatko Binenfeld, Yugoslavia produced the deadly
>nerve agent sarin, mustard gas, the choking agent phosgene, the
>hallucinogenic incapacitant BZ and tear gases. These toxic chemicals were
>put into a variety of munitions, including artillery shells, aerial bombs,
>rockets and chemical mines.
>
>Much of the former Yugoslavia's offensive chemical weapons infrastructure,
>production capacity and expertise was inherited in 1991 by the Federal
>Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). Three of the four known
>chemical weapons production facilities in the former Yugoslavia were on
>Serbian territory, and equipment from the fourth such plant, near Mostar,
>Bosnia, was reportedly dismantled by Yugoslav troops and moved to Serbia in
>1992.
>
>Yugoslavia maintains a significant chemical defense posture. An offensive
>capability also may have been demonstrated during the Bosnian war, which
>saw repeated allegations of the use by the Bosnian Serbs of
>Yugoslav-supplied tear gas and BZ. Moreover, Belgrade has refused to sign
>the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention banning development, possession and
>use of chemical arms.
>
>In contrast to the immediate chemical threat posed by Yugoslavia, the
>principal nuclear danger is prospective. It derives from more than 50 years
>of Yugoslav nuclear science research, a large and well-trained cadre of
>nuclear scientists and engineers, a stock of weapons-usable material and a
>history of at least two prior efforts during the Tito regime to acquire
>nuclear arms.
>
>The latest of these attempts to "go nuclear" was launched immediately after
>the first Indian nuclear detonation in 1974 and appears to have been
>abandoned by the early 1980s. Much of the infrastructure to support a
>nuclear weapons program remains intact, however, and is concentrated at the
>Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science near Belgrade. These nuclear assets
>include a 6.5-megawatt research reactor, 48 kilograms of weapons-usable
>uranium (80% U-235) and extensive experience with uranium enrichment and
>plutonium reprocessing. Although to date the Milosevic regime has done
>nothing to suggest that it plans to resume a nuclear weapons program, the
>proliferation incentives for Yugoslavia may grow as it assumes the position
>of a pariah state--a profile closely resembling that of other nuclear
>weapons aspirants such as South Africa in the past and Iraq and North Korea
>today.
>
>The longer and more successful the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia,
>the greater the temptation for Belgrade to consider a nonconventional
>weapons response. This action might involve the terrorist use of chemical
>weapons or radioactive material against the Kosovo Albanians or NATO
>peacekeepers in Bosnia and Macedonia. The Milosevic government might also
>seek to acquire the funds needed to bolster its conventional arsenal by
>trafficking in chemical weapons, nuclear material and associated production
>equipment.                                  To counter these potential
threats, NATO and the
>international community should undertake the following steps:
>
>First, NATO peacekeeping forces in the region must be prepared for possible
>hostilities involving chemical weapons use. Second, increased scrutiny
>should be given to Yugoslav chemical and nuclear trade with would-be
>proliferators. Third, as part of any cease-fire settlement, Belgrade should
>be required to sign and ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention and to
>accept strengthened international safeguards at its nuclear facilities.
>Finally, the U.S. and Russia must revive their traditional but increasingly
>frayed cooperation in halting the spread of weapons of mass destruction. In
>the case of Yugoslavia, this cooperation might take the form of a
>U.S.-subsidized "buy-back" by Moscow of the Soviet-origin nuclear material
>at Vinca.
>
>The technical and political obstacles to the development and employment of
>weapons of mass destruction by Yugoslavia are not as great as often
>assumed. Unless this danger is recognized and steps are taken to counteract
>it, we may soon experience another shock to the nonproliferation regime.
>- - -
>
>William C. Potter Is Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at
>the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Jonathan B. Tucker Directs
>the Center's Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Gorbachev on Yugoslavia bombing
Date: 07 Apr 1999 13:55:53 -0700

>>CNN - Larry King Live - April 3, 1999
>
>MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, GENERAL SECRETARY, SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY
>(through translator): I think this is a big mistake because the political
>solution was possible and the possibilities for a political solutions were
>not used. As someone who has been involved in the politics for many years,
>as someone who was involved in similar negotiations, I was really amazed that
>during these negotiations, at all times the threat of force was used. And it
>was said by NATO that the talks will be more successful if this threat is --
>or the use of force is used during the negotiations.
>
>KING: Does the president...
>
>GORBACHEV (through translator): The political part of the agreement was
>already agreed and negotiated and then suddenly, the so- called military
>part appeared in the form of an ultimatum.
>
>KING: Does the president have any disagreement with Mr. Milosevic?
>
>GORBACHEV (through translator): What happened was the result of mistakes
>made by all sides, and of course, first of all, Milosevic, who liquidated
>the autonomy of Kosovo.
>
>KING: Does the president fear the possibility of ground troops? GORBACHEV
>(through translator): I think NATO has made a mistake and now this mistake
>must be corrected. The air strikes are mistake enough. Those air strikes
>were done without authorization from the United Nations. This regarding the
>view, the views of countries like Russia, China, India and this has placed
>the world in a very, very difficult situation.
>
>So, I don't even want to think about the use of ground troops. I believe
>that, instead, the air strikes should be stopped because the situation is
>difficult enough now.
>
>And Larry, I am really amazed at the kind of self-confidence --
>over-confidence that is being shown by President Clinton and today's
>statement also by Tony Blair. They are too sure that the air strikes would
>achieve their goal. I believe that instead this will boomerang and they will
>certainly rue this and
>the view of the people, not just the Yugoslav people, but the people
>throughout the world, is very negative. Even in Europe, people are divided.
>And of course, other people are saying, "Well that's what Western values
are."
>
>KING: Mr. President, can Russia do any more to help?
>
>GORBACHEV (through translator): I believe that Russia should stick to the
>position that it is for a
>political settlement. This is very important. We should not lose our heads.
>No one should lose their
>heads.
>
>I believe that the signal -- the message -- that was carried by Primakov has
>now been confirmed in
>the talks between Milosevic and Rugova, the political leader of the ethnic
>Albanians. So that shows
>that there is a potential for a political solution. So, let us take
>advantage of this and let us find a
>political solution.
>
>I believe that Russia alone without cooperation with the United States
>cannot change the situation readily for the better, cannot change this very
>dangerous situation alone. Because after all, we understand that if Russia
>acts alone, then the United States will perhaps fear that the U.S.
>credibility is being undermined.
>
>So, the situation today is that every one should try and save face, but let
>us think above all about the sufferings of the people. Let us think about
>that, the people are suffering.
>
>KING: If you were president now...
>
>GORBACHEV (through translator): And Larry, I am very much concerned about the
>consequences of what is happening in Yugoslavia and what is happening with
>respect to this crisis. The international law has been (OFF-MIKE). Force has
>been used. The position of the U.N. Security Council has been undermined.
>And now Europe has been shown who's the boss. And I know this because I hear
>this from the Europeans. Russia is being humiliated.
>
>And this will push a new arms race in every country in the world. People
>will be thinking we must have more weapons, because the time will come when
>we may, might have to use them. And there is a real threat that in many
>countries there will be an effort made to get absolute weapons. To get
>weapons of mass  destruction. I believe this will also give impetus to
>terrorism.
>
>We'll be dealing with terrible consequences and our attempt to create a new
>peaceful world order, will be made extremely difficult. And our attempts to
>create a new peaceful world order will be made extremely difficult.
>
>So, we must stop. And a joint effort, particularly by the United States and
>Russia. The U.N. Security Council should also be given a role. And we must
>build a new security structure, a new security architecture in Europe. NATO
>cannot be the guarantor. NATO may participate but all Europeans should take
>decisions rather than NATO alone.
>
>This is all very serious, and I would like President Clinton, and I would
>like the United States to take the initiative in doing this, preferably in
>cooperation with Russia, and other countries. Otherwise this process that we
>are seeing now cannot be held in check, cannot be controlled.
>
>KING: Mr. President, I thank you very much. A very strong advocate of his
>country...
>
>GORBACHEV (through translator): Thank you, Larry. Pleased to talk to you. I
>was very pleased to talk to you because I have confidence in you and I trust
>you, and respect you. I feel that you are as concerned as I am about what's
>happening, and I believe that what happened between our countries -- the
>improvement that happened after the end of the Cold War is now being
threatened
>and I am very concerned about this.
>
>KING: Thank you Mr. President.
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Softwar: Tangled Web in Yugoslavia
Date: 07 Apr 1999 13:19:49 -0700

Softwar is one reason governments would like to control the net. - J2

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19990406_xcsof_how_clinto.shtml

Clinton's war in the former Yugoslavia started within days of
his taking office in 1993.  In 1993, Croat and Bosnian Serbs,
backed by the Milosevic regime in Belgrade, were battling with
Croat and Bosnia Muslims.  The war was dominated by a UN arms
embargo against the fractured Yugoslavia.  No new weapons could
get into the country to feed the widening civil war.  The arm
embargo was strictly enforced by NATO and the newly elected
Clinton.

Initially, the Serbs were winning.  They out-gunned the larger
Croat and Bosnian forces, because they were backed by tanks from
their friend in Belgrad, Milosevic.

Starting in 1993, the Croats and Bosnians suddenly acquired
loads of Chinese made artillery and anti-tank rockets.  The new
arms arrived in Bosnia on Iranian C-130 cargo planes, in
violation of the NATO embargo.  The Iranian arms shipments were
credited with stopping a major Serbian offensive, and costing
Milosevic victory in the long war.

Ironically, the same weapons also cost former the Clinton
National Security advisor, Anthony Lake, his bid to be CIA
Director.  During Senate hearings, Lake was forced to admit that
the U.S. knew of the Iranian arms flights and did nothing to
stop them.  Lake, who was then up for the newly vacated CIA
Directorship, admitted the misdeeds and resigned in disgrace.

The sudden admission of a U.S./Iranian plot to arm the Muslims
strained relations and embarrassed the Clinton administration.
European allies and Russia had enforced the embargo with
aircraft and naval warships.

Yet, Iran did more than just send guns.  Ali Fallahan, the top
spy for Iran, was also sent into Yugoslavia along with the
Chinese made AK-47s, artillery and rocket launchers.  Ali
Fallahan was then head of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence
and Security, or Vavak.  Fallahan also is known to preside over
the Iranian overseas operations planning committee.  It is this
committee that approves all Iranian sponsored terrorist attacks
abroad.

In 1996, the accidental discovery of a Vavak base in Bosnia by
NATO forces provided the hard evidence of Iranian actions and of
Fallahan's activities.  NATO troops found a treasure trove of
advanced communications and bugging devices from around the
world purchased by Fallahan.  The equipment was quickly tracked
back to each respective supplier and thus the Germans
re-constructed Fallahan's travels.

Once in Europe, Fallahan drove anywhere he wanted, and
frequently did.  It was during one stop in Germany that Fallahan
helped set up the assassination of Kurd rebel leaders exiled in
Berlin.

Fallahan also masterminded a huge buy of German, Russian and
Japanese state-of-the-art listening devices, encryption and
communications equipment which was shipped to Iran in 1994 and
1995.  This equipment was used to outfit both the Iranian and
Bosnian intelligence services, some of which was found by the
NATO forces in the Bosnian Vavak raid.

In 1997, Fallahan was found guilty - in absentia - by the
Germans for the assassination of Kurdish leaders in Berlin.  The
discovery of Fallahan, the advanced equipment, plans and hordes
of Iranian spies on euro soil finally shocked western Europe
into demanding Bosnia disconnect itself from Tehran.

Today, while American airpower hurls itself on the suburbs of
Belgrad for CNN cameras, there is another war.  The flashy shows
of missile strikes and stealth attacks being played out in the
skies dominate the press.  The real dirty war in Kosovo is
fought with an AK-47 or SKS rifle at close range.

The initial supply of guns for the KLA was taken from the
armories of the Yugoslavian and Albanian communist states as
they disintegrated.  The first batch of local guns were not
enough to sustain a war.  The aging equipment has since been
re-enforced with brand new Chinese made rifles.

In the 1980s, the CIA combined with middle eastern heroin
smugglers and Chinese weapons makers to assist the Afghans
during their long war against the ex-Soviet Union.  The dirty
war in Afghanistan bred the CIA trained, Saudi millionaire, Bin
Laden.  Bin Laden fought the Soviets with U.S. and Chinese made
equipment.

The KLA has rearmed using the same not-so-old religious
connection through the Iranians and Chinese arms smugglers.
The KLA "praise the lord and pass the ammunition" strategy
includes drug smugglers well known to the CIA and former
Albanian communists, now backing the KLA.

Two benefactors from Clinton's dirty little war in Kosovo are
Poly Technologies and NORINCO, both arms firms owned by Chinese
Generals.  Norinco SKS assault rifles currently grace the KLA
forces operating inside Kosovo.  NBC and CNN have shown KLA
rebels, armed with Chinese SKS rifles and their distinctive,
fixed, 10 round clip.  You can see the same SKS rifles in the
well known picture of Clinton reviewing Chinese troops in
Tiananmen square on the cover of the book "Year of the Rat."

Poly Tech is better known to the Clinton administration.  Poly
Technologies was busted in 1996 by U.S. Customs agents posing as
drug dealers trying to buy a couple of AK-47s.  The customs raid
netted over 2,000 fully automatic AK-47s, hand grenades,
anti-tank rockets and shoulder fired surface-to-air (SAM)
missiles.  The Chinese arsenal was hidden in a cargo container
freshly unloaded from a COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company)
ship, docked in Los Angeles.

The Poly Tech workers have all been released by the inept Reno
Dept. of Justice.  Some fled the country and have returned to
China.  Following the fiasco, Clinton officials issued a
statement, saying the arms were destined for "drug" dealers in
the United States.

Poly Tech is also known to Janet Reno for another reason.
Charlie Trie and Poly Tech President Wang Jun met with Commerce
Secretary Ron Brown after donating over $50,000 to the DNC.  In
fact, Poly Tech President Wang Jun met with Ms. General Reno's
boss, Mr. Clinton, inside the White House just after that
donation through Trie and Brown.

In April, 1996, Secretary Brown lost his life in the former
Yugoslavia.  Brown died in a plane crash just outside of
Dubrovnik, Croatia.  Brown died along with a host of the highest
and mightiest of U.S. Corporate heads.

The death of the Secretary came as a blow to the White House and
to the criminal investigations of Ron Brown's Commerce Dept.  It
was well known that a Special Prosecutor was preparing heavy
evidence of corruption.  Brown's death stopped that
investigation just before the 1996 election.

The blow to the White House was displayed by Clinton himself who
personally burst into tears at Ron's funeral.  Clinton had just
stepped out of his limo, laughing his guts out, when he noticed
several TV cameras were focused on him.  It was then Clinton
burst into the "boo-hoos" for Brown.

However, another Commerce employee was involved in the fatal
Croatia trip.  Ira Sockowitz, a DNC fundraiser, New York banker
and co-worker of John Huang at the Commerce Dept. was scheduled
to fly into Cilipi airport along with Brown.  Curiously,
Sockowitz chose to leave ahead of Brown on an advance flight
instead of going with the Secretary on a flight packed with DNC
fat-cats.

After the crash, Sockowitz was the man in Croatia that
identified Ron Brown's body.  Once he was safely back in D.C.,
Ira Sockowitz collected a vast array of information on Bosnia
and Croatia given to Ron Brown for that last flight.

In August of 1996, Ira Sockowitz quietly took detailed bios of
the Bosnian and Croatian leaders out of the secured facility at
the Commerce Department to his new job at the Small Business
Administration.  These secret documents would join a host of
other classified material from the Department of State, NSA,
CIA, Commerce, Russia, and France.  All hidden in a personal
safe just before the 1996 Presidential election.

There are many questions about that last fatal flight.  For
example, there were several interesting companies represented on
Brown's trip into Dubrovnik.  Dubrovnik is an ex-Yugoslav
submarine base and a few of the dead had their own under-water
skills.

For example, Stuart Tholan, President of Bechtel Corp., a well
known contractor to the CIA and a prime contractor on sub base
building for DOD.  Another flyer was David Ford, President and
Chief Executive Officer for Interguard Corp., a company that
provides high tech security guards for Navy bases.  Finally,
there was Walter Murphy, Senior Vice President for AT&T
Submarine Systems Sub Communications Systems.

In July 1996, Secretary Kantor replaced Ron Brown and led a new
delegation of corporate contributors to Bosnia.  The list of big
companies riding with Kantor is covered with blacked-out
sections withheld by the Commerce Dept.  Some of those traveling
with Kanto include ABB, AT&T, Bechtel, Boeing, Enron, McDonalds,
and Motorola.

In his televised attempt to explain the NATO airstrikes, Clinton
noted that there was some amount of money at stake in the crisis
over Kosovo.  So far, the Pentagon estimated we have spent $500
million in bombing Serbia.  After the bombs, Clinton will
propose a "re-building" package of U.S. aid to repair the Serb
Police HQ and all the bridges destroyed by NATO forces.  More
billions to hand out as corporate pork.

Yet, while the bombs fall and the innocent victims die, liberal
lovers of Bill Clinton need to ask themselves, just what are we
fighting for?  Is it to save the Kosovo people or to protect the
profits of war?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Congressman Ron Paul on War in Kosovo
Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:09:41 EDT

In a message dated 4/8/99 2:20:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< ------------
    On March 29, Congressman Paul (R-Texas), the only libertarian in
    Congress, issued the following statement:

    Burning Bridges: Attacks on Kosovo Unjustified, Shameful

    This is not a proud moment for America, as the United States military
    has been used to invade a sovereign nation that threatened neither our
    security, nor even the borders of our allies or friends.

    Yet, for an Administration enthralled with the notion of a
    paternalistic government that cares for everyone, everywhere, all the
    time, President Clinton's actions in Serbia should not be surprising.

    Just as this president believes he and his government can best order
    the lives of each American citizen (he recently said that Americans
    shouldn't be given a tax cut because they would not spend the money as
    wisely as he and his administration would), he is confident that he
    can solve the problems of the world. His track record suggests
    otherwise; despite the fanfare and speeches, there is still violence
    raging from the Middle East to Ireland -- all great "successes" for
    this president.

    For as bad as the violence is toward the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,
    our ability to police and stop all ethnic fighting around the world is
    quite limited, and the efforts are quite simply not permitted under
    constitutional law. We do not even pretend to solve the problems of
    sub-Saharan Africa, Tibet, East Timor, Kurdistan, and many other
    places around the world where the violence is endless and just as
    tragic.

    Most importantly, though, is the simple fact that meddling in the
    internal affairs of a nation involved in civil war is quite dangerous.
    Both sides believe themselves to be correct, and neither side will
    appreciate the other side receiving assistance.

    If anything, our involvement threatens to escalate the situation. No
    successful military action has ever -- or likely will ever -- involve
    only air power; ground troops must be involved. While a stealth jet
    will likely always escape the "primitive" weapons of the Serbs, a
    bullet aimed at a soldier can be very primitive, yet just as effective
    as the most modern of firearms.

    Some argue the US is needed to stop the spread of war. Our presence
    will do the opposite. Peaceful and cooperative relations with Russia,
    a long-desired goal, are now greatly threatened. Our bombings are
    likely to provoke the Russians into now becoming a much more active
    ally of Serbia.

    Our determination to be involved in the dangerous civil war may well
    prompt a stronger Greek alliance with their friends in Serbia, further
    splitting NATO and offending the Turks, who are naturally inclined to
    be sympathetic to the Albanian Muslims.

    Contrary to his campaign slogan, President Clinton's actions are
    burning bridges to the 21st Century. The tragedy is that it will be
    our soldiers -- our brothers, sisters, sons and daughters -- who are
    trapped by these senseless actions, and it will be the innocent women
    and children of Serbia who will bear the brunt of the bombings.

    Sympathy and compassion for the suffering and voluntary support for
    the oppressed is commendable, even honorable. But as history shows,
    ethnic peace is not achieved by outside forces committing acts of war
    to pick and choose sides in fighting that dates back hundreds of
    years.

    The use of force and acts of war can only spread the misery and
    suffering, weaken our defenses, and undermine our national
    sovereignty.

    This is not a proud time for the United States.

    -- Congressman Ron Paul

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      commercial republic that would be a beacon of freedom, trading with
      all and staying out of the endless quarrels of the Old World -- we
      can only be utterly alienated from the regime that rules a country
      conceived in liberty. It is clearer than ever that the U.S. warfare
      state must be dismantled, so that it can no longer threaten the
      world, or trample on true American ideals."

    -- from "Freedom vs. War," a WorldNetDaily column on the Kosovo crisis
    by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., president of the Ludwig von Mises
    Institute.

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Russian Military Hawks on Kosovo
Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:43:07 -0700


-----Original Message-----


>FYI.  This is why we might end up in unintended or
>accidental nuclear war within a matter of weeks.
>Check out my just finished article:
>"Four Reasons We May See Nuclear War in 1999"
>http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/4-reasons-nuke-war.html
>Includes links.   Carol in D.C.
>(pardon duplicates--wanted to get out quick before leave today)


This following story ran on page A01 of the Boston Globe on 04/08/99.
>=A9 Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company.

>-------
>BOSTON GLOBE
>RUSSIA'S MILITARY SEES A BALKAN OPPORTUNITY
>
>By David Filipov, Globe Staff, 04/08/99
>
> MOSCOW - Remember ''The Peacemaker''?
> The 1997 Hollywood flick in which a
>maverick Russian general, disgruntled over the
>sad state of his once proud country, steals nuclear
>warheads for Bosnian Serb terrorists?
>
>That was the movie. Here is the reality.
>
>Today's maverick is Viktor Chechevatov, a
>three-star general and commander of ground
>forces in Russia's Far East region, who is
>convinced that NATO's attacks on Yugoslavia
>are ''the beginning of World War III.'' No matter
>how often Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin says
>Russia will stay away from the fighting,
>Chechevatov keeps making public calls for
>Moscow to send arms and men, preferably with him in charge, to fight the
>
>American-led alliance alongside the Serbs.
>
>At the very least, this is insubordination. But do not look for
>Chechevatov to
>be fired, or even reprimanded, anytime soon. Much of the country agrees
>with Chechevatov when he says NATO's campaign against Yugoslavia
>poses ''a direct threat to Russia.'' And the Kremlin, which yesterday
>ordered
>several more warships into the Mediterranean, may be listening, too.
>
>As Russians watch the US-led assault on Yugoslavia, political and
>military
>hawks are finding more support for their confrontational policies toward
>the
>West than at any time since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. They
>miss the way the West feared the former USSR, and they want those days
>back.
>
>That poses a number of dangers, analysts say. In the short run, the
>Kremlin
>may find itself forced to take an increasingly militaristic line, even
>as Yeltsin
>repeats his promise not to let Russia get caught up in the conflict.
>
>But there are other forces in the Russian leadership who listen when
>Chechevatov and other military leaders say that World War III has begun,
>
>and that Moscow's best move is to aid the Serbs.
>
>Yesterday, Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, voted
>overwhelmingly for a resolution advising Yeltsin and his government to
>send
>weapons and an unspecified military mission to Yugoslavia. Last week,
>the
>upper house passed a similar resolution.
>
>''There exists the risk of the military pressuring the civilian
>leadership for a
>military reaction,'' said Alexander Pikayev, an analyst for the Carnegie
>
>Center in Moscow. ''The political leadership is under greater pressure
>from
>the leftist and nationalist opposition, which wants to use the Balkan
>crisis to
>come to power.''
>
>Publicly, the Kremlin has so far ignored Chechevatov's call to arms.
>Meanwhile, hundreds of volunteers have offered to fight alonside the
>Serbs,
>thought of by some here as Russia's traditional allies because of the
>two
>cultures' common Slav heritage and Orthodox Christian religion. The
>government has told them to stay home.
>
>Yesterday, Yeltsin urged Western leaders to accept a unilateral peace
>proposal offered by Yugoslavia on Tuesday. Underscoring Moscow's
>options if diplomacy fails, a naval spokesman said a squadron of
>warships
>had set out from the Black Sea base of Sevastopol, Ukraine. Moscow had
>previously informed Turkey that as many as eight ships, including the
>missile
>cruiser Admiral Golovko and several destroyers and frigates, could be
>passing through the Bosphorus Strait in the next few days.
>
>Russia says the ships are heading for exercises in the Mediterranean,
>but it is
>clear they are intended to send a message to NATO as well.
>
>Already, Moscow has sent an unarmed electronic reconnaissance ship to
>monitor the conflict. The Liman entered the Adriatic Sea yesterday,
>where it
>will begin relaying information about NATO air strikes back to Moscow -
>and possibly to the Serbs, although Russia denies that Belgrade will get
>
>direct information from the spy ship.
>
>The danger of all these vessels is not that some Russian officer might
>go
>freelancing, like that maverick general in ''The Peacemaker,'' and act
>unilaterally to escalate the conflict. Military analysts say that even
>given the
>deterioration of the Russian armed forces over the past decade, the
>command structure among field officers is still too rigid to allow that.
>But
>analysts say Russian ships pose a threat just by being there.
>
>''The presence of Russians in the area of the conflict could lead to an
>uncontrolled escalation of the situation,'' Pikayev said.
>
>Since the bombing began, commentators have underlined how weak
>Russia's military has become, implying that the Cold War-style rhetoric
>coming out of Moscow, and such acts of suspending ties with NATO, are
>no more than symbols because Russia can go no further.
>
>In a way this is true. Russia's military owes $1.5 billion in back
>wages,
>heating bills, and rent. According to the the newspaper Segodnya, it
>fields
>only 550 warplanes and 1,200 helicopters, 15 times less than 10 years
>ago
>and about 14 percent of NATO's 12,500 jets and helicopters. Those Black
>Sea fleet warships, like many vessels in Russia's four fleets, have not
>had
>exercises in years.
>
>But Russia still has 6,660 nuclear warheads. Senior generals have warned
>
>that Moscow would use them if it felt threatened, and the Northern Fleet
>
>test-fired a ballistic missile in exercises last week.
>
>But what does ''threatened'' mean? Russia's defense minister, Igor
>Sergeyev,
>has said that the events in Yugoslavia are worrisome because they
>''could
>happen anywhere.'' Many Russians worry NATO could use Kosovo as a
>precedent to intervene in Russia's breakaway province of Chechnya, or in
>
>any of a number of hot spots along proposed routes for oil pipelines out
>
>from the Caspian Sea.
>
>''The bombing of Yugoslavia could turn out in the very near future to be
>just
>a rehearsal for similar strikes on Russia,'' Chechevatov wrote in a
>recent
>letter to Yeltsin. Nearly two-thirds of Russians agree with the general,
>
>according to a poll by the Moscow-based Public Opinion Foundation.
>
>Meanwhile, the nuclear winter in Russia's relations with the West means
>that
>no significant arms-control initiatives will be signed anytime soon.
>More
>disturbing is the cancellation of an exchange program that would have
>had
>US and Russian nuclear weapons officers in constant contact at year's
>end
>to prevent any launches as a result of Year 2000 computer troubles.
>
>Someone is happy about what the Balkans crisis may do for Russia's
>military: defense factories and military leaders for whom reduced
>spending
>on the army has been a disaster; officers who for the first time in
>years are
>holding exercises; officers like Chechevatov, who recently completed
>exercises that ''had nothing to do with the Balkans'' in which his
>troops
>practiced shooting down Tomahawk cruise missiles.
>
>These people ''are partying 24 hours a day,'' in the words of Russian
>defense
>anlyst Pavel Felgenhauer. Parliament has already called for increases in
>
>defense funding, although it is hard to say where the money will come
>from.
>The Soviet military once enjoyed the lion's share of spending, but the
>rest of
>the country lived in relative squalor as a result.
>
>A long-term danger posed by the hawks' increasing influence is that
>political
>moderates, and those who favor constructive relations with the West, are
>
>finding their voices drowned out by what one legislator, Alexi Arbatov,
>called ''the feeling of helpless rage'' experienced by many Russians.
>This may
>be the lasting legacy of the Balkan conflict for Russia.
>
>This story ran on page A01 of the Boston Globe on 04/08/99.
>=A9 Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: PSR Says Shutdown FFTF
Date: 08 Apr 1999 17:26:58 -0400

>Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:55:54 -0400
>Subject: PSR Says Shutdown FFTF
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>PSR Security Activists & Friends:
>Please help us to finally put FFTF to rest.=20
>Richardson will make a decision soon, Faxes/ phone calls are urged.=20
>ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND:=20
>1) PSR Press Release & Resoulution,
>2) Action Alert from Washington PSR
>
>For more information contact Kathy <[e-mail]> or Ruth Yarrow at
>Washington PSR <[e-mail]>
>***************************************************************
>Press Release
>Contact: Ruth Yarrow
>        [phone]
>
>NATIONAL DOCTORS GROUP DECLARES OPPOSITION TO RESTARTING HANFORD REACTOR
>
>Seattle, WA, April 8, 1999: =20
>
>        Doctors from across the nation, at Physicians for Social
>Responsibility's national board meeting in Seattle today, voted
>unanimously in favor of a resolution opposing the restart of the Fast
>Flux Test Facility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.  They noted that
>two of their prime concerns are 1) long-term public and environmental
>health and 2) cleaning up the legacy of toxic waste from Cold War
>nuclear weapons production.  The resolution (attached) concludes that
>any production violates those concerns by producing new waste stream
>that threat public and environmental health.
>
>Physicians for Social Responsibility=20
> Resolution, April 8, 1999
>
>Whereas two prime concerns of Physicians for Social Responsibility are
>long-term public and environmental health, and addressing the Cold War
>legacy of nuclear weapons production and testing, and
>
>Whereas nuclear wastes at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, generated by
>nuclear weapons production and comprising two thirds of the nation's
>burden of high level nuclear waste, threaten global long term public and
>environmental health, and
>
>Whereas the Tri-Party Agreement between the Washington State Department
>of Ecology, The US Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection
>Administration makes cleanup, not nuclear weapons or any other
>production resulting in further contamination, the legal mission of
>Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and
>
>Whereas the Fast Flux Test Facility has been deemed inappropriate for
>medical isotope production by the Institute of Medicine in its 1995
>report Isotopes for Medicine and the Life Sciences,
>
>Therefore, be it resolved, that Physicians for Social Responsibility
>opposes the restart of the Fast Flux Test Facility for any production
>mission, and supports the urgent cleanup mission of the Hanford Nuclear
>Reservation as a prescription for disaster prevention for generations to
>come.
>
>***********************************************
>ACTION ALERT
>
>Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
>Rapid Response Network for Hanford Clean-up
>
> ACTION:  Please write to Secretary Richardson and Governor Locke,
>asking them to protect public and environmental health in the Northwest,
>preventing any addition of nuclear waste to the overburdened Hanford
>clean-up, and opposing any production mission at the Hanford the Fast
>Flux Test Facility (FFTF). =20
>
>Thanks to the efforts of many of you, Secretary of Energy Bill
>Richardson decided in December NOT to restart the FFTF at Hanford to
>produce tritium for nuclear weapons. By mid-April he will make the final
>decision about whether or not to permanently shut down the FFTF.  NOW is
>an important time to write him and our Governor on this issue.  The
>following are some points you could make in your letters.
>
>=B7 I am writing to urge that you shut down the Fast Flux Test Facility. =
=20
>Any production missions for the FFTF would produce new high level
>radioactive waste streams.  The sole mission of Hanford in the legally
>binding Tri-Party Agreement is clean-up.
>
>=B7 Keeping the FFTF on hot stand-by is already costing tens of millions
>of dollars annually.  The Department of Energy should be using these
>funds to clean up Hanford; the most contaminated nuclear site in the
>western world.
>
>=B7 The Institute of Medicine's report on medical isotopes, Isotopes for
>Medicine and the Life Sciences, makes clear that the FFTF is an
>inappropriate facility for the production of medical isotopes.=20
>
>=B7 The Department of Energy made a commitment to use public process in
>reaching recommendations on the future of the FFTF.  But we have not
>heard of any public hearings on proposed FFTF missions.  Please ensure
>that these meetings are held in sites available to citizens around WA
>and OR.
>
>
>Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson
>US Dept. of Energy
>1000 Independence Ave., SW
>Washington, DC 20585
>TEL: [phone]
>FAX: [phone]
>
>Governor Gary Locke
>P.O. Box 40002
>Olympia, WA 98504-0002
>Email: [e-mail]
>**********************************************************
>Kathy Crandall
>Associate Director, Nuclear Security Programs
>1101 14th Street NW #700 Washington DC 20005
>TEL: [phone] ext. 222
>FAX: [phone]
>E-MAIL: [e-mail]
> =20
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Kosovo/useful websites and emails
Date: 09 Apr 1999 01:58:55 EDT



Subj:    Kosovo/useful websites and emails


 Friends, Comrades, co-workers,

 This listing, while it comes from a "left" position (not, probably, too
different from my own) does something very useful - it provides a genuine
range of sites some of you may find helpful. Please note the senders request
to help with providing other sites that should be listed.

 Fraternally,
 David McReynolds

 << Subj:     Kosovo/useful websites and emails
  Date:    4/8/99 11:55:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time
  From:    [e-mail] (International Viewpoint)


  The following websites provide useful background on
  the Kosovo crisis and related information.

  Please send us your own suggestions to expand this
  list.

  Adam
  International Viewpoint
  -----------------------------------------------------

  Radio B92

  The backbone of the independent news service in Yugoslavia.
  Although banned, Radio B92 is still live on the web, with
  breaking news in English.

  www.b92.net


  Institution for War and Peace Reporting

  This is one of the few places to find dispatches, translated into
  English, from dissident journalists within Serbia and Kosovo,
  along with other good commentary.

  www.iwpr.net


  ZNet

  A page of up-to-the-minute articles regarding the current
  bombings. The lead piece by Noam Chomsky puts the entire
  situation into context, and other pieces posted include Andre
  Gunder Frank, Dave McReynolds, Diane Johnstone, Stephen Zunes and
  Michael Albert.

  www.zmag.org


  Common Dreams News Center

  Provides breaking news and views for progressive-thinking
  Americans, with ample information on the crisis in Kosovo,
  including maps and breaking updates from various news services.

  www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm


  Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

  FAIR's coverage of the war in Yugoslavia includes "Rescued from
  the Memory Hole: Background of Serb/Albanian Conflict."

  www.fair.org


  Help B92

  This group has been founded to try to insure the distribution of
  relevant information. It is named in honor of one of Yugoslavia's
  most important media entities, Without immediate financial
  support, this last source of independent news for the inhabitants
  of this region is endangered. A fundraising campaign is underway,
  with the objective of sending money and equipment to B92 and
  other independent radio stations in Serbia and Kosovo.

  http://helpB92.xs4all.nl

  <[e-mail]>


  Out There News

  Reports from Kosovo's frontlines, interviews with Kosovar
  pacifist leaders, photos of the destruction and historical
  background.

  www.megastories.com/kosovo/index.htm


  BBC News Online

  The BBC offers live audio coverage and many articles on Kosovo,
  as well as "Kosovo Conflict on the Web," with BBC News Online's
  guide to how the conflict is being represented on the Web.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo


  North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  NATO's site is occasionally unavailable, apparently because of a
  daily barrage by thousands of e-mails from hackers in Belgrade,
  which made their system crash.

  www.nato.int


  Against the NATO attacks/For the Support of Yugoslavia

  This Serb site provides an immediate responses to various Serbian
  and international news reports, a timetable of the day's air
  raids, photos of the destruction in Kosovo and a child's plea for
  peace.

  www.beograd.com/nato


  END
  _________________________________________________
  International Viewpoint * Inprecor * Inprekorr
  PO Box 27410, London SW9 9WQ, Britain
  Fax [phone]
  <[e-mail]>
  URL (1): <www.internationalen.se/sp/ivp.htm>
  URL (2): <come.to/international-viewpoint>
  Free electronic subscription


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From: "Peter Coombes" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Letter to Prime Minister, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Date: 08 Apr 1999 23:34:12 -0700

April 8, 1999

End the Arms Race
Suite 405 825 Granville Street
Vancouver BC V6Z 1K9
604/ 687-3223
Fax [phone]
[e-mail]
www.peacewire.org

The Honourable Jean Chretien,
Prime Minister of Canada
House of Commons
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6

Dear Prime Minister Chretien:

End the Arms Race is one of Canada's largest and most active peace groups.
We are writing to express our absolute opposition to the bombing of
Yugoslavia by NATO and to Canada's support for this act of war.
Foremost, we are fundamentally opposed to Canada's supporting this military
action because it is not helping to resolve the political problems facing
Yugoslavia and the province of Kosovo. NATO and Canada's goals seem to be
narrowly focused on the military outcome and are at best fuzzy in respect to
the expected political outcome. Indeed, NATO military involvement has only
further exacerbated the humanitarian and political problems and may even
widen the conflict to engulf the region and the rest of Europe.

End the Arms Race has many concerns and many serious arguments for opposing
the bombing of Yugoslavia. Allow me to briefly expand on issues of prime
concern:
1) It is apparent that NATO did very little to defuse the conflict over the
past few years and in the past months did not exhaust all diplomatic efforts
to resolve this crisis. The offices and diplomatic resources of both the
United Nations and OSCE were not fully utilized. For example, money and
resources for diplomatic efforts by the OSCE were not as quickly forthcoming
as were the hundreds of millions, and maybe even billions, of dollars to be
spent without hesitation on military action. OSCE efforts to send observers
were often slowed and stalled by the same nations that hastily sent their
militaries to bomb Yugoslavia. The office of the United Nations General
Secretariat was not called upon to intervene in the conflict.
2) Not only did Yugoslavia refuse to sign what it perceived to be an imposed
peace deal but so did Russia. Russia's refusal to sign this deal should have
sent a clear signal to NATO that this was a flawed proposal that needed
further diplomatic negotiations.
3) There is no precedent or evidence to suggest that air strikes would have
met the primary humanitarian goal of protecting the Kosovars. On the
contrary, many commentators predicted that the air assaults would only
worsen the situation. Unfortunately, the worst-case scenario has now been
realized.
4) Little aid or support was given to neighbouring countries to deal with
the influx of refugees stemming from the civil war before the NATO bombing
campaign. Since the bombing campaign started, the refugee crisis has become
a true catastrophe - an obvious indication that the bombing is making the
situation worse.
5) The flow of small arms to the Kosovo Liberation Army has never been
stemmed to help defuse the violent conflict. The obvious fact is that the
western world turned a blind eye to the trading and smuggling of small arms
into Kosovo. Serious efforts should have been made to stop the trafficking
of these arms through Macedonia and other border areas.
6) Throughout the past few months, U.S. negotiators have obviously placed
more value on the demands of the Kosovo Liberation Army than on the more
moderate non-violent demands of the elected government in Kosovo. This is
even more apparent now as moderate Albanian leaders call for a peaceful
settlement of the conflict.
7) Under international law the bombing of Yugoslavia is blatantly illegal -
NATO has no authority to bomb an independent country.
8) Canada has failed the United Nations. The unilateral military action of
NATO has further undermined the authority of the United Nations and the new
International Court of Justice and other UN bodies. Canada has contributed
to international anarchy by demonstrating that international politics is
governed not by law but by military power.
9) The bombing has clearly undermined western cooperation with Russia. This
is among the most destabilizing outcomes of this war against Yugoslavia.
Russia will likely rescind its efforts to adopt the Start II treaty and
progress toward nuclear disarmament may come to a halt. Although Russia has
stated that it does not intend to get involved in the conflict, mixed
messages are being sent. The dispatching of Russian military ships to the
region is alarming.
10) A goal of Canada and the international community should have been to
contain the conflict. Instead, by involving NATO the conflict now threatens
to involve neighbouring countries and provinces, including Montenegro,
Bosnia, Macedonia, and Albania.
11) The primary goal of Canada and the collective international goal should
have been to help resolve the internal conflict and to prevent a
'humanitarian disaster.' Instead NATO has taken sides in an internal
conflict. NATO bombing has contributed to the mass exodus of refugees, the
killing of civilians and the seemingly inevitable destruction of
Yugoslavia's civilian infrastructure, further impoverishing millions of
people.
The outcome of NATO's bombing campaign is an unmitigated disaster that must
be immediately stopped. Further bombing will only exacerbate and prolong the
problems already outlined: more civilian deaths and refugees,
destabilization of the region, worse relations between Russia and NATO
members, and increased international anarchy.
Political solutions are available but will only be found if all sides
involved are willing to negotiate. This means that NATO, its members, and in
particular the United States, cannot dictate the terms of peace as was done
prior to the bombing campaign of Yugoslavia. Madeleine Albright publicly
committed NATO to bombing Yugoslavia if the President refused to sign the
'peace' deal. No country, including Canada, would have accepted this type of
bullying tactic.  Instead of helping, the threat of bombing hardened
positions on all sides.
The peace deal was flawed from the beginning. Even the most casual observer
realized the stationing of NATO troops in Kosovo would be unacceptable to
Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia had brought proposals to the negotiations in Paris
that NATO refused to consider. Thus, we can only conclude that NATO's
priority was not a peaceful settlement and the prevention of a humanitarian
disaster but instead was the imposition of western demands on an internal
conflict.
If Canada's goal is truly humanitarian - to save lives - then war is simply
wrong. This is already clearly evident, given the humanitarian disaster now
taking place in the Balkans. A peaceful resolution of conflict is often the
more difficult route to take, but the right one.
It is time to stop the bombing of Yugoslavia before we are pulled even
further into this quagmire. The only solution is a diplomatic one. It is
time to return to the negotiating table to correct the mistakes we have made
and this will require compromise on all sides. Russia must be key to any
negotiations and its approval will be required on any future agreements.
Obviously, NATO troops will not be able to participate in any capacity as
either observers or as peacekeepers. We must demonstrate the political will
to put significant resources into the OSCE and the United Nations to help
achieve and monitor a viable peace agreement.
Sincerely yours,

Peter Coombes
President



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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) CNN CAN'T FIND DISSENT FROM THE LEFT
Date: 08 Apr 1999 23:57:33 -0700

FAIR ACTION ALERT: CNN CAN'T FIND DISSENT FROM THE LEFT
April 8, 1999

On April 7, CNN's Bill Schneider offered this analysis of the anti-war
sentiment in the country: "What's missing from the Kosovo story is
anti-war protest, at least on the left."  Schneider continued by
saying that there was "no action out there on the streets or on
campuses -- no marches, no demonstrations, no teach-ins."

The statement is true, if one watches the media for signs of dissent
from the left.  In fact, contrary to Schneider's claim, there is
plenty of dissent from the Clinton policy-on campuses, in the streets
and from leading progressive writers and thinkers.

Leading left-of-center publications like The Nation and The
Progressive have editorialized against the NATO bombings. Groups like
the War Resisters League and the International Action Center, led by
former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have organized
demonstrations and spoken out forcefully. Dozens of prominent
commentators, like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, have condemned the
bombings. And a gathering of notables and activists like Tim Robbins,
Erica Jong and Rosie Perez in New York City on April 5 attracted an
overflow crowd.

Since the day before the bombing of Yugoslavia began, the Institute
for Public Accuracy (IPA) has sent eight news releases to countless
media outlets, featuring 25 independent analysts with critical
perspectives on the bombing. Experts and commentators from IPA's
roster have appeared on numerous media outlets--including MSNBC and
Fox News Channel--but have not thus far been featured on CNN.

When Schneider claims that dissent from the left boils down to
criticizing Clinton "not for what he's trying to do, but for the way
he's doing it," he is incorrect. Many of the most prominent critics
are in fact questioning NATO's moral authority to intervene in this
war.

Schneider concludes the report with this: "The peace movement is
leading the war.  And for liberals who oppose the war, they don't have
any Pat Buchanan to speak for them."

Again, if Schneider's understanding of dissent is limited to the
mainstream media, that is correct. Unfortunately, there is much more
going on that fails to make the news.

***

ACTION: Call on CNN to expand their coverage of the war in Yugoslavia
to include progressive critics that have been marginalized by the
media thus far. Ask them to consider some of the experts, journalists
and commentators whose work is featured on the web sites listed below.


Contact:
CNN Senior Political Analyst William Schneider
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

CNN President Richard Kaplan
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

mailto:[e-mail]



Relevant links:

Institute for Public Accuracy-- a roster of leading anti-bombing
experts available to the media
( http://www.accuracy.org/press.htm )

Z Magazine-- commentary by prominent NATO critics, like Noam Chomsky
and Edward Said
( http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/kosovo.htm )

The Nation
( http://www.thenation.com/issue/990419/0419editors.shtml )

The Progressive
( http://www.progressive.org/latest.htm )

Common Dreams-- News and Views for Progressives
( http://www.commondreams.org )

War Resisters League
( http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl/ )

International Action Center
( http://www.iacenter.org )




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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: branka-urgently
Date: 09 Apr 1999 12:52:02 -0400


>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Branka Jovanovic
>[e-mail]
>
>Belgrade, 1999-04-09
>
>ECOLOGICAL ASPECT OF BOMBING OF FRY WITH LONG-DISTANCE=20
>MISSILLES
>
>The initial fuel of long-distance destructive missiles represents
>enormous powder filling=20
>which make a specific pressure which by burning out bring the missile in
>the zone of=20
>action, i.e. explosion and destruction of civil objects.
>However, the combustion products of initial fuels in the missiles are
>much more=20
>damaging and more cancerous than the products of lead fuel combustion
>which the=20
>Europeans banished from their streets by bringing into use, the so
>called, "green" non-
>leaded fuel.
>The population of Europe should know that the initial powder fuel of the
>missiles is=20
>comprised of highly toxic substances whose combustion products are toxic
>and=20
>cancerous. They are as following: ammonium-perchlorat, nitro-glycerine,
>nitro-
>cellulose, organic compounds as unifying elements (polybutadien,
>polyurethane,=20
>polyvinyl-chloride, polystyrene, polyacrylate, etc) organic leaden salts
>- lead-salycilate,=20
>lead-ethylhexoat, lead-stearate, metal nitrate (alkali and soil-alkali),
>metal perchlorate,=20
>fluor compounds especially fluorformals as energy components etc. As a
>consequence=20
>of combustion of these substances, highly damaging acid nitrogen oxides
>and=20
>hydrochloride acids, which destroy the forests and vegetation, are
>released. The=20
>ammoniac, highly poisonous hydrocyanic acid, hydrocyanic acid compounds,
>nitrogen=20
>oxides and fluorides (the compounds which are an essential component of
>very=20
>poisonous pesticide) and cancerous compounds as a consequence of fuel
>stabilisers=20
>combustion, which consist of ring-structured compounds medically proved
>to be=20
>cancerous, together with lead compounds and fluor compounds (as a
>consequences of=20
>combustion of fluor nitroformulas) release radicals with fluor which get
>attached to=20
>everything in nature causing very painful and almost incurable wounds
>and burns on=20
>humans and animals.
>A perilous cloud filled with the above-mentioned combustion products
>appears=20
>immediately after the launching of missiles from one of the ships or
>bases of NATO=20
>members and due to the airflow it penetrates the whole Europe causing
>great ecological=20
>disaster. Let us remember the illness of soldiers who participated in
>war against Iraq=20
>where suchlike cruise missiles were also used. Wind carries the poisons
>everywhere the=20
>air currents pass and does not choose where it will unload its dangerous
>cargo filled=20
>with ecological pollutants.
> Bombs with depleted uranium are drooped on civilian objects over
>Kosmet. Depleted=20
>uranium is, in fact, atomic waste used for penetrating concrete layers.
>Besides these=20
>hard metal and radioactive uranium bars, an especially energetically
>strong explosive is=20
>used. As an energetic component this explosive uses FEFO and DFF
>explosive, fluor-
>nitrate compounds -formals which, we should bear in mind, are highly
>poisonous and=20
>in contact with skin cause severe burns. All elements reacting to gas
>and products of=20
>combustion (detonation) of these highly energetic compounds are
>extremely toxic and=20
>cancerous. Combined with the above-mentioned initial fuels, depleted
>uranium and its=20
>combustion products, they represent potential mortal danger for our
>country, but for=20
>Europe as well, because the winds and waters transport these products
>without stopping=20
>to ask which country they pass through.
>An increased radiation over Kosmet is already detected. What do you
>think, how long=20
>does it take for a cloud in these early mornings of spring to come to
>your fields and=20
>parks?!!!
>WE ARE NOT FAR AWAY!
>
>P.S. We apologise for the incorrect translation of chemical terms. After
>all we are a=20
>group of "utopians" that had no need of professional knowledge of NATO
>poisons, up=20
>until now.
>
>Branka Jovanovic
>(The New Green Party- Belgrade)
>
>--=20
>=AD=9C=FD=B0=B1
> =20
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Yeltsin Warns of World War Danger on Kosovo
Date: 09 Apr 1999 15:30:31 -0700

Yahoo! NewsTop Stories Headlines
Friday April 9 12:51 PM ET

Yeltsin Warns Of World War Danger On Kosovo

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BELGRADE (Reuters)  President Boris Yeltsin got tough with the West Friday,
warning NATO not to drag Russia into Kosovo because it could spark a European
or even world war.
A flurry of highlevel contacts were made between Washington and Moscow after
Russia's Interfax news agency reported that Yeltsin had ordered strategic
missiles to be aimed at NATO states bombing Yugoslavia.

The United States said it had been assured by Moscow that Russia would stay out
of the Yugoslavia conflict and had not targeted NATO countries with nuclear
weapons.
``We've been officially reassured at a high level that Russia will not be drawn
into the conflict in the Balkans,'' White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said.
Although the Kremlin denied the missile reports, Yeltsin changed tack
dramatically from the hitherto unconditional line that Russia would not be
sucked into the Kosovo conflict.
``I told NATO, the Americans, the Germans, don't push us toward military
action,'' he said in televised comments during a meeting with parliamentary
speaker Gennady Seleznyov. ''Otherwise there will be a European war for sure
and possibly world war.''
Seleznyov had also quoted the president, who is under pressure from a hostile
parliament weighing his possible impeachment, as saying he supported Yugoslav
leader Slobodan Milosevic's request to join the union of Russia and Belarus.
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov was the first to break hours of strange silence on
parliamentary speaker Gennady Seleznyov's announcement that President Boris
Yeltsin had ordered the retargeting of nuclear missiles at NATO.

He denied that any new orders had been given to target NATO countries but fired
a barrage of verbal missiles at the military alliance.

``If we assess the situation objectively, we clearly see that with every
passing day the NATO operation is increasingly demonstrating its senselessness,
both political and military,'' he said, adding that the West had forgotten its
aim to resolve the Kosovo conflict.
Seleznyov, who visited Belgrade this week, told reporters in the State Duma
that a threeway union between Yugoslavia, Belarus and Russia would mean more
than just military assistance for Yugoslavia in its fight with NATO.
He said: ``I think that our army would be there too, that our navy would be in
the appropriate seas.''

As NATO air strikes entered their 17th day, the U.N. refugee agency appeared to
have solved the mystery of the 10,000 Kosovo Albanian refugees who went missing
Wednesday. The UNHCR said they had been located in Macedonia and neighboring
Albania.
Britain said more grim reports of atrocities by Yugoslav forces were emerging
from Kosovo, including accounts of dead refugees' bodies being burned and
buried by the truckload.
The defense chief of staff, General Sir Charles Guthrie, said that in one
incident there was a mass killing of 35 people in one village. Another report
spoke of four truckloads of bodies being buried and one truckload burned, he
said.

On the ground in Yugoslavia, there was an admission from NATO that one of three
bombs aimed at the main telephone exchange (PTT) in the center of the Kosovo
capital Pristina struck a residential area. There was no word of any
casualties.
NATO military spokesman David Wilby said the telephone exchange was a
``critical target'' because it was being used for communications between
Serbian forces in the field in Kosovo and the Yugoslav capital Belgrade. He
said NATO regretted any loss of civilian life.
NATO said its warplanes had destroyed several armored vehicles, a surfacetoair
missile site and other Serb forces Thursday morning. But Wilby added that ``the
weather has turned against us,'' affecting operations Thursday and Friday.

There had been a buildup of Serb forces in northern Kosovo and ``no evidence of
withdrawal,'' he said. He did not elaborate.

After a 16th straight night of NATO bombing raids, the Yugoslav news agency
Tanjug reported that 100 workers had been badly injured when six missiles hit a
car and smalls arms factory in the central town of Kragujevac.

Workers at the plant, Serbia's biggest employer, had earlier organized a human
shield to deter NATO bombing.

British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook declared that Yugoslav leader Slobodan
Milosevic was feeling the heat and ``looking for a way out'' and signaled that
NATO expected a new ceasefire offer from Belgrade this weekend.

Cook said the only offer NATO would consider would be a complete capitulation
by Milosevic to the alliance's demands for an end to ``ethnic cleansing'' in
the rebel Yugoslav province of
Kosovo and a return of refugees in safety to their homes.

U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan called on Yugoslavia to stop all action by
military and paramilitary forces in Kosovo and withdraw them from the Serbian
province.

The call formed part of a fivepoint program of commitments to be presented to
Belgrade to bring an end to what Annan, in a statement read to reporters in
Geneva, called the ``tragedy taking place in and around Kosovo.''

Earlier, Cook said NATO was sending 8,000 ground troops to Albania to deal with
the worsening refugee crisis in the Balkans but added that an invasion of
Kosovo is ``not going to happen.''

UNHCR spokeswoman Paula Ghedini told reporters at a refugee camp near the
Macedonian capital Skopje that the refugees bussed away from a makeshift camp
near the Blace border crossing with Yugoslavia had been located.

Ghedini said the UNHCR was still looking for their exact location but believed
they were in refugee camps in Macedonia and Albania. ``It's just a matter of
finding them. There are 320,000 refugees in Albania; it's just a needle in a
haystack.''

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said she feared for the fate
of ethnic Albanians prevented by Yugoslav forces from fleeing the southern
Serbian province and admitted her body could do nothing to help them.

Ogata said U.N. workers could not return to Kosovo for security reasons. ``I am
helpless there,'' she said.

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lavia_149.html>Russia Plays Down Missile Warning (April 9)      *
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From: "Janet Bloomfield" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 UK NATO Pack press release
Date: 10 Apr 1999 10:49:24 +0100

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PRESS INFORMATION: For Immediate Release. April10, 1999.

NATO's NUCLEAR POLICY - TIME FOR RADICAL CHANGE

As NATO takes its first military action in Europe since it was founded =
in 1949 there is a great need to examine its current role and its future =
strategy. NATO will be meeting in Washington from April 23-25 1999 to =
commemorate its 5Oth Anniversary. This meeting was intended to be a =
celebration but as events unfold in the Balkans it will be an occasion =
for the asking of some hard questions about NATO's role and future.


In recent months NATO has been conducting its first full Strategic =
Review since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Two NATO states - Germany =
and Canada - want the Strategic Review to include nuclear weapon policy. =
Germany has suggested that it is time to downgrade the importance of =
nuclear weapons, to support the world Non-Proliferation regime, and to =
move to a policy of No First Use. The USA does not want any =
reconsideration of NATO nuclear weapon doctrine. It wants to stay with a =
policy of possible First Use. Indeed it wants to extend it. First Use =
should be threatened and, if necessary, used against biological or =
chemical threats from small =91rogue states=92. Britain is following the =
US line. This is in spite of the fact that No First Use was part of =
Labour Party policy up to June 1996, and had categorical support from =
Robin Cook writing in June 1995. Public opinion polls show that most =
people support the principle of No First Use. Indeed most people believe =
No First Use is NATO policy.=20

President of Abolition 2000 UK and former head of Stockholm =
International Peace Research Institute, Frank Blackaby, who is the =
author of Abolition 2000 UK's new information pack on NATO and No First =
Use of Nuclear Weapons  said;

" As NATO loses its way in the Balkans Britain should show leadership =
and challenge the US view on nuclear weapons. At the moment there is a =
proposal to set up a working group which will discuss the matter for =
months in secret. NATO claims to believe in democratic values. We =
propose that NATO conduct open hearings on its nuclear weapon policy - =
hearings to which Non-Governmental Organisations and citizens should =
give evidence."

Further copies of the pack are available from Abolition 2000 UK, 88 =
Islington High Street, London, N1 8EG, UK

The text is on our web site at www.gn.apc.org/abolition2000uk

A Summary is attached.

NATO AND NO FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Summary


    a.. NATO is conducting its first full Strategic Review since the =
break-up of the Soviet Union. The Review is to be agreed at a summit =
meeting in Washington on April 23-25 1999
    a.. Surely this review must cover NATO=92s nuclear weapon policy. =
During the Cold War, NATO=92s nuclear weapons were not simply to deter, =
or retaliate against, a Soviet nuclear attack. They were supposedly for =
possible First Use against any massive Warsaw Pact attack with =
conventional forces.
    a.. That policy is of course now dead. The Warsaw Pact no longer =
exists. There are no Russian conventional forces on the German border.
    a.. Consequently two NATO states - Germany and Canada - want the =
Strategic Review to include nuclear weapon policy. Germany has suggested =
that it is time to downgrade the importance of nuclear weapons, to =
support the world Non-Proliferation regime, and to move to a policy of =
No First Use.=20
    a.. The USA does not want any reconsideration of NATO nuclear weapon =
doctrine. It wants to stay with a policy of possible First Use. Indeed =
it wants to extend it. First Use should be threatened and, if necessary, =
used against biological or chemical threats from small =91rogue =
states=92.
    a.. Senior US military authorities have condemned this idea. They =
point out that it has already been rejected. In the Gulf War, the US =
military turned down any suggestion for using nuclear weapons, if Iraq =
were to launch chemical or biological attacks. Conventional military =
forces are fully capable of dealing with any such eventuality.
    a.. This new US First Use doctrine would violate solemn security =
assurances which all the nuclear weapon powers have given to 182 =
non-nuclear-weapon states. These states are all parties to the =
Non-Proliferation Treaty. First Use would also be a clear violation of =
international law, according to the Advisory Opinion of the =
International Court of Justice at The Hague.
    a.. Britain is following the US line. This is in spite of the fact =
that No First Use was part of Labour Party policy up to June 1996, and =
had categorical support from Robin Cook writing in June 1995. Public =
opinion polls show that most people support the principle of No First =
Use. Indeed most people believe No First Use is NATO doctrine.
    a.. Britain should now come out on the side of Germany and Canada.
    a.. There is a danger that NATO will kick the matter into the long =
grass, by setting up a working group which will discuss the matter for =
months in secret. NATO claims to believe in democratic values. Let it =
conduct open hearings on its nuclear weapon policy - hearings to which =
Non-Governmental Organisations could give evidence.



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<P><FONT size=3D3>As NATO takes its first military action in Europe =
since it was=20
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its future=20
strategy. NATO will be meeting in Washington from April 23-25 1999 to=20
commemorate its 5Oth Anniversary. This meeting was intended to be a =
celebration=20
but as events unfold in the Balkans it will be an occasion for the =
asking of=20
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<P><FONT size=3D3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3D3>In recent months NATO has been conducting its first =
full=20
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-=20
Germany and Canada - want the Strategic Review to include nuclear weapon =
policy.=20
Germany has suggested that it is time to downgrade the importance of =
nuclear=20
weapons, to support the world Non-Proliferation regime, and to move to a =
policy=20
of No First Use. The USA does not want any reconsideration of NATO =
nuclear=20
weapon doctrine. It wants to stay with a policy of possible First Use. =
Indeed it=20
wants to extend it. First Use should be threatened and, if necessary, =
used=20
against biological or chemical threats from small ‘rogue =
states’.=20
Britain is following the US line. This is in spite of the fact that No =
First Use=20
was part of Labour Party policy up to June 1996, and had categorical =
support=20
from Robin Cook writing in June 1995. Public opinion polls show that =
most people=20
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First Use=20
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<P><FONT size=3D3>President of Abolition 2000 UK and former head of =
Stockholm=20
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author of=20
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Nuclear=20
Weapons  </FONT><FONT size=3D3>said;</FONT></P><I>
<P><FONT size=3D3>" As NATO loses its way in the Balkans Britain =
should show=20
leadership and challenge the US view on nuclear weapons. At the moment =
there is=20
a proposal to set up a working group which will discuss the matter for =
months in=20
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NATO=20
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Non-Governmental Organisations and citizens should give=20
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<P><FONT size=3D3>Further copies of the pack are available from =
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<P><FONT size=3D3>The text is on our web site at <A=20
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Review since=20
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summit=20
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<UL>
    <LI><FONT size=3D3>Surely this review must cover NATO’s =
nuclear weapon=20
    policy. During the Cold War, NATO’s nuclear weapons were not =
simply to=20
    deter, or retaliate against, a Soviet nuclear attack. They were =
supposedly=20
    for possible First Use against any massive Warsaw Pact attack with=20
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From: Peter Weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 UK NATO Pack press release
Date: 11 Apr 1999 13:56:40 -0400

Hi Janet,

COngratulations on a good statement. Please note that one of the wort
aspects of NATO's nuclear policy is its "nuclear sharing" arrangement,
under which non-nuclear NATO members receive training in delivering
nuclear weapon strikes, with the understanding that, in an emergency,
they may be brought in to perform this deadly service.

                Peter

> Janet Bloomfield wrote:
>
> PRESS INFORMATION: For Immediate Release. April10, 1999.
>
>             NATO's NUCLEAR POLICY - TIME FOR RADICAL CHANGE
>
> As NATO takes its first military action in Europe since it was founded
> in 1949 there is a great need to examine its current role and its
> future strategy. NATO will be meeting in Washington from April 23-25
> 1999 to commemorate its 5Oth Anniversary. This meeting was intended to
> be a celebration but as events unfold in the Balkans it will be an
> occasion for the asking of some hard questions about NATO's role and
> future.
>
> In recent months NATO has been conducting its first full Strategic
> Review since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Two NATO states -
> Germany and Canada - want the Strategic Review to include nuclear
> weapon policy. Germany has suggested that it is time to downgrade the
> importance of nuclear weapons, to support the world Non-Proliferation
> regime, and to move to a policy of No First Use. The USA does not want
> any reconsideration of NATO nuclear weapon doctrine. It wants to stay
> with a policy of possible First Use. Indeed it wants to extend it.
> First Use should be threatened and, if necessary, used against
> biological or chemical threats from small ‘rogue states’.
> Britain is following the US line. This is in spite of the fact that No
> First Use was part of Labour Party policy up to June 1996, and had
> categorical support from Robin Cook writing in June 1995. Public
> opinion polls show that most people support the principle of No First
> Use. Indeed most people believe No First Use is NATO policy.
>
> President of Abolition 2000 UK and former head of Stockholm
> International Peace Research Institute, Frank Blackaby, who is the
> author of Abolition 2000 UK's new information pack on NATO and No
> First Use of Nuclear Weapons  said;
>
> " As NATO loses its way in the Balkans Britain should show leadership
> and challenge the US view on nuclear weapons. At the moment there is a
> proposal to set up a working group which will discuss the matter for
> months in secret. NATO claims to believe in democratic values. We
> propose that NATO conduct open hearings on its nuclear weapon policy -
> hearings to which Non-Governmental Organisations and citizens should
> give evidence."
>
> Further copies of the pack are available from Abolition 2000 UK, 88
> Islington High Street, London, N1 8EG, UK
>
> The text is on our web site at www.gn.apc.org/abolition2000uk
>
> A Summary is attached.
>
>                NATO AND NO FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
>
>                                 Summary
>
>    * NATO is conducting its first full Strategic Review since the
>      break-up of the Soviet Union. The Review is to be agreed at a
>      summit meeting in Washington on April 23-25 1999
>
>    * Surely this review must cover NATO’s nuclear weapon policy.
>      During the Cold War, NATO’s nuclear weapons were not simply
>      to deter, or retaliate against, a Soviet nuclear attack. They
>      were supposedly for possible First Use against any massive Warsaw
>      Pact attack with conventional forces.
>
>    * That policy is of course now dead. The Warsaw Pact no longer
>      exists. There are no Russian conventional forces on the German
>      border.
>
>    * Consequently two NATO states - Germany and Canada - want the
>      Strategic Review to include nuclear weapon policy. Germany has
>      suggested that it is time to downgrade the importance of nuclear
>      weapons, to support the world Non-Proliferation regime, and to
>      move to a policy of No First Use.
>
>    * The USA does not want any reconsideration of NATO nuclear weapon
>      doctrine. It wants to stay with a policy of possible First Use.
>      Indeed it wants to extend it. First Use should be threatened and,
>      if necessary, used against biological or chemical threats from
>      small ‘rogue states’.
>
>    * Senior US military authorities have condemned this idea. They
>      point out that it has already been rejected. In the Gulf War, the
>      US military turned down any suggestion for using nuclear weapons,
>      if Iraq were to launch chemical or biological attacks.
>      Conventional military forces are fully capable of dealing with
>      any such eventuality.
>
>    * This new US First Use doctrine would violate solemn security
>      assurances which all the nuclear weapon powers have given to 182
>      non-nuclear-weapon states. These states are all parties to the
>      Non-Proliferation Treaty. First Use would also be a clear
>      violation of international law, according to the Advisory Opinion
>      of the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
>
>    * Britain is following the US line. This is in spite of the fact
>      that No First Use was part of Labour Party policy up to June
>      1996, and had categorical support from Robin Cook writing in June
>      1995. Public opinion polls show that most people support the
>      principle of No First Use. Indeed most people believe No First
>      Use is NATO doctrine.
>
>    * Britain should now come out on the side of Germany and Canada.
>
>    * There is a danger that NATO will kick the matter into the long
>      grass, by setting up a working group which will discuss the
>      matter for months in secret. NATO claims to believe in democratic
>      values. Let it conduct open hearings on its nuclear weapon policy
>      - hearings to which Non-Governmental Organisations could give
>      evidence.
>
>



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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) The CIA, The KLA & International Narco-Trafficking
Date: 11 Apr 1999 18:02:47 -0700

This extremely well referenced document offers backgound on the war
mechanations going on now which are heightening the potential for nuclear
responses.
_________________________________________________________________

        THE CIA, THE KLA & INTERNATIONAL NARCO-TRAFFICKING
_________________________________________________________________

Copyright by Michel Chossudovsky, (Ottawa, 1999) Professor of Economics at
the University of Ottawa and author of The Globalisation of Poverty, Impacts
     of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Third World Network, Penang
     and Zed Books, London, 1997.


                              * * *

                             CONTENTS
                              ------

     1. (AFIB)   Editor's Introduction: Anatomy of a Disaster in
                 the Balkans; selected bibliography - The CIA and
                 Drugs

     2. (MC)     Michel Chossudovsky: Kosovo `Freedom Fighters'
                 Financed by Organized Crime

                              * * *

                    `AFIB Editor's Introduction'
_________________________________________________________________

               ANATOMY OF A DISASTER IN THE BALKANS
_________________________________________________________________

Recent history is replete with examples of how US
intelligence operations have employed "assets" with links to
international narco-trafficking and right-wing death squads in
order to achieve policy objectives by "other means." Indeed, the
practice is so pervasive that one is fully justified in using the
term "narco-fascism" to describe the phenomenon.

We are told that the purpose for NATO's "humanitarian
intervention" in the Balkans is to halt ethnic cleansing and to
secure "self-determination" for Kosovar Albanians. But are
Washington's "freedom fighters" _de jure_, the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), any more committed to "human rights" and "democracy"
than the bankrupt regime of Slobodan Milosevic? Or do NATO
actions confirm long-held suspicions that like other CIA "assets"
a sizeable proportion of the KLA budget is procured through
narco-trafficking and other organized criminal activity such as
prostitution and the trafficking in women across borders?

To cite one well-known European example of recent vintage to
illustrate the point. In Italy during the 1970s, the "strategy of
tension" implemented by CIA "assets" within Italian state
security services and the military, employed neofascists and
condemned war criminals with Mafia links in order to create
widespread social chaos, and plant "false flags" which blamed
terrorist violence on the left, thus laying the groundwork for
"Plan Solo," a program for a fascist-led coup d'etat on the
"Greek model" of 1967.

One such operative, Stefano Delle Chiaie, the leader of the
neofascist terrorist gang, Avanguardia Nazionale, a protege of
convicted war criminal, Junio Valerio "Black Prince" Borghese,
was forced to flee Italy after the 1980 bombing of the Bologna
railway station with great loss of life.

With connections to Pinochet's DINA, the neo-Nazi Argentine
generals, the CIA and the World Anti-Communist League, Delle
Chiaie surfaced in Bolivia at the time of the "cocaine coup" of
General Luis Garcia Meza, a close associate of narco-king Roberto
Suarez. One of Delle Chiaie's henchmen was a German pimp and neo-
nazi, Joachim Fiebelkorn, a key lieutenant of escaped Nazi war
criminal (and CIA "asset") Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon."
When the legally-constituted Bolivian government was overthrown
in 1980, Barbie, Fiebelkorn and Delle Chiaie operated an
international brigade of killers, torturers and dope dealers
controlled by DINA and the Argentine military, the "Fiances of
Death." According to Fiebelkorn's account, it was Delle Chiaie
who served as a middle man between the Sicilian Mafia and Latin
American drug lords. And as history also teaches, it was the
Argentine military and drug traffickers (with a "nod and a wink"
from the CIA) who helped organize another group of "freedom
fighters," the Nicaraguan Contras. Given Gary Webb's fate, is it
any wonder that "mainstream" reporters look the other way when
allegations of KLA connections to narco-trafficking surface?

Pious hand-wringing and cynical calls for NATO to "get the
job done" won't solve the inhuman plight faced by Kosovo's
refugees. As can be seen daily, their situation grows worse in
direct proportion as NATO bombing intensifies. And as Michel
Chossudovsky amply illustrates below, it would seem that
Washington's "New World Order" allies bear striking resemblance
to other well-known "patriotic forces" employed by the US during
the Cold War.

                              * * *

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: The CIA and Drug Trafficking

Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International
Fascism, 1980, South End Press, Boston.
Stuart Christie, Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist, 1984,
Anarchy Magazine/Refract Publications London.
Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson, Inside the League, 1986, Dodd, Mead &
Co., New York.
Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control, 1987, The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York.
William Vornberger, The CIA and Heroin: Afghan Rebels and Drugs, Covert
Action Information Bulletin, Washington, D.C., Number 28, Summer 1987.
Sayid Khybar, The Afghani Contra Lobby, Covert Action Information Bulletin,
Washington, D.C., Number 30, Summer 1988.
Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug
Trade, 1991, Lawrence Hill Books, New York.
Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and
the CIA in Central America, 1991, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Michael Levine, The Big White Lie, 1993, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York.
Martin A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens, 1997, Little, Brown & Co., New York.
Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine
Explosion, 1998, Seven Stories Press, New York.
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the
Press, 1998, Verso, London and New York.

                              *****
_________________________________________________________________

KOSOVO `FREEDOM FIGHTERS' FINANCED BY ORGANISED CRIME
_________________________________________________________________

                              * * *

                      By Michel Chossudovsky
           Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
                         Ottawa, K1N6N5
               Voice box: 1-613-562-5800, ext. 1415
                       Fax: [phone]
                  E-Mail: [e-mail]
                   - Wednesday, 7 April 1999 -

                              -----

Heralded by the global media as a humanitarian peace-keeping
mission, NATO's ruthless bombing of Belgrade and Pristina goes
far beyond the breach of international law. While Slobodan
Milosevic is demonised, portrayed as a remorseless dictator, the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is upheld as a self-respecting
nationalist movement struggling for the rights of ethnic
Albanians. The truth of the matter is that the KLA is sustained
by organised crime with the tacit approval of the United States
and its allies.

Following a pattern set during the War in Bosnia, public
opinion has been carefully misled. The multibillion dollar
Balkans narcotics trade has played a crucial role in "financing
the conflict" in Kosovo in accordance with Western economic,
strategic and military objectives. Amply documented by European
police files, acknowledged by numerous studies, the links of the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to criminal syndicates in Albania,
Turkey and the European Union have been known to Western
governments and intelligence agencies since the mid-1990s.

...The financing of the Kosovo guerilla war poses critical
questions and it sorely test claims of an "ethical" foreign
policy. Should the West back a guerrilla army that appears
to partly financed by organised crime.1

While KLA leaders were shaking hands with US Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright at Rambouillet, Europol (the European
Police Organization based in the Hague) was "preparing a report
for European interior and justice ministers on a connection
between the KLA and Albanian drug gangs."2 In the meantime, the
rebel army has been skilfully heralded by the global media (in
the months preceding the NATO bombings) as broadly representative
of the interests of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

With KLA leader Hashim Thaci (a 29 year "freedom fighter")
appointed as chief negotiator at Rambouillet, the KLA has become
the de facto helmsman of the peace process on behalf of the
ethnic Albanian majority and this despite its links to the drug
trade. The West was relying on its KLA puppets to rubber-stamp an
agreement which would have transformed Kosovo into an occupied
territory under Western Administration.

Ironically Robert Gelbard, America's special envoy to
Bosnia, had described the KLA last year as "terrorists".
Christopher Hill, America's chief negotiator and architect of the
Rambouillet agreement "has also been a strong critic of the KLA
for its alleged dealings in drugs."3 Moreover, barely a few two
months before Rambouillet, the US State Department had
acknowledged (based on reports from the US Observer Mission) the
role of the KLA in terrorising and uprooting ethnic Albanians:

...the KLA harass or kidnap anyone who comes to the police,
... KLA representatives had threatened to kill villagers and
burn their homes if they did not join the KLA [a process
which has continued since the NATO bombings]... [T]he KLA
harassment has reached such intensity that residents of six
villages in the Stimlje region are "ready to flee.4

While backing a "freedom movement" with links to the drug
trade, the West seems also intent in bypassing the civilian
Kosovo Democratic League and its leader Ibrahim Rugova who has
called for an end to the bombings and expressed his desire to
negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Yugoslav authorities.5
It is worth recalling that a few days before his March 31st Press
Conference, Rugova had been reported by the KLA (alongside three
other leaders including Fehmi Agani) to have been killed by the
Serbs.

COVERT FINANCING OF `FREEDOM FIGHTERS'

Remember Oliver North and the Contras? The pattern in Kosovo
is similar to other CIA covert operations in Central America,
Haiti and Afghanistan where "freedom fighters" were financed
through the laundering of drug money. Since the onslaught of the
Cold War, Western intelligence agencies have developed a complex
relationship to the illegal narcotics trade. In case after case,
drug money laundered in the international banking system has
financed covert operations.

According to author Alfred McCoy, the pattern of covert
financing was established in the Indochina war. In the 1960s, the
Meo army in Laos was funded by the narcotics trade as part of
Washington's military strategy against the combined forces of the
neutralist government of Prince Souvanna Phouma and the Pathet
Lao.6

The pattern of drug politics set in Indochina has since been
replicated in Central America and the Caribbean. "The rising
curve of cocaine imports to the US", wrote journalist John Dinges
"followed almost exactly the flow of US arms and military
advisers to Central America."7

The military in Guatemala and Haiti, to which the CIA
provided covert support, were known to be involved in the trade
of narcotics into Southern Florida. And as revealed in the
Iran-Contra and Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI)
scandals, there was strong evidence that covert operations were
funded through the laundering of drug money. "Dirty money"
recycled through the banking system -- often through an anonymous
shell company -- became "covert money," used to finance various
rebel groups and guerilla movements including the Nicaraguan
Contras and the Afghan Mujahadeen. According to a 1991 Time
Magazine report:

Because the US wanted to supply the mujehadeen rebels in
Afghanistan with stinger missiles and other military
hardware it needed the full cooperation of Pakistan. By the
mid-1980s, the CIA operation in Islamabad was one of the
largest US intelligence stations in the World. `If BCCI is
such an embarrassment to the US that forthright
investigations are not being pursued it has a lot to do with
the blind eye the US turned to the heroin trafficking in
Pakistan', said a US intelligence officer.8

AMERICA AND GERMANY JOIN HANDS

Since the early 1990s, Bonn and Washington have joined hands
in establishing their respective spheres of influence in the
Balkans. Their intelligence agencies have also collaborated.
According to intelligence analyst John Whitley, covert support to
the Kosovo rebel army was established as a joint endeavour
between the CIA and Germany's Bundes Nachrichten Dienst (BND)
(which previously played a key role in installing a right wing
nationalist government under Franjo Tudjman in Croatia).9 The
task to create and finance the KLA was initially given to
Germany: "They used German uniforms, East German weapons and were
financed, in part, with drug money."10 According to Whitley, the
CIA was, subsequently instrumental in training and equipping the
KLA in Albania.11

The covert activities of Germany's BND were consistent with
Bonn's intent to expand its "Lebensraum" into the Balkans. Prior
to the onset of the civil war in Bosnia, Germany and its Foreign
Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher had actively supported secession;
it had "forced the pace of international diplomacy" and pressured
its Western allies to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. According
to the Geopolitical Drug Watch, both Germany and the US favoured
(although not officially) the formation of a "Greater Albania"
encompassing Albania, Kosovo and parts of Macedonia.12 According
to Sean Gervasi, Germany was seeking a free hand among its allies
"to pursue economic dominance in the whole of Mitteleuropa."13

ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN SUPPORT OF THE KLA

Bonn and Washington's "hidden agenda" consisted in
triggering nationalist liberation movements in Bosnia and Kosovo
with the ultimate purpose of destabilising Yugoslavia. The latter
objective was also carried out "by turning a blind eye" to the
influx of mercenaries and financial support from Islamic
fundamentalist organisations.14

Mercenaries financed by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had been
fighting in Bosnia.15 And the Bosnian pattern was replicated in
Kosovo: Mujahadeen mercenaries from various Islamic countries are
reported to be fighting alongside the KLA in Kosovo. German,
Turkish and Afghan instructors were reported to be training the
KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.16

According to a Deutsche Press-Agentur report, financial
support from Islamic countries to the KLA had been channelled
through the former Albanian chief of the National Information
Service (NIS), Bashkim Gazidede.17 "Gazidede, reportedly a devout
Moslem who fled Albania in March of last year [1997], is
presently [1998] being investigated for his contacts with Islamic
terrorist organizations."18

The supply route for arming KLA "freedom fighters" are the
rugged mountainous borders of Albania with Kosovo and Macedonia.
Albania is also a key point of transit of the Balkans drug route
which supplies Western Europe with grade four heroin. 75% of the
heroin entering Western Europe is from Turkey. And a large part
of drug shipments originating in Turkey transits through the
Balkans. According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA), "it is estimated that 4-6 metric tons of heroin leave each
month from Turkey having [through the Balkans] as destination
Western Europe."19 A recent intelligence report by Germany's
Federal Criminal Agency suggests that: "Ethnic Albanians are now
the most prominent group in the distribution of heroin in Western
consumer countries."20

THE LAUNDERING OF DIRTY MONEY

In order to thrive, the criminal syndicates involved in the
Balkans narcotics trade need friends in high places. Smuggling
rings with alleged links to the Turkish State are said to control
the trafficking of heroin through the Balkans "cooperating
closely with other groups with which they have political or
religious ties" including criminal groups in Albanian and
Kosovo.21 In this new global financial environment, powerful
undercover political lobbies connected to organized crime
cultivate links to prominent political figures and officials of
the military and intelligence establishment.

The narcotics trade nonetheless uses respectable banks to
launder large amounts of dirty money. While comfortably removed
from the smuggling operations per se, powerful banking interests
in Turkey but mainly those in financial centres in Western Europe
discretely collect fat commissions in a multibillion dollar money
laundering operation. These interests have high stakes in
ensuring a safe passage of drug shipments into Western European
markets.

THE ALBANIAN CONNECTION

Arms smuggling from Albania into Kosovo and Macedonia
started at the beginning of 1992, when the Democratic Party came
to power, headed by President Sali Berisha. An expansive
underground economy and cross border trade had unfolded. A
triangular trade in oil, arms and narcotics had developed largely
as a result of the embargo imposed by the international community
on Serbia and Montenegro and the blockade enforced by Greece
against Macedonia.

Industry and agriculture in Kosovo were spearheaded into
bankruptcy following the IMF's lethal "economic medicine" imposed
on Belgrade in 1990. The embargo was imposed on Yugoslavia.
Ethnic Albanians and Serbs were driven into abysmal poverty.
Economic collapse created an environment which fostered the
progress of illicit trade. In Kosovo, the rate of unemployment
increased to a staggering 70 percent (according to Western
sources).

Poverty and economic collapse served to exacerbate simmering
ethnic tensions. Thousands of unemployed youths "barely out of
their Teens" from an impoverished population, were drafted into
the ranks of the KLA.22

In neighbouring Albania, the free market reforms adopted
since 1992 had created conditions which favoured the
criminalisation of State institutions. Drug money was also
laundered in the Albanian pyramids (ponzi schemes) which
mushroomed during the government of former President Sali Berisha
(1992-1997).23 These shady investment funds were an integral part
of the economic reforms inflicted by Western creditors on
Albania.

Drug barons in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia (with links to
the Italian mafia) had become the new economic elites, often
associated with Western business interests. In turn the financial
proceeds of the trade in drugs and arms were recycled towards
other illicit activities (and vice versa) including a vast
prostitution racket between Albania and Italy. Albanian criminal
groups operating in Milan, "have become so powerful running
prostitution rackets that they have even taken over the
Calabrians in strength and influence."24

The application of "strong economic medicine" under the
guidance of the Washington based Bretton Woods institutions had
contributed to wrecking Albania's banking system and
precipitating the collapse of the Albanian economy. The resulting
chaos enabled American and European transnationals to carefully
position themselves. Several Western oil companies including
Occidental, Shell and British Petroleum had their eyes rivetted
on Albania's abundant and unexplored oil-deposits. Western
investors were also gawking Albania's extensive reserves of
chrome, copper, gold, nickel and platinum... The Adenauer
Foundation had been lobbying in the background on behalf of
German mining interests.25

Berisha's Minister of Defence Safet Zoulali (alleged to have
been involved in the illegal oil and narcotics trade) was the
architect of the agreement with Germany's Preussag (handing over
control over Albania's chrome mines) against the competing bid of
the US led consortium of Macalloy Inc. in association with Rio
Tinto Zimbabwe (RTZ).26

Large amounts of narco-dollars had also been recycled into
the privatisation programmes leading to the acquisition of State
assets by the mafias. In Albania, the privatisation programme had
led virtually overnight to the development of a property owning
class firmly committed to the "free marke." In Northern Albania,
this class was associated with the Guegue "families" linked to
the Democratic Party.

Controlled by the Democratic Party under the presidency of
Sali Berisha (1992-97), Albania's largest financial "pyramid"
VEFA Holdings had been set up by the Guegue "families" of
Northern Albania with the support of Western banking interests.
VEFA was under investigation in Italy in 1997 for its ties to the
Mafia which allegedly used VEFA to launder large amounts of dirty
money.27

According to one press report (based on intelligence
sources), senior members of the Albanian government during the
Presidency of Sali Berisha including cabinet members and members
of the secret police SHIK were alleged to be involved in drugs
trafficking and illegal arms trading into Kosovo:

(...) The allegations are very serious. Drugs, arms,
contraband cigarettes all are believed to have been handled
by a company run openly by Albania's ruling Democratic
Party, Shqiponja (...). In the course of 1996 Defence
Minister, Safet Zhulali [was alleged] to had used his office
to facilitate the transport of arms, oil and contraband
cigarettes. (...) Drugs barons from Kosovo (...) operate in
Albania with impunity, and much of the transportation of
heroin and other drugs across Albania, from Macedonia and
Greece en route to Italy, is believed to be organised by
Shik, the state security police (...). Intelligence agents
are convinced the chain of command in the rackets goes all
the way to the top and have had no hesitation in naming
ministers in their reports.28

The trade in narcotics and weapons was allowed to prosper
despite the presence since 1993 of a large contingent of American
troops at the Albanian-Macedonian border with a mandate to
enforce the embargo. The West had turned a blind eye. The
revenues from oil and narcotics were used to finance the purchase
of arms (often in terms of direct barter): "Deliveries of oil to
Macedonia (skirting the Greek embargo [in 1993-4] can be used to
cover heroin, as do deliveries of kalachnikov rifles to Albanian
`brothers' in Kosovo".29

The Northern tribal clans or "fares" had also developed
links with Italy's crime syndicates.30 In turn, the latter played
a key role in smuggling arms across the Adriatic into the
Albanian ports of Dures and Valona. At the outset in 1992, the
weapons channelled into Kosovo were largely small arms including
Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles, RPK and PPK machine-guns, 12.7 calibre
heavy machine-guns, etc.

The proceeds of the narcotics trade has enabled the KLA to
rapidly develop a force of some 30,000 men. More recently, the
KLA has acquired more sophisticated weaponry including anti-
aircraft and anti-armor rockets. According to Belgrade, some of
the funds have come directly from the CIA "funnelled through a
so-called "Government of Kosovo" based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Its Washington office employs the public-relations firm of Ruder
Finn -- notorious for its slanders of the Belgrade government".31

The KLA has also acquired electronic surveillance equipment
which enables it to receive NATO satellite information concerning
the movement of the Yugoslav Army. The KLA training camp in
Albania is said to "concentrate on heavy weapons training -
rocket propelled grenades, medium caliber cannons, tanks and
transporter use, as well as on communications, and command and
control." (According to Yugoslav government sources).32

These extensive deliveries of weapons to the Kosovo rebel
army were consistent with Western geopolitical objectives. Not
surprisingly, there has been a "deafening silence" of the
international media regarding the Kosovo arms-drugs trade. In the
words of a 1994 Report of the Geopolitical Drug Watch: "the
trafficking [of drugs and arms] is basically being judged on its
geostrategic implications (...) In Kosovo, drugs and weapons
trafficking is fuelling geopolitical hopes and fears"...33

The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully laid out prior
to the signing of the 1995 Dayton agreement. NATO had entered an
unwholesome "marriage of convenience" with the mafia. "Freedom
fighters" were put in place, the narcotics trade enabled
Washington and Bonn to "finance the Kosovo conflict" with the
ultimate objective of destabilising the Belgrade government and
fully recolonising the Balkans. The destruction of an entire
country is the outcome. Western governments which participated in
the NATO operation bear a heavy burden of responsibility in the
deaths of civilians, the impoverishment of both the ethnic
Albanian and Serbian populations and the plight of those who were
brutally uprooted from towns and villages in Kosovo as a result
of the bombings.

NOTES

1. Roger Boyes and Eske Wright, Drugs Money Linked to the Kosovo
Rebels The Times, London, Monday, March 24, 1999.
2. Ibid.
3. Philip Smucker and Tim Butcher, "Shifting stance over KLA has
betrayed' Albanians", Daily Telegraph, London, 6 April 1999.
4. KDOM Daily Report, released by the Bureau of European and
Canadian Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs, U.S.
Department of State, Washington, DC, December 21, 1998; Compiled
by EUR/SCE (202-647-4850) from daily reports of the U.S. element
of the Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission, December 21, 1998.
5. "Rugova, sous protection serbe appelle a l'arret des raides",
Le Devoir, Montreal, 1 April 1999.
6. See Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Harper and Row, New York, 1972.
7. See John Dinges, Our Man in Panama, The Shrewd Rise and Brutal
Fall of Manuel Noriega, Times Books, New York, 1991.
8. "The Dirtiest Bank of All," Time, July 29, 1991, p. 22.
9. Truth in Media, Phoenix, 2 April, 1999; see also Michel
Collon, Poker Menteur, editions EPO, Brussels, 1997.
10. Quoted in Truth in Media, Phoenix, 2 April, 1999).
11. Ibid.
12. Geopolitical Drug Watch, No 32, June 1994, p. 4.
13. Sean Gervasi, "Germany, US and the Yugoslav Crisis", Covert
Action Quarterly, No. 43, Winter 1992-93).
14. See Daily Telegraph, 29 December 1993.
15. For further details see Michel Collon, Poker Menteur,
editions EPO, Brussels, 1997, p. 288.
16. Truth in Media, Kosovo in Crisis, Phoenix, 2 April 1999.
17. Deutsche Presse-Agentur, March 13, 1998.
18. Ibid.
19. Daily News, Ankara, 5 March 1997.
20. Quoted in Boyes and Wright, op cit.
21. ANA, Athens, 28 January 1997, see also Turkish Daily News, 29
January 1997.
22. Brian Murphy, KLA Volunteers Lack Experience, The Associated
Press, 5 April 1999.
23. See Geopolitical Drug Watch, No. 35, 1994, p. 3, see also
Barry James, In Balkans, Arms for Drugs, The International Herald
Tribune Paris, June 6, 1994.
24. The Guardian, 25 March 1997.
25. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, La crisi
albanese, Edizioni Gruppo Abele, Torino, 1998.
26. Ibid.
27. Andrew Gumbel, The Gangster Regime We Fund, The Independent,
February 14, 1997, p. 15.
28. Ibid.
29. Geopolitical Drug Watch, No. 35, 1994, p. 3.
30. Geopolitical Drug Watch, No 66, p. 4.
31. Quoted in Workers' World, May 7, 1998.
32. See Government of Yugoslavia at
http://www.gov.yu/terrorism/terroristcamps.html
33. Geopolitical Drug Watch, No 32, June 1994, p. 4.

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) radiation fallout in Yugoslavia
Date: 11 Apr 1999 20:22:24 -0700

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: So nukes don't blow up...
Date: 11 Apr 1999 22:41:25 -0700


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>This is a fascinating report on the technology used to prevent unauthorized
>detonation of nuclear weapons. Of relevance to this list, perhaps, is how
>encryption is used (or isn't). The author is Steven Bellovin of AT&T
Research.
>
>-Declan
>
>
>http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html
>
>What is a PAL?
>
>A PAL -- a "Permissive Action Link" -- is the box that is supposed to
>prevent unauthorized use of a
>nuclear weapon. "Unauthorized" covers a wide range of sin, from terrorists
>who have stolen bombs to
>insane American military officers to our allies who may have some of their
>own uses for bombs that are
>covered by joint use agreements. It's supposed to be impossible to
>"hot-wire" a nuclear weapon. Is it?
>
>
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Bombing a monastery on Easter
Date: 12 Apr 1999 12:07:41 EDT

In a message dated 4/12/99 11:34:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<
 April 9, 1999

 Guest Opinions
 The Catholic Messenger
 Davenport, IA 52801

 On Easter Sunday night, NATO bombed St. Gabriel's
 monastery in Zemun, a Serbian municipality. Father Filaret
 of St. Gabriel's was quoted as saying, "I cannot
 comprehend that the believers, some of them probably
 Christian, were able to bomb this monastery, built in 1786,
 on Roman Catholic Easter".

 St. Gabriel's has been a sanctuary for Serbian, Croatian,
 and Muslim refugees since 1991, when war broke out in
 Bosnia.  Assuming that this was not an intended target
 of NATO's bombing campaign, I do not blame the
 soldiers who dropped the bombs on St. Gabriel's.

 But I find it very curious that this story did not make
 headlines back in the US. Once war breaks out, we usually
 hear only one side of the story. And part of the story that
 we do hear is about the pinpoint accuracy of our bombs,
 which supposedly discriminate between the innocent
 civilians and the military targets we wish to destroy.

 Wars bring out the nationalistic loyalties in all of us. That
 is true on all sides of a war. They say that truth is the first
 casualty of war. The bombing of their country binds the
 Serbian people closer together under the leadership of
 even a dictator like Milosevic, while we hear only the
 worst stories about the Serbs and their leaders.

 And vice versa.  The people living in the areas being
 bombed by NATO have a hard time understanding why
 we are bombing their homeland, regardless of our
 intentions. Especially when we bomb sacred places
 like St. Gabriel's. What we see as settling one score
 creates another score for the losers of this war to settle
 some time in the future.

 As the flood of refugees continues to rush across the
 borders with unimaginable stories of ethnic cleansing, our
 immediate concern must certainly be for those who need
 food, shelter and medical care. As a church, we are
 already responding through Catholic Relief Services. The
 whole world needs to stand together against ethnic
 cleansing. But the intention of stopping these atrocities
 does not automatically justify the NATO bombing.

 For those of us opposed to both the ethnic cleansing and
 the NATO bombings, the question is:  What are the
 alternatives? I would suggest three helpful steps:
 Meaningful dialogue.  International authority. Conflict
 prevention.  Without threatening to use violence against
 parties who do not agree with American terms of a
 peace agreement, as we did at Rambouillet, the US
 should use its vast influence to get all the parties to
 the negotiating table. And let them settle their differences
 through dialogue.

 This war will not end war in the Balkans.  It will not
 make the world safe for democracy.  Not will it make the
 world a safe place for Americans to travel.  We cannot
 expect that dropping bombs will end the murderous
 assaults of a man like Milosevic.  If we expect to enforce
 our will through the use of bombs, we had better be
 prepared to live in a dangerous world.  If we wish to
 build peace and promote freedom, we need to sow the
 seeds of justice and reconciliation.

 Sincerely,

 Dan R. Ebener
 Coordinating Director of Social Action
 Diocese of Davenport
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Write to Clinton, Urges Metropolitan Anthony
Date: 12 Apr 1999 12:07:34 EDT

In a message dated 4/12/99 11:27:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<
 Subject: 1999.04.10 Voithia:
 Read Voithia at http://www.voithia.org
 Posted: Saturday, April 10, 1999, Written: Friday, April 9, 1999,
 Section: Articles Content: Archdiocese

 Write to Clinton, Urges Metropolitan Anthony

 April 9, 1999

 By Stephen P. Angelides / Voithia Executive Editor

 OAKLAND, CA -- In a dramatic Good Friday homily at the Greek
 Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension here this evening,
 Metropolitan Anthony urged each member of the congregation to
 "write a letter to President Clinton tomorrow."

 "Because it is Holy Saturday, tomorrow is a good day for each and
 every one of you to write a letter to President Clinton and ask him
 to stop the bombing of Yugoslavia," Metropolitan Anthony
 exhorted the approximately 1,000 Good Friday worshipers. The
 choir had just begun to sing the Doxology when Metropolitan
 Anthony dramatically interrupted and delivered his homily
 extemporaneously for about 15 minutes.

 "The reason for this war is not humanitarian, otherwise we would
 have been in Rwanda when people there were being killed by the
 thousands," Metropolitan Anthony asserted. "There is absolutely
 no justification for this war," Metropolitan Anthony said
 emphatically, "no matter how hard they try to convince us that this
 is a just war, or even a holy war."

 "President Clinton should fall down on his knees and beg for
 forgiveness," Metropolitan Anthony said. "Instead of continuing
 this bombing," he urged, "the parties should return to the table and
 exhaust every possibility."

 Metropolitan Anthony asserted that although the media was not
 reporting everything, the bombing was damaging or destroying
 civilian buildings, including "thousand-year-old churches and
 monasteries."

 Metropolitan Anthony said that Yugoslavian President Milosevich
 is "equally responsible" along with President Clinton. Then,
 speaking to the congregation, Metropolitan Anthony said, "each of
 you is also partially responsible."

 He illustrated this point by recounting a television interview with a
 22 year old soldier responsible for firing guided missiles. When
 the soldier was asked what he felt when he launched a missile,
 according to Metropolitan Anthony, the soldier's response was,
 "nothing--they just give us some numbers to punch in and the
 computer does the rest." Metropolitan Anthony then spoke directly
 to the young people present, telling them "you should never, ever,
 let a computer do your thinking for you."

 Metropolitan Anthony urged the worshipers not to forget the
 history of the Balkans, and reminded them that two world wars had
 started there. "War never solves any problem," he asserted.
 Metropolitan Anthony said that he had experienced the second
 world war as a boy in Crete, and that he could still "hear the sound
 of bombs flying around," and has "scars in my heart" from that
 experience.

 Metropolitan Anthony concluded by wishing those present "the
 best Resurrection celebration possible under these circumstances."

 Although the Cathedral's Dean, Rev. Thomas Paris, had previously
 spoken out against the bombing, Metropolitan Anthony's homily
 was the first time parishioners here had been asked to take direct
 action against it.

 Although Metropolitan Anthony's anti-war homily was a unique
 Good Friday experience, most parishioners seemed to either be in
 agreement or to take it in stride. Many applauded softly at the
 conclusion of the homily to show their support for Metropolitan
 Anthony's message while maintaining their respect for the
 solemnity of the occasion.

 As they passed through the narthex of the church after the service,
 parishioners were handed flyers for a Peace Demonstration and
 Prayer Vigil on Holy Saturday afternoon in downtown San
 Francisco, sponsored by the Serbian Orthodox Churches of the
 Bay Area and the Serbian Unity Congress.

 * * *
 note: A page has been added to the Orthodox Peace Fellowship
 web site on Church response to the NATO attack on Yugoslavia:
 www.incommunion.org/nato.htm
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From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: New! On TVC's Web Page! Good Stuff!
Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:43:35 +0100



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> From: marylia <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: New! On TVC's Web Page! Good Stuff!
> Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 5:56 PM
>
> Attention peace and enviro people:
>
> New! On the web! From Tri-Valley CAREs at http://www.igc.org/tvc
>
> 1. Your sign-on wanted! Read the criteria by which the community (that's
> all of us) can judge the adequacy of Livermore Lab's plans to clean up
its
> mess at site 300. Please sign on! And, if you have another polluted
> facility in your neighborhood, consider using these to assist you in
> developing your own criteria for cleanup. This is all about community
> rights and stating affirmatively what kind of cleanup is needed from the
> public's perspective.
>
> 2. Action alert! The text of House Concurrent Resolution 74 is now on our
> web site. The is the Congressional Resolution offered by Rep. Ed Markey
> (D-MA) to replace the DOE's stockpile stewardship program with a
> "curatorship" program for the arsenal that will be less expensive, less
> dangerous and will not cause the proliferation problems that the DOE's
> current program entails. Cosponsors are listed, along with the number for
> Markey's office. Is your Representative a co-sponsor yet?
>
> 3. Action alert! The text of House Resolution 82 is on our web site, with
> co-sponsors. Offered by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) to "recognize the
security
> interests of the United States in furthering complete nuclear
disarmament,"
> this Resolution seeks to encourage the President to initiate multilateral
> negotiations on a treaty on nuclear weapons elimination, in accordance
with
> Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Is your Rep. a co-sponsor
yet?
>
> 4. The April 1999 edition of our newsletter, Citizen's Watch is now up on
> our web site. You will find (a) all about the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
> in New Mexico, and why it is not the solution to our country's nuclear
> waste problems, (b) all about the positive progress on nuclear abolition
--
> giving an update on the grassroots campaign and the congressional
actions,
> (c) action alerts, Mother's Day events and the stirring poem and call to
> action "Mother's Day Proclamation 1870," by Julia Ward Howe, from whence
> the celebration stems, (d) print bites, Project Censored chooses
> "subcritical" tests and the U.S. stockpile stewardship program as the #6
> most underreported story of the year, etc., etc. CHECK IT OUT!
>
> Don't forget to check out our (downloadable) postcards to Clinton asking
> him to take this country's nuclear weapons off alert status, and our
other
> features on the site. Happy browsing...
>
> ++++ Please note that my email address has changed to
> <[e-mail]> on 3/1/99 ++++
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
> Our web site will remain at this location. Only my email address has
> changed on 3/1/99.
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983,
Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
>
>

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From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: comm. accept. crit. for the abol-usa list serve
Date: 12 Apr 1999 23:18:25 +0100



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> From: marylia <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: comm. accept. crit. for the abol-usa list serve
> Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 7:36 PM
>
> Dear Sally: For whatever reason, I still cannot post to the abolition-usa
> list serve. Can you please post this? Peace, MK
> Dear friends and colleagues:
>
> Hi. I am posting these Community Acceptance Criteria to the abolition-usa
> list serve for 3 reasons. (1) You are invited to please sign on at the
end
> and return the message to us; (2) You are invited to include comments in
> your return message; and (3) Because so many of us are affected by
> contaminated nuclear facilities, we at Tri-Valley CAREs want to encourage
> other communities to develop their own criteria for other sites. You are
> invited to let our posting below spark your thinking about community
> acceptance of a cleanup plan in your area.
>
> Two quick notes -- I'm sorry that the cool formatting and our graphic get
> lost by sending via email, and please note that this is a fairly long
file.
> There are 12 criteria. Read on...
>
>                 ** Livermore Lab's Site 300 Cleanup: Community Acceptance
> Criteria
>
>                 ** please read, sign and return
>
> Dear environmental advocate:
>
> Livermore Lab's site 300 is a high explosives testing range located
between
> Livermore and Tracy. Site 300 is heavily polluted with toxic and
> radioactive waste, including chemical solvents, high explosive compounds,
> radioactive tritium and uranium. In 1990, the U.S. Environmental
Protection
> Agency (EPA) put site 300 on its "Superfund" list of worst contaminated
> places in the country.
>
> The cleanup of site 300 is at a crucial phase, one where the public can
> make a difference in determining whether the Lab chooses an appropriate
set
> of remedies to clean up soil and groundwater at the site, and also
whether
> it commits sufficient budget resources to do the job right.
>
> The Lab has recently produced a draft "Site Wide Feasibility Study"
(SWFS)
> to explain some of the options that could be used to clean up site 300.
> Following completion of a final SWFS, the Lab will then prepare a
proposed
> Remedial Action Plan, which will form the legal basis for cleanup of the
> site, including such things as cleanup levels, how radioactive wastes
> should be controlled and the timing of cleanup activities. In order to be
> accepted by the EPA and other regulatory agencies, the final plan will be
> evaluated by nine criteria.
>
> One of EPA's criteria for "signing off" on a cleanup plan is community
> acceptance. In the interest of achieving a real and lasting cleanup,
> Tri-Valley CAREs is proposing 12 Community Acceptance Criteria. We
welcome
> your support. Please sign this form and return it to us. Also, we welcome
> any suggestions for additional criteria or other comments you may have.
>
> ********* Community Acceptance Criteria *************
>
> #1.     Complete the cleanup project in a timely manner. Set a schedule
for
> cleanup activities and adhere to it. The goal should be to complete
cleanup
> ten years after the DOE's last scheduled Record Of Decision, with up to
30
> years thereafter for continued monitoring of residual contamination. As
> part of the plan, schedule milestones addressing total contaminant mass
> removal and trends toward achievement of cleanup goals should be
> established and committed to by the Dept. of Energy, which is the Lab's
> parent agency. Any areas at site 300 that will still be contaminated
after
> ten years should be identified up front and the reasons stated.
>
> #2.     Cleanup levels should support multiple uses for the property.
Those
> uses should be unrestricted by environmental contamination. The Lab's
> current assumptions about land-use need to be altered. As we can see,
> residential development is beginning to take place up to the site
boundary.
> Therefore, assumptions should include the possibility of large
residential
> communities relying on the regional aquifer for drinking water, thus
> speeding up groundwater movement. Second, we do not believe that site 300
> will necessarily always remain in DOE's custody. The "need" for testing
> nuclear weapons and components (particularly of new and modified designs)
> is a political decision, not a technically necessary mandate, and, in our
> opinion this testing should cease. We recommend that site 300 future land
> use assumptions include mixed residential, recreational, ecological
> preserve and industrial activities. Without full cleanup to standards
> appropriate for all of the above-listed uses, substantial residual
> contamination may remain in soil and groundwater and restrict any
> non-military use of the property.
>
> #3.     Cleanup levels should be set to the strictest state and federal
> government levels. We believe that the strictest cleanup levels should be
> met in cleaning up the site. Federal and state Maximum Contaminant Levels
> (MCLs) for all groundwater (on-site and off-site) should be the "bottom
> line below which the cleanup will not fall." In many cases the technology
> exists (and/or can be developed) that will clean up contamination to
> "background" levels - that is to the level that existed in nature at the
> site before Livermore Lab took over in 1955 and began polluting it. In
all
> cases where this can be achieved, it should be. In this regard,
Tri-Valley
> CAREs concurs with a strict interpretation of the CA Regional Water
Quality
> Control Board's non-degradation policy for groundwater. Migration of
> pollutants into pristine waters must be halted.
>
> #4.     Remedies that actively destroy contaminants are preferable. In
> order of preference, Tri-Valley CAREs recommends the following types of
> cleanup measures: a) remedies that destroy contaminants (i.e. by breaking
> them down into non hazardous constituents), such as ultra-violet
> light/hydrogen peroxide, permeable barriers, or biodegradation; b) active
> remedies that safely treat or remove contaminants from the contaminated
> media; c) monitored natural attenuation in so far as it relies on natural
> degradation (and not further dispersion of the pollution) within a
> reasonable time frame. What is called "risk and hazard management" (i.e.,
> restrictions on land use, fencing, signs and institutional controls),
while
> potentially useful for reducing short-term risks, is not a valid cleanup
in
> our eyes and should only be used as an interim measure. In no case do we
> think that "point of use cleanup" (e.g., merely placing filters on
off-site
> drinking water wells) is appropriate. When soil excavation takes place,
it
> should be properly controlled to minimize releases of contaminated soil
> into the air, and onto adjacent properties.
>
> #5.     Radioactive wastes and the tritium-polluted underwater plume
should
> be controlled immediately in order to prevent further releases to the
> environment. The tritium plume, nearly two miles long and growing, cannot
> be cleaned up in the traditional sense of the word, since it is not
> economically feasible to separate the radioactive hydrogen (tritium) from
> the water. Therefore, Tri-Valley CAREs recommends the following: a)
> isolation of the tritium contaminated wastes in the unlined dumps at site
> 300 to prevent further and continuing contamination of the groundwater;
b)
> hydraulic control of the underground water plume to prevent further
> migration; c) aggressive monitoring to ensure no migration occurs over
time
> while the tritium decays (tritium decays at a rate of 5.5% per year);
and,
> d) a stringent contingency plan in case these methods fail. As it
currently
> stands, groundwater rises into the unlined waste dumps during heavy
> rainfall and, once that water mixes with the radioactive wastes there, it
> picks up additional tritium contamination. Isolation of the wastes can be
> accomplished by means of drains, by capturing groundwater upstream from
the
> dump sites before they are inundated, or by removing the
> tritium-contaminated solid debris from the dumps and storing it above
> ground in a monitored facility. This latter method has the highest
> likelihood of actually preventing further tritium contamination.
>
> #6.     Radioactive substances should be isolated from the environment.
As
> is the case with tritium (discussed above), there are several underground
> plumes containing uranium 238. Technology exists to separate this
> contaminant from the groundwater. We recommend that this radioactive
waste
> be stored in above ground monitored facilities after separation from
> groundwater.
>
> #7.     The ecosystem should be protected and balanced against the
cleanup
> remedies. Site 300 sits on 11 square miles of land, including a series of
> steep hills and canyons, covered by grasslands. Seven major plant
> communities occur at site 300, including: coastal sage scrub, native
> grassland, introduced grassland, oak woodland and 3 types of wetland.
> Twenty species of reptiles and amphibians, 70 species of birds, and 25
> species of mammals also live there. Special and rare and endangered
species
> include the burrowing owl, San Joaquin Kit Fox and the Large-Flowered
> Fiddleneck. Ecological risks should be no greater than those for humans.
> The Lab should update its ecological assessment of 1994, as there are
more
> complete data now. Moreover, cleanup activities should not inadvertently
> destroy unique habitat.
>
> #8.     Decisions should not rely on computer modeling. The draft SWFS
> points out just how complex the hydrogeology of the site is, and how
little
> it is understood by the "experts". Given this, Tri-Valley CAREs believes
> that over-reliance on computer modeling to predict the fate and transport
> of pollution is not a good idea. Computer modeling should be used as a
tool
> only, and continually updated by field testing.
>
> #9.     Additional site characterization is needed and therefore must be
> adequately included in budget planning. It is also apparent from the
draft
> SWFS and other documents that additional characterization (e.g. of soil,
> groundwater, unlined waste dumps etc.) is necessary, and will have to be
> budgeted for many years to come.
>
> #10. A contingency plan should be completed and subject to public review.
> We recommend that a site wide contingency plan be part of the SWFS, or
part
> of the upcoming Remedial Action Plan. This is needed because cleanup of
> several areas at site 300 is not scheduled for some years to come and
there
> are many uncertainties regarding the effectiveness of cleanup. For
example,
> innovative technologies that have not been fully evaluated will be used
> (because exotic bomb testing activities created a "toxic stew" of
> contaminants).
>
> #11. The public should be involved in cleanup decisions. As it now
stands,
> public involvement takes place through Tri-Valley CAREs and at
> Lab-sponsored public meetings and hearings which could end altogether
after
> "sign off" is obtained on the cleanup remedies. Instead, the Lab should
> commit to keeping the public informed and getting public feed-back on a
> regular basis.
>
> #12. Cleanup should be given priority over further weapons development.
> Perhaps most important of all, Tri-Valley CAREs insists that cleanup of
> site 300 be given a priority over further bomb-creating enterprises, and
> that adequate, stable, long-term funding be assured in order that the
> cleanup may be done right. The current allocation of approximately 1% of
> Livermore Lab's annual budget to cleanup at site 300 (and only another 1%
> to cleanup at the Lab's main site) is insufficient. Moreover, ongoing and
> planned weapons activities must not be allowed to continue to pollute the
> site.
>
> Please sign and return to Tri-Valley CAREs, 2582 Old First Street,
> Livermore CA 94550. Fax: [phone]. Phone: [phone]. E-mail:
> [e-mail]
>
> Name:
>
> Address:
>
> Phone:
>
> Additional comments:
>
> ++++ Please note that my email address has changed to
> <[e-mail]> on 3/1/99 ++++
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
> Our web site will remain at this location. Only my email address has
> changed on 3/1/99.
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983,
Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
>
>

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From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: wipp for the abol-usa list serve
Date: 12 Apr 1999 23:19:29 +0100



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> From: marylia <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: wipp for the abol-usa list serve
> Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 7:39 PM
>
> Dear Sally: Please post this to the abolition-usa list serve if you think
> it will be of interest. Peace, Marylia
> Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: The Two Percent "Solution"
> (with an Action Alert)
>
> by Marylia Kelley
> from Tri-Valley CAREs' April 1999 newsletter, Citizen's Watch
>
> The flatbed truck left Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico at 7:49 PM on
Thursday,
> March 26, and headed south on U.S. 285  for about 270 miles - to the
Waste
> Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, NM. Loaded in the truck was
600
> pounds of plutonium-contaminated waste. The trip was reported to have
taken
> around 7.5 hours.
>
> In truth, that journey took the Dept. of Energy 25 years and $2 billion.
> When the nuclear debris reached its destination at about 4 AM on Friday,
> Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called it "a truly historic moment."
>
> Was it, really? What is WIPP? Will it solve the nuclear waste problem? If
> so, why have environmentalists toiled such long hours for  two decades
and
> more - in courtrooms, on picket lines and in offices piled high with
> technical reports - to stop it? Why had the state of New Mexico also
sought
> to enjoin its opening? Why is DOE putting nuclear waste in WIPP without
> first obtaining a hazardous waste permit?
>
> WIPP is the DOE's proposed deep geologic repository for nuclear
> weapons-generated transuranic waste (containing radioactive elements
> heavier than uranium, mostly plutonium). WIPP is being excavated in an
> ancient salt bed 2,150 feet below the ground. Still under construction,
> WIPP will ultimately contain 16 square miles of buried plutonium wastes,
> including up to 850,000 55-gallon drums entombed in 56 rooms, each 300
feet
> long by 33 feet wide.
>
> WIPP will leak. Much of the waste slated for WIPP is contaminated with
> plutonium 239, which has a radioactive half-life of over 24,000 years. A
> radioactive element's hazardous life is generally calculated at 10
> half-lives, in this case 240,000 years.
>
> The WIPP site is surrounded by proven oil and gas reserves and potash
> deposits. Future mining and drilling operations could hit the waste
rooms,
> releasing  massive amounts of radioactivity to the surface. Other
drilling
> operations, such as fluid injection, could cause radioactive releases at
> WIPP even if the original operation is kept outside the site boundary.
> Experts don't understand the groundwater system at WIPP very well. The
> Rustler aquifer, which sits above the WIPP waste rooms has fractures and
> caverns in it that could transport waste, eventually contaminating
drinking
> water supplies. Pressurized brine reservoirs under the WIPP site could
> bring wastes to the surface as well. These reservoirs contain large
amounts
> of salt water under high pressure.
>
> DOE is seeking, but does not yet have, a hazardous waste permit from the
> state of New Mexico. The permit is required because DOE will dispose of
> mixed transuranic wastes at WIPP. These are wastes that are contaminated
> with both a chemical hazard (like a solvent) and a radioactive element
such
> as  plutonium. States can regulate DOE's hazardous (chemical) wastes.
> Therefore, WIPP must have an operating permit. However, DOE is the sole
> regulator for all the radioactive waste in the weapons complex. DOE is
> essentially forcing the premature opening of WIPP by bringing in a
shipment
> of "purely" radioactive waste from Los Alamos.
>
> Never mind that this waste is from NASA activities at Los Alamos Lab, and
> that WIPP is supposed to be for military wastes only. And, never mind
that
> significant controversy exists over whether the Los Alamos waste was
> properly analyzed and classified. DOE's aim was to get waste, any waste,
> into WIPP and preempt the state's ability to impose limits through its
> permitting authority.
>
> DOE plans to bring 40,000 truck loads of transuranic waste to WIPP over
the
> next 30 years. Most of it will come from California (including from
> Livermore Lab), Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio,
> Tennessee, North Carolina and Washington state. DOE estimates these
> shipments will result in 6 deaths and 48 injuries from accidents and that
> 3 people will die from radiation exposure during "accident free"
shipments.
>
> WIPP is part of the DOE's nuclear waste "shell game," a dangerous
> enterprise that puts deadly wastes on our highways, moving them around
the
> country and substituting "out of sight - out of mind" for a sound policy.
>
> Estimates are WIPP will cost around $20 billion. Storing waste where it
is
> would cost about $3 billion. Moreover, WIPP will not come close to
solving
> the country's nuclear waste problems, not by any standard of measurement.
> WIPP is designed to handle less than 2% of the existing volume of nuclear
> bomb-generated radioactive wastes. Even if one calculates the transuranic
> wastes alone, WIPP is proposed for only about one-third of DOE's existing
> TRU waste.
>
> Yet, Secretary Richardson sent out a press release to say that WIPP will
> safely clean up the nuclear weapons complex. So, what gives?
>
> Perhaps, WIPP's main use is not for waste disposal, but rather for its
> public relations value. If DOE can convince enough people that it has
taken
> care of its waste problems, then currently operational weapons facilities
> like Livermore Lab will face less pressure to cut down on the future
> production of nuclear wastes.
>
> Transuranic wastes will continue to be generated. And we will put them...
where?
>
> WIPP action suggestion:
>                         Write to Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy,
1000
> Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20585. In your own words, tell him,
> "Transuranic waste generation must be reduced at its source. Don't bury
it,
> Bill."
>
> WIPP legal update:
>                         Four groups have appealed Judge Penn's decision
to
> lift the 1992 injunction against WIPP. This is the decision that now
allows
> DOE to send 17 shipments of Los Alamos waste to WIPP, of which the first
> has been sent. (The Judge has not yet given a go-ahead for DOE to begin
> waste shipments from other sites around the weapons complex.) If the
appeal
> is successful, the injunction would be fully reinstated. No hearing date
> has been set as yet. The four groups filing the appeal are: Southwest
> Research and Information Center, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety,
> Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund.
(The
> state of New Mexico had been a party to the original suit as well.)
>
>                         In a separate legal action, SRIC, CCNS, the state
> of New Mexico and Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping are
> challenging the legality of the EPA certification for WIPP. A hearing is
> scheduled for May 6. If the plaintiffs are successful, the DOE would have
> to try and recertify WIPP, a process that would likely take several years
> and, theoretically at least, its end result would not be assured.
>
>                         Meanwhile, the DOE's Idaho National Engineering
and
> Environmental Lab and Rocky Flats Plant are gearing up to ship waste to
> WIPP, and may try to argue before the Judge that somehow "national
secuity"
> demands putting nuclear trash on the road.
>
>                         Meanwhile, the state of New Mexico has gotten an
> earful from its citizenry through the public comment process, and must
> ponder the permit issues and make that decision.
>  -- Stay tuned.
>
> ++++ Please note that my email address has changed to
> <[e-mail]> on 3/1/99 ++++
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
> Our web site will remain at this location. Only my email address has
> changed on 3/1/99.
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983,
Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
>
>

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From: Stephen Young <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Securing Peace In Europe - International Conference
Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:24:23 -0400

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you an international conference on "Securing
Peace in
Europe" on 22 April 1999 in Washington, DC. The agenda of the conference
appears
below.

NATO's war in Kosovo may overshadow plans for a celebration of the
Alliance's
50th anniversary this April in Washington. The NATO Summit, 23-25 April,
will be
forced to focus on the on-going crisis in the former Yugoslavia, rather
than
lauding the success of the Alliance. At the same time, NATO must
establish its
vision for the Alliance's role in European security. Profound changes in
the
region's security environment have challenged the Alliance and will
alter the
roles and responsibilities of the European countries for the 21st
century. The
role of nuclear weapons will be a particularly important issue.

On 22 April 1999, the day before the NATO Summit begins, the Berlin
Information-center for Transatlantic Security (BITS), the British
American
Security Information Council (BASIC), the Heinrich B÷ll Foundation and
the
Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) will be hosting an
international
conference in Washington, DC, entitled "Securing Peace In Europe". The
conference will be held a short distance from the NATO Summit at the
Renaissance
Washington DC Hotel, 999 Ninth Street, NW.

The aim of the conference is to take an informed look at core aspects of
the
future of European Security and to discuss them with a transatlantic
audience.
For this purpose the conference will bring together distinguished
experts from
Western Europe, the United States and Russia.

Please let us know whether you will be able to attend. Please reply via
email to
Stephen Young at [e-mail] or to Peter Cross via telephone on
202-785
1266 or fax [phone].

Yours sincerely

Otfried Nassauer
Director, BITS

Daniel T. Plesch
Director, BASIC

Sascha Mueller Kraenner
CEO, Heinrich Boell-Foundation

Amb. Thomas Graham Jr,
President, LAWS

+ + + + +

Securing Peace in Europe

International Conference

April 22, 1999

Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel Auditorium
999 Ninth St NW, Washington DC

Conference organizers and hosts:
Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security û BITS
British American Security Information Council û BASIC
Lawyers Alliance for World Security û LAWS
Heinrich B÷ll Foundation, Washington Office

Agenda

8.30 Coffee and Pastries

9.00 Welcome
 Keynote Speeches: European Security Architecture for the 21st Century
û Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister, Federal Republic of Germany
(invited)
û Robert MacNamara, former US Secretary of Defense (invited)

10.00 Panel I: The Future Role of NATO in European Security
Chaired by Amb. Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists, United
States
û Gen. George Joulwan, former NATO SACEUR (invited)
û Charles William Maynes, Eurasia Foundation, United States (invited)
û Dr. Esther Brimmer, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Violent
Conflict, United
States
û Admiral Sir James Eberle, former director of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs (Chatham House)
û Dardan Gashi, OSCE Special Advisor on Kosovo, Austria
û Angelika Beer, Defense and Disarmament Spokesperson, Alliance 90/The
Greens,
MP, Germany (invited)

12.00 Buffet Lunch

13.00 Panel II: NATO - Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control and Proliferation
Chaired by Dr. Jo Husbands, National Academy of Sciences, United States
û Mr. Vladimir Iakimets, Russian Academy of Sciences (invited)
û Otfried Nassauer, Director, Berlin Information-center for
Transatlantic
Security, Germany

15.00 Coffee Break

15.30 Panel III: NATO, Russia and the Future of European Security
Chaired by: Daniel T. Plesch, Director, British American Security
Information
Council, United Kingdom
û Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director Carnegie Moscow Center, Russian
Federation
û Amb. Thomas Graham, President Lawyers Alliance for World Security,
United
States
û Bruce Clark, The Economist
û Alexis Chahtahtinsky, Head of NATO Information Office in Moscow
û Dr. Prof. Egon Bahr, former German minister (invited)
û Andreas Zumach, freelance journalist, Geneva

17.30 Final Remarks: The Future of European Security and the Future of
Europe
û Guest Speaker: Akis Tsochatzopoulos, Greek Defense Minister (invited)

+ + + + +

Directions:  The Renaissance Washington, at 999 Ninth St NW,  is
directly
opposite the Washington Convention Center. The nearest metro stop
Gallery
Place/Chinatown. If you need additional directions, please contact Peter
Cross
on [phone] or email him at: [e-mail].





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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Appeal by the Serbian NGOs
Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:24:38 -0400

>Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:00:00 -0400
>Subject: Appeal by the Serbian NGOs
>Cc: [e-mail],
> [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Forwarded to:
>abolition-europe
>abolition-caucus
>ippnw.campaign
>ippnw-deutschland
>
>Sorry for those who receive this message repeatedly, but it is VERY
>important.
>Xanthe
>
>APPEAL BY THE SERBIAN NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
>
>
>Deeply disturbed by NATO destruction and the ordeal of Kosovo Albanians,
>
>we, the representatives of nongovernmental organizations and trade union
>
>"Nezavisnost" (Independence), strongly demand from all those responsible
>
>for this tragedy to immediately create ground for the renewal of the
>peace process.
>
>The most powerful military, political and economic powers of the world
>are for two weeks incessantly killing people and destroying not only
>military but also civilian objects, blowing up bridges and rail tracks,
>factories and heating plants, warehouses and basins... At the same time,
>
>in fear of the bombing campaign and military actions by the regime and
>the KLA, hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians are, in an
>unprecedented exodus, forced to leave their devastated homes and look
>for salvation in the tragedy and uncertainty of fleeing.
>
>It is obvious that this is a road to catastrophe, and the peaceful and
>fair solution to the Kosovo problem through international mediation we
>have supported for years, today seems more distant than ever.
>
>The past activities of our organizations in the field of
>democratization, development of a civil society and acceptance of FR
>Yugoslavia into all international institutions have been under constant
>pressure and intimidation by the Serbian regime.
>
>We, as members of civil society associations have courageously and
>nationally fought against war and nationalistic propaganda and in
>support of human rights. We emphasize that we have always raised our
>voices against the repression against Kosovo Albanians and demanded the
>respect of their liberties and guarantees for their rights. We have also
>
>requested the return of the autonomy of Kosovo. We stress that the only
>connection and cooperation of Serbs and Albanians during all these years
>
>has been preserved among civil society institutions.
>
>NATO military intervention has undermined all results we have achieved
>and endangered the very survival of the civil sector in Serbia.
>
>Faced with the tragic situation we have found ourselves in, and in the
>name of human ideas and values, as well as in accordance with all our
>past activities, we are demanding:
>
>- immediate stop to the bombing campaign and all armed movements;
>- resuming of the peace process with international mediation at the
>regional Balkan and European level, as well as in the framework of the
>United Nations;
>- share of responsibility between the European Union and Russia and
>their contribution to the peaceful solution of the crisis;
>- end of the ethnic cleansing process and immediate return of all
>refugees;
>- support to the citizens of Montenegro to preserve peace and stability,
>
>solve serious consequences of the refugee catastrophe and resume with
>the democratic processes that are underway;
>- we demand that the Serbian and international media inform the public
>in a professional manner and not spur media war, incite interethnic
>hatred, create irrational public opinion and glorify force as the
>
>ultimate accomplishment of the human mind.
>
>We cannot meet these demands by ourselves.
>
>We expect from you to support our demands and in your initiatives and
>actions help their implementation.
>
>
>* Association of Citizens for Democracy, Social Justice and Support to
>Trade Unions
>* Belgrade Circle
>* Center for Democracy and Free Elections
>* Center for Transition to Democracy-ToD
>* Civic Initiatives
>* European Movement in Serbia
>*Forum for Ethnic Relations, and Foundation for Peace and Crisis
>Management
>* Group 484
>* Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
>* Student Union of Serbia
>* Union for Truth about Antifascist Resistance
>* United Branch Trade Unions NEZAVISNOST
>* VIN-Weekly Video News
>* Women in Black
>* Yu Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
>* EKO Centar
>
>In Belgrade, April 6, 1999
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: WIPP Call to action
Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:30:22 -0400

>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:17:41 -0400
>Subject: WIPP Call to action
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Here is a call to action in New Mexico and Colorado.  If you received an
>earlier version, please disregard it and use this one.  Circulate as
>widely as you like. Please consider what role you can play in this.
>Nuclear waste is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry.  We can stop
>it.  I think now is the time.  We can build a movement around WIPP.  The
>immediate significance is to stop a precedent-setting environmental
>disaster in the making.
>The larger significance has to do with ending nuclear bomb production
>and
>bringing a little more democracy into our common life.  Dream and act!
>I just published an op-ed on the alternative to WIPP.  If you want a
>copy
>let me know, preferably by e-mail.  <[e-mail]>
>
>PS:  The following came yesterday from Scott Myers-Lipton, who teaches
>at St Mary's College in Calif.:  "I have read your letter--very
>convincing.
>As a student of the Civil Rights, I am well aware that when a colleague
>and respected elder puts out "a call", the person "called" responds.  Is
>that what you are asking?  If it is, I am prepared to respond to your
>call.
>Just tell me when and where to show up for duty."
>
>STOP  WIPP
>
>HALT TRANSPORT OF PLUTONIUM-LADEN WASTE TO WIPP
>
>NO MORE DUMPING OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE IN THE ENVIRONMENT
>
>A CALL TO ACTION
>
>IF YOU OPPOSE PLUTONIUM IN THE ENVIRONMENT
>YOU ARE NEEDED IN NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO NOW!
>
>*  DOE has begun shipment of plutonium-laden waste from Los Alamos to
>WIPP,
>the world's first site for deep geologic disposal of rad waste.
>*  Plutonium remains radioactive for 240,000 years; one speck in the
>body
>may result in cancer, damage to the immune system, genetic defects.  Any
>quantity of this material in the environment constitutes a permanent
>danger.
>*  Waste at WIPP may eventually contaminate surface soil and water.
>*  Over 35 years DOE intends to send 38,000 truckloads of
>plutonium-laden
>waste to WIPP -- in Colorado 2 to 3 shipments per day on I-25 for 35
>years
>(2,500 from Rocky Flats; the rest from Idaho and Washington).  One
>accident
>that breaches a container could permanently contaminate an area.
>*  The transport container has not been tested for extreme heat or
>impact.
>*  WIPP's opening sets a precedent for the opening of Yucca Mountain.
>*  Some WIPP space is reserved for waste to be generated from future
>bomb-making; one purpose of WIPP thus is to make continued bomb-making
>possible.
>*  The waste intended for WIPP should be isolated from the environment
>at
>sites of generation in monitored, retrievable state-of-the art storage.
>*  This approach keeps options open and allows for a national dialogue
>to
>develop a scientifically credible, publicly acceptable nuclear waste
>policy.
>
>YOU'RE NEEDED.  GET NONVIOLENCE TRAINING.  DO SUPPORT WORK.
>PARTICIPATE IN DIRECT ACTION IN NEW MEXICO NOW.
>PREPARE FOR ACTION ALONG ROUTE FROM COLO. & IDAHO LATER.
>
>IF YOU CAN'T TAKE ACTION, GIVE FUNDS AND TIME.
>
>NEXT TRUCKS TO WIPP FROM LOS ALAMOS:  APRIL 8, 15, 22, 29.
>
>Trucks are now moving to WIPP from Los Alamos.  Next they'll move from
>Rocky Flats and Idaho National Lab, then from Hanford, Savannah River,
>Livermore, Oak Ridge, and all the other sites.  What's done now in New
>Mexico can later be implemented elsewhere.
>
>For more information contact:
>New Mexico WIPP Action, Santa Fe, 505-984-8321 (effective 4-8-99)
>Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center, Boulder, 303-444-6981 (4-6-99)
>
>LeRoy Moore, Ph.D.
>Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
>P. O. Box 1156, Boulder, Colorado 80306-1156 USA
>Phone [phone]; FAX [phone]
>E-mail address effective March 1, 1999:  [e-mail]
>
Alice Slater
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15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: US: Corporate Buyout of NATO
Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:31:18 -0400

>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:43:24 -0400
>Subject: US: Corporate Buyout of NATO
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
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>
>This article appeared in today's Washington Post.
>
>Kelly Barber,
>Jeanette Rankin Intern
>*********************************************************
>
>Count Corporate America Among NATO's Staunchest Allies
>
>                  By Tim Smart
>                  Washington Post Staff Writer
>                  Tuesday, April 13, 1999; Page E01=20
>
>For many Washingtonians, the NATO military alliance's upcoming
>50th-anniversary bash may end up being notable only for nightmare traffic
>tie-ups. For a few companies, though, the summit could be the ultimate
>marketing opportunity.=20
>A handful of top-drawer U.S. companies -- including heavyweights such as
>Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. as well as upstarts such as
>Nextel Communications Inc., a McLean-based wireless communications firm
>-- will be the gathering's hosts and as such will get to showcase their
>wares and schmooze with top military and political leaders from 44
>nations at events taking place throughout the District.
>
>A dozen companies have paid $250,000 apiece in cash or "in-kind"
>contributions for the privilege of having their chief executives serve as
>directors of the NATO summit's host committee. The group is a
>private-sector support system raising $8 million to finance the April
>23-25 event.
>
>While company representatives express disdain at the notion they will be
>lobbying NATO officials for business, many of the firms on the host
>committee sell precisely the kinds of products most in demand by the
>emerging economies of Eastern and Central Europe -- which include NATO's
>newest members and some prospective additions. Ameritech, for instance,
>is interested in running international phone networks. United
>Technologies Corp. views emerging or developing countries as a big
>potential market for its Otis elevators and Carrier air-conditioning and
>heating units. Both Ford and GM have auto plants throughout Europe. Their
>target audience? Heads of state and key cabinet ministers from the 19
>NATO members, accompanied by leaders from 25 nations that make up the
>Partnership for Peace, countries with aspirations to join the alliance.
>The guests will be accessible for the kind of low-key lobbying and wining
>and dining customary at such international gatherings. About 1,700
>dignitaries are expected to attend -- along with a media contingent of
>3,000.
>
> "The business community was in it from Day One," said Alan John Blinken,
>a former U.S. ambassador to Belgium and investment banker who is heading
>the host committee. "In a lot of these cases, they came to us -- we
>didn't solicit them."
>
> A second tier of firms, including Washington powerhouse law and lobbying
>firms Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard,
>McPherson and Hand, are members of the committee. Other companies, such
>as Eastman Kodak Co. and missile manufacturer Raytheon Co., are
>participating but taking a less public role. And more are still being
>courted. "They're actually wooing our CEO right now," said Gerald Robbins
>of 3Com Corp.'s Washington office. The communications networking company
>has a contract with NATO to supply equipment for the military alliance's
>AWACS surveillance and control planes that are being flown over Kosovo.
>"NATO is a big customer," Robbins said.
>
>Some host committee members, including Nextel, also hope to attract the
>attention of top U.S. government officials at the summit. The company is
>providing almost 2,000 of Motorola Inc.'s I-1000 combination cell phone
>and two-way radios to visiting foreign dignitaries and members of the
>State Department's summit staff. Four hundred of the $299 phones will be
>embossed with a special anniversary emblem.
>
>Hungary, one of NATO's three newest members, held a reception last week
>at its embassy here, where Nextel's general manager, Nick Sample, proudly
>displayed one of the phones. Beaming, he told of how the product had
>recently been added to the General Services Administration's list of
>approved merchandise, allowing government purchasing officers to order
>the wireless communications gear. Having Nextel phones widely available
>to high-level bureaucrats as well as foreign heads of state is the kind
>of marketing that can only be labeled as priceless.
>
>For the guests, it's free, as Nextel is providing the phones gratis.
>"We've had quite a few inquiries already from the FBI, the State
>Department and the CIA," Sample said.
>
>Corporate support for the NATO summit is an outgrowth of the active role
>many U.S. companies, particularly defense contractors such as Lockheed
>Martin Corp. of Bethesda, have played in the move to enlarge NATO byond
>its traditional U.S.-Western Europe axis. U.S. defense companies lobbied
>hard in Congress in recent years to admit the former Soviet satellites
>Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic.
>
>"Companies like Lockheed Martin, for example, and all of them were active
>with me overseas," said former congressman Gerald B.H. Solomon, who
>headed a House task force appointed by former House speaker Newt Gingrich
>to push the membership issue.
>
>Solomon, now a private lobbyist, said he traveled throughout Eastern and
>Central Europe spreading the message that if the United States was going
>to be NATO's principal military power, supplying most of its high-tech
>weaponry, then U.S. defense firms should receive contracts to rearm the
>former Soviet states.
>
>"We wanted them to buy American," Solomon said.
>
>Corporate representatives say private-sector underwriting of an
>international meeting for sovereign nations is standard business practice
>these days, though the NATO event is a far bigger draw than other
>international get-togethers.
>
>"This is a very unique beast," said Sally Painter, a lobbyist for Tenneco
>Inc. on leave from the auto parts and packaging conglomerate while
>serving as chief operating officer of the host committee. Painter,
>previously a top aide to then-commerce secretary Ronald H. Brown, was
>involved in international business development for Tenneco. "These are
>global corporations that understand the role stability plays with
>investment. There's no quid pro quo at all."
>
>Jim Christy, vice president of government relations for TRW Inc., said it
>makes sense for companies, rather than the member nations, to foot the
>bill for such events.
>
>"Whether it's the [Group of Seven] summit in Denver or the Summit of the
>Americas in Miami, there are not government funds available," Christy
>said, noting that TRW Chairman Joseph Gorman was personally approached by
>Blinken on behalf of the host committee.
>
>"My chairman is public-spirited and agreed to do so," Christy said.
>
>TRW, though it has no contracts to provide products to NATO, is one of a
>handful of companies providing critical communications and defense
>supplies to the U.S. military. Along with donating $250,000 in cash to
>the summit, TRW is developing its World Wide Web site.
>
>"We were hit up for the Summit of the Americas" Christy said, adding that
>TRW did not contribute money for the meeting but built the summit's Web
>site for free.
>
>Blinken said that the expansion of NATO and the pro-Western tilt of
>countries formerly tied to the Soviet Union have created "major new
>trading partners" for the United States but that today the interest in
>new markets comes not only from arms merchants but also from a variety of
>technology firms, including Ameritech Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and
>Nextel.
>
>"Most of the companies are not companies you would have expected in the
>old day, companies selling bombs and missiles, what have you," Blinken
>said. "You've got communications companies."
>
>Yet a good number of the firms on the host committee sell weaponry.
>Although the economic crisis that spread throughout Asia and other parts
>of the world last summer has somewhat cooled their enthusiasm, new NATO
>members such as Poland and other countries such as Turkey are viewed as
>prime candidates for U.S. weapons. Poland has been considering new
>fighter jets from either Lockheed or Boeing Co.
>
>TRW's Christy said the summit was low on the radar of most companies just
>a couple of months ago, when the events committee made its first
>solicitations. But the fighting in Yugoslavia has focused attention on
>the gathering.
>
>"All of a sudden," he said, "now this is beginning to burnish a little
>into the consciousness."
>
>NATO Access
>
>Here are the 12 companies that have paid $250,000 to have an executive
>(in parentheses) serve as one of the directors on the NATO summit's host
>committee:
>
>                  Ameritech (Richard Notebaert)
>                  DaimlerChrysler (Robert Liberatore)
>                  Boeing (Christopher W. Hansen)
>                  Ford Motor (Jacques A. Nasser)
>                  General Motors (George A. Peapples)
>                  Honeywell (Michael R. Bonsignore)
>                  Lucent Technologies (Richard A. McGinn)
>                  Motorola (Arnold Brenner)
>                  Nextel Communications (Daniel F. Akerson)
>                  SBC Communications (Edward E. Whitacre Jr.)
>                  TRW (Joseph Gorman)
>                  United Technologies (George David)
>
>                  SOURCE: NATO Anniversary Summit Host Committee=20
>
>=A9 Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company
>___________________________________________________________________
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities Bus Tour
Date: 13 Apr 1999 13:29:29 -0400

>Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:22:19 -0400
>Subject: Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities Bus Tour
>Priority: non-urgent
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>
>
>Following is information on Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
>(BLSP), which is a non-profit organization of 400+ business
>executives and senior military advisers working to increase
>domestic investment.  BLSP is planning a national bus tour,
>starting in Washington DC on April 14th,  that will deliver
>presentations on the need for increased domestic investment.  The
>tour schedule follows, along with a form to request a stop in your
>community and general information on BLSP.  For more
>information, please see the BLSP web site at
><http://www.businessleaders.org>.
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>
>Business Leaders, including Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Ben
>Cohen, and Federal Budget Analysts to Launch National Bus Tour
>About Federal Spending
>
>Kickoff on the Mall to Feature the Money-Covered "U-Slice-the-Pie"
>Bus, a 15-Foot-High Infant Mortality Baby, and More
>
>What:   In an effort to educate Americans about the local impact of
>federal spending choices, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
>and the National Priorities Project will launch their national "U Slice
>the Pie" bus tour, which will tour the nation for the next three years.
>
>At each stop on the tour, bus staff--using bright inflatable
>sculptures and other props--will lead citizens through a theatrical
>and educational presentation, including specific local data, of the
>impacts of federal spending priorities in their community.
>Information on 55 U.S. cities and every state will be available at the
>news conference.
>
>A U Slice the Pie performance, complete with the unique props will
>follow the event.
>
>Where:  The National Mall in Washington, DC, West Side of
>Third St, NW between Madison and Jefferson.
>
>When: The day before Tax Day, April 14, 12 Noon.
>
>Who: Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, President Business
>Leadersfor Sensible Priorities (BLSP).  Greg Speeter, Executive
>Director, the National Priorities Project (NPP).
>
>There will also be a retired military officer and representatives from
>groups co-sponsoring the bus tour at the event.
>
>For more information contact:  Stacy Roth (NPP) at (413) 584-
>9556; or Andrew Greenblatt (BLSP) at [phone] ext. 24
>
>
>
>BUSINESS LEADERS FOR SENSIBLE PRIORITIES PRESENTS:
>        THE "U SLICE THE PIE" BUS TOUR
>
>        WHO ARE WE?
>
>Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities is a national, non-profit
>organization of 400+ business executives and senior military
>advisers.  Founded by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's, B.L.S.P.
>includes the CEO's of Hasbro, Phillips-VanHeusen, Newman's
>Own, Scientific American and other major corporations.
>
>        WHAT IS OUR GOAL?
>
>B.L.S.P.'s goal is to increase public investments in community
>programs that address education, health care and children's needs
>by shifting $40 billion annually from the Pentagon budget.
>
>        WHAT IS OUR GAME PLAN?
>
>B.L.S.P. will use creative marketing techniques to spread this
>message, including a bus tour that will travel the country delivering
>informative and entertaining presentations on budget priorities.  The
>crew is scheduled to hit the road on April 15th in Washington, D.C.
>and wrap up the first tour in November.
>
>The bus will travel to five cities each week, performing two shows in
>each.  The oral presentation will consist of a "U Slice the Pie"
>exercise where the audience will learn how our federal budget "pie"
>currently is allocated and then participate in an exercise to
>reallocate that budget according to their local needs.  The results
>of these presentations will be shared with the media.  Each
>presentation will be non-partisan, objective and inclusive so that
>people of all political leanings can hear our message.
>
>The bus tour will be a central facet of the B.L.S.P. campaign,
>allowing us to take our agenda into communities large and small
>across the country.  It is also designed to be a media event and
>generate local coverage that will reach a larger audience.
>Combined with the inflatable billboard sculptures it carries and an
>eye-catching paint-job, the bus is designed to provide both still and
>video photo opportunities-as well as substantive content for a local
>news story, feature story and national political story.  We will
>target the bus tour's audiences to reach key constituencies, before
>crowds ranging from 50-100 to larger conferences or meetings.
>
>        WHERE WILL THE BUS BE GOING?
>
>While the Bus Tour schedule is still fluid, the tour will kick off at a
>Washington, D.C. press conference on April 14th (the day before
>Tax Day).  Other dates we are working to build into our schedule
>include: the week ending 4/23/99 -- in Iowa; May 1st -- the
>Children's Defense Fund National Conference in Houston, Texas;
>June 1st -- the "Stand for Children" event in San Francisco.  We
>are looking for other events and conferences, as well as some
>smaller local venues.
>
>CONTACT US TO SCHEDULE A BUS STOP IN YOUR
>COMMUNITY:
>
>Dave Nelson / Bus Tour Director
>1016 North 4th Street
>Cottonwood, Arizona  86326
>Phone:  (520)  649-9328
>Fax:  [phone]
>Email:  [e-mail]
>
>SCHEDULE REQUEST FORM
>
>
>Name of group or
>organization:_________________________________________
>
>Contact
>name:_________________________________________________
>
>Mailing
>Address:______________________________________________
>
>______________________________________________________
>
>Day Phone:_________________________
>
>Evening phone:_____________________
>
>Fax #:_____________________________
>
>Email address:_____________________________
>
>Requested
>date(s):_____________________________________________
>
>Location of
>event:______________________________________________
>
>_______________________________________
>(Street, town/city, state/zip)
>
>Time of event:_______________a.m. / p.m. (circle one)
>
>Sponsoring
>organization:________________________________________
>
>Approximate # of
>attendees:_____________________________________
>
>Please summarize the theme(s) or message(s) that you hope to
>communicate or reinforce through your event(s) and how we might
>be able to add to your program.  (Attach extra paper if necessary
>and please indicate when you need a commitment by.  Also
>include any additional information such as flyers or brochures
>about your event or organization.  Thank You!!)
>
>For more information about our campaign, visit our Web sites:
>www.businessleaders.org      www.moveourmoney.org
>
>
>BUSINESS LEADERS FOR SENSIBLE PRIORITIES
>                 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
>
> * 3-year marketing and public relations campaign to redefine the
>national debate on federal spending priorities.
>
> * Reductions in unnecessary Cold War-era military spending;
>investing the savings in education, health and human needs here at
>home.  Our military advisors, including distinguished retired
>admirals and generals, concur that the $271 billion military budget
>can be cut 15% (or $40 billion annually) while maintaining the
>world's strongest armed forces.
>
>        WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN
>
> * The membership of Business Leaders is novel, as are our
>techniques.  The public believes business people understand
>budgeting and investing scarce resources wisely.  That's why we
>believe that business leaders will be an effective new voice in the
>debate over federal spending priorities.
>
> * Unlike past efforts to cut unnecessary military spending, this one
>is designed as a sustained, strategic, comprehensive campaign
>with a broad audience and a specific set of goals.
>
> * Through professional market research, public relations and paid
>advertising, Business Leaders will market this issue to the
>American public - giving voice to the people's beliefs and mobilizing
>Americans to action.
>
> * The focus will not be on Washington, D.C., but on the public who
>will see and hear our campaign in paid print, radio and television
>advertising; in news stories; on radio and television talk shows; in
>cartoons; in the popular culture of song, art, film and comedy; on
>the Internet; via a coordinated college campus campaign and
>through national membership organizations that share our vision.
>
> * These activities will create a national discussion of our
>government's spending priorities and offer mobilized citizens
>opportunities to make their voices heard to their elected
>representatives.
>
> * With the traction of an educated and mobilized public, we will
>take the campaign to Congress in 2001.
>To collaborate with Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, return
>the Menu for Collaboration (below) or contact Virginia Witt, Director
>of Constituency Group Relations, [phone] (ph) (202)543-
>2565 (fax) or [e-mail]
>Visit our NEW websites: www.businessleaders.org and
>www.moveourmoney.org
>
>
>  BUSINESS LEADERS FOR SENSIBLE PRIORITIES (BLSP):
>        HOW YOUR ORGANIZATION CAN GET INVOLVED
>
>BLSP is a national non-profit public education organization
>comprised of business leaders and military advisors, focused on
>the issue of federal budget priorities.  We invite your organization to
>collaborate with us.   This is a list of resources we can provide at
>your request, tailored to your organization's issues and
>constituency.  Please check the items you are interested in and
>return this form to Virginia Witt, Director of Constituency Group
>Relations, at [e-mail] or fax [phone]) or
>by mail (BLSP, 426 C Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002).  We
>will follow up. Thank you.
>
>__List my organization as a "National Collaborating Organization"
>of BLSP.
>
>Please provide me with the following BLSP resources:
>
>__Draft Policy Resolution on shifting $40 billion in federal
>investment from excess military spending to domestic investment.
> The language of the resolution can be adapted to your
>organization's needs and issue focus.  Deadline____________
>
>__Sample Newsletter Article tailored to your membership
>addressing federal budget priorities and the BLSP campaign.
>
>Publication______________________ Deadline_______
>Length of Article _______
>
>
>__ Graphic Box Illustrating Budget Tradeoffs in your issue area (for
>newsletters)
>Publication Name _________________________
>Deadline_________
>
>
>__ Graphic Web Site "Banner Ad" providing direct link between
>your group's web site and BLSP web site on budget priorities --
>www.businessleaders.org
>
>
>My organization is interested in exploring the following collaborative
>activities:
>
>__ Partnering with BLSP's "You Slice the Pie" National Bus Tour
>on budget priorities, which kicks off April 15, 1999 in Washington,
>D.C.
>
>__ Co-Authored Opinion Article on budget priorities by your
>organization's CEO and a BLSP member CEO.
>
>__ A Presentation by a BLSP CEO or senior military expert at your
>organization's national convention, conference or event.  Date and
>location____________________
>
>__ Use of BLSP television or print advertising or public relations
>team in spotlighting a joint message around budget priorities.
>
>Contact for Follow-up at Your Organization
>
>(Name)___________________(Title)_______________
>
>(Org.)_____________________
>
>(E-Mail) __________________
>
>(Ph)________________(Fax)____________________
>
>
>
>
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) LA Times on Nuclear War Danger
Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:15:37 -0700

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> Los Angeles Times
> 4/13/99
>
> Cold War's End Leaves Danger of Nuclear War
> Russia's disintegration threatens our security more by inadvertence than
by
> design.
> By ROBERT SCHEER
>
> Back in the days of the Bush administration, Gen. Lee Butler, commander of
> the Strategic Air Command, would once a month go through a practice phone
> conversation with the White House concerning the end of the world.
>
>      "Gen. Butler, what is your recommendation?" the Bush stand-in would
ask
> upon receiving an alert from NORAD that the Soviets had launched a nuclear
> strike against the United States. Butler had to answer fast, because, in a
> real attack, the president would have had only 12 minutes to decide
whether
> to launch thousands of nuclear missiles in retaliation.
>
>      "Use them or lose them" would be the refrain running through Butler's
> brain, well-versed in elegant nuclear deterrence theories of ladders of
> escalation. "I had to say the words recommending the death warrant of tens
> of millions of people, of civilization--20,000 weapons on both sides
> exploding within 12 hours--knowing the planet can't withstand that."
>
>      It still can't. Butler, a 33-year military veteran who rose to be
> director of strategic plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is
> retired now, and the Soviet Union is but a memory. Yet what haunts him,
and
> what occasioned his rare willingness to be interviewed, is that the Cold
> War's end has increased, not decreased, the prospect of accidental nuclear
> war.
>
>      Twenty-thousand nuclear weapons left over from the Cold War still
stand
> poised for launching, and the MAD doctrine that guided them is very much
in
> force. Neither the U.S. nor Russia has abandoned nuclear war fighting as
the
> cornerstone of their respective national defense policies. "We still
target
> them with nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert," Butler observed. "The
> world truly has been transformed, but what has not been transformed is our
> thinking about it."
>
>      Russia's political and economic disintegration now threatens our
> security more by inadvertence than by design, prompting key Cold War
> military establishment veterans like Butler to sound the alarm:
>
>      "The Russian command and early warning system is in a state of great
> decline; about two-thirds of the satellites they relied on for early
warning
> capability are inactive or failing. They're experiencing false alarms now
on
> almost a routine basis, and I shudder to think about the morale and
> discipline of their rocket forces. There are worrisome aspects to all of
> that. That's why people like myself are so puzzled and dismayed that our
> government won't even address the problem."
>
>      Addressing the problem requires bold leadership on nuclear
disarmament
> that's been sadly lacking in the Clinton years. There have been some
> cosmetic arrangements with the Russians as to nuclear safety and targeting
> issues but no real follow-up on arms control measures aggressively pursued
> by George Bush. Give credit where due: Bush recognized that the end of the
> Cold War permitted--nay, mandated--that the U.S. set an example by
reducing
> the size and lowering the alert status of its nuclear force.
>
>      As Butler recalls, "The single most important arms controls were
George
> Bush's unilateral measures back in 1991, which took all of the tactical
> nuclear weapons off the ships and brought many back from Europe, took the
> bombers off alert and accelerated the retirement of the Minuteman II
force.
> And Mikhail Gorbachev followed suit. It's ironic that today we have a
> Republican Congress that thwarts arms control progress, and yet it was a
> Republican administration that really moved the ball down the field."
>
>      Clinton has never been very interested in nuclear disarmament, and
> these days seems bent on alarming the Russian leadership by expanding
NATO's
> membership and military role in Eastern Europe, including a NATO-led war
> against Russia's neighbor, Yugoslavia. This has strengthened the hand of
> hard-line communists and nationalists who control the Duma, undermining
> chances for nuclear arms control progress. Those elements also point to
> Clinton's endorsement of the harebrained effort to revive the "star wars"
> Strategic Defense Initiative as further evidence that the U.S. is not
> committed to arms control.
>
>      Boris Yeltsin has his flaws, but humiliating him and undermining more
> moderate forces in Russia is the path of disaster. In 1995, Yeltsin was
> awakened in the middle of the night because one branch of his crumbling
> military had failed to inform another of prior knowledge of a Norwegian
> rocket launch, which they confused with a U.S. Trident missile.
Fortunately,
> this error was corrected before Yeltsin's 12 minutes of decision-making
> passed. No wonder Butler is concerned.
> - - -
> Robert Scheer Is a Times Contributing Editor.


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Deadline for Supplemental Sign-on Letter
Date: 14 Apr 1999 11:06:43 -0400

>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:57:48 -0400
>Subject: Deadline for Supplemental Sign-on Letter
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
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>
>The deadline for last minute sign-ons for the FY 1999
>supplemental spending bill letter is COB today, April 14.
>
>The letter and list of organizations that have signed on thus far
>can be found below.
>
>- Patrick Lester, CHN
>
>
>
>
>April 14, 1999
>
>
>
>Dear Conferee:
>
>We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to drop the offsets
>affecting low-income and other vulnerable populations that are
>contained in the Senate's version of the FY 1999 supplemental
>spending bill. Specifically, we ask that you drop proposed budget
>authority cuts affecting Section 8 housing, the food stamp
>program, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
>
>Today, one in five children in America lives in poverty, as
>opposed to one in seven 25 years ago. The Census Bureau reports
>that 34 million Americans are moderately or severely hungry or in
>families so economically marginal that parents are taking steps
>like skipping meals so children can eat. More than five million
>families pay over half their incomes for housing, leaving little
>or no income for other basic needs like food and health care.
>Given the urgent needs of so many people in this country, there
>is simply no valid justification for cuts targeting low-income
>and vulnerable populations. Funds needed by America's poor must
>not be diverted to other purposes in this supplemental
>appropriation, or at any other point in the budget process.
>
>While emergency spending is often necessary, as in the case of
>assistance to victims of Hurricane Mitch, it is not necessary for
>Congress to offset such spending with cuts in vital domestic
>programs. We urge you to drop these offsets from the final
>emergency spending package that you send to the full House and
>Senate for their consideration.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>
>Alliance for Children and Families
>American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
>American Ethical Union, Washington Ethical Action Office
>American Friends Service Committee
>American Public Health Association
>The Arc
>Bread for the World
>Campaign for America's Future
>Center for Community Change
>Center for Law and Social Policy
>Center for Women Policy Studies
>Children's Defense Fund
>The Children's Foundation
>Child Welfare League of America
>Christian Children's Fund
>Church Women United
>Coalition on Human Needs
>Communications Workers of America
>Food Research and Action Center
>Friends Committee on National Legislation
>Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
>Jesuit Conference
>Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs, ELCA
>McAuley Institute
>National Alliance to End Homelessness
>National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
>National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
>(NAACP)
>National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems
>National Association of WIC Directors
>National Council of La Raza
>National Health Care for the Homeless Council
>National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition
>National Low Income Housing Coalition
>National Neighborhood Coalition
>National Priorities Project
>National Puerto Rican Coalition
>National Women's Law Center
>NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
>NISH
>OMB Watch
>RESULTS
>Surface Transportation Policy Project
>United Church of Christ, Office for Church in Society
>Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
>Volunteers of America
>WAND
>Welfare Law Center
>Wider Opportunities for Women
>
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>Coalition on Human Needs
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Meatpackers to test-market irradiated hamburger meat
Date: 14 Apr 1999 11:10:06 -0400

As if we didn't have enough nuclear waste already!!

>Meatpackers to test-market irradiated hamburger meat
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Meatpackers are hoping that America is ready for beef
>basted in gamma rays as they prepare to sell irradiated meat to the
>public.
>
>Interest in irradiation, used to curb food-borne illnesses, has grown
>since
>recent contamination scares, including last summer's recall of 25 million
>pounds of ground beef feared contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
>
>The process has been used for years on limited amounts of produce, spices
>and
>poultry, but the irradiation of red meat was just approved by the federal
>government in February.
>
>Now, meatpacking giants IBP Inc and Excel Corp. are planning for the first
>test-marketing of irradiated ground beef later this year or early next
>year,
>after the government approves rules governing meat irradiation.
>
>``We'll have to let people know that the technology is safe and that if
>they're looking for that added measure of safety, they may very well want
>to
>try this,'' Excel spokesman Mark Klein said Tuesday.
>
>``I've tasted it,'' he said. ``I couldn't tell the difference between the
>treated and untreated'' beef.
>
>During irradiation, meat is subjected to low-level doses of gamma rays or
>electron beams.
>
>Scientists agree the process is safe in food. But antinuclear groups have
>opposed the procedure if it involves gamma rays and some health advocates
>worry that using irradiation might reduce other safety techniques such as
>proper handling and plant sanitation.
>
>Even irradiated meat is subject to contamination if it is mishandled after
>treatment.
>
>IBP and Excel said they will test-market beef irradiated by a system being
>built in Sioux City, Iowa. They have not identified the test markets, but
>the
>meat will have to be labeled as having been irradiated.
>
>Titan Corp. of San Diego will build and operate the so-called ``E-beam
>system,'' which is specifically designed to electronically irradiate
>ground
>beef, Titan president and chief executive office Gene W. Ray said. The
>system
>will only use electron beams.
>
>Ray believes the electron beam process is superior to gamma ray
>irradiation
>because the technology is easier and cheaper to implement. Both, he said,
>are
>equally safe.
>
>``It's as safe eating food that has been pasteurized with radiation as it
>is
>eating food that has been cooked with microwave ovens,'' he said. ``And we
>do
>that all the time.''
>
>
>
>Copyright 1999 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
>not
>be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: [SAJA] Satis Nambiar condemns NATO aggression]
Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:03:52 -0400

>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:50:23 -0400
>Subject: [Fwd: [SAJA] Satis Nambiar condemns NATO aggression]
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Alice:
>
>FYI
>
>Amardeep Assar
>-----------------------------------------
>Nambiar: NATO is Guilty for Humanitarian Disaster
>                      April 13, 1999
>
>                      New Delhi, April 13, 1999 (Tanjug) - Indian
>                      general Satis Nambiar, who was the
>                      commander of UN peace forces in Bosnia in
>                      1992 and 1993, condemned criminal NATO
>                      aggression on Yugoslavia saying that western
>                      military alliance is responsible for humanitarian
>                      disaster.
>
>                      General Nambiar also said that NATO action
>                      against sovereign and non-aligned Yugoslavia
>                      is a violation of UN charter and that it presents
>                      a threat to world peace.
>
>                      Reflecting on his engagement in peace forces, Nambiar
>explained that his
>                      withdrawal from Bosnia mostly resulted from the fact
>that NATO there
>                      started taking the leading role instead of the UN.
>
>                      "I wasn't prepared to stay there under those
>circumstances. NATO was
>                      deeply involved and conducted military operations in
>Bosnia under the
>                      cover of UN, which resulted in disapproval of many
>officers," he said.
>
>                      Nambiar pointed out that NATO intervention raises
>many
>questions
>                      regarding India and developing countries, because it
>designates many
>                      dangers, in the first place, humanitarian one.
>
>                      Stressing that his observations are based on his
>personal experience,
>                      Indian general warned about the destructive effects
>of
>western media that
>                      are persistently defending all the actions of their
>countries.
>
>                      "Since the world can watch only reports from CNN and
>BBC, and the
>                      press-conferences from NATO briefings, it is clear
>that West is trying to
>                      blame Yugoslavia for everything. From my own
>experience in Bosnia I
>                      can tell you that the mayor objective of western
>electronic media is to
>                      present only political views of their governments.
>Let's not delude
>                      ourselves with the freedom of media in "the greatest
>democracy of the
>                      world", said Nambiar.
>
>                      They are doing it now too, Nambiar says, persistently
>showing pictures of
>                      Albanian refugees in order to accuse Yugoslavia
>although it is obvious that
>                      NATO is responsible for that, or actually the
>persistent bombing of
>                      western alliance forces.
>
>                      "While the world grieves over 'innocent Albanians' no
>one pays attention
>                      to Serbian refugees from Croatia," says Nambiar
>adding
>that NATO
>                      carries most of the responsibility for humanitarian
>disaster on Kosmet,
>                      while the rest of the world is responsible in as much
>as it "doesn't raise its
>                      voice against this unilateral military intervention."
>
>                      "Pressure on Yugoslavia to sign the draft of the
>agreement in Rambouillet
>                      under the threat of bombs is a violation of Vienna
>convention," says
>                      Nambiar.
>
>                      Asking the question - where does this lead
>international affairs, Nambiar
>                      says that the perspective "at least for the shorter
>period is gloomy"
>                      because UN are "weak and inefficient" and the western
>world, led by
>                      America insists on "imposing its norms" to the rest
>of
>the world.
>
>                      "Sovereignty and territorial integrity are no longer
>sacred, because
>                      secessionist movements in the world initiated by
>terrorist activities are
>                      becoming a formula for the destruction and breaking
>up
>of sovereign
>                      states," says Nambiar.
>
>                      He stressed that US citizens and NATO members are
>responsible for
>                      what their leaders are doing, adding that he believes
>people "will sooner
>                      or later force their governments to reconsider their
>policy and regard
>                      world values with more responsibility".
>
>
>
>
>
>--------------------------------
>This is the SAJA discussion list.  Subscription and help requests
>should be sent to: [e-mail].
>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: News:  Cdn. Senate calls for Nuclear Review at NATO Summit
Date: 14 Apr 1999 13:53:38 -0400

>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:23:29 -0400
>Subject: News:  Cdn. Senate calls for Nuclear Review at NATO Summit
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Friends,
>I am distributing this on behalf of Doug Roche.  Kindly distribute
>through other listservers.  And congratulations and thanks to you Doug!
>
>Bev Delong, Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
>
>.
>PRESS RELEASE
>
>        On April 13, 1999, the Senate of Canada unanimously adopted
>Motion
>No. 128, introduced by Senator Douglas Roche, without a vote.  The
>Motion
>states:
>                "That the Senate recommend that the Government of Canada
>
>urge NATO to begin a review of its nuclear weapons policies at
>the  Summit Meeting of NATO on April 23 to 25, 1999."In speaking during
>the debate on the Motion in the Senate on March 23rd
>Senator Roche indicated that at the upcoming NATO Summit three important
>
>documents will be presented:  a new Strategic Concept; a Communiqu=E9 that
>
>would present NATO's policy agenda; and a vision statement on NATO's
>future
>purpose and mission.  Indisputably, "NATO is the greatest military
>alliance
>in the history of the world and it is now about to celebrate its
>fiftieth
>anniversary.  Canada has consistently made a great contribution over the
>
>years and thus it is perfectly appropriate for Canada, as an important
>member of NATO, to press for this review."
>
>"The point at issue is that nuclear weapons in NATO have lost their
>military
>value and are being kept for their political value."
>
>The intention of the Motion is that leaders will instigate a review of
>nuclear weapons policies at the time of the summit.
>
>Senator Douglas Roche, O.C.
>Tel:  [phone]
>Fax [phone]
>Email:  [e-mail]
> =20
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New York, NY 10010
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Wire: Will NATO Hit Serb Nukes??
Date: 14 Apr 1999 11:20:07 -0700


-----Original Message-----


>http://news.stocksmartpro.com/ss-news/CX1640756.html
>
>Wednesday April 14, 8:14 AM (EST)
>
>Yeltsin worried at possible ecological disaster in Balkans.
>
>
>MOSCOW, April 14 (Itar-Tass) - President Boris Yeltsin worried over a
>possibility of an ecological disaster in the
>Balkans as a result of NATO air raids on Yugoslavia, Itar-Tass learned
>on Wednesday from presidential press
>secretary Dmitry Yakushkin.
>
>He explained Yeltsin's anxiety by the fact that two research nuclear
>reactors are located close to Belgrade, while
>several nuclear power plants operate around Yugoslavia.
>
>"Assessments by experts are very disquieting: air raids can entail a
>fallout not only for Balkan but also for other
>European countries bordering on the conflict zone," the press secretary
>said.
>
>He noted that this problem was discussed by the president as well as
>secretary of the Russian Security Council and
>director of the Federal Security Service Vladimir Putin at their meeting
>on Tuesday.
>
>"The president is now very concerned over a possibility of an ecological
>disaster in the Balkans in connection with
>the NATO strikes," Yakushkin continued. He noted that the threat of an
>ecological disaster in the Balkans under the
>influence of the NATO strikes is "one of new aspects of the situation in
>the Balkans which is now studied by the
>Russian president".
>
>bur/leb
>
>


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Satis Nambiar condemns NATO aggression
Date: 14 Apr 1999 14:31:27 EDT

In a message dated 4/14/99 12:05:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:50:23 -0400
 >Subject: [Fwd: [SAJA] Satis Nambiar condemns NATO aggression]
 >To: [e-mail]
 >From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
 >
 >Alice:
 >
 >FYI
 >
 >Amardeep Assar
 >-----------------------------------------
 >Nambiar: NATO is Guilty for Humanitarian Disaster
 >                      April 13, 1999
 >
 >                      New Delhi, April 13, 1999 (Tanjug) - Indian
 >                      general Satis Nambiar, who was the
 >                      commander of UN peace forces in Bosnia in
 >                      1992 and 1993, condemned criminal NATO
 >                      aggression on Yugoslavia saying that western
 >                      military alliance is responsible for humanitarian
 >                      disaster.
 >
 >                      General Nambiar also said that NATO action
 >                      against sovereign and non-aligned Yugoslavia
 >                      is a violation of UN charter and that it presents
 >                      a threat to world peace.
 >
 >                      Reflecting on his engagement in peace forces, Nambiar
 >explained that his
 >                      withdrawal from Bosnia mostly resulted from the fact
 >that NATO there
 >                      started taking the leading role instead of the UN.
 >
 >                      "I wasn't prepared to stay there under those
 >circumstances. NATO was
 >                      deeply involved and conducted military operations in
 >Bosnia under the
 >                      cover of UN, which resulted in disapproval of many
 >officers," he said.
 >
 >                      Nambiar pointed out that NATO intervention raises
 >many
 >questions
 >                      regarding India and developing countries, because it
 >designates many
 >                      dangers, in the first place, humanitarian one.
 >
 >                      Stressing that his observations are based on his
 >personal experience,
 >                      Indian general warned about the destructive effects
 >of
 >western media that
 >                      are persistently defending all the actions of their
 >countries.
 >
 >                      "Since the world can watch only reports from CNN and
 >BBC, and the
 >                      press-conferences from NATO briefings, it is clear
 >that West is trying to
 >                      blame Yugoslavia for everything. From my own
 >experience in Bosnia I
 >                      can tell you that the mayor objective of western
 >electronic media is to
 >                      present only political views of their governments.
 >Let's not delude
 >                      ourselves with the freedom of media in "the greatest
 >democracy of the
 >                      world", said Nambiar.
 >
 >                      They are doing it now too, Nambiar says, persistently
 >showing pictures of
 >                      Albanian refugees in order to accuse Yugoslavia
 >although it is obvious that
 >                      NATO is responsible for that, or actually the
 >persistent bombing of
 >                      western alliance forces.
 >
 >                      "While the world grieves over 'innocent Albanians' no
 >one pays attention
 >                      to Serbian refugees from Croatia," says Nambiar
 >adding
 >that NATO
 >                      carries most of the responsibility for humanitarian
 >disaster on Kosmet,
 >                      while the rest of the world is responsible in as much
 >as it "doesn't raise its
 >                      voice against this unilateral military intervention."
 >
 >                      "Pressure on Yugoslavia to sign the draft of the
 >agreement in Rambouillet
 >                      under the threat of bombs is a violation of Vienna
 >convention," says
 >                      Nambiar.
 >
 >                      Asking the question - where does this lead
 >international affairs, Nambiar
 >                      says that the perspective "at least for the shorter
 >period is gloomy"
 >                      because UN are "weak and inefficient" and the western
 >world, led by
 >                      America insists on "imposing its norms" to the rest
 >of
 >the world.
 >
 >                      "Sovereignty and territorial integrity are no longer
 >sacred, because
 >                      secessionist movements in the world initiated by
 >terrorist activities are
 >                      becoming a formula for the destruction and breaking
 >up
 >of sovereign
 >                      states," says Nambiar.
 >
 >                      He stressed that US citizens and NATO members are
 >responsible for
 >                      what their leaders are doing, adding that he believes
 >people "will sooner
 >                      or later force their governments to reconsider their
 >policy and regard
 >                      world values with more responsibility".
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >--------------------------------
 >This is the SAJA discussion list.  Subscription and help requests
 >should be sent to: [e-mail].
 >
 Alice Slater
 Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
 15 East 26th Street, Room 915
 New York, NY 10010
 tel:  [phone]
 fax:  [phone]
 email:  [e-mail]

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









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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) ACTION ALERT: NATO'S "ASTONISHING" RADIOACTIVE WEAPONS
Date: 14 Apr 1999 14:31:44 EDT

In a message dated 4/14/99 11:09:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Subject:      [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: NATO'S "ASTONISHING" RADIOACTIVE
WEAPONS
 To: [e-mail]


                                  FAIR-L
                     Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
                Media analysis, critiques and news reports




  ACTION ALERT: NATO'S "ASTONISHING" RADIOACTIVE WEAPONS

  On April 1st, ABC's Nightline did a segment that criticized the
  one-sided coverage of the war--on Serbian TV.  Reviewing supposedly
  absurd claims, ABC aired what it described as "this astonishing claim"
  from a Belgrade news account:

  "They even use radioactive weapons...which are forbidden by the Geneva
  Convention."

  Astonishing, perhaps--but is it true?  The fact is, the United States
  is using radioactive weapons against Yugoslavia--and this threatens to
  have health consequences in Kosovo for decades to come.

  The weapons in question are anti-tank shells and bullets made of
  depleted uranium (DU), a toxic, radioactive byproduct of nuclear
  fission. Favored for their ability to destroy tanks, this ammunition
  is carried by such U.S. forces as A-10 Warthogs and Apache
  helicopters, both of which received substantial media attention when
  introduced into the war.

  Ironically, only the day before Nightline's broadcast (3/30/99), ABC
  World News Tonight had reported the same "astonishing" news that
  Serbian TV had: Describing the A-10, ABC's John Martin noted that "it
  could pierce any armor by firing depleted uranium bullets at 3,900
  rounds a minute."

  But depleted uranium has received almost no sustained media attention.
  One of the few reporters to discuss the substance, Kathleen Sullivan
  of the San Francisco Examiner (4/1/99), reported that Pentagon
  spokesman Kenneth Bacon refused to answer questions about its use by
  A-10s, saying operational details were "verboten from this podium."

  Nonetheless, the health risks posed by inhaling the dust from depleted
  uranium, as well as the contamination of the physical environment,
  have raised the concerns of numerous public health and veterans rights
  groups.

  The World Health Organization is still studying the high cancer rates
  that plague southern Iraq, where much of the fighting during the Gulf
  War took place. Likewise, DU's possible role in causing or
  exacerbating Gulf War Syndrome is still a topic of fierce debate.

  CBS's Mark Phillips recently presented in-depth reporting on the
  possible health effects of DU in Iraq (12/1/98, 12/10/98).  Since the
  U.S. began using DU in Yugoslavia, however, no network has returned to
  the subject.

  ***
  ACTION: Please contact national and local media and urge them to
  investigate the use of depleted uranium as a weapon in Yugoslavia.
  During the Gulf War, activists raised questions about the potential
  consequences of DU, but these issues were not explored until
  inexplicable illnesses began showing up in U.S. veterans and Iraqi
  children.  This pattern should not be repeated in Kosovo.


  ABC-- Nightline
  mailto:[e-mail]

  CBS News
  mailto:[e-mail]

  For more media contacts, go to
  http://www.fair.org/media-contact-list.html

  For more on the current war in Yugoslavia, go to
  http://www.fair.org/international/yugoslavia.html
  >>


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: More info on the church leaders' meeting with the PM
Date: 14 Apr 1999 16:25:35 -0400

Dear Friends,
Is anyone in our network working specifically on outreach to US religious
leaders?  See the accomplishments in Canada, below.  Regards, Alice  Slater
>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:03:10 -0400
>Subject: More info on the church leaders' meeting with the PM
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Regarding tomorrow's meeting with the PM, here is the content of the media
>release which was sent out today.
>
>Regards,
>
>Grant.
>
>
>Church leaders, Prime Minister discuss Kosovo, nuclear weapons
>
>A delegation of church leaders representing the Canadian Council of
>Churches
>and major Canadian churches will meet with Prime Minister Chr=E9tien on=
 April
>15th to discuss important security and defence policy issues. There will be
>two major topics on the agenda: the military intervention in Kosovo, and
>Canada=92s policies concerning nuclear disarmament. The latter item is a
>follow-up to the Canadian Church Leaders=92 1998 Statement on Nuclear=
 Weapons
>and occurs as the government is considering its response =AD due next month=
 =AD
>to the recommendations contained in the Standing Committee on Foreign
>Affairs and International Trade=92s December 1998 report Canada and the
>Nuclear Challenge.
>
>Members of the church delegation will include: Archbishop Barry Curtis,
>President, Canadian Council of Churches (CCC); Janet Somerville, General
>Secretary, CCC; Rev. David Pfrimmer, Chair, Justice and Peace Commission,
>CCC; Most Rev. Michael G. Peers, Primate, Anglican Church of Canada;
>Monsignor Peter Schonenbach, General Secretary, Canadian Conference of
>Catholic Bishops; Carol Dixon, Clerk, Canadian Friends Service Committee;
>Bishop Seraphim, Orthodox Church of America (Canada Diocese); Rev. Stephen
>Kendall, Principal Clerk, General Assembly, Presbyterian Church in Canada;
>Virginia Coleman, General Secretary, United Church of Canada; and Ernie
>Regehr, Director, Project Ploughshares.
> =20
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Russia, China oppose BMD
Date: 14 Apr 1999 17:23:06 -0400

>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:11:51 -0400
>Subject: Russia, China oppose BMD
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>14 April 1999
>
>Russia, China warn of new arms race over U.S. missile defense plans
>
>AP News Service
>
>MOSCOW (AP) _ Russia and China on Wednesday warned
>of a new arms  race if the United States goes ahead with plans
>to develop a  nationwide defense system against limited missile
>attack.
>
>The U.S. Senate recently approved a bill calling for
>construction of the defense system ``as soon as technologically
>possible.'' The
>Americans have grown concerned about the  possibility of attack from
>countries such as Iran, Iraq and North  Korea.
>
>Russian politicians have been unanimous in assailing the U.S.  plan to
>develop
>anti-missile defenses, saying the move would  violate the 1972
>Anti-Ballistic
>Missile treaty. Moscow strongly  opposes U.S. proposals to amend the treaty
>to allow for limited  missile defenses.
>
>Russian and Chinese military officials and diplomats who met in  Moscow to
>discuss the situation issued a statement saying the two  countries have
>serious
>concerns about the U.S. plans.
>
>``The fulfillment of these plans would violate the main  obligation under
>the
>ABM treaty,'' said the statement, circulated  by the Russian Foreign
>Ministry.
>
>Russia and China ``believe that undermining or violating the ABM  treaty
>would
>lead to a whole range of negative consequences: New  factors would appear
>that would be capable of destabilizing the  international situation ...
>and create
>conditions for the  resumption of the arms race,'' the statement said.
>
>Russia also contends the creation of a missile defense system  would put on
>hold any further nuclear weapons reductions.
>
>President Boris Yeltsin recently approved a bill by Russian  lawmakers that
>would make their approval of the START II arms  reduction treaty, which the
>United States is anxious to see  ratified, dependent on a U.S. commitment
>to
>the ABM treaty.
>
>Copyright 1999 AP News Service.
>
>--
>Bill Robinson, Project Ploughshares,
>Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada  N2L 3G6
>Phone: [phone] x264  Fax: [phone]
>E-mail: [e-mail]
>http://www.ploughshares.ca
>
>Project Ploughshares is a member of the Canadian Network to Abolish
>Nuclear Weapons (http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~plough/cnanw/cnanw.html)
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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From: "Robert Kinsey" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: WIPP Call to action
Date: 14 Apr 1999 13:07:46 -0600

For some strange reason I am receiveing two of every message you send out,
identically addressed.  Hope you can fix this.  Thanks for your work.
____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________
Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force
United Church of Christ, Rocky Mountain Conference
[e-mail]
303-425-0348
"Two paths lie before us.  One leads to death, the other to  life."
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Military Industrial Complex
Date: 14 Apr 1999 19:28:01 EDT

In a message dated 4/14/99 4:40:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<
 The Washington Post - April 13, 1999

 COUNT CORPORATE AMERICA AMONG NATO'S STAUNCHEST ALLIES

 By Tim Smart

         For many Washingtonians, the NATO military alliance's upcoming
 50th-anniversary bash may end up being notable only for nightmare
 traffic tie-ups. For a few companies, though, the summit could be the
 ultimate marketing opportunity.
         A handful of top-drawer U.S. companies -- including heavyweights
 such as Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. as well as upstarts
 such as Nextel Communications Inc., a McLean-based wireless
 communications firm -- will be the gathering's hosts and as such will
 get to showcase their wares and schmooze with top military and
 political leaders from 44 nations at events taking place throughout the
 District.
         A dozen companies have paid $250,000 apiece in cash or "in-kind"
 contributions for the privilege of having their chief executives serve as
 directors of the NATO summit's host committee. The group is a
 private-sector support system raising $8 million to finance the April 23-
 25 event.
         While company representatives express disdain at the notion they
 will be lobbying NATO officials for business, many of the firms on the
 host committee sell precisely the kinds of products most in demand by
 the emerging economies of Eastern and Central Europe -- which
 include NATO's newest members and some prospective additions.
 Ameritech, for instance, is interested in running international phone
 networks. United Technologies Corp. views emerging or developing
 countries as a big potential market for its Otis elevators and Carrier air-
 conditioning and heating units. Both Ford and GM have auto plants
 throughout Europe. Their target audience? Heads of state and key
 cabinet ministers from the 19 NATO members, accompanied by
 leaders from 25 nations that make up the Partnership for Peace,
 countries with aspirations to join the alliance. The guests will be
 accessible for the kind of low-key lobbying and wining and dining
 customary at such international gatherings. About 1,700 dignitaries are
 expected to attend -- along with a media contingent of 3,000.
          "The business community was in it from Day One," said Alan John
 Blinken, a former U.S. ambassador to Belgium and investment banker
 who is heading the host committee. "In a lot of these cases, they came
 to us -- we didn't solicit them."
          A second tier of firms, including Washington powerhouse law and
 lobbying firms Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and Verner,
 Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, are members of the
 committee. Other companies, such as Eastman Kodak Co. and missile
 manufacturer Raytheon Co., are participating but taking a less public
 role. And more are still being courted. "They're actually wooing our
 CEO right now," said Gerald Robbins of 3Com Corp.'s Washington
 office. The communications networking company has a contract with
 NATO to supply equipment for the military alliance's AWACS
 surveillance and control planes that are being flown over Kosovo.
 "NATO is a big customer," Robbins said.
         Some host committee members, including Nextel, also hope to
 attract the attention of top U.S. government officials at the summit. The
 company is providing almost 2,000 of Motorola Inc.'s I-1000
 combination cell phone and two-way radios to visiting foreign
 dignitaries and members of the State Department's summit staff. Four
 hundred of the $299 phones will be embossed with a special
 anniversary emblem.
         Hungary, one of NATO's three newest members, held a reception
 last week at its embassy here, where Nextel's general manager, Nick
 Sample, proudly displayed one of the phones. Beaming, he told of how
 the product had recently been added to the General Services
 Administration's list of approved merchandise, allowing government
 purchasing officers to order the wireless communications gear. Having
 Nextel phones widely available to high-level bureaucrats as well as
 foreign heads of state is the kind of marketing that can only be labeled
 as priceless.
         For the guests, it's free, as Nextel is providing the phones gratis.
 "We've had quite a few inquiries already from the FBI, the State
 Department and the CIA," Sample said.
         Corporate support for the NATO summit is an outgrowth of the
 active role many U.S. companies, particularly defense contractors such
 as Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, have played in the move to
 enlarge NATO beyond its traditional U.S.-Western Europe axis. U.S.
 defense companies lobbied hard in Congress in recent years to admit
 the former Soviet satellites Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic.
         "Companies like Lockheed Martin, for example, and all of them
 were active with me overseas," said former congressman Gerald B.H.
 Solomon, who headed a House task force appointed by former House
 speaker Newt Gingrich to push the membership issue.
         Solomon, now a private lobbyist, said he traveled throughout
 Eastern and Central Europe spreading the message that if the United
 States was going to be NATO's principal military power, supplying
 most of its high-tech weaponry, then U.S. defense firms should receive
 contracts to rearm the former Soviet states.
         "We wanted them to buy American," Solomon said.
         Corporate representatives say private-sector underwriting of an
 international meeting for sovereign nations is standard business
 practice these days, though the NATO event is a far bigger draw than
 other international get-togethers.
         "This is a very unique beast," said Sally Painter, a lobbyist for
 Tenneco Inc. on leave from the auto parts and packaging conglomerate
 while serving as chief operating officer of the host committee. Painter,
 previously a top aide to then-commerce secretary Ronald H. Brown,
 was involved in international business development for Tenneco.
 "These are global corporations that understand the role stability plays
 with investment. There's no quid pro quo at all."
         Jim Christy, vice president of government relations for TRW Inc.,
 said it makes sense for companies, rather than the member nations, to
 foot the bill for such events.
         "Whether it's the [Group of Seven] summit in Denver or the
 Summit of the Americas in Miami, there are not government funds
 available," Christy said, noting that TRW Chairman Joseph Gorman
 was personally approached by Blinken on behalf of the host committee.
         "My chairman is public-spirited and agreed to do so," Christy said.
         TRW, though it has no contracts to provide products to NATO, is
 one of a handful of companies providing critical communications and
 defense supplies to the U.S. military. Along with donating $250,000 in
 cash to the summit, TRW is developing its World Wide Web site.
         "We were hit up for the Summit of the Americas" Christy said,
 adding that TRW did not contribute money for the meeting but built the
 summit's Web site for free.
         Blinken said that the expansion of NATO and the pro-Western tilt
 of countries formerly tied to the Soviet Union have created "major new
 trading partners" for the United States but that today the interest in new
 markets comes not only from arms merchants but also from a variety of
 technology firms, including Ameritech Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc.
 and Nextel.
         "Most of the companies are not companies you would have
 expected in the old day, companies selling bombs and missiles, what
 have you," Blinken said. "You've got communications companies."
         Yet a good number of the firms on the host committee sell
 weaponry. Although the economic crisis that spread throughout Asia
 and other parts of the world last summer has somewhat cooled their
 enthusiasm, new NATO members such as Poland and other countries
 such as Turkey are viewed as prime candidates for U.S. weapons.
 Poland has been considering new fighter jets from either Lockheed or
 Boeing Co.
         TRW's Christy said the summit was low on the radar of most
 companies just a couple of months ago, when the events committee
 made its first solicitations. But the fighting in Yugoslavia has focused
 attention on the gathering.
         "All of a sudden," he said, "now this is beginning to burnish a
little
 into the consciousness."

 NATO Access

         Here are the 12 companies that have paid $250,000 to have an
 executive (in parentheses) serve as one of the directors on the NATO
 summit's host committee:

         Ameritech (Richard Notebaert)
         DaimlerChrysler (Robert Liberatore)
         Boeing (Christopher W. Hansen)
         Ford Motor (Jacques A. Nasser)
         General Motors (George A. Peapples)
         Honeywell (Michael R. Bonsignore)
         Lucent Technologies (Richard A. McGinn)
         Motorola (Arnold Brenner)
         Nextel Communications (Daniel F. Akerson)
         SBC Communications (Edward E. Whitacre Jr.)
         TRW (Joseph Gorman)
         United Technologies (George David)

         SOURCE: NATO Anniversary Summit Host Committee


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Reporter challenges propaganda consensus
Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:19:51 EDT



<< Subj:=09 jhurd_newparty: Reporter challenges propaganda consensus
 Date:=094/14/99 7:34:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time

 Sender:=[e-mail]
=20
 The Globe and Mail (Toronto)            Wednesday, April 14, 1999
=20
 REPORTER CHALLENGES REPORTS OF MASSACRES IN PRISTINA
=20
         "There is no evidence that such a thing happened in Pristina"=20
         =97 Paul Watson, journalist for the Los Angeles Times=20
=20
         By Marcus Gee
=20
         One of the few Western journalists reporting from inside Kosovo=20
 says his impressions clash with NATO reports of what is happening=20
 in the war-torn province.
         Paul Watson, a Canadian who works for the Los Angeles Times,=20
 says he has seen no evidence that Serb authorities have massacred=20
 Albanians in the Kosovo capital of Pristina.
         In an interview yesterday with the CBC radio program As It=20
 Happens, he said he has toured ethnic-Albanian neighbourhoods=20
 several times and has not seen any bodies.
         "It is very hard to hide an anarchic wholesale slaughter of=20
 people," said Mr. Watson, who has been in Kosovo since the North=20
 Atlantic Treaty Organization began bombing on March 24. "There is=20
 no evidence that such a thing happened in Pristina."
         NATO blames Serb troops for the exodus of hundreds of=20
 thousands of ethnic Albanians in the past three weeks. It says they=20
 have been raped, massacred and burned out of their homes. The=20
 reports of refugees in border camps support that version.
         Yugoslavia, however, says the NATO bombings are forcing the=20
 ethnic Albanians to flee.
         "I am certain it is a mixture of both," said Mr. Watson, who won=20
 a Pulitzer Prize for news photography when he was covering the=20
 international intervention in Somalia for The Toronto Star.
         "I have spoken personally to people who have been ordered to=20
 leave their homes by police in black. I've also spoken to people who=20
 are simply terrified."
         For example, he said, many people fled the area around Pristina's=20
 airport after a NATO bombing there. "I see a pretty clear pattern of=20
 refugees leaving an area after there were severe air strikes."
         Mr. Watson said the effect of the NATO bombing has been to=20
 "stir the pot" in Yugoslavia. "We shouldn't be surprised that it has=20
 spilled over. And in spilling over it has created anarchy in the=20
 countryside."
         That does not excuse Serb atrocities, he said. "But I don't think=20
 that NATO member countries can, with a straight face, sit back and=20
 say they don't share some blame for the wholesale depopulation of=20
 this country.
         "If NATO had not bombed, I would be surprised if this sort of=20
 forced exodus on this enormous scale would be taking place."
         He said the centre of Pristina has been devastated by the NATO=20
 bombing. The police headquarters, the post office and other=20
 government buildings are in ruins. A graveyard and a children's=20
 basketball court have also been hit.
         Even so, people continue to walk in the streets. "Even this=20
 morning at 10 o'clock, as large explosions were rocking high-rise=20
 buildings in the centre of the city, there were people strolling up and=20
 down and oohing and aahing as if they were watching a fireworks=20
 demonstration."
         Mr. Watson said most of the villages between Pristina and the=20
 Albanian border to the southwest were deserted when he travelled=20
 through them. He also saw large convoys of vehicles carrying=20
 refugees.
         He did not see large groups of refugees living in the open, as=20
 NATO has reported, but he stressed that does not mean it is not=20
 happening.=20
=20
=20
 Louis Proyect
 (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
=20
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) WAS A PEACEFUL KOSOVO SOLUTION REJECTED BY        ...
Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:28:15 EDT



 Date:         Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:07:14 -0400
 Reply-To: [e-mail]
 Sender: "media analysis, critiques and news reports" <[e-mail]>
 From: FAIR <[e-mail]>
 Subject:      [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: WAS A PEACEFUL KOSOVO SOLUTION REJECTED
BY
               U.S.?
 To: [e-mail]


                                  FAIR-L
                     Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
                Media analysis, critiques and news reports




  ACTION ALERT: WAS A PEACEFUL KOSOVO SOLUTION REJECTED BY U.S.?

  April 14, 1999

  Since the beginning of the NATO attack on Yugoslavia, the war has been
  presented by the media as the consequence of Yugoslavia's stubborn
  refusal to settle for any reasonable peace plan, in particular its
  rejection of plans for an international security force to implement a
  peace plan in Kosovo.

  An article in the April 14 New York Times stated that Yugoslavian
  President Milosevic "has absolutely refused to entertain an outside
  force in Kosovo, arguing that the province is sovereign territory of
  Serbia and Yugoslavia."

  Negotiations between the Serb and Albanian delegations at the
  Rambouillet meeting in France ended with Yugoslavia's rejection of the
  agreement adopted, after much prodding, by the Albanian party.

  But is that the whole story? On February 21, the Yugoslavs assented to
  the terms of the political portion of the Rambouillet agreement. Their
  rejection stemmed from their opposition to the requirement that 28,000
  NATO troops be stationed in Kosovo to oversee the implementation of
  the accord. This military clause, requiring NATO troops, was inserted
  without the knowledge of the Russian representatives, who opposed the
  provision.

  By the  close of the first round of the Rambouillet talks in late
  February, Serb President Milan Milutinovic had already declared
  Serbia's willingness to to discuss "an international presence in
  Kosovo" to monitor the implementation of the accords. On February 21,
  Madeleine Albright responded by insisting that "We accept nothing less
  than a complete agreement, including a NATO-led force."

  On March 23, the day before the NATO bombing began, the Serbian
  parliament adopted a resolution again rejecting the military portion
  of the accords, but expressing willingness to review the "range and
  character of an international presence" in Kosovo. According to the
  Toronto Star's correspondent in Belgrade on March 24, "There have been
  hints Serbia might ultimately accept a U.N. force."

  But the U.S. appears to have been unwilling to consider any option
  other than NATO troops. At a March 24 State Department press briefing,
  spokesman James Rubin was asked about this development:

  QUESTION: Was there any follow-up to the Serbian Assembly's yesterday?
  They had a two-pronged decision. One was to not allow NATO troops to
  come in; but the second part was to say they would consider an
  international force if all of the Kosovo ethnic groups agreed to some
  kind of a peace plan. It was an ambiguous collection of resolutions.
  Did anybody try to pursue that and find out what was the meaning of
  that?

  MR.  RUBIN:  Ambassador Holbrooke was in Belgrade, discussed these
  matters extensively with President Milosevic, left with the conclusion
  that he was not prepared to engage seriously on the two relevant
  subjects. I think the decision of the  Serb Parliament  opposing
  military-led implementation was the message that most people received
  from the parliamentary debate. I'm not aware that people saw any
  silver linings.

  QUESTION: But there was a second message, as well; there was a second
  resolution.

  MR. RUBIN:  I am aware that there was work done, but I'm not aware
  that anybody in this building regarded it as a silver lining.

  In other words, the State Department was aware that the Serbian
  parliament expressed openness to an "international presence," but this
  was not seen as a "silver lining," apparently because only a NATO
  force was acceptable to the U.S.

  Those who support the bombing of Yugoslavia argue that all peaceful
  options for arriving at a settlement in Kosovo had been exhausted.
  Journalists need to do more reporting on the Rambouillet process to
  see if that in fact was the case.

  ***

  ACTION: Please contact local and national media and call on them to
  report on the U.S. State Department's insistence that only a NATO-led
  force in Kosovo could keep the peace there.  Did this position make it
  more or less likely that the rights of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo
  would be protected?

  You can contact the New York Times at:

  Andrew Rosenthal-- Foreign Editor
  mailto:[e-mail]; [e-mail]

  Contact information for other media outlets can be found at:
  http://www.fair.org/media-contact-list.html

  For more information on media coverage of the war in Yugoslavia, see
  http://www.fair.org/international/yugoslavia.html .



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Subject: (abolition-usa) NYC metro area  / URGENT / Rally for Peace, Friday, April 23
Date: 15 Apr 1999 00:36:24 EDT



 Friends and co-workers,

 Please note the broad range of sponsors. If your group agrees with the
statement below, you are invited to join as a sponsor. If you have problems
with the statement but agree on the need for an immediate large rally for
peace, endorse. War Resisters League is acting as a coordinating point for
this time, you can reach them by phoning 212 / 228.0450 and asking for Chris
Ney or Carmen Trotta. Leaflets are available. Get them out as widely as
possible.

 PLEASE SEND THIS EMAIL ON TO ANY LIST YOU THINK WOULD BE INTERESTED, AND ANY
FRIENDS WHO SHARE YOU CONCERN, AND ASK THEM TO RELAY THE NOTE IN TURN. TIME
IS SHORT. PUBLIC OPINION MUST BE MOBILIZED.

 Thanks,
 David McReynolds


  Rally for Peace in the Balkans
  Friday, April 23, 1999, 4:30 PM
  Washington Square Park (West 4th St.)

  Stop the Bombing! Return Kosovars to their Homes! NATO Out of Yugoslavia!

  Sponsors:  Catholic Worker, Debs Local Socialist Party, Fellowship of
Reconciliation, Greenwich Village Coalition for Peace and Priorities,
International Freedom Socialist Party, MADRE, New York Committees of
Correspondence, Nicaragua Solidarity Network, NY CP/USA, Pax Christi USA,
Peace Action, Radical Women, Shorefront Peace Action, Socialist Party USA,
War Resisters League, West Side Peace Action, Women In Black

  For more information: War Resisters League, [phone]

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

  Rally for Peace In the Balkans
  Washington Square Park
  4:30 PM, Friday, April 23

  Stop the Bombing!  Stop the Expulsions!  Peace in the Balkans now!

  We demand an immediate halt in the NATO air strikes against any part of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and an immediate, unconditional end of NATO
military actions.  These actions are in violation of international law and of
the Charter of the United Nations and thus the treaty obligations of the U.S.
Constitution.

  We say "No!" to both NATO ground forces and to arming the Kosova Liberation
Army, which will turn Kosovo/a* into a war zone where outside powers create
permanent chaos.

  We call for an immediate return to diplomacy, by involving the good offices
of the United Nations, and through a direct involvement of the Russian
government, with every hope that this will result in the return of the
refugees to their homes in Kosovo/a.

  We deplore the murder and forcible expulsion of the Albanian Kosovars,
whose numbers are now in the hundreds of thousands, as both a human and a
political tragedy.  It is surely criminal to force people, through terror and
intimidation, from their homes and from a nation where they have lived for
centuries.  At a human level, it is no less criminal for NATO to launch air
attacks on Yugoslavia, hitting targets that clearly include civilian sites.
And at a political level the forced expulsion has meant that NATO, rather
than achieving its purported goal of protecting the people of Kosovo/a, has
been a party to their being forced from their homes.  The presence of the
refugees in Montenegro, Macedonia, and Albania has now caused deep concern
that what little stability exists in those nations will be destroyed as a
result of the NATO actions.

  We underline the stark reality that with every day that passes, the tragedy
deepens and the political problems become greater.  Stop the war now.

  Catholic Worker, Debs Local Socialist Party, Fellowship of Reconciliation,
Greenwich Village Coalition for Peace and Priorities, International Freedom
Socialist Party, MADRE, New York Committees of Correspondence, Nicaragua
Solidarity Network, NY CP/USA, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Radical Women,
Shorefront Peace Action, Socialist Party USA, War Resisters League, West Side
Peace Action, Women In Black

  For more information: War Resisters League, [phone]

  * Kosovo is the Serbian spelling, Kosova the Albanian; we use Kosovo/a out
of respect for all people of the area. >>
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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: More info on the church leaders' meeting
Date: 15 Apr 1999 15:46:03 EDT

nancy ignatious at cns is working on this issue as I have also been. also,
bettina gray from berkeley cal. is working on this issue jgg

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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: More info on the church leaders' meeting
Date: 15 Apr 1999 15:55:04 EDT

alice, this was my contribution at united religions initiative

DECLARATION ON GLOBAL ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS:
Declared by consensus at the Third Global Summit of the United
Religions Initiative,

June 25, 1998.

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

We recognize that the United Nations General Assembly's first resolution,
1(I), in 1946 calling for the elimination of atomic weapons has yet to be
fulfilled.

The threat posed to all life by the sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons
presents an unacceptable risk for this and future generations. This
unacceptable risk presents a moral imperative for the elimination of nuclear
weapons.

The International Court of Justice has called upon States to conclude a
treaty on elimination of these weapons.  The failure to fulfill this legal
duty provides impetus for their hazardous proliferation.

We diligently and passionately call upon all religious leaders and ethically
conscious individuals to heed this moral imperative by pressing with all
persuasive means available to raise public concern with the purpose of
causing the nuclear weapons states to make an unequivocal commitment to
nuclear disarmament demonstrated by immediate:

       1) Commencement of multilateral negotiations leading to a treaty on
the elimination of nuclear weapons; and

       2) Implementation of practical first steps such as taking all nuclear
forces off current hair-trigger alert and pledging no first use.

The proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never
used -- accidentally or by decision -- defies credibility.  We refuse to
accept living under an unworthy peace which might make us the earth's last
generation.

At present, the Vatican is the only religious voice at the level of
government at the United Nations.  It has declared that reliance on nuclear
deterrence is immoral.  We wish to join that voice and make it a clarion call
that will resonate throughout the heart of humanity and move governments.

As people of faith and moral conviction, we believe it is our duty to address
this global evil, for no person is removed from its effect.  It emphasizes
the requirement that we learn to live in cooperation and harmony or we shall
all perish together.  May we continue to learn ways of peace.

Signers:

Bettina Gray, member of board, North American Interfaith Network, USA
Jonathan Granoff, Temple of Understanding, USA
Juana Albornoz Guevara, Chile
Doreen Da Costa, La Salle Youth Centre, Malaysia
Dr. Deri Joy Ronis, Interntl. New Thought Alliance, USA
Stephen Fuqua, USA
Rev. Mary E. Gaylord, Graduate Theological Union: Center for Women &
Religion, USA
Dr. Javid  Iqbal, Pakistan
Gurudev Singh Khalsa, SIGMA, USA
Rev. Dale White, Wilgespirit Fellowship Center, S.A.
Hugh Adamson, World Congress of Faiths, UK
Catherine Margerin, Millenio, USA
Christian De La Huerta, Q Spirit, USA
Bruce Curtis, USA
Fr. Luis Cabrera, Conferencia Episcopal Ecuatoriana, Ecuador
Mary Finney, SIGMA, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Lilian Curaming, Movement for Muslim-Chrisitian Dialogue, Philipines
Barbara Bernstein, Association for Global New Thought, USA
Rolf Carriere, UNICEF, Bangladesh
Tom Mahon, Writer, USA
Els Braeken, Brahma Kumaris, Belgium
Sally Ackerly, United Religions Initiative, USA
Patricia Elsberg, Alliance for Cooperative Economics, USA
Rev. Deborah Light, Covenant of the Goddess, USA
Socrates Olympio, Global Youth Alliance, Ghana
Kay Lindahl, Alliance for Spiritual Community, USA
P.K. McCary, USA
Yoland Trevino, Transformative Collaborations Int., USA/India
Ann Miller, Bosch Bahai Retreat Center, USA
Ms Mary Page Sims, USA
Alison Van Dyk, Temple of Understanding, USA
Rev. James Parks Morton, Temple of Understanding, Interfaith Center of
New York, USA
Bawa Jain, Temple of Understanding, Interfaith Center of New York, USA
Lois Gundlack, URI board member, USA
Mr. Robert Walter, President, Joseph Campbell Foundation, USA
The Hon. Guido Vansina - former Ambassador of Belgium, Belgium
Reverend Betsy Stang, The Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources,
USA
Ebrahim Patel, American Rhodes Scholar in Residence at Oxford, USA
Rev. James Channan OP, Executive Secretary, National Commission for
Christian-Muslim Relations, Pakistan
Dr. Hum D. Bui, M.D., CaoDai Overseas
Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Colorado, USA
A. Dell Drake, USA
Joel Beversluis, CoNexus Press, USA
Rev. Heng Sure, Institute for World Religions, USA
Michael N. Nagler, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mr Mussie Hailu, Representative - World Peace Prayer Society, Ethiopia
Sr Laetitia S. Borg,  Representative - Franciscan International,
Ethiopia
The Rev. Charles Gibbs, United Religions Initiative,USA
William W. Rankin, United Religions Initiative, USA
Elizabet Sahtouris, Author, Biologist,USA
Dr. Weldon E. Woodard, Venezuela
Dr. Carol Zinn, SSJ, Global Education Associates,USA
Paul Chaffee,  Presidio Interfaith Center, USA
Dr Natubhai Shah. Chairman Jain Academy,  UK
David L Cooperrider, Professor of Organization Studies, Case Western
Reserve University, USA
Andrea Bartoli, Columbia University, USA
The Right Rev. William E. Swing, Bishop of California, USA
Mary Taylor Swing, USA
Jack W. Lundin, vice-Chair, Board of Directors, United Religions
Initiative
Nahid Angha, Ph. D., Co-Director, Int. Assn. of Sufism; Founder, Int.
Sufi Women Organization, USA
Malcolm Stonestreet, United Religions Initiative, UK
Ghazala Munir
Zeenat Shaukat Ali, Professor Islamic Studies, St. Xaviers College,
Mumbai, India
Brahma Das,  Media Chair, Parliament of the World's Religions, USA
Media, Director, Kashi Foundation,  USA
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Kashi Foundation, USA
Krishnapriya Hutner-Kashi Foundation,   USA
DeAnna Martin, International Coordinator, Global Youth Alliance
Sharon Franquemont, The Circle, USA
Thomas One Wolf, USA,
Sherri One Wolf, USA
Phil Lane Jr., The Four Worlds International Institute form Human and
Community Development, USA
Dr Diana Whitney, Ph.D., Corporation for Positive Change, USA
Avon Mattison, Pathways to Peace, USA
Jane Hascall, Senior Partner,  Hascall Consulting, USA
Ravi Peruman, radio interview host, USA
Marina Villalobos Diaz


?Cynthia Melea Melburn,representitive-Earth Council,Washington,D.C., USA

*Jessica H. T. Forrest, USA
*Clare Nolan, NGO representative, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, USA
*Fr. Pasquino Panato, Comboni Missionaries, USA
*Marjorie Sorensen,  Association for World Education
*Linda Sorrento, USA
*Patrick McNamara - New York, USA
*Diane Robbins, DBRobbins Consulting, Seattle WA.
*Barry Bloom , USA

*this declaration is being circulated beyond the United Religions Initiative
Global Summit and those indicated have added their names. The additional list
of names has not yet been returned.



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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 2 Messages, Sacred Peace Pipe Keeper, Prayers for World Peace
Date: 15 Apr 1999 18:21:21 -0700

   April, 1999
  *From Chief Arvol Looking Horse :

  IMPORTANT STATEMENT ON YUGOSLAVIA

  My name is Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Dakota, and
  Nakota Nation, I would like to share a viewpoint about the "Ethnic
  Cleansing", mass killing of innocent people in Yugoslavia.

  I am the Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of Peace, a
  gift of a sacred bundle given nineteen generations ago to my people
  providing guidance of teachings for assurance of Peace within our
  lives.

  The White Buffalo Calf Woman gave this gift of the Sacred Pipe
  providing guidance of teachings for assurance of Peace within
  our lives.  Along with these teachings of this Sacred Pipe of Peace,
  has been prophecies passed down from significant people who walked
  their harmony.  They based their lives on teachings given from
  sacred bundles, such as the Sacred Buffalo Calf Pipe or many other
  gifts of bundles and teachings from the Creator.

  They foretold of these times of great change, which coincide with
  many other Nations' archives recording their own Prophecies.  The
  reality of the accuracy of these Prophecies which has predicted events
  upon Mother Earth, as well as the history of our own people, have come
  to pass, so we have learned to pay attention.

  There are foretold Prophecies of a very dark time, more significant
  than any other times in History.  We will be at a crossroads in which a
  dark cloud will envelop the earth, chaos and diseases will erupt and we
  will witness blood from our relatives' eyes.

  Humankind has to make a decision and have courage to make a stand
  for Peace, even when their relatives' minds are restrained from
  spiritual awareness of healing the mind.  We still have a chance to
  choose to make a change.

  Mother Earth is a living spirit that clothes, feeds and nourishes
  all walks of life, but when fighting erupts, the land and life cease to
  flourish, as well as the spirit of humankind.

  Mother Earth needs our help!  I call upon the World to Pray at once
  for Peace, to make your stand spiritually, you must see the ignorance
  of this situation in Yugoslavia will only make us blinder to our own
  empowerment of making a positive change for our next generations to
  come.

  Pray with me every day at 10:00 AM Central Time for a peaceful
  resolution to this continuing destruction of the World.  You must
  realize this "disease of the mind" will spread even faster, if we
  don't take control of our behavior.

  I have been initiating an event called "World Peace and Prayer Day"
  to bring awareness of these times by uniting the world spiritually on
  June 21st, praying at the sacred sites, for Global Healing, this being
  the fourth year to the South in Costa Rica.

  When this day arrives, please pilgrimage to your local sacred site
  and continue the daily praying that has been done at the time of 10:00
  AM Central Time.  This is an invitation to the Serbian and Yugoslavian
  representatives to participate, whether it be in Costa Rica or at
  your own sacred place of prayer.

  Please begin to learn to understand the meaning of "Walking in
  Harmony and Peace" in having the courage to transform our spiritual
  consciousness to love and compassion!  This is the real challenge and
  courage in life.  As one of our spiritual leaders, Black Elk once said:
  "One who walks a dark road is distracted, who is ruled by his senses and
  who lives for himself, rather than for his people".  Please "Look upon
  your children, with their children in their arms, that they may face the
  winds and walk to the day of quiet."

  From which there is no beginning and no ending in the Sacred Hoop
  of Life, I am sending you this message of Peace from my heart and the
  sacred altar, may our prayers for Peace be heard, may peace with you
  all...

  Hetcetuyelo! Mitakuye Oyasin (all my relations),
   Chief Arvol Looking Horse,
   19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of Peace


      COMPLETION CIRCLE OF THE FOURTH
      YEAR OF WORLD PEACE AND PRAYER DAY
      June 21, 1999

   As keeper of the 19th generation Sacred White Buffalo Pipe of
   Peace, I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Nakota and
   Dakota Nation, would like to invite the world to recognize
   June 21st as a day of prayer for global healing. Our traditional
   indigenous ways are the way to strengthen our bonds and healing
   for our Mother Earth. We are the "root nation", Hutkan Oyate,
   with responsibility to turn the life of our Mother Earth around.
   It is now evident, with even the scientific findings, that our
   course is leading to the endangerment of our tired Mother Earth.
   We are now in the midst of what is prophesied as the crossroads,
   faced with either disaster, chaos, diseases, with tears from our
   relatives' (Mitakuye Oyasin) eyes, or uniting spiritually with
   all nations upon Mother Earth.

   This is a calling for the world to seek out the sacred sites and
   bring awareness to the energy and connection that exists there to
   our Mother Earth. In the past, there has been clear research
   findings of people coming together spiritually, praying for a
   healing, and our Mother Earth responded with a visible positive
   energy shift.

   This year we are completing the circle to the South direction in
   Costa Rica. This journey started in 1996 at Gray Horn Butte,
   Wyoming and circled to the North in 1997, to the Cree Nation of
   the Joseph Big Head Reservation, and then to the East at the
   Sacred Pipestone Quarries in 1998. Costa Rica has been chosen as
   the Southern site to complete the circle because of the need to
   support what is already established there with the efforts of the
   University of Peace and its non-military existence. We are
   inviting the surrounding Indigenous Peoples of the South and all
   Indigenous people of the world to either join us or go to their
   sacred site if it is not possible to journey to Costa Rica.

   According to our star knowledge, June 21st is a time to pray. We
   have this only chance to unite spiritually. In our way there is
   no beginning and no ending to continue to work toward peace and
   harmony for our Mother Earth so there is much healing for our
   nations of future generations.

            May peace be with you, all life upon Mother Earth.

                    Mitakuye oyasin, (All my relations)

    Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe

+~*~+~*+~*+~*+~*+~*+~*~+~*~+*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+~*~+

   World Peace and Prayer Day is the fulfillment of prophecy from our
   ancestors, not only Lakota, but that of other Peoples' of Earth.
   Chief Looking Horse is the catalyst for the vision he keeps, an
   inherited responsibility of what the White Buffalo Calf Pipe stands
   for - Peace - with the ancestral vision of obtaining Peace through
   the help of the spirituality of all Peoples! The vision and endeavor
   is for all people from all cultures and beliefs to come together and
   pray for Global Healing. If we view our ways with ethnocentricity we
   destroy the very empowerment through which we fully obtain the
   connection with the Creator.

                         May peace be with you, WPPD '99 Staff

+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~

   Website for World Peace and Prayer Day '99:
   http://www.worldpeaceday.com/1999/
   E-mail contact: [e-mail]

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*





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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Michael Moore on Kosovo
Date: 16 Apr 1999 14:05:10 -0400

>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:56:28 -0400
>Subject: Michael Moore on Kosovo
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Here is Michael Moore of TV Nation and Downsize This! fame on the bombing
>in
>Kosovo.  Where it says American or USA, I believe we can safely substitute
>Canadian or Canada.
>
>Darren Puscas
>Project Ploughshares Intern
>(my email is [e-mail] not [e-mail] as it
>appears)
>
>
>
>The Bombing of Kosovo
>By Michael Moore
>April 15, 1999
>
>Dear friends,
>
>As we file our taxes today (procrastinators, all of us), and we sign our
>names on the bottom line of our 1040 tax forms, perhaps we should ask
>ourselves if what we are doing is signing a death warrant for people we
>don't even know. Because each night, for the past three weeks, millions of
>dollars of bombs and missiles -- that you and I paid for -- are being used
>to kill people in the former Yugoslavia. That makes you and I culpable in
>their execution.
>
>Did you personally know any of the people who were killed in the village of
>Pristina (capitol of Kosovo) last week? Had they ever done anything to harm
>you? How about the children who were blown to bits in the building in
>Prizren? Had they ever threatened you in any way to cause you to have to
>kill them in self-defense? Perhaps you had met the people who were
>incinerated by us on the train to Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Can you tell me why
>you would want to take their lives?
>
>I'm sorry to personalize it in this way, but this slaughter is being
>conducted in your name and mine, and I'll tell you, this is blood I don't
>want on my hands. We will all have to answer for this some day, and I would
>like to be able to say that I did not sit by silently while this was being
>done, and that I did whatever I could to stop it as soon as possible.
>
>Right about now, some of you, with all good intentions, are saying, "But,
>Mike, this Milosevic guy is a madman. He's committing genocide. We should
>not ignore this as we did the Holocaust in the early days of World War II.
>He must be stopped by any means necessary."
>
>Yes, he must be stopped. But bombing the people of his country is exactly
>the wrong way to stop him. In fact, it has only strengthened him. There was
>a growing dissident movement in Yugoslavia before the war, and every letter
>I get from these brave souls tells me that the bombing has set back their
>struggle so incredibly far that they worry they will now be stuck with
>Milosevic for a long time. They are pleading with us to stop it. The
>bombing
>has made him a hero at a time when nearly half of the country was very
>unhappy with his leadership. We did not consult the anti-Milosevic movement
>in advance to see if they would like our help in the form of 10,000 bombing
>sorties. We just went off half-cocked on our own, and started killing the
>very people we were claiming to save. Anyone who remembers Vietnam knows
>that sordid logic and insanity. We have strengthened Milosevic and
>destroyed
>his opposition. Happy now?
>
>Friends, Milosevic must be stopped, BUT BOMBING DOES NOT WORK. It has never
>worked. It didn't work in Iraq -- Sadaam is still in charge no matter how
>many bombs we have dropped. It didn't work in Vietnam. During the Christmas
>week of 1972, the amount of bombs we dropped on North Vietnam was equal to
>half the tonnage of bombs dropped on England during World War II.That
>didn't
>work, so one month later, we gave in and announced our complete pull-out.
>
>What a sad, pathetic man Bill Clinton is. Though many have criticized him
>for dodging the draft, I actually admired the fact that he refused to go
>and
>kill Vietnamese. Not all of us from the working class had that luxury, and
>tens of thousands of our brothers died for absolutely no damn reason. For
>this "anti-war" President to order such a misguided, ruthless -- and, yes,
>cowardly -- attack from the air is a disappointment of massive proportions.
>
>Bombing didn't work for either side in World War II. Hitler bombed Britain
>mercilessly for years, but it didn't work. Our bombing did nothing to save
>the lives of 6 million Jews, 4 million Catholics, Gypsies and other
>"undesirables," and 20 million Russians. Our bombs couldn't even take out
>one German machine-gun on top of the cliffs overlooking the beaches of
>Normandy. World War II was won because my father and uncles and your
>fathers
>and grandfathers risked their lives pouring out of amphibious carriers like
>sitting ducks on a beach, crawling through the dead bodies of their friends
>and fellow soldiers, and climbing up those cliffs in France and Italy and
>the South Pacific. Over a quarter of a million of them, including my uncle,
>died doing this.
>
>And that, my friends, as some are known to say, is the awful truth. If
>genocide is really taking place, the only way to stop it militarily is to
>send our children in there and accept the fact that thousands upon
>thousands
>of them will be killed. Are you willing to do that? Or better yet, this is
>the question I always ask myself when confronted with whether or not I
>should ever support a war: Do I believe strongly enough in this cause that
>I
>MYSELF would be willing to risk my life to go over there and square it with
>my conscience to kill Yugoslavians.
>
>I have a feeling I know the answer most of you would give. We know Clinton
>is lying to us. We know there is no "Holocaust" taking place. What IS
>happening is that two groups of people are carrying on their centuries-old
>mission to annihilate each other. The Kosovo Liberation Army announced
>their
>intentions to rid Kosovo of all Serbs (the Albanians are the majority in
>Kosovo, the Serbs, a minority). That's all a nutcase like Milosevic needed
>to justify his campaign to rid Kosovo of all Albanians. This is true
>madness
>and a lot of innocent people are losing their lives in the process.
>
>So here's my solution:
>
>Stop the bombing immediately.
>Get the Russians, whom the Serbs trust, in there to be the peacekeepers and
>help resolved the situation.No American or NATO forces on Kosovo soil.
>Russia can do this in spite of the wanker in charge, Mr. Yeltsin. The Serbs
>will let them in. Let's get them on board instead of alienating the
>Russians
>even further.
>Let the Orthodox Church play a major role in bringing about the peace. The
>Serbs are mostly Orthodox and a strong move by its Patriarch could do a lot
>to ending all the bloodshed.
>Look, I'm not an expert on any of this. I'm mostly busy getting my show on
>the air each week. But as I sign my 1040 today, I must admit that I am
>partly responsible, as an American citizen who pays his taxes, for this war
>and I must encourage whoever I can to join me in demanding an end to this
>now.
>
>Last fall, many of us participated in an incredible act of protest by
>throwing a bunch of right-wingers out of Congress. We believed that they
>were trying to overturn an election on the basis of someone's private
>sexual
>life and his lies about it. We won, and the Republicans are now chopped
>liver. Good riddance.
>
>Now, it is time for all of us to stop Clinton and his disgusting,
>hypocritical fellow democrats who support him in this war. It is amazing to
>watch all these "liberal" congress members line up behind the President. In
>a way, I'm glad it's happening, if only to show the American people there
>is
>little difference between the Democrats and the usually war-loving
>Republicans. Aren't you getting a kick watching the Pat Buchanans and the
>Henry Hydes sounding like pacifists! These politicians can change stripes
>at
>the drop of a hat (or bomb) because, ultimately, they are the same animal,
>participants in a one-party system that tries to fool the people by going
>by
>two names ("Democrat" and "Republican").
>
>Please call or write your member of Congress, send a letter to the editor,
>let the Democrats know we have had it with the whole lot of them. This is
>OUR country, not theirs and the corporate interests they really represent.
>It's time to start taking it back.
>
>Each cruise missile that is launched could have built a dozen schools or
>hired another hundred teachers or provided health care to a thousand
>people.
>Those millions of dollars could have been spent saving lives and educating
>children. Every night, Clinton isn't just bombing Yugoslavia, he's bombing
>you.
>
>Yours, Michael Moore
>
>[e-mail]
>
>http://www.michaelmoore.com
>
>http://www.theawfultruth.com
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) A-Bomb Survivor on War in Yugoslavia
Date: 16 Apr 1999 10:25:28 -0700



Dear David,

I appreciate so much for your commitment to peace. Thank you for sharing
your
heart via e-mails.

My heart has been crying out for the people of Yugoslavia.

I still remember something about what I learned while I was in theological
seminary studying the Jewish history. One of things that still stuck in my
mind and heart is that the nation, any nation regress is not because lack of
technology or knowledge, but it is disjunctiveness to its history.
(something
like that).

As I think current Yugoslavia situation in which the President Clinton seems
enjoying himself with what perceived "leadership," as the
Commender-in-Chief,
ordering and escalating bombing on Kosovo/Serbia. But to what end?

I wish I could say so many things, but here are my thoughts. I've expressed
two different format. Please bear with me as I share them with you.
(unedited).


AIR STRIKES ON KOSOVO/BELGRADE


DO THESE AIR STRIKES CONSTITUTE AN ENDLESS RAGING WAR IN HUMAN HEARTS or
A "CONTROLLING" POWER OVER 'WEAKER' NATION?


As a survivor of Hiroshima, I have been profoundly troubled by our
involvement in Yugoslavia and unable to support. Here are reasons:
1. Do the President Clinton and US Congress, and 18 NATO leaders believe
that
ethnic historical conflicts and hatred among Balkan's nations can be
resolved
by "air-strikes"?
2. Do ambivalent objectives of air strikes on Kosovo led me to believe that
these leaders have no understanding of the single objective of war is to
fight to "win"?
3. Their talks about "morality" is nothing but easy way out--the least
possible risk -- to themselves, and have no perception of what true "price"
of peace is!
4. Do NATO leaders have intention of "total reconstruction" of "defeated"
nation of Serbia/Kosovo, as America did on Japan's and other Europe nations,
after the World War II, let alone, over refugees' plight?
5. While Milosevic's "ethnic cleansing" is intolerable, escalating of exodus
of refugees since the bombings, why the President Clinton and NATO leaders
are unwilling to sacrifice their lives--to die in order that others may
live!
6. It is only then I accept compelling "morality" as NATO's reason and our
involvement in this "bloody-war".

Sincerely,


Thomas Takashi Tanemori

Silkworm Peace Institute
3371 Morage Blve. #100
Lafayette, CA 94549-4641  USA

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An Opinion--An Essay on Kosovo Crisis



By: Thomas Takashi Tanemori
As we approach the coming 21st Century, we mark a time that has been
distinguished by both copious bloodletting and enormous scientific advances.
On a daily basis, we are overwhelmed with the horrors of international
violence, cultural violence, religious and personal violence. Much of the
suffering is a result of historical conflicts that have devolved into an
unending cycle of revenge and despair. But now, we find that some of this
violence is in danger of, and capable of, destroying the whole world.

I often wonder whether or not President Clinton, as Commander-in-Chief, has
idea of what true "price" of peace is! He himself, for an example,
demonstrated his true color of who he is during Vietnam war; and he thinks
his own conduct was vindicated by the former Defense Secretary MacNamara's
Book: In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam is abominable.
I'm afraid that talk about "morality" by President Clinton, the US Congress
and political leaders of the 19 (NATO) nations is nothing but easy way out
and the least possible risk -- to themselves. It is morality is one of
convenience, when these leaders have neither political nor personal will to
commit themselves for peace-UNWILLINGNESS to die in order that others may
live. Ambivalently the President of United States committed our troops to
this region in 1995, and four years later today in the same ethnic region
the
carnage of Kosovo/Serbia demonstrates their perennial ethnic
conflicts/hatred
as nations. "Why, with the hope for peace generated from the end of the Cold
War, is the world increasingly proving that it is still too easy to go to
war
to settle human conflicts?"

The air strikes on Kosovo by NATO, have led me to this inevitable question:
Do the Prime Minister of Britain, the President of United States and its
Congress, honestly believe that we can resolve their ethnic conflicts,
hatred
and historically complex political/cultural and national enmities? These are
issues are difficult to extinguish when countries have been at war for so
long; how ludicrous we have become?

I cringed to learn what NATO calls as "all out" air campaign theatre is no
longer stop or degrading, crippling Milosevic's own military power so that
this "ethnic cleansing" does not spread to the rest of Europe. But NATO is
now driven only by its rapacious will to political "unification" of the NATO
alliance for the fiftieth Anniversary celebration, God forbid!

As a survivor of Hiroshima, I can't help but wonder "how dare we ourselves
continue on an endless cycle of revengeful actions that we can't reconcile
with our own hearts, let alone our neighbors?"

We survivors bear silent witness to the horrors of war. Our experience gives
us the moral authority to stand for peace. It is essential that national
enmity, ethnic hatred, cultural divisiveness, differing religious beliefs
and
personal conflicts and differences be put to an end. It is important to
recognize that this is also a time of unparalleled opportunity to assist in
the transition of a world order in the direction of peaceful co-operation.

What is the solution? Let us fight the "The Final War"-the most difficult
war
of all-being waged in the name of healing, forgiving, and making peace with
our painful past. The international community must do this not just for our
own sake but also for the sake of our children and the future generations
who
will inherit this earth. Let us give them an earth that is better than the
one we inherited. There may be ways to approach this seemingly
insurmountable
task. When I was young, my father instilled in me what I call the Three-Fold
he taught me has held my heart intact for these decades of darkness wrought
by war and the ghosts of history.

Let us practice these principles in our daily human affairs' (1) "Jidai-
Yusen " sacrifice of one's immediate needs for a higher moral purpose, (2)
"Mugai-Kyoei": reverences for life-respecting others as different
individuals, practicing nonviolence and (3). "Jita-Kyoei": the practice of
living for the benefit of others.

 In the "I Ching," the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, the Hexagram of
Breakthrough' ponders how to deal with evil and the horrors of the human
experience. Its conclusion is that "the best way to fight evil is to make
energetic progress in the good."

We might surprise ourselves. When we practice these principles, they can
guide us to work together for the common goal of making the world a peaceful
place in which we all can live together.
_______________________________________________
Thomas Takashi Tanemori, Founder of Silkworm Peace Institute
based in Lafayette, CA 3371 Moraga Blvd. Lafayette, CA 94549-4641

SilkwormPl@aol..com































The following article was appeared on The Sunday Times (Contra Costa Times
in
Walnut Creek, CA),
March 28, 1999
Past visited at Seaborg memorial

A Hiroshima bombing victim comes to make peace at service for Nobel laureate

By Chuck Squatriglia, The Time Staff Writer

BERKELEY - Literati converged on UC-Berkeley on Saturday to pay final
tribute
to Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg. Thomas Takashi Tanemori came for a
different reason.

More than 53 years after he survived the nuclear bomb that Seaborg helped
develop, Tanemori wanted to make peace with the past. Tears welled in his
eyes as the last of the anger he had held in his heart for decades slipped
away.

"I want him to know my heart has changed," said Tanemori, 61, of Lafayette,
who at age 8 watched the atomic bomb fall on Hiroshima. "I'm hoping his
spirit senses my desire for peace."

Tanemori joined more than 100 people Saturday in a "circle of sharing" to
memorialize Seaborg. He died Feb. 25 at home in Lafayette at age 86.

The informal ceremony preceded' a memorial service in which many of
Seaborg's
peers waxed lyrical about a man considered one of the finest scientists and
scholars of this century.

"He was a man whose accomplishments created an image of almost mythic
proportions," said Charles Shank, director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
where Seaborg remained an associate research director until his death.

Seaborg is perhaps best-known for his discovery, with three colleagues, of
plutonium - a feat that earned him the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1951-and
his work on the Manhattan Project, which led to the atomic bomb used by the
United States in World War Il.

 During a career that spanned more than 60 years, Seaborg expanded the
periodic table with his discovery of 10 elements - more than any scientist
in
history! He received more than 40 patents, earned dozens of honorary degrees
and wrote more than 500 articles and books.

Beyond the laboratory, Seaborg devoted himself to nuclear nonproliferation
and served on the Atomic Energy Commission under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson
and Nixon. His access to the highest levels of government shaped the
nation's
scientific policy and led to the ratification 1961 of the Limited Test Ban
Treaty.

"I think that legacy is an inspiration to all of us," David Seaborg said in
his eulogy of his father.

Seaborg also was an advocate for education, who instilled in many children a
wonder of science, said Peggy House, director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Center
for Teaching and Leaning Science and Mathematics at Northern Michigan
University.

"The message he conveyed (to children) was any one of them could be the next
great scientist," House said during the informal gathering before the
memorial service Saturday.

Throughout his career, Seaborg remained dedicated to Cal. His tenure as
chancellor from 1958 to 1961 helped forge UC-Berkeley's reputation as a top
research institution, said Clark Kerr, who preceded Seaborg as head of the
university.

"We shall never see his like again," Kerr said.

So deep was Seaborg's love for Cal that he named many of the elements he
discovered in honor of the university, including berkelium (element 97,
discovered in 1949) and californium (element 98, discovered in 1950). He
also
enjoyed reminding friends that the letters of his last name could be
rearranged to spell "Go Bears," friends said. When colleagues immortalized
him in 1997 by naming element 106 .seaborgium," Seaborg suggested they name
it "gobearsium" instead, said legendary Cal Kapp, who was among 100 people
who joined sharing.

Seaborg remained a humble man who often chatted with Cal freshmen and cheer
football team from the stands Memorial Stadium. He enjoyed picnic lunches
with students am member the arcane detail of their research projects, said
former student and one-time colleague John Rasmussen.

"In retrospect, I realized what a wonderful mentor he was for me," said
Darleane Hoffman, a noted research scientist who studied under Seaborg.

 Others in the circle spoke of Seaborg's love of hiking and civic
endeavors, which included founding the Lawrence Hall of Science and helping
the East Bay Regional Park District establish a network of trails.

 "There was never a man who did more in so many fields so willingly,"
said Dick Trudeau, who joined Seaborg in his efforts with the park

 But it was Tanemori's heartfelt testimonial that galvanized the
audience. The crowd fell silent as the retired Baptist minister recounted
the
aftermath of the bomb that fell on August 5, 1945.

The radiation killed his parents, grandparents and several siblings. Even
today, he said, it continues to steal his eyesight. It also infected him
with
a deep hatred for the United States and an insatiable desire to avenge his
loss.

Feeling isolated and ashamed in a culture focused heavily on family, he
attempted suicide at age 16.

Finally he came to the United States in 1956 at age 18, and the anger grew.
On the 40th anniversary of the bombing, Tanemori spoke at a service and
realized he would not know happiness until he let go of his hatred.

 Slowly, Tanemori said, he grew to admire Seaborg's dedication to
nuclear nonproliferation and his contributions to science and medicine.

 "That helped bring my own change and forgiveness," Tanemori said.

  Despite living in the same town as Seaborg, Tanemori never
met the man who was the target of so much of his anger.

  "I was glad to have a chance to have a chance to speak my
heart," he said. "I was able to find peace."
                               [Staff writer John Hill contributed to this
story]





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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Michael Moore on Kosovo
Date: 16 Apr 1999 23:48:22 EDT

In a message dated 4/16/99 2:07:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< [e-mail] (ASlater) >>
+Hi, Alice,

Is GRACE accredited to the UN?  The question came up, and I wondered about
it.  Can you let me know whether you bothered to get accreditation?

I hope you are well.  I know you are busy.  You are doing great work.

Best,  Dorrie


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) What Budget Surplus?  Fraudulent Accounting Practices
Date: 16 Apr 1999 21:26:37 -0700

One of those emails I received that has "slipped through the cracks" was one
I received a couple of months ago and kept meaning to send out with a
commentary but never got around to it and now can't find it.  Perhaps
someone can verify exact details.

The gist of the story is that Barrons financial magazine, I believe, was
quoted as publishing the Federal deficit for each of the last two years and
the cumulative annual Federal deficit increased by something on the order of
$300 billion I believe.

What is the point?  The much ballyhooed 1999 "Federal Budget Surplus" is a
fraud perpetrated by a change in accounting procedures completely unreported
in the mainstream media whereby all of a sudden without any public
indication of what was happening, the money that normally goes into social
security was reallocated as part of the federal budget.  Then the actual
annual deficit was subtracted from this amount and the balance was renamed
the "budget surplus" and all this talk about how it should be spent "to save
social security", etc., is a big con job because we are talking about an
amount of money in fact equal to what was previously allocated to social
security, LESS the actual last annual DEFICIT in the Federal budget.

Now if my understanding is correct here, wouldn't this be quite a scandal
with the media complicit in this coverup of the truth?  That is:  There is
no budget surplus, only a change in accounting and nominclature to fool the
people!   wouldn't any accounting firm be censured and any company fined for
using such deception in fiscal reporting?

Now they are talking about "oh well , looks like we will have to use some of
this budget surplus to pay for the war in Kosovo".   This is in reality then
the money that under last year's accounting vocabulary was the normal
deposit to the social security program being used instead to fight a war.
What do you think the vote would have been if people were asked, "shall we
take money from the social security budget and use it to bomb a bunch of
folks in Europe?"

This is such a outright fraud on the American people that it amazes me
almost as much as the history behind how the most valuable plant in human
history, the hemp plant, has been fraudulently outlawed as marijuana,
expunged from the historical record, and the government and media are still
complicit in this parallel historical fraud on the American people and
Congress.  (see http://www.jackherer.com)

I hope that my posting this poor excuse for the original email with the
exact source of the deficit numbers will at least suffice to inspire someone
to find the proper numbers and sources to verify this easy to confirm or
refute thesis that I have faithfully depicted above, i.e.,

The "Federal Budget Surplus" is a Fraud


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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) What Budget Surplus?  Fraudulent Accounting
Date: 17 Apr 1999 16:57:39 -0400

This change in federal budgeting procedures is not new.  It was made more than a
decade ago, and over the years it has been widely reported in the press.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller



David Crockett Williams wrote:

> One of those emails I received that has "slipped through the cracks" was one
> I received a couple of months ago and kept meaning to send out with a
> commentary but never got around to it and now can't find it.  Perhaps
> someone can verify exact details.
>
> The gist of the story is that Barrons financial magazine, I believe, was
> quoted as publishing the Federal deficit for each of the last two years and
> the cumulative annual Federal deficit increased by something on the order of
> $300 billion I believe.
>
> What is the point?  The much ballyhooed 1999 "Federal Budget Surplus" is a
> fraud perpetrated by a change in accounting procedures completely unreported
> in the mainstream media whereby all of a sudden without any public
> indication of what was happening, the money that normally goes into social
> security was reallocated as part of the federal budget.  Then the actual
> annual deficit was subtracted from this amount and the balance was renamed
> the "budget surplus" and all this talk about how it should be spent "to save
> social security", etc., is a big con job because we are talking about an
> amount of money in fact equal to what was previously allocated to social
> security, LESS the actual last annual DEFICIT in the Federal budget.
>
> Now if my understanding is correct here, wouldn't this be quite a scandal
> with the media complicit in this coverup of the truth?  That is:  There is
> no budget surplus, only a change in accounting and nominclature to fool the
> people!   wouldn't any accounting firm be censured and any company fined for
> using such deception in fiscal reporting?
>
> Now they are talking about "oh well , looks like we will have to use some of
> this budget surplus to pay for the war in Kosovo".   This is in reality then
> the money that under last year's accounting vocabulary was the normal
> deposit to the social security program being used instead to fight a war.
> What do you think the vote would have been if people were asked, "shall we
> take money from the social security budget and use it to bomb a bunch of
> folks in Europe?"
>
> This is such a outright fraud on the American people that it amazes me
> almost as much as the history behind how the most valuable plant in human
> history, the hemp plant, has been fraudulently outlawed as marijuana,
> expunged from the historical record, and the government and media are still
> complicit in this parallel historical fraud on the American people and
> Congress.  (see http://www.jackherer.com)
>
> I hope that my posting this poor excuse for the original email with the
> exact source of the deficit numbers will at least suffice to inspire someone
> to find the proper numbers and sources to verify this easy to confirm or
> refute thesis that I have faithfully depicted above, i.e.,
>
> The "Federal Budget Surplus" is a Fraud
>
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Robert Fisk:  This atrocity is still a mystery to Nato. Perhaps
Date: 17 Apr 1999 22:44:19 EDT

In a message dated 4/17/99 10:35:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:43:28 -0700
 To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
 From: [e-mail] (by way of [e-mail] (Ben Terrall))
 Subject: Robert Fisk:  This atrocity is still a mystery to Nato. Perhaps I
 can
  help..

  This report by Robert Fisk about what he found at the scene of the NATO
  bomb attacks on Kosovo refugees, and the evidence showing up NATO's
  economy with the truth, is a must read. Are we really to quietly accept,
  as our leaders tell us to, that such atrocities are "inevitable"  and
  excusable because Serbia is doing worse?

  Ali Abunimah
  [e-mail]

  ---------- Forwarded message ----------

  The Independent of London
  April 17, 1999

  This atrocity is still a mystery to Nato. Perhaps I can help...

  By Robert Fisk

  When you stand at the site of a massacre, two things happen. First, you
  wonder about the depths of the human spirit. And then you ask yourself how
  many lies can be told about it. The highway of death between Prizren and
  Djakovica - on which the Serbs say Nato slaughtered 74 Kosovo Albanian
  refugees in a series of bombing raids - is no different.

  Only hours after I slipped on a dead man's torso near an old Turkish
  bridge, less than a day after I stood by the body of a young and beautiful
  girl - her eyes gently staring at me between half-closed lids, the bottom
  half of her head bathed in blood - I watched James Shea, Nato's spokesman,
  trying to explain yesterday why Nato still didn't know what had happened on
  Wednesday.

  All those torn and mangled bodies I had just seen - the old man ripped in
  half and blasted into a tree at Gradis, the smouldering skeleton with one
  bloody, still flesh-adhering foot over the back of a trailer at Terezick
  Most, the dead, naked man slouched over the steering wheel of a burnt
  tractor - all, apparently, were a mystery to Nato. So perhaps The
  Independent can help clear up this unhappy state of affairs with some
  evidence - damning perhaps, certainly important - from the scene.

  But first a pause, to reflect on atrocities. The Serbs are "ethnically
  cleansing" Kosovo. It is a war crime. If Nato massacred the 74 Albanians,
  the Serbs have killed many more. On Thursday, I saw four buses in Kosovo
  packed with terrified Albanian women and children and old men, black
  curtains at the windows of the buses in an attempt to hide their presence.
  And at a square in the otherwise deserted town of Pozeranje, near Urosevac,
  I passed at least 200 pathetic Kosovo Albanians, exhausted, frightened,
  carrying plastic bags of clothes and battered holdalls, the old women in
  scarves, the young women clutching children to their bosoms, the old men
  wearing black berets; all were standing tightly together for protection,
  like animals.

  They were waiting for another bus, I suppose - and, not for the first time
  these past three weeks, I thought of other scenes, in Eastern Europe just
  over half a century ago. At Pozeranje, I was seeing these poor people - for
  a few seconds only, from a vehicle window - at the very moment of their
  dispossession, on the very day of their "cleansing", within hours of their
  arrival among the flotsam of humanity along the Serbian border 12 miles
  away. It was a wickedness I saw, the very moment of evil. When I drove
  through Pozeranje again yesterday, it was empty save for four horses
  running lose on the main road.

  So why dwell on the 74 dead Kosovo Albanians whose remains have been left
  in such indignity along the Prizren-Djakovica road? Because the Serbs
  wanted us to see them? Because Nato was already embarrassed by the Serb
  claims of their slaughter? Because it "evens the balance" --and it does not
  -- between Serbia and its enemies?

  No, I suspect that the road of death and its terrible corpses is a
  challenge not to Nato's propaganda but to its morality. Nato, we are
  repeatedly told, represents "us", the good moral, decent people who oppose
  lies and murder. So Nato has a case to answer -- for all our sakes. And the
  evidence lies on that awful road with its eviscerated people and its bomb
  craters.

  Nato "thinks" it bombed a tractor on a road north of Djakovica. Indeed,
  Nato's military spokesman would say yesterday only that is was "possibly" a
  tractor. Mr Shea -- or "Jamie" as he enjoins us to call him -- says he is
  still trying to find out what happened to the 74 refugees. Nato needs more
  time, he tells us, to assess what it bombed and did not bomb.

  Well perhaps I can help Jamie to speed up his enquiries. Of the four
  air-strike locations, I have visited the first three -- at Velika Krusa,
  Gradis and Terzick Most -- and they run consecutively from east to west
  along the Prizren-Djakovica road. At the third, I came across four bomb
  craters. I saw -- and in some cases collected -- a number of bomb and
  missile parts. At Gradis, I came across part of a missile circuit board,
  its congealed wiring attached to a plate which contains a manufacturer's
  code.

  Yesterday's Independent carried some of this. But Nato will need the
  fullest possible information to trace this piece of ordnance quickly. The
  full code (the brackets are empty on the original) reads as follows:

  SCHEM 872110 ( ) 96214ASSY8721122 - MSN 63341 [remaining figures obscured
  by detonation damage]

  It shouldn't take Nato armaments experts more than a few hours to find out
  where that code came from -- indeed what aircraft carried and fired that
  missile. Its pilot -- if it was a Nato bomb - will then be able to explain
  why he fired it.

  At Velika Krusa, I found the fusing of an aerial bomb next to a smashed
  trailer containing the belongings of 35 Albanian refugees, four of whom -
  all women - were killed in this air strike. I also have in my possession
  what may be a swivel system to an aerial bomb. It is one-inch square, very
  damaged (Xs stand for the illegible parts) - but carries the code: "X6214 -
  837XNY".

  At Gradis, I found a large bomb part, green in colour but with stencilled
  colour code in English, whose full code reads:

  WING ASSEMBLY

  96214ASSY

  78-201872 872128

  DATE OF MFG 3/78

  Another similar bomb part contained the numbers:

  96214ASSY

  887760-4

  At Gradis, too, part of what appeared to be a detonator contained a section
  of manufacturer's name:

  - TER Co Inc

  13250

  Again, Nato intelligence authorities should be able to work out some of
  those codings within a few minutes. Another piece of a bomb had the single
  word "BENDIX" stamped on the metal. Other bomb and missile fragments
  contained moving fin assembly parts. Most of the shrapnel was so sharp it
  that it cut the hands of those who touched it. The corpses showed what
  happened when the bomb parts shredded them alive. One of the bodies lying
  in a field at Terezicki Most - that of a man in his 40s - had the top of
  his head cut cleanly off, along with his brain and eyes so that his face
  had turned into an actor's mask. A middle-aged woman in a purple pullover
  and brightly flowered skirt with her eyes open and a pale waxen face, had
  had her neck cut open.

  Now, maybe Nato will find that these bomb and missile assembly parts
  belonged to weapons sold to other governments. Perhaps they will be able to
  claim that a Balkan nation was given the aerial bomb whose wing assembly
  number is recorded above. In which case, maybe Nato will say that the
  Yugoslav air force - of which not a single aircraft has been seen in the
  air since the start of the Nato bombardment - carried out this massacre of
  Albanian refugees.

  Certainly, Yugoslav army officers at the bomb sites made no attempt to
  prevent photographers taking pictures of the larger pieces (though they
  showed no interest in the codings and seemed unable to understand my
  interest). And I saw one photographer drag a piece of bomb several metres
  and turn it over for a better photograph. But given the time available and
  the chaos on the road - Nato air raids were going on within a mile of us as
  we examined the bomb sites - it is impossible to believe that the Serbs had
  time to construct these terrible scenes.

  At Gradis, there was evidence of strafing as well as aerial bombing. Huge
  troughs had been cut into the earth, each two feet in length, separated by
  up to 10 feet and unevenly separated as if a drunken monster had lurched
  through the field and on to the road. These appeared identical to the
  cannon fire marks I found at the scene of American A-10 "Tankbuster"
  strikes in the 1991 Gulf War. But there were no burnt-out tanks on the
  Prizren-Djakovica road; only tractors and trailers and an old milk-yellow
  van turned inside out by the explosion which destroyed it.

  Along miles of the same road were other tractors, some scorched, most
  abandoned, apparently in panic, at the side of the road. The few Kosovo
  Albanians we found spoke of thousands on the road that day - 14 April - and
  it appears that they were moving in both directions. Survivors have said
  they came from the border, were moved to Djakovica and then told by Serb
  forces to move to Prizren. Most say they had no Serb escorts. I saw those
  awful buses with the black curtains moving in both directions near Prizren
  on Thursday. "Ethnic cleansing" is not a precise art. Nor is fear.
  Undoubtedly some of the Kosovo Albanians on the road were terrified of the
  aircraft which bombed them in four separate locations. The fourth attack
  took place at Meja on the other side of Djakovica.

  It wasn't difficult for me to imagine the terror on that road. While we
  were picking our way through the corpses of Terezicki Most, Nato planes
  dropped bombs less than a mile away - cluster bombs from the sound of them
  - and a series of massive explosions changed the air pressure around us. We
  watched the skies. From time to time, we could hear - but not see - Nato
  jets power-diving. Columns of dark smoke billowed over the bright green
  fields.

  But we found no military wreckage. Not a smashed rifle, not a piece of
  armour. There was a lot of glass on parts of the road - not a commodity to
  find in large amounts on military vehicles. The only victims of these air
  strikes appeared to be civilians. At Terezicki Most, I counted 13 corpses
  and other body parts. A missile had rammed a tractor, setting fire to its
  trailer and incinerating all inside. In the Prizren hospital mortuary, six
  corpses lay on the concrete floor. There was a woman, breasts exposed, on
  the right, a delicate child close to her with a bloodied face. A piece of
  paper with the number "1" written on it had been pinned to the shroud half
  covering an unknown man. We had names for the rest: Fikrija Sulja, Imer
  Celja, Ferat Bajrami, Persad Sanfjli and Nerdgivare Zecin.

  Along the road, there were clothes and rags and broken cups and saucers
  beside the bomb sites and photograph albums and family snapshots. I picked
  up photographs of a pretty young Kosovo Albanian woman with a lace blouse
  and curls and long black earrings, of a smiling four-year old boy in a
  T-shirt standing on a sofa behind a vase of sunflowers, of the boy's
  parents and two other brothers on the same sofa, of two old women in Muslim
  scarves and of a blood group certificate - Rhesus positive - for a woman
  named Rama Resmije, dated 16 March 1993.

  Did she live or die? Were the little boy and his parents and brothers torn
  apart in the air strikes on Wednesday? And what of the pretty woman in the
  earrings? If they survived, they deserve to know why their family and
  friends died. If they were killed, we deserve to know why. That these
  people were massacred in air strikes I do not doubt. I fear very much that
  they were slaughtered by Nato. If so, why? Was this some terrible error
  about which Nato - after its attack on a passenger train last week - fears
  to tell us? Or did some Nato pilots (and this massacre needed three or four
  planes) make an error and agree to cover it up? Or - most awful of all -
  did a Nato pilot do something terrible, inexplicable, two days ago and then
  lie about it?

  Nato, I suspect, can tell us. And those of us who walked among the innocent
  dead on the road from Prizren to Djakovica this week are waiting to hear
  Jamie tell the truth.






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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) LA Times April 17 says cluster bombs did it
Date: 17 Apr 1999 22:01:10 -0700

I happened to see a copy of today's Los Angeles Times and front page article
details evidence that cluster bombs made in USA caused the civilian
casualties on the roads in Kosovo/a in the news since yesterday.

http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/FRONT/t000034470.1.html

I caught part of David McReynolds on Fox News this evening and appreciated
his ability to bring out the need for equal standards in applying the label
of genocide comparing situation in Yugoslavia to Israeli treatment of
Palestinians.  Good job DMcR


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) The Big Lie About Kosovo + The war in Kosovo is about the mines + MUCH much more
Date: 18 Apr 1999 03:55:57 -0700

+
MUCH much more

Hello everyone

I have 2 updates ready to send you about the war in Kosovo, This one is a
compilation of various texts presenting some perspectives you won't find =
in
the mainstream (elite-controlled) media. Some of this might appear
discouraging or even disempowering. Yet, unless enough people become awar=
e
of such information and analysis of what is going on, it is likely that
indeed we will be powerless to stop this. Of course information of that
undisclosed kind is not the only way to disarm the elite conspiracy (in m=
y
view) behind this war. The spiritual all-pervading influence of
peace-nudging meditations are also a formidable instrument of harmony and
sanity we can all continue to use daily to counter such ploys.

We are in the thick of it. Let's keep this world afloat

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000

P.S. The next update (to be sent tomorrow probably


Here's a brief bulletin from a friend called Neda in Belgrade, Serbia,
written midnight at the end of Wednesday 14th April.  Neda is a health
worker who once lived for two years in England.  She's in the thick of it.

Palden.


You wanted to hear how it is here now.
Here you are. It is midnight and I have just heard a bang. I don't know i=
f
it is a bomb which fell or our air defence (is it the real term?) which
shot a missile(?).

I opened the window just in case, as it is suggested we do that (it saved
my windows couple of times), and from somewhere, probably from the bridge
which is just down the hill, I hear a song. There must be at least few
hundreds of voices. I shiver.

Best wishes
Neda


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http://38.201.154.103/articles/?a=3D1999/4/13/114554

April 14, 1999

The Big Lie About Kosovo

by Richard Poe

"Save the Albanian Kosovars!" Clinton cries. "Save the
Sudeten Germans!" Hitler trumpeted in 1938. The
names have changed, but the strategy remains the same.

For more than 50 years, we Americans have looked
down our noses at the Germans, for having followed
Hitler so blindly. But now it's our turn. We are proving
no more resistant to propaganda than those cheering
crowds in Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will.

Back in the 1930s, Adolf Hitler needed an excuse to
seize Czechoslovakia. So he invented one. Three and a
quarter million ethnic Germans lived in the
Sudetenland, under Czech rule. As William L. Shirer
recounts in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Hitler
secretly funded an extremist group called the Sudeten
German Party and ordered it to provoke an uprising
against the Czechs.

Kosovo, too, appears to have been destabilized by
outside forces. For years, Kosovars protested Milosevic
peacefully. But in 1997, a group called the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) suddenly started shooting. Who
were these people?

The Times of London (March 24, 1999) described the
KLA as "a Marxist-led force funded by dubious
sources, including drug money." European police
suspect the KLA of connections to Albanian gangsters.
At least two of the group's backers appear to have been
the CIA and the German spy agency BND, according to
intelligence analyst John Whitley, quoted in the Truth in
Media Global Watch Bulletin (April 2, 1999).

The purpose of staging a provocation is to create a
backlash. This strategy certainly worked for Hitler in
1938. As unrest spread in the Sudetenland, the Czechs
cracked down. Czech President Eduard Benes ordered
troops into the region and declared martial law.

Right on cue, the German press went wild. "Women and
Children Mowed Down by Armored Cars," ran a typical
Berlin newspaper headline in September 1938. "Poison
Gas Attack on Aussig" cried another.

Hitler accused Benes of waging a "war of
extermination" against Sudeten Germans. "The
Germans he now drives out!" cried Hitler, in a
September 16, 1938 speech. "We see the appalling
figures: on one day 10,000 fugitives, on the next
20,000... and today 214,000. Whole stretches of country
were depopulated, villages are burned down, attempts
are made to smoke out the Germans with
hand-grenades and gas."

Sound familiar? Hitler's rhetoric bears an eerie
resemblance to the CNN news blitz on Kosovo. Of
course, Hitler was exaggerating. Many of the atrocities
he alleged later turned out to be fabrications. But the
same is true of our newscasts on Kosovo.

Take the alleged massacre of 45 Albanian civilians at
Racak, for instance, reported in January 1999. Forensic
and other evidence now suggests that the bodies were
those of KLA guerrillas killed in combat.

The hoax has been widely discussed in the European
press (including Le Monde, Die Welt, Le Figaro and the
BBC). But U.S. news outlets have been as silent on the
controversy as if they were taking orders from Goebbels
himself.

In the Sudeten crisis, Hitler claimed to be inspired by
internationalist ideals. "Among the fourteen points
which President Wilson promised ..." the Fuhrer
proclaimed, "was the fundamental principle of the
self-determination of all peoples ..." By freeing the
Sudeten Germans, Hitler argued, he was fulfilling
Wilson's vision.

Clinton too claims he is fighting for human rights. But
ethnic cleansing does not bother Clinton when his
friends are the ones doing the cleansing. He ordered no
bombing when the Croatians drove 300,000 Serbs from
Krajina, burning their homes and killing many. Nor did
he intervene when our NATO ally Turkey slaughtered
over 35,000 Kurds.

Every schoolchild today knows that Hitler's real goal, in
seizing Czechoslovakia, was to use it as a stepping stone
for his planned invasion of Russia.

But what is Clinton's real interest in Kosovo? Nobody
knows.

Many theories have been floated. Some point to the
Trepca mines of northern Kosovo, rich in gold, zinc,
silver and lead. The New York Times called them the
"Kosovo war's glittering prize" (July 8, 1998).

Others see a more far-reaching strategy. The Russians
claim that NATO, like Hitler, wants to use the Balkans
as a stepping stone for extending its power eastward --
eventually meddling in the affairs of Russia itself.

But this is all speculation. Only time will reveal
Clinton's true intentions, as it ultimately did Hitler's.

In his memoir Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer
recalled the anxious mood of Berliners, in September
1939, as they digested the news that England and
France had declared war.

"The atmosphere was noticeably depressed," he recalls.
"The people were full of fear about the future. None of
the regiments marched off to war decorated with
flowers as they had done at the beginning of the First
World War. The streets remained empty. There was no
crowd on Wilhelmsplatz shouting for Hitler."

A wise man once said that those who fail to study
history are condemned to repeat it. Should Clinton
actually succeed in sparking a world war, Americans
will no doubt react with the same shock and fear as
Berliners did in 1939. But we will have only ourselves
to blame.

Richard Poe is a freelance journalist and a New York
Times-bestselling author. He writes frequently on
historical themes. Poe's latest book, "Black Spark,
White Fire", explores the Afrocentric controversy
concerning ancient Egypt.

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MAYBE THE RESPONSE TO RICHARD POE'S QUESTION "But what is Clinton's real
interest in Kosovo? Nobody knows." IS TO BE FOUND BELOW...

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 [e-mail] wrote:

Hello All,

THE FOLLOWING new world order INTELLIGENCE UPDATE WAS WRITTEN ON MAY 16,
1998 and refers to the 1996 and 1998 Bilderberg Meetings and Kosovo...

(This is me speaking, btw, in these next three paragraphs.)

The first time I ever heard the word "Kosovo" was over two years ago in
these
reports which forecast how the Bilderbergers hoped to bring about a
debilitating war of attrition in the heart of Europe with tendrils
eventually
spreading towards Russia, Syria and Israel.  No doubt, in the interim,
Bilderberger agents provocateurs have been working full time on all sides=
 to
foment the present war.  The following is about the 1998 Bilderberg-creep
meeting with references to the 1996 meeting.

These creeps are hoping this war will spread into Greece, Cyprus, Turkey,
Bulgaria, RUSSIA, and finally, involve the US in their nwo malevolence.
Lucifer must have some magnificent palaces all ready for these heroes of
hell-creeps when they shed their mortal coils - and I do mean coils, as i=
n
snakes...  Sky dragons?  Dracs?  And what is the traditional symbol of
China?
 The dragon.  Remember, Albania is and always has been a Red Chinese pupp=
et
and a drug conduit to the west via the KLA for drugs from China and SE As=
ia.

Since what the nwo Intelligence Update's 1996 report said was going to
happen
has now come to pass in Kosovo in 1999, I re-read the following with grea=
t
pause because of what it may foreshadow for the entire region (Greece and
Turkey and Cyprus) and for Russia and the Middle East and the US.  The
Bilderberg-made storm clouds are gathering!  I am so awestruck by the lev=
el
of deceit and evil these nwo manipulators are into that I cannot say anot=
her
word.

Brad
--------
EXCERPT:

"The Coming Kosovo War, Greece, Turkey, And Cyprus...

"In our June, 1996, Special Report on the Bilderbergers, the New World
Order Intelligence Update warned that the globalist elite had planned a
Balkans war which would become the "Vietnam of the '90's"; and that, if
they could not get such a war going by inflaming the Serbs through the
use of NATO "snatch squads" to seize suspected war criminals for trial
at the Hague, their plan was to use Kosovo as the flashpoint to ignite a
regional conflict which would ultimately embroil the Yugoslav
federation, Bosnia, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Albania, Macedonia, the
Western European military powers, the United States, and by extension -
as allies of Turkey and Greece - Israel and Syria. Now, from virtually
nowhere, the well-financed Kosovan Liberation Army has sprung into the
limelight and the scene is being set for a Balkan war of unbelievable
carnage and merciless hostility.

"We further warned that, if the war in Kosovo took too long to engineer
or eluded the elite altogether, then their fall-back plan was to create
a vicious conflict between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus, and to push
the war back into the Balkans area from there."


1998 BILDERBERG MEETING ENDS

WAR PLANNED ON CYPRUS IF KOSOVO CRISIS STALLED

EUROPEAN-ATLANTIC UNION EYED AS NEXT STEP IN GLOBALISM

TRUCULENT JAPAN CAUSING CONCERN REGARDING PLANNED ASIAN UNION

[Copyright (c) 1998, New World Order Intelligence Update. This article
may be reposted to Internet conferences and Web sites if unaltered and
unedited. Prior permission to otherwise reprint or reproduce is
required, and may be obtained by contacting John Whitley as detailed
below.]

CONTACT: John Whitley
E-mail [e-mail]
Phone [phone]
Fax: [phone]

TORONTO, 16th May, 1998

The 1998 meeting of the secretive and immensely-powerful Bilderberg
Group closes tomorrow at the luxurious Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire,
Scotland. The 120 or so Bilderbergers, who normally converge at their
pre-selected venue with as much secrecy as possible, had hoped that
their selection for the May 14th - 17th conference this year, 15 miles
south of Ayr and a quarter of a mile away from the A77 trunk road to
Glasgow, would - together with armed and black-clad police at the the
property entrance and around the perimeter - guarantee their
previously-inviolate privacy.

They have still not recovered from the acute discomfort which they
experienced when the TORONTO STAR and local Toronto media, acting on
detailed Press Releases from the NEW WORLD ORDER INTELLIGENCE UPDATE
[http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley], ran several major articles
revealing their existence and querying, for the first time in their then
43-year history, the nature and purpose of their secretive conclave at a
$66-million luxury resort property at King City, just north of Toronto

Conrad Black, the most closely-watched media magnate in Canadian
history, was the convener of that 1996 meeting, during which -
exhibiting a new and disarming policy of openness - the Bilderbergers
released a list of attendees and a highly-generalized and non-specific
agenda. They tried the same proactive approach at their 1997 meeting in
Georgia; but now, apparently, find the comfort of dark anonymity and of
non-existent Press Releases to be more congenial to their purposes
again.

Well, unfortunately, much of their security effort has been wasted. For
here once again, following the tradition of free publicity for the
Bilderbergers which we first established at their 1996 meeting, are the
substantive issues which they discussed at their secretive 1998
Conference. Since the Bilderbergers make a point of never confirming or
denying the substance of their discussions, we invite our readers to
take note of the following items and to compare them with the contents
of their newspapers over the forthcoming months.

Our sources have shown an extraordinarily high degree of accuracy over
the past several years, as those who have purchased our detailed
Bilderberg Report can attest [see our Report web page at
http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley/bild.htm].

We need, for reasons which will quickly become obvious, to refresh our
readers' memories at this point.

During and following the 1996 Bilderberg Conference, we asserted that
Bilderberger Bill Clinton would be re-elected as U.S. president; that he
would promptly break his promise to bring American troops home from
Bosnia, but that he would re-position them in Hungary and the
surrounding countries instead and pass command of the Bosnian operation
to a German general and 3,000 German combat troops from Heidelberg [this
later occurred, in October, 1996]; and that the Bilderbergers had
thereafter arranged to inflame the Serbs by pursuing the war criminals
in their midst for trial before a new International Court [the Serbs, a
proud but experienced people, side-stepped this provocation by
persuading the lower- and middle-level suspects to voluntarily
surrender].

If that failed to incite a Balkan war, then we pointed out that they
were prepared to utilize Kosovo to bring one about:

"When war comes, as expected, Kosovo, at the southern tip of the Serbian
Republic, may be the flashpoint that ignites a wider war involving
Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia, and Turkey - in addition to the
hapless U.S. and NATO troops caught in the middle. Kosovo, "the
Jerusalem of the Balkans", is a self-proclaimed nominally independent
"republic", presided over by "President" Ibrahim Rugova. It is, in fact,
a province of Serbia, though its population is largely of Albanian
descent. The United States, though on record as recommending more "au-
tonomy" for Kosovo, treats the province to all intents and purposes as a
de facto independent state, a fact which infuriates the Serbians. Twice
- once in 1992 and again in 1993 - Presidents of the United States have
threatened Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic with military
retribution "in the event of a conflict in Kosovo caused by Serbian
action." To add insult to injury, the U.S. now plans to establish an
"official presence" in "the capital of Kosovo." Aggrieved by this, and
rightly sensing the intent of the United States to encircle and contain
them, the Serbians are likely to appeal to an increasingly-nationalistic
Russia, their traditional protectors, for help and military assistance.
As reported by Germany's DIE ZEIT, "Serbia is every place where there
are Serbian trenches or Serbian graves", according to Serbian opposition
leader Val Draskovic. That means that Serbia will fight to retain
Kovoso, in spite of the fact that its population is 90% Albanian. The
Albanian Kosovans, determined to be independent, will fight back. That
will likely draw into the conflict the 3.4 million inhabitants of
Albania proper, together with the Albanians of Montenegro and Macedonia.
Albania also has openly-expressed designs on Macedonia's western
provinces, largely populated by Albanians: at least one armed
insurrection directed by Albania has been foiled by the Macedonian
authorities, and the Albanians continue to openly support and encourage
Macedonian Albanian separatist groups. Bulgaria, which considers
Macedonians to be "western Bulgarians", may then go to war for the
fourth time this century to seize the opportunity to finally settle its
territorial claim there. Greece, already incensed by Macedonia's use of
the Greek "Vergina Sun" symbol on its flag and suspicious of the
Macedonian Republic's supposed intention to form a "Greater Macedonia"
by inciting insurrection and separation in the Greek province of
Macedonia, may well then take advantage of events to settle the issue
once and for all. Turkey, acting in defence of its Muslim brethren in
Bosnia, and infuriated by the actions of its traditional rival Greece
against the Macedonian Republic, could then scarcely be refrained from
joining the fray.

The "Albanian issue", centred in Kosovo and overshadowed by the larger
Serb-Bosnian tensions, is a powderkeg waiting to explode. And when it
does, the whole region will explode with it."
- from our 1996 BILDERBERGER REPORT [almost three years later, these
things are now happening!]

The Serbs, scenting the trap thus laid for them, have confined
themselves to short, repressive police actions against the Kosovan
Albanian population, none of which have been sufficient in duration,
extent or intensity to provide the pretext necessary for the
Bilderberger elite to rally Western European and American public support
for a full-fledged military engagement of the Serbs. So their methodical
preparation, financing and arming of the newly-revealed Kosovan
Liberation Army has so far provided the Bilderbergers with no dividends
at all...and the clock is running on their schedule. They need this war,
and they need it soon.


(END OF QUOTE)

WELL NOW IT APPEARS THEY GOT WHAT THEY PLANNED FOR.

TO READ MORE GO AT: http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley/bild.htm

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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the July 30, 1998 issue of Workers World newspaper


Kosovo: 'The war is about the mines'

By Sara Flounders

Wars are at root about economics, and the rapidly expanding war in Kosovo
is no different.  So why have millions of dollars in high-tech weapons
suddenly become available to the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army by way =
of
the U.S. and Germany?

A July 11 report by New York Times Balkans bureau chief Chris Hedges
describes the KLA's new arsenal the latest anti-tank rocket-propelled
grenades and anti-aircraft weapons.  These weapons are shifting the balan=
ce
of power toward the KLA, which is funded fully by outside sources, mostly
from the U.S.  and Germany.

The KLA is "fed by recruits, money and arms from outside Serbia," Hedges
confirms. It has an "inexhaustible supply line," he reports.

"Rebel soldiers, in full uniform with the red and black patch of the Koso=
vo
Liberation Army, pull thick wads of German marks from their pockets. Ther=
e
are also signs that the arrival of dozens of former professional soldiers
as well as some mercenaries are turning the ragtag band into a viable
military force of several thousand fighters."  In fact, the KLA is
primarily a mercenary army funded by the kind of shadowy sources that hav=
e
long been associated with U.S.  and German intelligence services.  It is =
a
contra army.

Kosovo is often portrayed in the media as an isolated mountainous region
that's poor and without resources.  It might seem, from these accounts, t=
o
be an area of interest only to those who live there.
The New York Times, for example, has carried dozens of such articles by
Chris Hedges in the last six months.  Only once, on July 8, did Hedges
write about the real wealth of Kosovo the Stari Trg mining complex.  It w=
as
a tip-off that something more was at stake in this war.

Hedges' visit to the Stari Trg mining complex is an eye opener.  He
describes the glittering veins of lead, zinc, cadmium, gold and silver in
Stari Trg. According to Hedges, "The sprawling state-owned Trepca mining
complex, the most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans, is worth =
at
least $5 billion." According to the mine's director, Novak Bjelic, "The w=
ar
in Kosovo is about the mines, nothing else.  This is Serbia's Kuwait the
heart of Kosovo.

...  In addition to all this, Kosovo has 17 billion tons of coal reserves=
."
The whole world knows and observed firsthand in the war against Iraq to
what horrendous extent the Pentagon was willing to go in order to guarant=
ee
control of the oil wealth of Kuwait. But the enormous mineral wealth of
Kosovo is never publicly discussed by U.S.  United Nations Ambassador
Richard Holbrooke, President Bill Clinton or the Pentagon generals.  They
speak only of "self-determination" of the Albanian population of Kosovo.
Of course, they never mention what U.S.-imposed "self-determination" mean=
s.
 It means colonization under the guise of "liberation," like what the U.S.
did to Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines a hundred years ago.

An Internet search for reports on the mines of Kosovo the Trepca mining
complex or Stari Trg turned up only the one article by Hedges and a small
piece in the June 22 Wall Street Journal.  All other mentions are in
metallurgical journals. How could this vital fact be omitted from all
discussion of what is at stake in Kosovo?  It is comparable to describing
Kuwait and the oil-rich Gulf states as barren deserts. The wealth of Koso=
vo
is greater than the rich veins of ore in the mines. Hedges describes the
mining complex: "The Stari Trg mine, with its warehouses, is ringed with
smelting plants, 17 metal treatment sites, freight yards, railroad lines,=
 a
power plant and the country's largest battery plant."

The labor power of millions of workers throughout socialist Yugoslavia
built this mining complex into the powerhouse it is today.  It was their
wealth that was invested in developing the complex.  It belongs not just =
to
those who live in Kosovo, but to the workers of all Yugoslavia. The
Yugoslav web site www.yugo slavia.com describes Trepca as the "richest le=
ad
and zinc mines in Europe." Lignite deposits in the Kosovo mines are,
according to experts, sufficient for the next 13 centuries.  The capacity
of the lead and zinc refineries ranks third in the world.

Miners work round the clock, day and night, in six-hour shifts. According
to the mine director, "In the last three years we have mined  2,538,124
tons of lead and zinc crude ore and produced 286,502 tons of lead and zin=
c
and 139,789 tons of pure lead, zinc, cadmium, silver and gold." Although
the average person watching the news in the evening has never heard of
Stari Trg, it has been a prize changing hands for two thousand years.
The wealth of Stari Trg is legendary.  Precious metals were mined there
more than 2,000 years ago, first by the Greeks, then by the Romans.

These mines were the grand prize in the Nazi occupation of the Balkans
after Germany grabbed control from the British.  The mines have great
industrial and military importance.  The Nazis used batteries produced
there to power their U-boats.  Today submarine batteries are still made
there. Profits from these mines are helping to keep the Yugoslav Federati=
on
afloat.

U.S.  and UN sanctions imposed on Serbia and Montenegro, the two remainin=
g
republics of Yugoslavia, have taken an enormous toll. Without investment
credits, loans for financing industry, imports and exports, the economy h=
as
been stifled.  Inflation has weakened the currency. The mines, which once
were the largest employer in the province, have also been affected. The
most important words in Hedges' article are the description of the comple=
x
as "state owned." Throughout this decade, as the capitalist market has
swept over the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the Sovie=
t
Union, socialist Yugoslavia has attempted to resist privatization of its
industry and natural resources. To break this resistance, the Western
imperialist countries played a major role in the breakup of socialist
Yugoslavia.

This huge complex of mines, refining, power and transportation in Kosovo
may well be the largest uncontested piece of wealth not yet in the hands =
of
the big capitalists of the U.S. or Europe. The industry, natural resource=
s
and transportation of all the former Soviet republics, the socialist
countries of Eastern Europe, and the secessionist republics of Yugoslavia
are now being rapidly privatized.  No one within the region has the wealt=
h
or connections to finance capital to buy controlling shares of these vast
state-owned industries.  The major Western corporations are gobbling thes=
e
industries up.

While the fate of some industries is still in negotiation, the lending an=
d
credit conditions of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
require the breakup of all state-owned industries.  This is true for the
oil and natural gas wealth in the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea as well as
the diamond mines of Siberia.
The decision on who will own or have controlling interest in the 22 mines
and the many processing plants of the Trepca complex will be made by
whoever wins the armed struggle raging in Kosovo.  NATO domination on the
ground would put U.S. corporations in the best ownership position.
Nationalist strife advances their position.

Although being forced to privatize in order to survive in today's global
market, Yugoslavia has tried to control the process and to propose Balkan
regional development.

According to the June 22 Wall Street Journal, the Yugoslav Federation is =
in
negotiations to sell shares in the Trepca mining complex.  Forced by the
economic crisis, they have been negotiating with a Greek
investor Mytilineos Holdings SA for partial ownership. The former manager
of the mines, Byrhan Kavaja who is now allied with the opposition to the
Yugoslav government has written to all corporations dealing in soft metal=
s
to tell them not to make agreements with the Yugoslav government.  Kavaja
says that once a new government is in power, all past decisions on
ownership will be invalidated.  The opposition will make "new agreements.=
"
Who is likely to be the beneficiary of these agreements?

The progressive movement in the U.S.  and throughout Western Europe must =
be
at the forefront in explaining that the billions of dollars spent on the
U.S./NATO occupation of the region is not in the interests of any of the
people of the Balkans.  Nor is it in the interests of poor and working
people in the U.S. or Europe.  The war is destroying all that was built
through collective ownership and collaboration in the Balkans. This war
will mean higher taxes and even more cuts in social programs in the U.S a=
nd
Europe.  But the billions of dollars in profit will go to a few wealthy
stockholders in the U.S. or in Western Europe.

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Richard Boylan, Ph.D. *

March 26,1999, Brooklyn, NY Alex Cavallari, [e-mail] reported:
While watching an early morning TV news show, "Good Day NY" on FOX
channel 5 in NY at about 8:12 - 8:14 AM est on 3-26-1999 there was a
segment on called "Crisis in Kosovo." The guest for this segment was a
Mr. Cliff Bragdon, he claims to be a military and defense expert,
while being questioned on the aircraft and technology being used by
the USA military in Kosovo, Mr. Cliff Bragdon stated that the Stealth
B2 Bomber "uses antigravity technology".  thank you, Alex Cavallari

(NOTE: IF YOU ARE CURIOUS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS ANTIGRAVITY TECHNOLOGY,=
 GO
AT
Mr. Boylan's webpage at http://www.ufonetwork.com/boylan/articles.html AN=
D
CHECK THE LINK WITH "Antigravity Drives" IN IT.)

Here is a relevant quote from another of Mr. Boylan Internet published
documents:

Colonel Donald Ware, USAF (ret.) told me that he recently learned from a
three-star General that the X-33 has electrogravitics (antigravity) syste=
m
on board, [as the unacknowledged military version I estimate exists must
surely also have.] This antigravity electrogravitics system has already
been operationally proven on the B-2 Stealth bomber, which Colonel Ware h=
as
revealed also has electrogravitics system on board.

The late Colonel Steve Wilson, USAF (ret.), Skywatch's founder, stated th=
at
military astronauts trained at a secret aerospace academy separate from t=
he
regular Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Co. These military
astronauts operate out of Beale and Vandenberg Air Force Bases, Northern
California From those bases, these military astronauts regularly fly
trans-atmospherically and into space. One of the aerospace craft they use=
,
Colonel Wilson reported, is the X-33A, a two-man antigravity discoid ship.
Whether they also fly the Aurora and the military version of the X-33A
spaceplane has not been confirmed, but likely.

=A9 1998 Dr. Richard J. Boylan

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DRUDGE REPORT - MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1999

RUSSIAN MILITARY ACCUSES USA OF TESTING NEW SECRET BOMB IN YUGOSLAVIA

Russian military officials late on Monday night accused the United
States of testing a new secret weapon in Yugoslavia -- a weapon that
is somewhere between conventional and nuclear!  "The United States is
using Yugoslavia as a test range for its latest secret means of
destruction," representatives of the Russian Defense ministry told
reporters late Monday night.  The Pentagon refused immediate comment.
Russia claims that a bomb tested in Yugoslavia radically differs from
conventional weapons. "It was created in Los Alamos and is aimed to
destroy radio electronic equipment," the TASS newswire reported in
Tuesday flashes.  The military said that the bomb generates an
electric impulse similar to electromagnetic fluctuations caused by a
nuclear explosion.  They added that the bombs are being carried by two
strategic B-2 bombers of the Stealth technology. Russian military
officials provided no other details.  FOOTNOTE: This late night report
from Russia's newswire service continues a strange trend that has
developed in the past week. By night, the ITAR-TASS wire moves
provocative scare stories -- many on Russian plans for military
maneuvers. [On the first night of NATO bombings in Kosovo, TASS
shocked with a report that Moscow was considering moving nuclear
weapons to southern regions of Russia. Late night reports that Russian
ships were maneuvering also created intrigue.] But during daylight
hours in Moscow, TASS, the official state news agency for Russia,
turns more diplomatic, most military talk vanishes. There appears to
be two forces at work inside of the Kremlin, the main source for TASS
military reports. A dark and cold-warlike force appears to be
operating at night when Yelstin and his close advisers are sleeping.
Due to expanding information technology, these provocative late night
stories quickly move outside of Russia and instantly bounce throughout
the world. In the morning, Yelstin and others rush news releases that
completely counter the reports that surface on TASS at night.

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Websites of interest:

Radio B92, Belgrade (banned)   http://www.b92.net   and
http://helpb92.xs4all.nl
Central Europe Online
http://www.centraleurope.com/ceo/special/kosovow/intro.html
Balkans - with selected links
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/potomac/balkans.html
News from Montenegro, Yugoslavia   http://www.montenegro.com
Assn of Independent Electronic Media, Serbia    http://www.anem.opennet.o=
rg
RADIO 21 From Pristina, Internet Radio
http://www.radio21.net/english/headlines.htm
Alternative Information Network    http://www.aimpress.org





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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) WILL THE TRUE OPPRESSORS PLEASE STAND UP!
Date: 18 Apr 1999 11:56:14 -0700

A truly significant resource for the global anti-nuclear, peace,
environment, and justice movement exists in the website of the White House
Peace Park Vigil, which has ongoing continually since 1981 on the Lafayette
Park sidewalk across the street from the White House, http://www.prop1.org
A recent article distilled from information presented in recent public
demonstrations regarding the war in Yugoslavia is copied below.  The article
on the webpage referenced contains several useful links and graphics not
reproduced in the ascii format below and are worth checking out.

http://www.prop1.org/protest/serbia/9904.serbialv.htm

WILL THE TRUE OPPRESSORS
PLEASE STAND UP!


PUBLIC EXPRESSIONS


ALBANIAN MESSAGE ---------------------- SERBIAN MESSAGE [links]


PEACE & FREEDOM-LOVING ANTAGONISTS


On the First Amendment front lines in Lafayette Park we are privileged to
witness a daily stream of supplicants bringing their pleas to the White
House, the seat of World Domination. Thus, regarding the present
Serbian/Albanian/Kosovar disturbance, in Lafayette Park we've had an
opportunity to listen to both sides in the field.



THE AGREEMENT TO DISAGREE IN THE BALKANS


If there is one thing which President Clinton, Serbian President Milosevic,
as well as the head of every NATO member-state agree upon, it is the concept
of national sovereignty. Moreover, each of the aforementioned heads of state
also pays lip service to "the rule of law." In fact, the UN Charter, an act
of "International Law" to which the USA, Serbia, and all NATO members are
signatory, provides that "The (UN) is based on the principle of the
sovereign equality of all its Members." Under these universally-accepted
political fictions, a sovereign nation is a free, independent entity
entitled to administer the territory within its domestic control. Thus, from
the perspective of people who subscribe to the political fiction of the
nation state, determining who the real Nazis are must begin from the
question: "Who is the actual aggressor upon whose national sovereignty?"


On the other hand, "fighting words," in a legal sense, refers to language
intended to incite violence. Today US news media reports are using "Hitler,"
"Nazi," "genocide," "ethnic cleansing," and "free Kosovo" as fighting words.
Meanwhile, news media in Serbia and many other countries are likening US
President Clinton to "Hitler," referring to NATO as the "Nazi American
Terrorist Organization," and claiming that NATO military actions against
Serbia have nothing to do with a "free Kosovo," but are actually genocide as
a means of ethnic cleansing intended to subjugate Europe to the economic
interests of the United States.



Two Illustrative Examples of Sovereign States




       Figure 1                       Figure 2

Figure 1 depicts the sovereign state known as USA, the black lines represent
domestic political fictions known as the "various separate states."
Together, these various domestic states form the the greater national
sovereign state. The lines separating the USA from the sovereign states of
Mexico and Canada represent the demarcation points between "the rule of law"
of each sovereign state. In the case of the USA there is (1) Federal Law
[operating under authority of the U.S. Constitution], which regulates the
entire sovereign state, and (2) State Law, which is subservient to Federal
Law, but which regulates the territory within each of the separate domestic
states.


Similarly, in Figure 2 the red line depicts the territorial area which is
internationally recognized as the sovereign state of Serbia. As with the
USA, Serbia is composed of various separate states, highlighted in yellow
and orange. As in the USA, while maintaining a certain degree of autonomy,
the various separate Serbian states are ultimately ruled by provisions of
the Serbian Constitution.



For a thousand years Serbians have considered the territory of Kosovo to be
the cradle of Serbian culture, oriented toward the Greek Orthodox Church. In
the late 14th century armies of the Ottoman Turk empire, oriented toward
Islam, defeated Serbian forces at the Battle of Pristina. Nontheless, Serbs
continued to comprise the majority of the Kosovar population ... until after
World War II, when Albanians seeking a better life began streaming northward
into Kosovo.


Since the breakup of Yugoslavia into the separate sovereign states of
Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro, age-old Albanian/Serbian ethnic unrest has
resurfaced in Kosovo. Albanians, with an average of seven children per
marriage, versus two per Serbian marriage, have become a majority of the
population. Because they were the minority, Serbian Kosovars suffered the
brunt of Albanian Kosovar persecution, with instances of deadly violence and
forced removal from their homes. Anti-Serb persecution was mainly carried
out by a loose confederation of armed Albanian groups calling itself the
"Kosovan Liberation Army" (KLA).



After Serbian Kosovars complained to the federal government about their
treatment at the hands of the KLA, the Serbian government declared the KLA
to be "terrorists," and increased its police forces in Kosovo. As the KLA
escalated its campaign to secede from Serbia, Serbia deployed military
troops to the area.


In contrast, as can be seen from Figure 1, the USA wasn't always all the
territory it is today. For example California, Arizona, Nevada, and most of
Colorado, New Mexico and Texas were taken by military force from Mexico or
Native Americans.


Although there has always been a considerable Mexican population, lately
northward migration has increased the number of Mexicans living in
California. It is estimated that Mexicans will be the majority in California
sometime in the not so distant future. Imagine that, angered by perceptions
of economic, police, and linguistic oppression, the Latino majority decides
that they want to be recognized as "Mexicans," and demand "freedom for
California." As evidenced by its Civil War, US history teaches that the
federal government will use sufficient deadly force to "protect the Union."
Given those considerations, it is reasonable to assume that the US
government would not permit a simple state majority of Latinos to secede
California from the Union.


As can be seen in a comparison of Figures 1 & 2, the US state of California
abuts the foreign sovereign state of Mexico, much as the Serbian state of
Kosovo abuts the foreign sovereign state of Albania. By way of analogy,
let's hypothesize that elements of the Latino majority of California,
disgruntled by the Federal refusal to concede an independent sovereign state
of "California," organize a Californian Liberation Army (CLA) to "fight" for
the "liberation of California." The CLA will be working on a shoestring
budget, therefore, CLA actions are likely to be low cost bombings, attacks
on police officers and the like, because that's about all terrorists can
afford.


Unfortunately, when sovereign states are forced to confront terrorism,
things tend to get messy. How would the peace-loving, democratic government
of the USA meet a campaign of CLA terrorism? Perhaps it would begin with
local law enforcement agencies, as with MOVE in Philadelphia, 1984.
Probably, once the insurrection proved beyond control of local forces, the
government would escalate, first sending in crack ATF and FBI SWAT teams, as
in Wounded Knee (Native Americans), Waco ("extremist" Christians), or Ruby
Ridge. Finally, if absolutely necessary, the national guard, Delta Force,
attack helicopters, and military hardware sufficient to quell the
disturbance would be deployed. Although those tactics are essentially the
same as those used by the Serbian government in Kosovo, it is unlikely that
if confronted by a CLA uprising in California the US would welcome NATO
airstrikes on Washington, DC, or Sacramento.



GENOCIDE


Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines "genocide" as "the use of
deliberate, systematic measures toward the extermination of a racial,
political, or cultural group." Genocide was an apt description of the
Hutu/Tutsi conflicts in Rwanda, where hundreds of thousands were killed,
but, of course, NATO did nothing to resolve that disagreement.


Notwithstanding the fact that both Serbian and KLA fighters have been
involved in the killing of military and civilian opponents, simply because
not enough people have died, the word "genocide" is not an appropriate
description of either Serbian nor Albanian actions in Kosovo. Many Serbians
claim that NATO's deliberate, systematic bombing of both Serbia and Kosovo
qualifies as an act of genocide, particularly if NATO is using depleted
uranium weapons. NATO probably disagrees with that assessment.



ETHNIC CLEANSING


Comparing the Albanians bent on seceding from Serbia to the hypothetical
revolt of Mexicans in California, one can only expect that at the "peace
talks," the US government would take a position to the effect, "Sure, you're
free to be Mexicans, but if you want to be Mexicans you have to go across
the line into Mexico, but you have to leave California here, because
California is US territory."


Maybe the CLA would not accept the US offer to let them return to Mexico in
peace. Perhaps the CLA would insist that California was "Mexican," and that
they were committed to a "Free California." In that event, perhaps, rather
than just killing any Californian who no longer wished to be a US citizen,
the US would be pursuing a more humanitarian solution by just giving them
free transportation to Mexico. Certainly, such a "humanitarian" solution
might be protrayed as "ethnic cleansing."


Absent any clear examples of "genocide," in the present Serbian/Albanian
conflict, the most terrible accusation is "ethnic cleansing" -- wherein the
Serbians are putting dissatisfied Albanians on trains to Albania. One
Serbian wag asked, "Would you rather have them walk?"





----




An impartial assessment of the NATO/Serb/Kosovar conflict


To emphasize the impartiality of these observations on the
NATO/Serbia/Kosovar conflict, the author hereby declares a firm personal
commitment to the belief that the world would be a much more pleasant place
if humanity would abandon its faith in the political fiction of national
boundaries, and purge itself of any notion that military and/or police force
might be a "good" idea. This assessment begins from the premises that all
human beings are members of the human race, and concepts of ethnicity are
merely shortsighted, ego-centric misperceptions of reality. This declaration
is necessary to insure that the reader does not confuse "national
sovereignty," "military and/or police action," or "ethnic superiority" as
concepts endorsed by the author.

Thomas, April 8, 1999, Peace Park
Other Kosovo Demonstrations





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Subject: (abolition-usa) KOSOVO / STATEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN NGOs
Date: 18 Apr 1999 16:13:09 EDT



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 Meeting as representatives of  organised European citizens committed to
 peace, development and democracy, we are appalled by the human and social
 disaster under way in the Balkans. Military and political forces are
 trampling on the rights of innocent people across the region and the rules
 of international law. Refugees, internally displaced persons, victims of
 ethnic cleansing and war crimes, civilian victims of bombing raids and othe=
r
 military actions have all been failed by the international community as wel=
l
 as their own government. Among the casualties is the emerging democratic
 civil society in Yugoslavia, undermined by the inevitable nationalist
 mobilisation in a society under military attack. Apart from the immediate
 needs of refugees and other victims, massive resources will be needed to
 rebuild after the destruction which has taken place.=20
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 for all people in the region. We are also concerned by the way in which
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 and humanitarian objectives.
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 action can never be the ultimate solution to human rights violations.
 Therefore we demand an immediate return by all sides to the peace process:
 in particular we call on the EU to support the efforts of the UN Secretary
 General to resolve the crisis. Equally,  we demand the immediate cessation
 of war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Peace, and the creation of supportive
 conditions for civil society in Yugoslavia and throughout the region, are
 basic preconditions for reconstruction and reconciliation.
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 international governance to stop future politically-created disasters. We
 call on the international community to start this democratic approach now,
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 investment will also be needed for postwar reconstruction in  Yugoslavia,
 Albania and FYROM when circumstances permit. This investment must be
 provided in addition to, not at the expense of, assistance to developing
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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Michael Moore on Kosovo
Date: 19 Apr 1999 11:30:44 -0400

Dear Dorrie,
Out application was reviewed and we were told that we have to be in business
for three years before receiving approval.  So, I guess this September we'll
try again.  Thanks for the kind words.  Regards,
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NATO Summit
Date: 19 Apr 1999 12:00:57 -0400

For those of you planning to attend the De-Nuke NATO rally on Friday, April
23, Washington, DC, 10:00am, on the Mall, Constitution and 14th St., and
for those of you who are considering it, here's some background.  I really
hope we can get a big turn out down there.  Also, note the part about
corporate sponsors of NATO.  An earlier news item reported that
corporations such as Raytheon and Lockheed were paying $250,000 a pop for
the privilege of "sponsoring" and hawking their wares to all the potential
armaments buyers.  What a world!  Peace, Alice Slater

NATO Official Washington Summit home page:
http://www.nato50.gov/

THE CHALLENGE OF PLANNING FOR THE WASHINGTON SUMMITS

By Ambassador Robert H. Frowick State Department Coordinator for the NATO
Summit
12 March 1999 NATO Publications
http://www.nato50.gov/text16.htm

(Ambassador Frowick responds to questions on planning and logistics for the
Summit events, to be held April 23-25 in Washington.)

Q: What are the Washington Summits, why are they being held in Washington,
and who will attend?

Ambassador Frowick: The NATO 50th Anniversary Summit events will represent
the largest gathering of world leaders ever to take place in Washington.
NATO will be celebrating its remarkable success over the past half century
and making commitments to deal effectively with the challenges of the next
century. It is appropriate to center the Summit sessions in Washington's
Mellon Auditorium, where the North Atlantic Treaty was signed on April 4,
1949. Leaders of 44 countries, their Foreign and Defense Ministers, and
military Chiefs of Staff will be present for these important events.

Q: What is the formal schedule of events for the summits, and what kinds of
special celebrations are planned to mark NATO's 50th anniversary?

A: The overall program will commence with a Commemorative Event on April 23
to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Alliance. It will take place at the
Mellon Auditorium. A NATO Summit working session will take place on April
24 with the participation of the leaders of all 19 member countries of the
new NATO. On Sunday, April 25, the 19 NATO leaders will hold the first
formal meeting ever with the highest ranking leaders of 25 NATO partner
countries in a Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Summit. The program also
will include a NATO-Ukraine Commission Summit event, and possibly a
NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council session as well. Beyond these official
meetings, there will be a large number of official social events,
Congressional receptions and other programs being arranged, in particular
to honor the three newest members of the Alliance -- the Czech Republic,
Hungary, and Poland.

Q: What are the major themes expected to be addressed at the NATO Summit?

A: The major themes for the Summit are: "Safeguarding Freedom,"
"Celebrating Democracy," "Strengthening Partnerships," and "Meeting the
Challenges of the 21st Century."

Q: What does the United States hope the Summit will accomplish?

A: The United States government expects the Summit to honor NATO's
extraordinary record of accomplishments over the past 50 years and to chart
an effective course for meeting the complex challenges that will face the
new NATO in the next century.

Q: How many media representatives are expected to be in Washington to cover
the Summits? What kinds of arrangements have the organizers made to handle
the Summit press corps?

A: Up to 3,000 media representatives are expected to be present for the
event. Elaborate preparations are under way for establishment of an
effective media center in the International Trade Center, adjacent to the
Mellon Auditorium, for extensive coverage of the April 23 Commemorative
Event, the NATO and EAPC Summits, and for press conferences.

Q: The Host Committee is playing an important role in helping to plan and
organize the Summits. Would you please explain what the Committee is and
what contributions it is making to the success of the Summits?

A: The Host Committee, which includes CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) of
several prominent American corporations, will contribute significant sums
of cash and in-kind donations to help defray Summit costs, co-host Senior
Officials' Receptions at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and the
National Building Museum, and organize some other important social events
as well.

Q: What are the major challenges faced by the organizers of an event of
this magnitude?

A: There are three main challenges in organizing the Summit program --
substantive, administrative, and communications outreach. Substantive tasks
include work on a new Strategic Concept, with due attention to growing
European responsibilities through a European Security and Defense Identity
initiative, confronting the problems of weapons of mass destruction, and
carrying forward an Open Door program to prepare others for eventual entry
into the Alliance. Administratively, the challenges involve extensive site
preparation, complex transportation, lodging, and communications
arrangements, and due attention to security. The communications outreach
effort will have to convey to the public an in-depth picture of the Summit
events in particular and the current stage of the evolution of NATO in
general.

Q: Are there other events planned for the Summit participants following the
April 23-25 meetings?

A: Several events are planned to follow up the Summit. Some will involve
seminars to discuss Summit decisions and the future of the Alliance. Some
will be convened to celebrate NATO enlargement. Such events will take place
both in North America and Europe.

Q: What are some of the special events being planned for the spouses of the
Summit participants?

A: Mrs. Clinton is planning to invite the NATO leaders' spouses to
luncheons at the White House and Blair House. Mrs. Gore will organize a
luncheon for Ministers' spouses at the Vice President's residence. And Mrs.
Cohen will be hosting a luncheon at the Kennedy Center. There will also be
a special reception for spouses to honor efforts of "Race for the Cure" in
fighting cancer.

Latest Texts and Transcripts  Secretary of State Albright at NAC Brussels
Meeting on Kosovo, (4/12/99)
http://www.usia.gov/topical/pol/eap/albnac12.htm

Secretary of State Albright on "A New NATO for a New Century," (4/6/99)
http://www.usia.gov/topical/pol/eap/albrook.htm

Ambassador Alexander Vershbow on U.S.-Russian Relations, (3/25/99)
http://www.usia.gov/topical/pol/eap/versb325.htm

U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Lyndon Olson on "Reinventing Security in Europe:
NATO at 50 Years" (Lund, Sweden, 3/15/99)
http://www.usia.gov/topical/pol/eap/olson15.htm

NATO Accession Ceremony (Independence, Missouri 3/12/99)
http://www.nato50.gov/ceremony.htm

Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott on "A New NATO for a New Era"
(London, 3/10/99)
http://www.usia.gov/topical/pol/eap/talbot10.htm

JCS Chairman General Henry Shelton on "The Transatlantic Commitment"
(London, 3/8/99)
http://www.usia.gov/topical/pol/eap/shelt08.htm


Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) depleted uranium coming to consumer goods
Date: 19 Apr 1999 12:22:36 -0400

Dear Friends,
Here's some awful news.  Paducah is sitting with a literal mountain of
radioactive scrap metal which they are trying to use again in consumer
products.  The DOE "privatized" the Paducah plant, selling it off to the USEC
after it no longer was used to process uranium for the weapons complex.  This
has to be stopped!!  Regards, Alice Slater

>Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:32:19 -0400
>Subject: Radioactive Pork for Paducah
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
> SCHOOL EXPECTS TO BE HOME TO URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE STUDY CENTER
>                        Associated Press
>                         April 17, 1999
>
>    PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) -- Paducah Community College expects to be the site
>of
>a new center for the study of commercial uses for depleted uranium
>materials
>from the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
>    Energy Secretary Bill Richardson says that by 2002, the U.S. Department
>of Energy will start building a facility to recycle the hexafluoride
>materials, now stored in 37,000 cylinders kept at the plant.
>    A new partnership between the University of Kentucky and Ohio State
>University is studying ways to use the recycled materials to create jobs.
>The $5 million center would be used to further that effort, Tom Osborne, a
>member of the Paducah Junior College board of trustees, said Thursday.
>    The plant, owned by the agency and operated by the U.S. Enrichment
>Corp., uses a gaseous-diffusion process to enrich uranium hexafluoride gas
>into a material used to produce nuclear fuel for power plants around the
>world.
>    The University of Kentucky has committed $2.2 million toward the
>project. The rest is being sought from the state and the Energy Department.
>              Bob Schaeffer, Public Policy Communications
>                73 Trowbridge Street, Belmont, MA 02178
>ph: [phone]  fax: [phone]  email: [e-mail]
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [csdgen] Threat of Ecological Catastrophe <--> NATO
Date: 19 Apr 1999 13:12:31 -0400

>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:09:47 -0400
>Subject: [csdgen] Threat of Ecological Catastrophe <--> NATO Bombings !!
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>I received this message from Dmitar Lakusic <[e-mail]>
>Serbian Ecological Society, University of Belgrade, Faculty of
>Biology at approximately 3:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon April 18, 1999.
>[Nova Scotia time]
>
>The message speaks alarmingly of the bombing, in the early
>hours of the morning of April 18th at 1:00 a.m., in Pancevo,
>northern suburb of Belgrade, of a petrochemical complex which
>completely destroyed an Ammonia plant ("Azotara") and Vinyle
>Chloride Monomere (VCM) plant ("Petrohemija"). It notes  that a huge
>dark cloud of VCM appeared over the city of Pancevo - "a huge dark
>cloud [which] is spreading over the territory of SouthEastern
>Europe." The authors say  "we are faced with serious ecological
>catastrophe."
>
>To confirm this report I called the  University of Belgrade Phone #
>appended to their press statement to see if I could reach either of
>the authors of the statement. I was unable to reach either of them
>at that location but spoke with a  woman biologist who confirmed that
>the bombing had occurred about 20 kilometres north of  Belgrade last
>night in early hours of morning and she referred to it as a serious
>ecological catastrophe. She gave me Dmitar's Lakusic's home phone
>number and   I reached him a few moments later. He  also confirmed
>the bombing  but for further information he felt that I should be
>talking to his colleague - Associate Professor Radoje Lausevic.
>
>Minutes later I spoke at length with Radoje Lausevic, Associate
>Professor of Biology,  University  of Belgrade and he confirmed
>that at 1:00 a.m. April 18th  NATO jets bombed plants of the
>Petrochemical Complex in Pancevo.
>
>Professor Lausevic said  " Only one sure thing is that the whole
>petrochemical factory has  been destroyed. It was hit by at least
>three bombs.  I was at home about 3 kilometers away  and heard the
>sounds of explosion very well and saw the flames in the dark sky last
>night- a huge flame."
>
>He also confirmed that there had been an earlier bombing of an oil
>and petrol plant and  a second bombing in the early hours of the
>morning of April 18th of  another  plant in Novi Sad 100 kilometers
>north of Belgrade.  He said he hoped to speak to his colleague at
>Novi Sad University tomorrow about the bombing.  He also said that
>public health authorites were saying that the level of contamination
>was not dangerously high after this April 18th bombing in
>Pancevo but he could not confirm this. Professor Lausevic
>also likened this to the reports coming out of Chernobyl which said
>the same thing after the catastrophe there!!
>
>An Associated Press Report Sunday April 18 2:55 PM ET
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ap/ap_headlines/story.html?s=v/ap
>/19990418/ts/yugoslavia_kosovo_658.html
>
>entitled NATO Steps Up Air War on Yugoslavia
>By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press Writer
>
>>>>From  BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP)  noted NATO launched its most active
>day of airstrikes Sunday in its assault on Yugoslavia, pummeling
>refineries,  bridges and dozens of other targets in what it
>claimed were ``highly successful'' operations.
>
>Specific references in the AP article to bombings in this  area  were
>as follows:
>
>Thick black smoke mixed with choking fumes rose above an area
>targeted by a NATO attack on an oil storage depot and nitrogen
>fertilizer plant in Pancevo, just six miles northwest of Belgrade.
>
>An immense fire also sent pillars of smoke into the sky after a strike
>on a refinery in Yugoslavia's second-largest city, Novi Sad.
>
>All the very best,
>Janet Eaton
>
>p.s. I particularly wished to confirm this report from the Serb
>Ecological Society  before forwarding it widely because of its
>alarming nature and also because I have been preparing and have ready
>to post an annotated list of internet communiques  received over the
>past two weeks which are about "Environmental Threats and Health
>Hazards" from the NATO bombings. Obviously I want to include this one
>as well !! je
>
>
>Dr. Janet M. Eaton,
>Educator, Researcher,
>Public Policy Consultant.
>Wolfville, Nova Scotia,
>CANADA
>[e-mail]
>
>---------------------------------------------
>
>
>------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>Date:          Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:01:23 +0200 (MET DST)
>To:            (Recipient list suppressed)
>From:          Dmitar Lakusic <[e-mail]>
>Subject:       VCM
>
>Return-Path: <[e-mail]
>Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:26:52 +0200
>From: Radoje Lausevic <[e-mail]>
>To: Dmitar Lakusic <[e-mail]
>Subject: VCM
>
>Belgrade, 18th April, 10:00
>
>VCM over our heads.
>We are faced with serious ecological catastrophe.
>
>Dr Slobodan Tresac, Director General of HIP PETROHEMIJA d.p. has
>announced:
>
>"It is my duty and obligation to inform the domestic and
>international public that on 15th April 1999 at 22:40 NATO forces
>heavily bombarded the plants of the Petrochemical Complex in Pancevo
>which were in regular operation.
>
>Installations and equipment of the Vinyl Chloride Monomer plant and
>Ethylene plant were directly hit. Indirectly, heavy and destructive
>explosions damaged the Chlor-alkali plant and Polyvinylchloride plant
>and buildings inside the complex as well as a large number of
>civilian houses and flats in the surrounding area.
>
>The fire broke out and huge quantities of toxic matters such as
>chlorine, ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride monomer flowed out.
>The transformer stations were also heavily damaged and very toxic
>transformer oil flowed out.
>
>Unfortunately but unavoidably a large number of people were injured
>and intoxicated. At this moment we do not know the exact number of
>intoxicated and injured civilians who were evacuated.
>
>Due to the power failure and utilities and auxiliary fluids
>interruption a large quantity of combustible, explosive and toxic
>matters remained trapped in the equipment, installations and tanks.
>It will take a lot of time to drain and evacuate all those matters
>from the plants before the plants could be considered safe for a
>wide surrounding area.
>The plants have been heavily damaged and cannot be put in operation.
>
>According to all the terms and rules of warfare accepted and followed
>so far, the plants of chemical process industries of this type have
>never been military targets and objects of strikes. The range of
>products of "HIP Petrohemija" d.p. Pancevo is of extremely civilian
>nature and bombardment of these plants represents the worst war
>crime and it reveals genocidal intentions of the aggressor.
>Therefore, we call upon the petrochemical producers, licencors and
>engineering houses all over the world to raise their voice and warn
>those who give orders for bombing of the danger and catastrophic
>consequences which might be caused by bombing of this kind of
>plants."
>
>Heavily bombing of the plants of the Petrochemical Complex in Pancevo
>has been repeated last night (18th April, about 01:00). Ammonia plant
>("Azotara") and Vinyle Chloride Monomere (VCM) plant ("Petrohemija")
>has been destroyed completely. Huge dark cloud appeared over the
>city of Pancevo (northern suburb of Belgrade). The cloud is
>expanding in northwest direction.
>
>According to Encyclopaedia Britannica vinyl chloride, also called
>chloroethylene, a colourless, flammable, toxic gas belonging to the
>family of organic halogen compounds, is used principally in making
>polyvinyl chloride, an important synthetic resin.
>
>Vinyl chloride was first prepared in 1835 by the reaction of ethylene
>chloride with caustic potash; its slow transformation into a flaky
>solid when exposed to sunlight also was noted but not recognized as
>polymerization until many years later. An industrial process for
>making vinyl chloride from acetylene and hydrogen chloride in the
>presence of mercury (II) chloride was discovered early in the 20th
>century, but commercial production was not begun until World War II,
>when substitutes for natural rubber were required. The process based
>on acetylene has remained important in Europe, but in the United
>States vinyl chloride is commonly manufactured from ethylene
>chloride, either by heating it to temperatures of 480 -510 oC (900
>-950 oF) or by treating it with a dilute solution of caustic soda.
>Its chemical properties are similar to those of olefins, but, apart
>from its conversion to polymers, its only important reaction is that
>with hypochlorous acid, forming chloroacetaldehyde, which is used in
>making pharmaceuticals such as sulfathiazole. Prolonged exposure of
>humans and laboratory animals to vinyl chloride vapour has been
>linked to several forms of cancer.
>
>Huge dark cloud is spreading over the territory of SouthEastern
>Europe. VCM is over our heads. Who has rights to do that?
>
>Serbian Ecological Society
>Univ. Belgrade, Fac. Biol.
>Inst. Bot. & Bot. Garden "Jevremovac"
>Takovska 43, 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
>Tel: [phone]
>Fax: [phone]
>
>M. Sci. Dmitar Lakusic, President
>[e-mail]
>
>Ass. Prof. Dr. Radoje Lausevic, Secretary
>[e-mail]
>==========================================
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Please Use PEACE TARGET Logos
Date: 19 Apr 1999 12:49:46 -0700

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Attached is a .jpg file graphic ("Target Earth@Peace with Global Peace Now")
of one of three "The Target is Peace, only Peace is Victory" logo designs
received so far to empower a global peace-environment-justice movement
inspired by the tragedy unfolding now in the Balkans and the civilian use of
the target symbol on television in Belgrade.  If you or someone you know
would like to offer an additional design, please send .jpg sized.

If one or more of these, or others they may inspire, catch on in widespread
usage shown in the media, it will help solidify the desire for "Global Peace
Now!" as a universal human resolve, which is the goal of the Global Peace
Walk project.  These logos may be freely used without attribution in
buttons, t-shirts, etc., to help promote this resolve and the recognition
that Peace itself is the Target and only Peace is Victory!

Two other designs ("Peace is the Target" and "Color Global Peace Target")
are posted at http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/nuke-target.html along with
one for nuclear abolition as the target.  These and future designs received
will also be archived for copying from messages posted to
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-emergency-alert-response/?start=4

For more information on the Global Peace Walk 1999-2000 or on the Global
Emergency Alert campaign and resouces to help save life on Earth from
ecological catastrophe by ending war and reapplying its resources to peace,
see GEAR2000 website below.

         Global Emergency Alert Response
   http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000
*********************************************************
                 [e-mail]
           GENERAL  AGENCY  SERVICES
David Crockett Williams                661-822-3309
20411 Steeple Court, Tehachapi CA 93561 USA
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         The  Global  Peace  Walk 1999-2000
1999:   22APR Taos, NM, --->  Santa Fe 26APR
2000:  15JAN  San Francisco --> New York  24OCT
  19SEP* Washington, DC, Ceremony Rededicating
The Washington Monument as a Symbol of Peace.
*3rd Tuesday of September is annual opening of
UN General Assembly & International Day of Peace
           October 24th is United Nations Day
"GLOBAL PEACE NOW!" Global Peace Zone2000
Remove the scourge of war from future generations
   http://www.egroups.com/list/global-peace-walk
   FOR ONE HUMAN FAMILY:  Love All, Serve All
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Gearing up for more arms sales
Date: 19 Apr 1999 16:32:14 -0400


USA TODAY April 19, 1999
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/nwssun08.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid platters of stuffed grape leaves and hummus laid out
in the Turkish ambassador's residence, diplomats, Congress members and
federal officials mingled with executives whose corporations are kicking in
$250,000 apiece for the NATO summit.

Schmoozing and talking business with leaders from 43 foreign countries and
the United States are part of the payoff for American corporate sponsors
helping finance the receptions, logistics and hoopla surrounding NATO's
50th anniversary. The summit begins Friday in Washington.

General Motors, Ameritech and Boeing are among 13 companies so far that
have donated at least a quarter-million dollars in cash or goods and
services. That buys one of their executives a spot on the summit host
committee's board of directors, which is dominated by communications and
defense companies.

The committee has raised $6.5 million towards its goal of $8 million.

''It's a natural for us, because Ameritech is the largest foreign investor
in European telecommunications,'' company spokesman George Steinitzer said.
''Our purpose here is to support our existing relationships in Europe.''

Ameritech is awaiting Federal Communications Commission permission to merge
with another company with a seat on the host committee board, SBC
Communications.

At last week's reception, Turkish Ambassador Baki Ilkin greeted guests
alongside the committee chairman, former U.S. ambassador to Belgium Alan
John Blinken. He is a senior adviser to a heavyweight lobbying firm with
overseas clients, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.

Other board members also are well known in Washington political circles. As
a group, the 13 companies spent $52 million on lobbying last year.

Giving at least $25,000 to join the committee are 28 other company
including defense contractors Northrop Grumman and Raytheon; The Washington
Post Foundation; and the lobbying firm Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard,
McPherson and Hand, which also represents foreign clients.

''It's a great opportunity for these businesses,'' host committee
spokeswoman Dana Vickers Shelley said. ''The heads of government and the
heads of state will be there, but included in their delegations will be
foreign trade ministers and other officials.''

Some donations let companies show off their products: DaimlerChrysler is
donating Mercedes to help ferry the delegates around town; Motorola is
providing cellular telephones to be carried over Nextel Communications'
network, another donation; Microsoft is providing software.

The companies also will put their names before the estimated 2,500
journalists covering the event, which is drawing extra attention because of
the NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia.

Similar corporate-funded committees helped serve as hosts for the G-7
economic summit in Denver in 1997 and the Summit of the Americas in Miami
in 1994. The cities holding the Democratic and Republican national
conventions create their own corporate-supported committees every four
years.

''It leads me to think, 'What's not for sale anymore?''' said Bill Hogan,
director of investigative projects for the Center for Public Integrity, a
Washington watchdog group. ''One would be hard-pressed to think of any
other board of directors where the only qualification is paying your way on
to it.''

Standing near a buffet table at the ambassador's residence, Boeing Senior
Vice President Christopher Hansen said his company simply was supporting
NATO.

''We think it's important to reinforce the alliance,'' Hansen said. ''I
wouldn't want to make the justification on a business level.''

NATO host members

Forty-one companies have joined the NATO  host committee, contributing cash
or  services for the summit. The companies on  the committee's most updated
list and the  minimum contribution levels:

BOARD OF DIRECTORS (Donation limit $250,000) Ameritech  DaimlerChrysler
Boeing  Ford  General Motors  Honeywell  Lucent Technologies  Microsoft
Motorola  Nextel Communications  SBC Communications  TRW  United
Technologies

HOSTS (Donation limit $100,000) Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Arthur Anderson  Intelsat  Joseph E. Seagram & Sons/Universal Studios
USA Floral Products

BENEFACTORS (Donation limit $50,000)  Chevy Chase Bank  Eastman Kodak
Edelman Public Relations Worldwide  Fannie Mae  Greer, Margolis, Mitchell,
Burns &  Associates  Northrop Grumman  Raytheon  Tenneco  Verner,
Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and  Hand

PATRONS (Donation limit $25,000)  AOL Foundation  Bernstein Cos.  Coca-Cola
District Cablevision  Enron  Federal Express Grady Media Group  IBM
Overseas Partners  Pepco  RealNetworks  Verio  Washington Post Foundation
Western Policy Center


Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: 3247-Poison Cloud (balkans-fwd)
Date: 19 Apr 1999 22:14:15 EDT

In a message dated 4/19/99 10:50:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<
 Johnson's Russia List
 #3247
 19 April 1999
 [e-mail]

 *******

 #1
 Excerpt
 The Times (UK)
 April 19 1999
 Poison cloud engulfs Belgrade
 Nato crippled the Serb oil industry yesterday. Tom Walker reports from
 Belgrade

 AN ecological disaster was unfolding yesterday after Nato bombed a combined
 petrochemicals, fertiliser and refinery complex on the banks of the Danube in
 the northern outskirts of Belgrade.

 A series of detonations that shook the whole city early yesterday sent a
 toxic cloud of smoke and gas hundreds of feet into the night sky. In the dawn
 the choking cloud could be seen spreading over the entire northern skyline.

 Among the cocktail of chemicals billowing over hundreds of thousands of homes
 were the toxic gas phosgene, chlorine and hydrochloric acid. Workers at the
 industrial complex in Pancevo panicked and decided to release tons of
 ethylene dichloride, a carcinogen, into the Danube, rather than risk seeing
 it blown up.

 At least three missile strikes left large areas of the plant crippled and oil
 and petrol from the damaged refinery area flowed into the river, forming
 slicks up to 12 miles long. Temperatures in the collapsing plant were said to
 have risen to more than 1,000C. Asked about the hazard from chemical smoke,
 Nato said there was "a lot more smoke coming from burning villages in
 Kosovo"....

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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) IMPORTANT: ABOLITION 2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING INFORMATION
Date: 19 Apr 1999 22:23:29 -0700

Dear Abolition 2000 partners,

        THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK TO
ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL TAKE PLACE 15 - 17 MAY 1999, IN THE HAGUE AND
DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE. =
 YOU
ARE INVITED!!!  In this mailing you will find information about the=
 Abolition
2000 General Meeting and related events. You will also find a questionnaire=
 to
answer and send back, to help guide Abolition 2000 into the future.

        Recent events, including the terrible war in Yugoslavia, make our
mission more=20
crucial than ever.  Please read this mailing carefully and take the time to
respond.  We want to hear from you!=20

Yours, for a nuclear free 21st century, and a peaceful and just world,



        Felicity Hill                                           Jacqueline
Cabasso

Abolition 2000 Interim Coordinating Committee and Annual Meeting Working=
 Group

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***ABOLITION 2000; A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS***=20

WHAT: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF ABOLITION 2000, devoted to discussion of=20
strategies and activities -- local, national, and global, aimed at the
achievement of a nuclear weapon free world.

WHO: The meeting is open to individuals and members of organisations that=
 have
signed the ABOLITION 2000 STATEMENT and all those interested in contributing=
 to
the development and refinement of Abolition 2000's strategies to EDUCATE,
ACTIVATE, and ORGANISE for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

WHEN & WHERE/PART I: Saturday 15 May, 1:30 pm (1330) - 9:00 pm (2100)
in the Rembrandt Room of the Netherlands Congress Center in the Hague.

Abolition 2000 has reserved a space for 400 people as part of the =93Global
Forum=94 organized by the Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP), following the HAP=
 closing
plenary.
(Note: Immediately following the first part of our meeting, we are invited=
 to
join a party with other HAP participants, beginning at 9:00 pm!) You are not
required to have paid a fee of any kind for the HAP Conference in order to
attend the Abolition 2000 meeting.  However, we encourage you to attend at
least the closing plenary of the HAP, featuring Kofi Annan and other=
 speakers,
which will require the payment of a one-day registration fee. The entire HAP
Conference from May 11-15 requires payment a larger registration fee. (For=
 more
information about HAP registration, lodging in The Hague, etc. contact one=
 of
the HAP offices. Contact information follows. )

* * * * * * BUT THAT'S NOT ALL * * * * * LETS HAVE SOME FUN!! * * * * * *=20

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will continue on the ABOLITION 2000 WALK FOR=20
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, organised by For Mother Earth.  ALL MEMBERS OF=20
ABOLITION 2000 are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to join the Abolition 2000 Walk
from The Hague to NATO Headquarters in Brussels (not very far at all!)=20

The Walk begins Sunday morning, 16 May. After a rally on the steps of the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the walkers will meander
along in the European springtime to DELFT. The walk from the ICJ to Delft is
approximately 12 kilometres (7 miles). For many it will provide an=
 opportunity
to recover from 5 days in conference at the HAP, to balance the right and=
 left
brains and energize bodies and minds for the meeting. It will also provide=
 an
opportunity for informal strategy discussion and=20
brainstorming with other activists along the way, or a rest for those not
wanting to walk. There is a tram to Delft which you can pick up along the=
 route
if you prefer not to walk the full seven miles. (The Walk arrives in=
 Brussels
30 May.)

WHEN & WHERE/ PART II:  Sunday, 16 May, 700 - 900 pm (1900 - 2100) the
Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting will continue in Delft, The=
 Netherlands,
after the walkers arrive. (Note: you could keep your lodging in The Hague=
 and
return there by tram if desired.)

WHEN & WHERE/PART III:  Monday, 17 May, 1000 am - 200 pm (1400), the final=
=20
session of the Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting will take place in=
 Delft
(as necessary) to ensure that there is sufficient time to address the=
 essential
issues facing the network, including logistics, finances, implementation of
activities, priorities and strategies, functioning of coordinating=
 committee,
etc. (Note: Persons participating in the walk can stay behind for the=
 meeting
and catch up with the walk later, by car or train if need be.)  We will
conclude our meeting with a celebratory lunch!

*****ABOLITION 2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AGENDA*****

The agenda for the Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting will be organised
around these goals:

* To know who is participating in the network
* To bring everyone up to the same level of information about Abolition 2000
structure,        history, aims and style of operating
* To identify successes and best practices from the previous year
* To identify strategies leading up to 2000 (and beyond?) for the network
* To identify proposals for enhancing the network
* To review the present structure and improve where necessary

In order to help us flesh out the agenda , please respond to the enclosed
questionnaire.
*****OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION*****=20

*ABOLITION 2000 will have a strong presence at the HAP.  We will need lots=
 of
volunteers to staff our booth and to distribute information and sunflowers.=
=20
LET US KNOW IF YOU CAN HELP!  Please bring your Abolition 2000 literature=
 and
publications to the booth.  In addition, Abolition 2000 will be presenting =
 3
sessions on =93Abolition of Nuclear Weapons,=94 13 - 14 May, including
presentations by many core Abolition 2000 activists.  (Schedule enclosed.)=
=20

*HELP ABOLITION 2000 GROW! Our goal is to have 2000 organizations endorse=20
Abolition 2000 by the Hague Appeal for Peace.  We have approximately 1300=20
organizations now, so please focus on outreach to organizations that you=
 feel
would support our goals.  Consider religious, environmental or social=
 groups.=20
Now is the time to get the momentum going--2000 organizations by May 11th!=
 (An
endorsement card is enclosed in the hard copy mailing.  You can also=
 download
the Abolition 2000 Statement and endorsement from the Abolition 2000 web=
 site.)

*VISIT THE ABOLITION 2000 WEB SITE: http//www.napf.org/abolition 2000

*SUBSCRIBE TO THE ABOLITION CAUCUS INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LIST. Send an e-mail
message to [e-mail].  In the body of  the message type subscribe=20
abolition caucus and your email address.

*SEND A DONATION TO SUPPORT ABOLITION 2000!  Our Network employs a full
time staff member to maintain communications with 1300 organizations in 87
countries on six continents.  While almost all of our work is performed by
volunteers, and office space is donated by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
minimal funds are needed to staff the office and for mailings, telephone,=
 fax,
printing.  If we could raise an average of $30 from each of our=
 organizations,
we could meet this minimal budget.  While this sum may be excessive to some,
other organizations can give much more.  Abolition 2000 never set up a dues
structure--so please search your conscience and donate whatever  amount you=
 can
to keep our work on track.  Send endorsements and donations, as well as=
 general
inquiries about Abolition 2000 to the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, which
serves as the Abolition 2000 clearinghouse:

ABOLITION 2000, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 121, Santa Barbara, CA
93108-2794 USA; Tel: [phone];  Fax: + 1 [phone]; E-mail:
[e-mail]

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*****ABOLITION 2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING QUESTIONNAIRE*****

In order to help us flesh out the agenda for the Abolition 2000 Annual=
 General
Meeting in The Hague, please respond to the following questionnaire. Your
answers can be as long or as short as you like. You can respond by  e-mail=
 or
by regular mail. There=92s no special format.
(1) WHO ARE YOU? (Important!)  Name, organization, postal address, e-mail
address, telephone number, fax number.  Will you be attending the Annual
General Meeting in The Hague?

(2) COMMUNICATION IN THE NETWORK: Are you on e-mail?  How could the e-mail=
=20
list be improved.  What does it need to be supplemented by to make you feel
informed and connecting with groups from all over the world.  If you are not=
 on
e- mail,  how do you communicate with other Abolition 2000 groups.  Do you=
 want
to get information about what the over 1,300 groups in 87 countries are=
 doing
in their Abolition 2000 work?

(3) WHAT'S WORKING?  What are the strengths of Abolition 2000? How are=20
you making Abolition 2000 visible in your area? (We want to collect a list=
 of
best practices and ideas to share just how busy people have been, and who=
 knows
what goodies will be uncovered!)

(4) LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE: Understanding that Abolition 2000 is a=
 network,
what kinds of things do you think we could do to share Abolition 2000's=
 goals
with others?  What is your organisation willing and able to contribute (not
just financially, although that=92s important too!)

(5) WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD?

WHERE TO SEND YOUR RESPONSES: Western States Legal Foundation has=20
volunteered to collect your responses and prepare a report for the Annual
General Meeting (which will also be posted on the abolition-caucus e-mail=
 list
and included in the post-meeting mailing.)  Please send e-mail to
[e-mail].  Please send regular mail to Western States=
 Legal
Foundation, 1440 Broadway, Suite 500, Oakland, California, 94612 USA.
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CONTACT INFORMATION*****

HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE:  http//www.haguepeace.org

Offices:

WFM, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017 USA
Tel: [phone];  Fax: + 1 [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]
      =20
IALANA, Anna Paulownastraat 103, 2518 BC, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]

IPB, 41 Rue de Zurich, CH-1201, Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]

2000 WALK FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: http//www.motherearth.org/

For Mother Earth International, Lange Steenstraat 16-d, 9000 Gent, Belgium,=
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Europe
Tel and Fax: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]

ABOLITION 2000 CONFERENCE, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, 18 - 10 JUNE, 1999
Information and registration: Xanthe Hall/IPPNW Germany
Tel: [phone]; Fax[phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]
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*****HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE CONFERENCE*****

Workshop =93Abolition of Nuclear Weapons=94
13 - 14 May, 1999

Convenor: Jurgen Scheffran (INESAP Germany)
Revised proposal of March 26, 1999

SESSION 1: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
THURSDAY 13 May, morning (930 - 1100 am)

Jackie Cabasso, John Burroughs: Nuclear weapons research and development
and its impact on the disarmament process

Goetz Neuneck: Impact of missile defense on nuclear disarmament

Zia Mian: Global, regional and local challenges on the road to abolition

Rebecca Johnson: Strengthening the international disarmament negotiation
process

Alyn Ware: Integrated approaches towards nuclear disarmament - Strengthening=
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the link between governments and NGOs

SESSION 2: CONCEPTS FOR A NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE WORLD
THURSDAY 13 May, afternoon (330 - 700 pm)

Peter Weiss:The legal framework of a nuclear-weapon-free world

Merav Datan: Making the case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention

Carlos Vargas: The model Nuclear Weapons Convention

J=FCrgen Scheffran: Verifying a Nuclear Weapons Convention - Conditions,=
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and limits

Rob Green: Rebutting nuclear deterrence doctrine

Xanthe Hall: NATO strategy and New Agenda Coalition

SESSION 3: STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS FOR NUCLEAR ABOLITION
FRIDAY 14 May, morning (930 - 1100 am)

David Krieger: Nuclear abolition - Time for bold action

Wolfgang Liebert: The transformation process to a nuclear-weapon-free world

Pamela Meidell, Janet Bloomfield: Progress, problems and perspectives of the
Abolition 2000 Global Network

Alice Slater: Cornerstones of a future abolition strategy

Pol d`Huyvetter: Citizen activities and inspections for nuclear abolition

Pauline Tangiora, Richard N. Salvador: Efforts for disarmament in the=
 Pacific

*****end*****


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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) US Congressional Rep comes out against the war
Date: 19 Apr 1999 23:39:14 -0700

Dear friends,  I just came across this article.  Even though it's a week old,
I thought it was important to share.  As far as I know, only one other US
Congressional representative, Barbara Lee (Democrat, CA) has come out against
the war.  -- Jackie Cabasso

I've Changed My MindStop the Bombing
Why is Belgrade a Target?
 by Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH)

4/9/99  New York Times

          April 9, 1999

          The world's democracies have a responsibility to relieve the
suffering of the people of Kosovo, to insure that the refugees can return to an
autonomous nation and to help rebuild the province and prosecute war criminals.

          That is why I voted my support for President Clinton's initiatives
and for the use of American soldiers in keeping the peace in the region.

          Yet NATO is now engaged in a bombing campaign in which the
destruction of the civilian infrastructure of Yugoslavia has become part of the
strategy to end the war on Kosovo. We say our quarrel is with President
Slobodan Milosevic and his army, yet instead of doing all that we can to
directly confront that military we are bringing down terror on the Serbian
people. What has this bombing accomplished? It has not stopped the ethnic
cleansing or the grim procession of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

          So I must challenge NATO's justification for its military campaign
against civilians -- before we destroy all the bridges in Belgrade and Novi
Sad; before we obliterate the power plants, water systems, roads and
telecommunications centers that serve civilian populations; before we begin
hearing the the phrase "collateral damage" routinely. Otherwise, NATO's actions
will destabilize the region for decades to come.

          As a start, NATO should honor a cease-fire this weekend of Orthodox
Christian Easter -- not because of Mr. Milosevic's feigned concern for the
faith of his people, but to show genuine respect for the civilian population's
religion.

        The bombings in Belgrade and Novi Sad punish people who have already
suffered under Mr. Milosevic's authoritarian regime. NATO's actions will only
help Mr. Milosevic convert more of the Serbian people to his mix of militant
nationalism and religious fervor -- even those who don't believe in his
policies will defend their flag and their faith.

          One does not need to be steeped in the mythology of the Battle of
Kosovo of 1389 to know that the Serbian people will never accept a peace with
the ethnic Albanians as long as we are dropping bombs on their heads.

          The United States now has to decide whether we will continue to
destroy a civilian population misled by Mr. Milosevic. Fifty-three million
people died in World War II, 60 percent of them civilians. About half of the 26
million killed in World War I, the 3 million killed in Korea and the 2.3
million dead in Vietnam were civilians.

          Civilians always pay the heaviest price -- and in this case it is not
just the Serbs who are suffering. This week's bombing campaign has
added to the devastation of Pristina, the capital city of the people we are
trying
to help.

          Americans will pay a price, too. If we continue to support NATO
bombing, we will have muddied our ethics and tarnished our reputation for
defending those who live under dictatorships. W e need to rethink not only the
manner in which we wage war, but also the manner in which we manage conflict
and keep the peace. We must demonstrate that we know the difference between a
legal and just humanitarian intervention on behalf of a civilian population and
an illegal and unjust military intervention against civilians. Otherwise, we
will have bombed the village in order to save it, and created a war in the name
of ending one.

 Dennis J. Kucinich, a Democrat, is a Representative from Ohio.

          Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) looking for info re: OSCE monitors & their effectiveness prior to
Date: 20 Apr 1999 09:52:22 EDT

I'm looking for information about the OSCE monitors that were placed in
Kosovo and any reports on their effectiveness or lack thereof prior to the
NATO bombing.

Should this process have been strengthened as a means of preventing the two
sides from attacking each other?

Debby Reelitz-Bell
847-266-1525

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From: "Masaaki Sakai" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) UCLA teach-in on NATO & Nukes
Date: 20 Apr 1999 11:45:59 PDT

Dear US abolitionists,

There exist Abolition 2000 supporters in L.A., too!? We activists
from various local groups formed "Southern California Abolition 2000"
February. While echoing to 'CitizensÆ Summit to De-nuke NATOÆ in DC
Friday, we are going to organize a teach-in at UCLA Wednesday about
NATOÆs nuclear policies & nuclear abolition at large along with UCLA
student groups. Below is the flyer.

I hope you all are well.

Masaaki Sakai
Southern California Federation of Scientists


CAPSA (Concerned Asian Pacific Students for Action) and UCLA
Environmental Coalition present

Teach-in "Change NATO Policies Toward Nuclear Disarmament"

Wednesday, April 21 6:30 p.m.
Moore Hall Room 100, UCLA

State heads will meet in Washington, DC, April 23 to 25 to
commemorate NATO 50th anniversary. However, we need to ask ourselves:
what does this Cold War apparatus still exist for; who is a potential
enemy that NATO must deter with its æfirst-strikeÆ doctrine and with
its nuclear weapons on the hair-trigger alert? NATO expansion as well
as recurring US missile defense development can become an obstacle to
RussiaÆs nuclear weapons reduction, which is crucial in forestalling
nuclear accident and terrorism. Speakers from various fields will
discuss NATOÆs dangerous nuclear policies and global sentiment
aspiring for a nuclear weapons-free 21st century.

Moderator: John Owen, Organizer of No Nukes

"A History of Change: Women Working Toward World Disarmament"
Beth Ann Lerch, Co-chair of WomenÆs International League for Peace
and Freedom (WILPF) L.A. Branch

"Nuclear Weapons are Illegal: A Historic 1996 ICJ Opinion"
James Lafferty, Exec. Director of National Lawyers Guild L.A. Chapter

"Nuclear Weapons: Old and New"
James Warf, Ph.D., Professor of Nuclear Chemistry, USC and founding
member of Southern California Federation of Scientists

"Abandon NATOÆs First-Strike Doctrine, De-alert Nuclear Weapons"
David Krieger, J.D., Ph.D., President of Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation, which is the international contact for Abolition 2000

A 1998 video, "Can We Learn to Live Without Nuclear Weapons?"
will be shown from 6:00 p.m.

For more information:
UCLA Environmental Coalition at [phone]

Supported by:
Southern California Abolition 2000, Southern California Federation of
Scientists, No Nukes, Commission for Earth and Public Safety, The
State of the World Forum, Atomic Mirror, Office of the Americas,
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, WomenÆs International League for Peace
and Freedom, Wesley Foundation

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) nato heads of state
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:15:17 -0400

Dear Friends,
Here are contact numbers for NATO heads of state.  Give 'em hell!!  Alice
Slater

M. Jean-Luc Dehaene
     Premier Ministre
     rue de la Loi 16
     B-1000 Brussels
     Belgium
     phone [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://belgium.fgov.be/

Jean Chretien, M.P.
     Prime Minister
     House of Commons, PO Box 1103
     Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
     Canada
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://pm.gc.ca/english.html-ssi

Vaclav Havel
     President
     Office of the President of the C.R.
     Hrad (Castle)
     119 08 Praha 1
     Czech Republic
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://www.hrad.cz/

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
     Prime Minister
     Prime Minister`s Office
     Christiansborg, Prins Jorgens Gaard 11
     DK-1218 Copenhagen
     Denmark
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://www.stm.dk/

M. Jacques Chirac
     President de la Republique
     Palais de l`Elysee
     55 et 57, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore
     75008 Paris
     France
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail page http://www.elysee.fr/mel/mel_.htm
     webpage http://www.elysee.fr/

Gerhard Schoeder
     Chancellor
     Adenauerallee 141
     PA: Briefpost, PLZ 53106
     53113 Bonn
     Germany
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail page http://www.bundesregierung.de/inland/.bin/pbamaild?10
     webpage http://www.bundesregierung.de/

Kostas Simitis
     Prime Minister
     Office of the Prime Minister
     Greek Parliament Bldg., Constitution Square
     Athens
     Greece
     fax [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://www.primeminister.gr

Viktor Orban
     Prime Minister
     Kossuth Lajos ter 1-3
     1055 Budapest, Budapest fovaros
     Hungary
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://www.meh.hu

David Oddsson
     Prime Minister
     Office of the Prime Minister
     Stjornarradshusinu
     150 Reykjavik
     Iceland
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://www.althingi.is/~wwwadm/upplens.shtml

Massimo D'Alema
     Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (Prime Minister)
     Piazza Colonna, 370
     00187 Rome
     Italy
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail page http://www.palazzochigi.it/contattaci.htm
     webpage http://www.palazzochigi.it/index.htm

Jean-Claude Juncker
     Prime Minister
     Ministere d`Etat
     4, rue de la Congregation
     L-2910 Luxembourg
     Luxembourg
     phone [phone]
     e-mail page http://www.restena.lu:80/gover/mailbox.html
     webpage http://www.restena.lu/gover/index_french.html

Willem Kok
     Prime Minister
     Binnenhof 20, 2513 AA
     Postbus 20001, 2500 EA
     The Hague
     Netherlands
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     webpage http://www.postbus51.nl/

Kjell Magne Bondevik
     Prime Minister
     Akersgt. 42, blokk H
     P.O. Box 8001 Dep
     N-0030 Oslo
     Norway
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://odin.dep.no/

Jerzy Buzek
     Prime Minister
     Prime Minister's Office
     al. Ujazdowskie 1/3
     00-583 Warsaw
     Poland
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://www.kprm.gov.pl

Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
     Prime Minister
     Gabinete do Primeiro-Ministro
     Lisboa
     Portugal
     e-mail page http://www.primeiro-ministro.gov.pt/correio.html
     webpage http://www.primeiro-ministro.gov.pt/

Excmo. Sr. Jose Maria Aznar
     Presidente del Gobierno
     Complejo de la Moncloa
     Edf. Semillas
     28071 Madrid
     Spain
     phone [phone], fax [phone]
     webpage http://www.la-moncloa.es

Bulent Ecevit
     Prime Minister
     Office of the Prime Minister
     Basbakanlik
     06573 Ankara
     Turkey
     fax [phone]
     e-mail [e-mail]

Rt. Hon. Tony Blair
     Prime Minister
     10 Downing St.
     SW1A 2AA London
     United Kingdom
     fax [phone]
     email:  [e-mail]
     webpage http://www.number-10.gov.uk/

William Clinton
     President
     The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
     Washington, District of Columbia 20500
     United States of America
     phone [phone]
     fax [phone] or 1-202-456-2461
     e-mail [e-mail]
     webpage http://www.whitehouse.gov/



Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: 'Let Civility Prevail': an appeal from Belgrade
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:21:49 -0400

>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:24:06 -0400
>Subject: 'Let Civility Prevail': an appeal from Belgrade
>Priority: non-urgent
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>
>From: Zarana Papic <[e-mail]>
>To: Bojan Aleksov <[e-mail]>
>Subject: [Fwd: Syndicate: <nettime> Let Civility Prevail - A
>Statement of Concerned SerbianCitizens]
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:31:01 +0200
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>
>Subject: Syndicate: <nettime> Let Civility Prevail - A Statement of
>Concerned SerbianCitizens
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:08:13 +0100
>From: Andreas Broeckmann <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:45:32 +0200 (CEST)
>From: [e-mail]
>
>LET CIVILITY PREVAIL
>
>A STATEMENT OF CONCERNED SERBIAN CITIZENS
>
>As long time proponents of and activists for a democratic and
>anti-nationalist Serbia, who have chosen to remain in
>Yugoslavia during this moment of crisis and who want to see
>our country reintegrated into the community of world nations,
>we state the following:
>
>1. We strongly condemn the NATO bombings which have
>hugely exacerbated violence in Kosovo and have caused the
>displacement of people outside and throughout Yugoslavia. We
>strongly condemn the ethnic cleansing of the Albanian
>population perpetrated by any Yugoslav forces. We strongly
>condemn the Kosovo Liberation Army's (KLA) violence
>targeted against the Serbs, moderate Albanians and other ethnic
>communities in Kosovo. The humanitarian catastrophe in
>Kosovo - death, grief and extreme suffering for hundreds of
>thousands of Albanians, Serbs and members of other ethnic
>communities - has to be ended now. All refugees from
>Yugoslavia must immediately and unconditionally be allowed
>to return to their homes, their security and human rights
>guaranteed, and aid for reconstruction provided. Perpetrators of
>crimes against humanity whoever they are must be brought to
>justice.
>
>2. The fighting between Serbian forces and KLA has to be
>stopped immediately in order to start a new round of
>negotiations. All sides must put aside their maximalist
>demands. There are (as in other numerous similar conflicts such
>as Northern Ireland) no quick and easy solutions. We all must
>be prepared for a long and painstaking process of negotiation
>and normalization.
>
>3. The bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO causes destruction
>and growing numbers of civilian victims (at least several
>hundred, maybe a thousand, by now). The final outcome will be
>the destruction of the economic and cultural foundations of
>Yugoslav society. It must be stopped immediately.
>
>4. The UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, the founding
>document of NATO, as well as the constitutions of countries
>such as Germany, Italy, Portugal, have been violated by this
>aggression. As individuals who have devoted their lives to the
>defense of basic democratic values, who believe in universal
>legal norms we are deeply concerned that NATO's violation
>of these norms will incapacitate all those struggling for the
>rule of law and human rights in this country and elsewhere
>in the world.
>
>5. NATO's bombings have further destabilized the southern
>Balkans. If continued this conflict can escalate beyond Balkan
>borders and, if turned into land military operations, thousands
>of NATO and Yugoslav soldiers, as well as Albanian and
>Serbian civilians, will die in a futile war as in Vietnam. Political
>negotiations toward a peaceful settlement should be reopened
>immediately.
>
>6. The existing regime has only been reinforced by NATO's
>attacks in Yugoslavia by way of the natural reaction of people
>to rally around the flag in times of foreign aggression. We
>continue our opposition to the present anti-democratic and
>authoritarian regime, but we also emphatically oppose NATO's
>aggression. The democratic forces in Serbia have been
>weakened and the democratic reformist Government of
>Montenegro threatened by NATO's attacks and by the regime's
>subsequent proclamation of the state of war and now find
>themselves between NATO's hammer and regime's anvil.
>
>7. In dealing with the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia the
>leaders of the world community have in the past made
>numerous fatal errors. New errors are leading to an aggravation
>of the conflict and are removing us from the search for peaceful
>solutions.
>
>We appeal to all: President Milosevic, the representatives of
>the Kosovo Albanians, NATO, EU and US leaders to stop all
>violence and military activities immediately and engage in the
>search for a political solution.
>
>Belgrade, April 16, 1999
>
>1. Stojan Cerovic, "Vreme" columnist and journalist
>2. Jovan Cirilov, Belgrade International Theater Festival (BITEF)
>selector and former director of the Yugoslav Drama Theater; Theater
>History Center Director
>3. Sima Cirkovic, Member Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts,
>Professor, Belgrade University, Dept. of History
>4. Mijat Damnjanovic, Former Professor, Belgrade University, Faculty
>of Political Sciences, Center for Public Administration and Local
>Government (PALGO) Director
>5. Vojin Dimitrijevic, Former head of the Department of
>International
>Law, Belgrade Law School; The Belgrade Center for Human Rights
>Director; UN Human Rights Committee former Vice Chairman
>6. Dasa Duhacek, Director Women Studies Center, Board Member of
>Alternative Academic Educational Network (AAEN)
>7. Milutin Garasanin, Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and
>Arts; Vice President of The Association for Research of South-Eastern
>Europe (UNESCO)
>8. Zagorka Golubovic, Professor, Belgrade University, Department of
>Sociology; Chair Social Sciences Department of AAEN
>9. Dejan Janca, Professor, Novi Sad University, Law School
>10. Ivan Jankovic, Belgrade lawyer, human rights activist, Board
>President of Center for Anti-War Action
>11. Predrag Koraksic, Belgrade caricaturist
>12. Mladen Lazic, Professor, Belgrade University, Department of
>Sociology, AAEN Board member
>13. Sonja Licht, President, Fund for an Open Society Executive Board
>14. Ljubomir Madzar, Professor Belgrade University, Faculty of
>Economy, Member Group-17
>15. Veran Matic, Editor in Chief, Belgrade Radio B92, President
>Alternative Network of Electronic Media (ANEM)
>16. Jelica Minic, Secretary General, European Movement in Serbia
>17. Andrej Mitrovic, Professor, Belgrade University, Department of
>History
>18. Radmila Nakarada, Senior Reserach Fellow, Belgrade Institute for
>European Studies
>19. Milan Nikolic, Director, Center for Policy Studies
>20. Vida Ognjenovic, Theater director, playwrite
>21. Borka Pavicevic, Director, Center for Cultural Decontamination
>22. Jelena Santic, Anti-war 487 group, human rights activist
>23. Nikola Tasic, Associate member of the Serbian Academy of
>Sciences
>and Arts, Member European Academy
>24. Ljubinka Trgovcevic, Senior Research Fellow, Belgrade
>University,
>Department of History
>25. Srbijanka Turajlic, Professor, Belgrade University, Faculty of
>Electrical Engineering, Board President AAEN
>26. Ivan Vejvoda, Fund for an Open Society Executive Director,
>27. Branko Vucicevic, translator
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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) New activity at Nevada Nuclear Test Site
Date: 21 Apr 1999 09:37:15 -0700

Dear Friends,


We have received information which has been confirmed and could prove to be disturbing in light of current world events.


The Department of Energy (DOE) staff at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), has re-initiated work at "Ice Cap" which was the hole drilled for the last full scale nuclear weapons test in 1992 but was canceled when Bush signed the Nuclear Testing Moratorium. This was to have been a joint U.S. - British Nuclear Test. It appears that the crews working at this site are assessing conditions, removing equipment and beginning to install new equipment and electronics.


We believe that this could be in line with NTS's guideline of maintaining capabilities to resume full scale nuclear weapons testing within six months of a presidential order but this is a precedent because it is the first work being done on a hole designed for a full scale nuclear explosion in nine years.


Also work is being completed at the Ua1(LYNER) tunnel  that houses the subcritical nuclear weapons tests to enlarge and modernize the facility allowing more people to work below the surface at once. The current work capacity is for a crew of 125 (which is sopposed to be classified information) and the DOE is expanding this to allow 160 people to work below the surface.


It is important for the international abolition movement to be aware that the U.S has the capabilities of resuming full scale nuclear testing quickly. In light of the current role the U.S government has decided to play in international politics this could be very distressing.


If any one else has any other information please pass it on to us and we will keep you updated as well.


Peace, your friends at Shundahai Network




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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) looking for info re: OSCE monitors & their
Date: 21 Apr 1999 21:36:57 EDT

There will be a Stop the Nato bombing at the Oakland, CA. Federal building on
the 23April at 12noon. Please let everyone know that you can. This is a
non-violent demo.
                            Thanks,
                           Michael Niece
                             Vision of Micah Affinity group

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Serbia Threatened with Ecological Disaster
Date: 21 Apr 1999 21:29:11 EDT

Jim Forest sends on this post from Yugoslavia. Not a government statement.
Peace,
David McReynolds

<< From: "Mirko S. Mandrino" <[e-mail]
 To: [e-mail]
 Subject: Important
 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 02:14:48 +0200

 SERBIA THREATENED WITH ECOLOGICAL DISASTER

 NATO intervention in Yugoslavia is increasingly gaining a dimension of
 retaliation. The number of civilian casualties rises every day. The
 destruction of economic sites has long term dramatic consequences for
 civilian population and puts cities, country and the entire region under
 serious danger.

 The bombing of the chemical plant in Pancevo, near Belgrade, has already
 caused severe ecological damage and seriously threatens to turn into an
 ecological disaster. In the last fire that broke out in the refinery and
 factory producing artificial fertilizers, only the favorable direction
 of the wind prevented the whole city and all its inhabitants from
 suffering much more serious ecological and health problems.

 In the last few days, chemical plants in Novi Sad and Belgrade have been
 bombed. Their destruction could lead to the tragedy exceeding the one in
 Bhopal, India.

 Stop the brutal and senseless bombing.

 Those who are making the decisions must be aware of the effects of their
 actions. No subsequent apologies, or calling upon "collateral damage"
 could justify this action, the consequences of which could lead to the
 permanent destruction of civilian population and their natural
 environment.

 In the name of the people and in the name of Nature we demand that the
 use of force stops immediately and a solution is found to use
 negotiations for solving the difficult crisis facing Europe and the
 world.

 In Belgrade, April 19, 1999

 Signed by more then 20 NGO and Trade Unions

 He has grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots
 to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe
 for children to grow up in.
 Ursula LeGuin
 ********************
 Mirko S. Mandrino, peace activist
 P O Box 14, 26000 Pancevo, Vojvodina
 Yugoslavia
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 38,000 NATO coffins?
Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:58:57 -0700

<[e-mail]>

Having two sources adds some credibility. Does anyone
know someone in the funeral or coffin industries who could
verify this report?  Maybe do a search of coffin making or British
Cyprus funeral homes on the Web? Gary Vesperman


------Begin forward message-----------------------------------

Subj: [InTheShadows] Re: THOUSANDS OF NATO COFFINS ARRIVE IN BRITISH CYPRUS
Reply-to: <A
HREF="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]
</A>
-Caveat Lector-

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Hilary A. Thomas wrote:

>  -Caveat Lector-
>
> THOUSANDS OF NATO COFFINS ARRIVE IN BRITISH CYPRUS: EXPECT HEAVY LOSSES
> FROM GROUND ATTACK
> stratfor.com
> April 18, 1999 Stratfor News
>
> 1813 GMT, 990418 Ekho Moskvy radio in Moscow cited RIA-Novosti news
agency
> reports that NATO has delivered thousands of coffins to a British
military
> base in Cyprus today. The reports suggest NATO is preparing for a ground
> attack and expects heavy losses.
>
> http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a371a56840da8.htm
>
> Hmmmmmm....has anyone else heard stuff about this?

On PBS's "McLaughlin Group" yesterday, McLaughlin mentioned
a rush order by U.S. for 38,000 coffins.

Brian Redman
Editor, CNNS

Geezy, wheezy, people!!!

Hilary




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From: Tracy Moavero <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Query for David
Date: 22 Apr 1999 12:16:00 -0400

Dear David,

Greetings.

As you probably know, Peace Action is planning our 1999 annual congress, to be held in Albuqueque, with a major direct action to follow at the Los Alamos lab on Nagasaki Day. The day befoe the action we will have a panel of international speakers sharing their experience
of grassroots anti-nuclear activism. We are looking for a broad range of international speakers, and we need some leads on Indian and/or Pacific Islanders living in the United States who could join our panel. Do you have any suggestions for us? We are bringing some
speakers from overseas, but as funding is uncertain, we really wish to find some speakers in the U.S.  So far we have confirmations from speakers representing campaigns in the UK, France, Pakistan, Japan and possibly Australia. Any suggestions you could give us for Indian
or Pacific region activists who are living in the U.S. or who will be travelling here at that time (Aug. 6-9) would be much appreciated.

Hope things are going well at NAPF.

All the best,

Tracy Moavero


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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Serbia Threatened with Ecological Disaster
Date: 22 Apr 1999 16:38:43 EDT

Hello,
 Please let as many people know about the demonstration about the Stop the
Nato bombing at 12 noon Oakland, Federal building, 23April Friday. This will
be an interfaith demonstration with prayer and possible cd.A non-violent
demonstration in the way of Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Vision of Micah
affinity group sponsoring.
                                          thanks
                                                Mike

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Date: 22 Apr 1999 16:23:33 EDT

thanks for putting out the data for the demonstration. Mike

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) End Wars to Stop Global Warming with Free Energy and Hemp for Victory!
Date: 22 Apr 1999 15:47:27 -0700

End Wars to Stop Global Warming with Free Energy and Hemp for Victory!

This a current comprehensive summary of the overlooked problems and
solutions associated with today's increasingly catastrophic manifestation=
s
of global climate change and what you can do about it by bringing out the
facts to wake folks up to the need to redirect resources away from war an=
d
preparations for war into solving critical environmental problems before =
it
is too late.  An EarthDay1999 message.

[Earth Rainbow Network]

Thank you Jean for your fine networking and for taking seriously the need=
 to
further discuss the thesis I have advanced based on data not commonly
considered by environmental activists regarding seriouly depleting
atmospheric oxygen levels and their impact on ozone layer depletion.   In
fact, hard figures and data on oxygen levels are even harder to come by t=
han
carbon dioxide levels but I will offer here the basis for my understandin=
g
on this point.   I hope that the information and logic that I will summar=
ize
below can motivate those in your network with the information access
resources to take this seriously enough to find additional hard data and =
to
bring this issue in to the mainstream public debate on a par with the
greenhouse effect.

First, as a chemist, I can tell you unequivocably that for each molecule =
of
carbon dioxide produced by the metabolism of animals and by the combustio=
n
of fossil fuels that there is one molecule of oxygen removed from the
atmosphere.  About this there is no doubt as it is fundamental to the
stoiciometry of the chemistry involved.  Thus on a qualitative level ther=
e
can be no valid counter-argument of this fact.  The enormous increases ea=
ch
year in the combustion of oxygen by fossil fuels combined with the massiv=
e
deforestation of our planet of the trees that normally consume carbon
dioxide and produce oxygen has reached a level where the overall oxygen
levels in the upper atmosphere have diminished to the point of seriously
interfering with the delicate balance of ozone layer production even asid=
e
from the disasterous effects of chlorine and other halogen pollutions
interfering with this phototropic production of the ozone layer.  This
qualitative evaluation was first brought to my attention by Adam Trombly,
the director of Project Earth in Colorado founded by Buckminster Fuller a=
nd
which uses succeeding generations of the latest computers to do enviromen=
tal
modeling with the continuous input of atmospheric measurements over the
years.  Trombly reported on July 31, 1988, that the trend at that time ga=
ve
grave predictions for many adverse changes in atmospheric dynamics includ=
ing
the prediction that if this trend were not reversed by ending the combust=
ion
of fossil fuels and saving the trees by 1998 we would begin to go through=
 a
"point of no return" after which it would be inevitable that by the year
2008 the ozone layer depletion would be severe enough to allow sufficient
solar radiation to penetrate the atmosphere so as to destroy ALL of the
oceanic phytoplankton which are not only the beginning of the oceanic
foodchain but also the one celled plants that produce over half of Earth'=
s
oxygen supply --- a condition that since then I have been discussing as a=
n
oxygen crisis which portends the destruction of life on Earth as we know =
it.
When I spoke with Trombly in May of 1997 he said that all of their comput=
er
modeling predictions had come true on target in the preceding years and a=
s
evidence of this he discussed the predicted increases in storm intensitie=
s
and storm wind velocities that we have been observing, saying that it wou=
ld
get much worse as it has.  Even if his picture is a "worst case scenario"=
 it
is my strong conviction that any comprehensive plan to address the
amelioration of global climate change must be sufficiently broad to inclu=
de
a way to address this worst case possibility.  Trombly was one of the
scientists on the team sent by Earth Island Institute to oversee and dire=
ct
the unprecedented international effort which successfully and quickly
extinguished the Iraq war Kuwaiti oil fires of high chlorine content oil.
The Project Earth website is http://www.projectearth.com and he may be
emailed from that site.

With regard to quantitative data on atmospheric oxygen levels, the only
numbers that I have seen which support Trombly's position are quite sketc=
hy
and not well attributed as to who made the measurements, with the excepti=
on
of the figure I mentioned previously from 1998 DOE CNES of a 33% increase=
 in
atmospheric carbon dioxide since pre-industrial times and I suspect based=
 on
the history of our government that this is very conservative estimate.  T=
his
does not mean a 33% decrease in atmospheric oxygen since the level of
atmospheric oxygen is far greater so the percentage of its depletion woul=
d
be far less, but the actual amounts of change are exactly the same,
stoiciometrically.   The best information that I have seen is that presen=
t
overall atmospheric oxygen levels are in any case nowhere near the 21% th=
at
you quoted but closer to 18-19%.  I have seen figures of 14-16% in some
areas and 11-13% in areas around cities where a lot of combustion is taki=
ng
place.  Exact and accurate figures, as you can imagine, especially ones t=
hat
everyone will agree with, are extremely difficult to find, at least for m=
e
with my newness to the internet and limited informational resources.
Whatever the actual amounts are, it is patently evident from the qualitat=
ive
analysis and undeniable trends of combustion and deforestation that this
argument warrents the application of due diligence in its more comprehens=
ive
evalutation, and quickly.

As to how to address amelioration of this problem, two factors must be
addressed.  How to reverse, not just reduce, the trends of increasing
atmospheric carbon dioxide and decreasing atmospheric oxygen.  The Kyoto
Protocol goals of simply reducing the rate of increased carbon dioxide
production to those of 1991 levels over the next ten years or so is simpl=
y
not adequate.  We need to REVERSE this trend to solve these problems and =
get
back to a healthy balance, not just slow the rate of increases in this
problem.

I have to go now to an appointment but will soon respond once again on my
reasoning and details behind my conclusion that the free energy technolog=
ies
and widespread hemp cultivation are the most important two areas for publ=
ic
activism on how to solve the problems of climate change, before it is too
late if it is not already.  In the phone conversation I mentioned above w=
ith
Trombly, he said that he personally felt that it was already too late and=
 he
was very upset to have to tell his 16year old daughter that there was no
future for life on Earth.

I have posted some of the details on these problems and solutions on my
GEAR2000 website below.

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  19SEP* Washington, DC, Ceremony Rededicating
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*3rd Tuesday of September is annual opening of
UN General Assembly & International Day of Peace
           October 24th is United Nations Day
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>

Stop Global Warming with Free Energy and Hemp for Victory!

I bcc'd this response to Jean of today to her list below.  Thought that y=
ou
might want to add your comments on hemp/cannabis/marijuana issue to her
politically timid network.


This is the second part of my response to Jean Hudon and Earth Rainbow
Network about the nature, scope, and remediation of overlooked hindrance
factors relating to adverse climate change, particularly ozone layer
depletion which is the "flip-side" to the greenhouse effect on the "coin"=
 of
climate change.   Ozone layer depletion allows increased levels of high
energy solar radiation to penetrate the atmosphere and in the area of
Antarctica, where the ozone layer depletion is most severe, recent report=
s
below indicate alarmingly increased melting of ice.

Since there was no dispute of my contention of the need to investigate an=
d
promote the so-called free-energy technologies to replace nuclear and fos=
sil
fuel power I will not go into more details here but refer for more info t=
o
links and discussions on the GEAR2000 website below.  The main thing
activists can do on this issue is to investigate it more deeply and to
support Dr. Ehsan Khan at the DOE in his efforts to get funding for the
development of these technologies in conjunction with Dr. Hal Puthoff's
efforts in theoretical physics to understand the already successful
experiments in this area, recognize that what has been previously mislabe=
led
as "cold fusion" is indeed a promising reality, and support private effor=
ts
such as Dr. Hal Fox with the Insitute for New Energy whose LENT (Low Ener=
gy
Nuclear Transmutation) technologies offer the additional advantage of
neutralizing radioactive wastes.

Regarding the question about my claims that the most important thing that
can be done to ameliorate global climate change, by reversing not just
reducing the present trend of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and
decreasing atmospheric oxygen resultant from fossil fuel combustion, is a=
n
environmental-emergency-level resurrection on a global scale of the USDA'=
s
1941-45 Hemp for Victory "crash program" to grow this plant as widely as
possible as soon as possible, I will offer here a very brief summary of t=
he
information and logic on this that I submitted in my public comments
offering to DOE on CNES last year.  If there is an interest I will post
those details on that website where url links already can now be found to
the full hempstory, with authoritative source references, below summarize=
d.

[jackherer.com and chrisconrad.com links are on GEAR2000 site]--dcw

Even if we now had these new energy technologies in place, eliminating
entirely the combustion of fossil fuels, this would still not solve the
climate change problem because of the fact that so many trees have alread=
y
been destroyed and the atmospheric balance has already been so severely
disturbed, the present trend of increasingly catastrophic global climate
would continue, just at a lower rate of acceleration.  The only way to
actually begin to heal the atmosphere by replenishing atmospheric oxygen =
and
reducing carbon dioxide levels is to first figure out how to save the
remaining forests and then in the same move figure out the best way to
regreen the planet as rapidly as possible with whatever plants can best
consume maximum amounts of carbon dioxide, producing equivalent amounts o=
f
oxygen, as rapidly as possible.  Two factors need to be considered.  One =
is
the comparative bioefficiency of candidate plants (the amount of oxygen
produced per acre per year which is directly proportional to the amount o=
f
biomass per acre per year) and second is the pragmatic consideration of
which plants have the best economic motivations so that they can/will in
fact for that reason actually BE widely planted.

The best overall candidate (not the only one but the best by far) is the
hemp plant, the most valuable plant in human history (a history carefully
censored from the population for reasons explained below) for the overall
majority of today's needs for paper, fiber, fuel, food, medicines, compos=
ite
construction materials, chemical feedstocks, etc.  The most bioefficient
plants are older mature trees.  With respect to new plantings on empty la=
nd,
the US governement studies indicate that at least 4.1 times as much paper
can be made from an acre of hemp than an acre of trees over a 20 year
average period.  Most of the trees cut for their cellulose are used in
making paper, cardboard, and construction forms.  All of these products, =
and
many other composite construction materials (with modern technology), can=
 be
more efficiently made from hemp cellulose thus saving trees.  Hemp produc=
es
multiple times more biomass per acre than any other plant.  Because of al=
l
of its uses (fiber is better, stronger, longer lasting, etc; seeds are
second only to soybeans in protein but more digestible and contain immune
system activation fatty acids;  anything made from petroleum can be made
from biomass by pyrolysis, etc., etc., etc.) the hemp plant is overall th=
e
best choice for solving the problems described above relating to healing =
the
atmosphere and thereby ameliorating the greenhouse effect and the ozone
layer depletion that is being exacerbated by reduction in the atmospheric
oxygen from which the ozone layer is produced by sunlight acting on oxyge=
n,
the process already seriously compromised by chemical pollutions
(principally chlorine and other halogens from the breakdown of
halogenated hydrocarbons).

The only problem is that the hemp plant has been outlawed since 1937 by a
fraud perpetrated on the American Congress and people by calling it
marijuana in an historic and successful effort by certain industrialists,
and their banker and his nephew who was in charge of implementing this fr=
aud
from his postion within the goverment narcotics agency.  This fraud invol=
ved
William Randolph Hearst, Andrew Mellon, and the DuPont Chemical Company a=
nd
it was initiated to protect financial interests in forests for paper,
chemicals to make that paper (sulphuric acid, at the time 90% of DuPont's
business) and later the petrochemical fiber and drug industries.  Anyone =
who
is interested in the real facts on this can check details and find this t=
o
be absolutely true.  The drug policies which still prevail keeping this
plant outlawed are a criminal act effecting the future of life on Earth a=
nd
the lack of fortitude on the part of the activists who are propagandized
against hemp and fear to investigate and take a public stand on the truth=
 of
this matter are in fact participating in this criminal act if they do not
take this information seriously and take action before it is too late.

David Crockett Williams  22April99 Earth Day
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (CSUN 1969)
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Hello

This - the diminishing percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere because of
everything we burn (see below) - has also been for me a great concern for=
 a
long while, but I never saw any scientific data proving this. Anyone can
provide them?

Maybe Gaia has somehow maintained the homeostatic correct 21% oxygen
balance so far, but with the dwingling biomass to replenish it (plankton
and plant life being now widely destroyed), this feat is jeopardized IMHO.

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000

And thanks David for passing this on ;-) Although I do NOT see hemp as th=
e
overall magical solution to regreening the Earth - sorry for not sharing
your enthusiasm on this.

Cc: "jean hudon" <[e-mail]>

In addition to the widely talked about impact on global warming due to th=
e
greenhouse effect of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (a 33% increas=
e
since pre-industrial times according to the DOE's 1998 Comprehensive
National Energy Strategy (CNES)http://www.hr.doe.gov/nesp/cnes.html ) the
"flip side" of the greenhouse effect also adding to global warming,
especially in the Antarctic area, is the ozone layer depletion that allow=
s
more high energy radiation to penetrate the atmosphere.  What is not
discussed yet by any media or even environmental activists or organizatio=
ns
is that the fundamental root of the ozone layer depletion is not in fact =
the
chemical pollutions like chlorine from bleaches and the breakdown of
halogenate hydrocarbons (although those are VERY serious factors) but the
main cause is the reduction in atmospheric oxygen from the same fossil fu=
el
combustion that produces increased carbon dioxide levels.  The reduction =
in
the atmospheric oxygen (from which ozone is made naturally) is exactly eq=
ual
to the increase in carbon dioxide (in actual amounts, not percentages).
This factor is virtually unknown to the general public.  In July 1988
computer environmental modeling experts made a number of predictions all =
of
which have been coming true on target.  One of those was that by 2008 the
ozone layer will be sufficiently depleted that the extra solar irradiatio=
n
will destroy ALL of the phytoplankton in the oceans, the one celled plant=
s
at the beginning of the oceanic food chain that produce over half of Eart=
h's
oxygen supply.  Already there is widespread damage and reductions in
phytoplankton populations.

How to solve this problem?  We must eliminate fossil fuel energy
technologies and replace them with  the new proven but suppressed so-call=
ed
"free energy" technologies (also mentioned in CNES, on p.57) and do
something to regreen the planet on an emergency basis to save the trees t=
hat
are left and to replenish atmospheric oxygen while reducing carbon dioxid=
e.
By far the best plant to do this, because it produces over four times as
much biomass per acre and because of its economic values to motivate
widespread cultivation, is the hemp plant which has been fraudulently
outlawed as marijuana since 1937.   More details on the both pragmatic an=
d
spiritual level solutions are found and referenced at
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

David Crockett Williams
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, CSUN 1969
[e-mail]



[I have read that the ozone hole is now larger and our exposure to skin
cancer will be greater than ever this summer. A recent article in a healt=
h
care magazine suggests that people go out in the sun AFTER 4pm.
Sound extreme?  Check the skin cancer rates for yourself.   ---S]

Global warming may increase ozone hole
March 29, 1999

Despite international measures to reduce atmospheric concentrations
of ozone destroying halogens to protect the ozone layer, global
warming may lead to a weakening of the ozone layer, according to
international scientists.

A team of German, Swiss and British scientists reported in the March 26
issue of the journal Science that while future climate change is expected=
 to
heat up the lower atmosphere it is likely to cool the air at the altitude=
 of
the ozone layer in the stratosphere.

Cooler air in the stratosphere may lead to increased polar stratospheric
clouds, which are believed to play an essential role in ozone hole
chemistry.

In particular, the cloud particles may settle lower atmospheric layers,
thereby removing trace gases which under normal circumstances lead to a
deactivation of ozone-destroying chlorine.

In other words, in a colder stratosphere the sediment particles may inhib=
it
an important mechanism protecting ozone.

Full article

http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9903/29/global.warming.enn/

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Melting of Antarctic ice shelves accelerates...04/09/99

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(ENN) Decades of warming temperatures in the Antarctic have caused two
ice shelves to break up and melt faster than
anyone expected, scientists from Colorado and the United Kingdom said
Wednesday. A warming trend in the region has caused the annual melt
season to increase by two to three weeks over the last 20 years, say
researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and
Ice Data Center and the British Antarctic Survey. In fact, the Larsen B
and Wilkens ice sheets on the Antarctic Peninsula have lost nearly 3,000
square kilometers of their total area in the last year, according to
satellite photos monitored by NSIDC.

According to the photos, the Larsen B ice shelf on the eastern side of
the peninsula has continued to crumble after an initial
small retreat in spring 1998. In a series of events that began in
November 1998, an additional 1,714 square kilometers of shelf
area caved away, said Research Associate Ted Scambos of CU-Boulder's
NSIDC.

On the southwest side of the peninsula, the Wilkins ice shelf retreated
nearly 1,100 square kilometers in early March of last
year, said Scambos. His team and colleagues at the British Antarctic
Survey in Cambridge had predicted the breakup would
happen and had their suspicions confirmed by satellite radar images.

"The radar images showed a large area of completely shattered ice,
indicating an ice front 35 kilometers back from its previous
extent," said Scambos. "The sudden appearance of thousands of small
icebergs suggests that the shelves are essentially broken
up in place and then flushed out by storms or currents afterward."

Scientists: Antarctic ice shelves breaking up fast
April 8, 1999

WASHINGTON (Reuters) --
Two Antarctic ice shelves have broken up more quickly than anyone predict=
ed,
indicating that the effects of global warming may be accelerating,
scientists said on Wednesday.

They published satellite images showing the Larsen B and Wilkins ice
shelves in "full retreat," having lost nearly 1,100 square miles (3,000
square km) of their total area in the last year.

Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder said his team and
colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge had predicted the
break-up would happen, but not this quickly.

"It happened much faster than we thought," Scambos said in a telephone
interview. "Within this last calendar year we saw a retreat not only on
Larsen but the Wilkins."

...Sea level rising

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, global sea level has risen about=
 4
inches (10 cm) during the past century. It says if all the Earth's glacie=
rs
melted, which is unlikely, sea levels would rise by 260 feet (80 meters).

Antarctica, the fifth largest continent, contains about 90 percent of the
world's glacial ice.

Full article

http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9904/08/antarctic.ice.reut/


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: What Budget Surplus?  Fraudulent Accounting Practices
Date: 23 Apr 1999 04:44:17 -0700

This is an interesting answer.  Why then is this the first year a "budget
surplus" is being bandied about as real?   If what you say is true then this
new accounting method should have shown a similar "surplus" each of the last
ten years.  There appears to be more going on here than you have stated.

-----Original Message-----

Practices


>This change in federal budgeting procedures is not new.  It was made more
than a
>decade ago, and over the years it has been widely reported in the press.
>
>Shalom,
>Bob Tiller
>
>
>
>David Crockett Williams wrote:
>
>> One of those emails I received that has "slipped through the cracks" was
one
>> I received a couple of months ago and kept meaning to send out with a
>> commentary but never got around to it and now can't find it.  Perhaps
>> someone can verify exact details.
>>
>> The gist of the story is that Barrons financial magazine, I believe, was
>> quoted as publishing the Federal deficit for each of the last two years
and
>> the cumulative annual Federal deficit increased by something on the order
of
>> $300 billion I believe.
>>
>> What is the point?  The much ballyhooed 1999 "Federal Budget Surplus" is
a
>> fraud perpetrated by a change in accounting procedures completely
unreported
>> in the mainstream media whereby all of a sudden without any public
>> indication of what was happening, the money that normally goes into
social
>> security was reallocated as part of the federal budget.  Then the actual
>> annual deficit was subtracted from this amount and the balance was
renamed
>> the "budget surplus" and all this talk about how it should be spent "to
save
>> social security", etc., is a big con job because we are talking about an
>> amount of money in fact equal to what was previously allocated to social
>> security, LESS the actual last annual DEFICIT in the Federal budget.
>>
>> Now if my understanding is correct here, wouldn't this be quite a scandal
>> with the media complicit in this coverup of the truth?  That is:  There
is
>> no budget surplus, only a change in accounting and nominclature to fool
the
>> people!   wouldn't any accounting firm be censured and any company fined
for
>> using such deception in fiscal reporting?
>>
>> Now they are talking about "oh well , looks like we will have to use some
of
>> this budget surplus to pay for the war in Kosovo".   This is in reality
then
>> the money that under last year's accounting vocabulary was the normal
>> deposit to the social security program being used instead to fight a war.
>> What do you think the vote would have been if people were asked, "shall
we
>> take money from the social security budget and use it to bomb a bunch of
>> folks in Europe?"
>>
>> This is such a outright fraud on the American people that it amazes me
>> almost as much as the history behind how the most valuable plant in human
>> history, the hemp plant, has been fraudulently outlawed as marijuana,
>> expunged from the historical record, and the government and media are
still
>> complicit in this parallel historical fraud on the American people and
>> Congress.  (see http://www.jackherer.com)
>>
>> I hope that my posting this poor excuse for the original email with the
>> exact source of the deficit numbers will at least suffice to inspire
someone
>> to find the proper numbers and sources to verify this easy to confirm or
>> refute thesis that I have faithfully depicted above, i.e.,
>>
>> The "Federal Budget Surplus" is a Fraud
>>
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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: What Budget Surplus?  Fraudulent Accounting
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:58:45 -0400

No, you are mistaken.  The "budget surplus" of current times means that all the
money taken in from all sources (including income taxes, Social Security taxes
and more) exceeds all the money going out --- not including "off-budget" items,
of course.  This had not occurred for more than 30 years.

Throughout much of the last decade there has been a "surplus" in the Social
Security account that was not as large as the "deficit" from all other
accounts.  Here is a hypothetical example:  If Social Security runs a "surplus"
of $300 billion, and all other items run a "deficit" of $500 billion, the total
"deficiit" is $200 billion.

If Social Security had been treated as an "off-budget" item, then the official
budget "deficits" would have been MUCH larger than they officially were during
the 1980s and 1990s.

Here is an example: you rent out your garage, and you see that moneyas enabling
you to meet your expenses.  Your overall financial picture includes that income
from the garage rental, enabling you to stay afloat.  Perhaps the rental income
you receive from your garage really should be going into a sequestered fund to
pay for garage repairs and replacement, but you are using it to pay for
groceries and gasoline and movies.  You would have huge financial problems in
the present if you kept the rental income separate, so you mix it in with all
your other money, postponing the day of financial reckoning.  You hope that in
the future you will find some way to pay for garage repairs and replacement.
That's what is going on with Social Security.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller




David Crockett Williams wrote:

> This is an interesting answer.  Why then is this the first year a "budget
> surplus" is being bandied about as real?   If what you say is true then this
> new accounting method should have shown a similar "surplus" each of the last
> ten years.  There appears to be more going on here than you have stated.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
>
> Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 12:58 PM
> Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) What Budget Surplus? Fraudulent Accounting
> Practices
>
> >This change in federal budgeting procedures is not new.  It was made more
> than a
> >decade ago, and over the years it has been widely reported in the press.
> >
> >Shalom,
> >Bob Tiller
> >
> >
> >
> >David Crockett Williams wrote:
> >
> >> One of those emails I received that has "slipped through the cracks" was
> one
> >> I received a couple of months ago and kept meaning to send out with a
> >> commentary but never got around to it and now can't find it.  Perhaps
> >> someone can verify exact details.
> >>
> >> The gist of the story is that Barrons financial magazine, I believe, was
> >> quoted as publishing the Federal deficit for each of the last two years
> and
> >> the cumulative annual Federal deficit increased by something on the order
> of
> >> $300 billion I believe.
> >>
> >> What is the point?  The much ballyhooed 1999 "Federal Budget Surplus" is
> a
> >> fraud perpetrated by a change in accounting procedures completely
> unreported
> >> in the mainstream media whereby all of a sudden without any public
> >> indication of what was happening, the money that normally goes into
> social
> >> security was reallocated as part of the federal budget.  Then the actual
> >> annual deficit was subtracted from this amount and the balance was
> renamed
> >> the "budget surplus" and all this talk about how it should be spent "to
> save
> >> social security", etc., is a big con job because we are talking about an
> >> amount of money in fact equal to what was previously allocated to social
> >> security, LESS the actual last annual DEFICIT in the Federal budget.
> >>
> >> Now if my understanding is correct here, wouldn't this be quite a scandal
> >> with the media complicit in this coverup of the truth?  That is:  There
> is
> >> no budget surplus, only a change in accounting and nominclature to fool
> the
> >> people!   wouldn't any accounting firm be censured and any company fined
> for
> >> using such deception in fiscal reporting?
> >>
> >> Now they are talking about "oh well , looks like we will have to use some
> of
> >> this budget surplus to pay for the war in Kosovo".   This is in reality
> then
> >> the money that under last year's accounting vocabulary was the normal
> >> deposit to the social security program being used instead to fight a war.
> >> What do you think the vote would have been if people were asked, "shall
> we
> >> take money from the social security budget and use it to bomb a bunch of
> >> folks in Europe?"
> >>
> >> This is such a outright fraud on the American people that it amazes me
> >> almost as much as the history behind how the most valuable plant in human
> >> history, the hemp plant, has been fraudulently outlawed as marijuana,
> >> expunged from the historical record, and the government and media are
> still
> >> complicit in this parallel historical fraud on the American people and
> >> Congress.  (see http://www.jackherer.com)
> >>
> >> I hope that my posting this poor excuse for the original email with the
> >> exact source of the deficit numbers will at least suffice to inspire
> someone
> >> to find the proper numbers and sources to verify this easy to confirm or
> >> refute thesis that I have faithfully depicted above, i.e.,
> >>
> >> The "Federal Budget Surplus" is a Fraud
> >>
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From: "David Rush" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: What Budget Surplus?  Fraudulent Accounting Practices
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:49:08 -0400

What has happened to NCI booklet?

----------
> From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: What Budget Surplus?  Fraudulent
Accounting Practices
> Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 9:58 AM
>
> No, you are mistaken.  The "budget surplus" of current times means that
all the
> money taken in from all sources (including income taxes, Social Security
taxes
> and more) exceeds all the money going out --- not including "off-budget"
items,
> of course.  This had not occurred for more than 30 years.
>
> Throughout much of the last decade there has been a "surplus" in the
Social
> Security account that was not as large as the "deficit" from all other
> accounts.  Here is a hypothetical example:  If Social Security runs a
"surplus"
> of $300 billion, and all other items run a "deficit" of $500 billion, the
total
> "deficiit" is $200 billion.
>
> If Social Security had been treated as an "off-budget" item, then the
official
> budget "deficits" would have been MUCH larger than they officially were
during
> the 1980s and 1990s.
>
> Here is an example: you rent out your garage, and you see that moneyas
enabling
> you to meet your expenses.  Your overall financial picture includes that
income
> from the garage rental, enabling you to stay afloat.  Perhaps the rental
income
> you receive from your garage really should be going into a sequestered
fund to
> pay for garage repairs and replacement, but you are using it to pay for
> groceries and gasoline and movies.  You would have huge financial
problems in
> the present if you kept the rental income separate, so you mix it in with
all
> your other money, postponing the day of financial reckoning.  You hope
that in
> the future you will find some way to pay for garage repairs and
replacement.
> That's what is going on with Social Security.
>
> Shalom,
> Bob Tiller
>
>
>
>
> David Crockett Williams wrote:
>
> > This is an interesting answer.  Why then is this the first year a
"budget
> > surplus" is being bandied about as real?   If what you say is true then
this
> > new accounting method should have shown a similar "surplus" each of the
last
> > ten years.  There appears to be more going on here than you have
stated.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
> > To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
> >
> > Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 12:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) What Budget Surplus? Fraudulent Accounting
> > Practices
> >
> > >This change in federal budgeting procedures is not new.  It was made
more
> > than a
> > >decade ago, and over the years it has been widely reported in the
press.
> > >
> > >Shalom,
> > >Bob Tiller
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >David Crockett Williams wrote:
> > >
> > >> One of those emails I received that has "slipped through the cracks"
was
> > one
> > >> I received a couple of months ago and kept meaning to send out with
a
> > >> commentary but never got around to it and now can't find it.
Perhaps
> > >> someone can verify exact details.
> > >>
> > >> The gist of the story is that Barrons financial magazine, I believe,
was
> > >> quoted as publishing the Federal deficit for each of the last two
years
> > and
> > >> the cumulative annual Federal deficit increased by something on the
order
> > of
> > >> $300 billion I believe.
> > >>
> > >> What is the point?  The much ballyhooed 1999 "Federal Budget
Surplus" is
> > a
> > >> fraud perpetrated by a change in accounting procedures completely
> > unreported
> > >> in the mainstream media whereby all of a sudden without any public
> > >> indication of what was happening, the money that normally goes into
> > social
> > >> security was reallocated as part of the federal budget.  Then the
actual
> > >> annual deficit was subtracted from this amount and the balance was
> > renamed
> > >> the "budget surplus" and all this talk about how it should be spent
"to
> > save
> > >> social security", etc., is a big con job because we are talking
about an
> > >> amount of money in fact equal to what was previously allocated to
social
> > >> security, LESS the actual last annual DEFICIT in the Federal budget.
> > >>
> > >> Now if my understanding is correct here, wouldn't this be quite a
scandal
> > >> with the media complicit in this coverup of the truth?  That is:
There
> > is
> > >> no budget surplus, only a change in accounting and nominclature to
fool
> > the
> > >> people!   wouldn't any accounting firm be censured and any company
fined
> > for
> > >> using such deception in fiscal reporting?
> > >>
> > >> Now they are talking about "oh well , looks like we will have to use
some
> > of
> > >> this budget surplus to pay for the war in Kosovo".   This is in
reality
> > then
> > >> the money that under last year's accounting vocabulary was the
normal
> > >> deposit to the social security program being used instead to fight a
war.
> > >> What do you think the vote would have been if people were asked,
"shall
> > we
> > >> take money from the social security budget and use it to bomb a
bunch of
> > >> folks in Europe?"
> > >>
> > >> This is such a outright fraud on the American people that it amazes
me
> > >> almost as much as the history behind how the most valuable plant in
human
> > >> history, the hemp plant, has been fraudulently outlawed as
marijuana,
> > >> expunged from the historical record, and the government and media
are
> > still
> > >> complicit in this parallel historical fraud on the American people
and
> > >> Congress.  (see http://www.jackherer.com)
> > >>
> > >> I hope that my posting this poor excuse for the original email with
the
> > >> exact source of the deficit numbers will at least suffice to inspire
> > someone
> > >> to find the proper numbers and sources to verify this easy to
confirm or
> > >> refute thesis that I have faithfully depicted above, i.e.,
> > >>
> > >> The "Federal Budget Surplus" is a Fraud
> > >>
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) The American Role in The Balkan War: A European Perspective On NATO
Date: 23 Apr 1999 12:52:42 EDT

In a message dated 4/23/99 9:45:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time,=20
[e-mail] writes:

<< Subj:=09 The American Role in The Balkan War: A European Perspective=20
On NATO
 Date:=094/23/99 9:45:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:=[e-mail] (Magnus Kellerdal)
 To:=[e-mail]
=20
 To Mr David McReynolds
=20
 You can see this as a personal thought about the war in Kosovo. You can
 also see it as frustration given by a man who feels that he is once again
 standing on the brink of a mass-grave and that the very same grave is being
 filled without purpose or thought.=20
=20
 Let me introduce myself. Magnus Kellerdal, Swedish citizen, age thirtysix,
 Master at Laws, Technical Engineer, Captain Swedish Army Reserve, working
 within Municipality Administration, Halmstad, Sweden. As You=20
 will see, a rather talkative person.=20
=20
 Three weeks ago an old friend of mine phoned me from Beograd.=20
 Once we used to work together, he as my assistant, and we campaigned
 together. My friend still has the same citizenship as me, but he was
 born in  Beograd and now he works there. He told me that he was one of=20
 them standing guard on the bridges over river Sava and that he now wore=20
 the well known insignia "Target". We talked for a very long time. In fact,=20
 talk is not indifferent to us because when we once worked together talk=20
 and dialogue were our key tools. Now, what is so peculiar with this small
 story? Maybe nothing, except for this - both my friend and myself are
 decorated with The NATO Service Medal. We once used to work in IFOR/SFOR
 and thereby acting as "occupiers" in Republika Srpska and Federacije BiH in
 Bosna. We liaised and worked together with=20
 Bosnian-Serb Police officers, and Bosnian-Muslim Police officers. In fact,=20
 we worked with the officials of the community as a whole, as several=20
 hundred representatives of the international community in Bosnia are
 working today - primarily with words. =20
=20
 7 April I read an article in Washington Post, written by Thomas W. Lippman.
 It confirmed what I had already gathered, namely that the stress at
 Rambouillet was caused by the fact that NATO and USA were on a strict
 time-schedule: the upcoming celebration of NATO=B4s fifty years anniversary
 in Washington on 23 April. Therefore the agreement had to be in hand and
 the ground forces in place. Cruel, is it not? Because of a time-schedule
 people are dying. To continue, on the morning of 25 March, the morning
 after the onslaught I said (and You will have to take my word for it) to my
 colleagues at my work exactly this, that NATO must show success at their
 anniversary or it will be virtually impossible for them to change their own
 statutes into a "New NATO Order". My colleagues smiled, called me cynical
 since I was saying that the war was about a time-schedule and prestige and
 referred to the fact that I was a poor analyst of the Balkans. You see, I
 had only a couple of days before the onslaught assumed that NATO would not
 attack but instead make the wise and only decision to make the parties
 return to the table for more dialogue. Well, when my friends smiled at me,
 in the morning of 25 March, I answered that I was not a bad analyst of the
 Balkans but a bad analyst of NATO and USA - I simply did not think that
 they could  commit to such actions, such stupidity, and that NATO would not
 exist in its present form in ten years from now. When my colleagues stopped
 smiling and started to listen I went on by saying something like=20
 this:=20
=20
 """This is Balkan. Balkan is a Turkish word that means Mountains. This is
 Partisan Land. This is the worst kind of terrain for combat. Serbians have
 fought in this kind of terrain for the past six hundred years. And
 especially this people I know, since I used to work very close with them.
 It is Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava. It is Vidovdan and the sign of three
 fingers. It is the tale of Vuk Brankovic. It is Kosovo Polje. It is
 Karadjeordje and every war for the past six hundred years. It is Kosovo i
 Metohia, or Kosovo as we confuse it with. It is every church and holy place
 in the Serb-Orthodox culture. It is Kalemegdan, Sava and Gracanica. It is
 what Jerusalem is for jews. Bomb them for thirty days and they will only be
 more defiant. For every bomb they will be more willing to resist. It is
 like trying to stop a fire by pooring fuel over it. For us, in our country
 and in our culture, we are learned to live by the law. And what does our
 Constitution say? It says that surrender is against the Constitution. It
 says that this law against surrender can only be altered after two
 decisions in our Parliament and with a Parliament election in between. In a
 state of war our Parliament is closed, and a special War Delegation assumes
 responsibility. That delegation is by our law forbidden to alter our
 Constitution - their only task is to win the war. By this we are trapped in
 our own law. We are therefore in our defensive organizations, both military
 and civilian, taught that every declaration of surrender is a false one. We
 may not like this, but it is the Law. Now, I know a people who willingly
 are trapped in their country, culture and history and they are Serbs. Me
 personally, I would rather fight against Kamikaze-pilots than Serbs when it
 comes to Kosovo i Metohia. And therefore NATO have already lost this
 war. But that is only one part of it. On Balkan and faced with a problem
 You cut off the problem. The so called problem in this case is the ethnic
 Albanian population, the only persons that Serb forces can hit with ease.
 There will be retaliation on the ground."""
=20
 I must confess I could not, in my wildest dreams, foresee the situation
 where Serb Government went after the ENTIRE ethnic Albanian population.
 Brutal speculations in Sweden was that the figure would stop at one million
 people. This may sound cynical, but that was from the example of Bosnia and
 therefore landed in the figure of one million people.
=20
 I can also add this: The old Swedish Army Oath  - it was abolished in 1982
 - started with the words """A warrior must fear God and be loyal to the
 rightful King.""" It ended with the words """In the time of war the warrior
 must act couragesly and with his own life and blood defend his Fatherly
 country.""" If it is something I have learned about Serbs and Kosovo it is
 exactly this. It is a reality. It is Kamikaze. =20
=20
 When they finally accept an International Armed Force in Kosovo - and in=20
 the end they must - after the signing of an acceptable agreement I
 would be proud and honoured to participate in such a force. And such a
 force does not have to be larger than ten thousand men. Where the NATO
 figure 30000 men comes from I do not know, but I can still count. And my
 country has a long tradition of peace-keeping and conflict-solving. For the
 past fifty years we have deployed more than eighty thousand men and women
 into the field, sometimes with good results and sometimes with bad results.
 The result lies in the mandate and the willingness to commit to the
 operation. I think we can have both in this case. And NATO? Well, NATO in
 its present form will soon be gone. Not this year, not next year but in ten
 years. The problem with NATO is that USA is not located in Europe and that
 The European Union is no longer in need of USA in the Cold War against
 Russia. I mean, we are fifteen Member States and ten Applicant States.=20
 We are already the bigger part of Europe. We have no quarrel with Russia.
 We know this, we know this so well but no one has yet tried to stand on=20
 his own feet. It is like a child trying to walk for the first time. In
 order to walk You must first try. Maybe Serbia, in a most ironic and
 cynical way, has given us the reason for trying. In the end, we will have
 our unified and peaceful Europe.=20
 =20
 This is what I think will be read in European columns in ten years time:
=20
 """The year of 1999 and the new millennium marked an important step in
 European foreign and security policy and the view on the European region as
 a whole. Under the coming years Europe finally tore down blocks and
 positions remaining from the Cold War. Europe realized that USA was not
 located in Europe and that Russia was. We realized that Russia could not
 and would not pose any other problem than that out of poor economy and
 therefore was to be helped in a more real manner. EU realized that we had
 to assume responsibility for our own continent - how could we otherwise
 ever ask other continents to do the same? The European Union took, after
 ten years of extreme failure on the Balkans the first deliberate steps
 against a united view on Europe. Under the past ten years we have seen NATO
 split into a European Organization with a more loose alliance to a North
 American Organization. By American criticists it is stated that the
 European Union got the excuse they wanted for ridding themselwes of USA, so
 often criticized for meddling in European policy and that this was indeed a
 backstab after all the help provided by USA over the past sixty years, yes
 in every war during the twentieth century. Europeans who applaud the
 breakdown argue that when the only place where You can read about European
 foreign and security policy is in Washington news papers then You must
 "free" Yourself from the "nanny" on Capitol Hill and grow up.
 A more balanced observer would say that because of the frightful events
 caused by NATO=B4s enormous misjudgements and disastrous actions on the
 Balkans, which was seconded by EU itself, Europe was litterally pushed in
 the direction that up till then had been a Western European "club" but now
 turned to something new - a united Europe. A European Region. What happened
 on the Balkans was simply not allowed to happen again. The framework was
 provided through EU, WEU, OSCE and the new approach against Russia. The
 work was in the beginning slow and haltering, but=20
 now  it has proven successful. And NATO, this so forceful and successful
 organization, the Winner of The Cold War and the last of its remnants, in
 1999 standing only a few feet away from declaring a new policy at its fifty
 years anniversary, saw the tidal wave turn and vanished in the sand.""" =20
=20
 My NATO service medal from SFOR in 1997 and 1998 will one day be a rarity -
 they will no longer be produced. =20
=20
 This is soon a reality, because there is a problem with NATO when we are
 talking about our "New European Order", EU. If I was to be ironic I would
 also add that within EU we now need a patsy for this disaster on the
 Balkans. And "fortunately" we have USA, which is not located in Europe and
 can never become a EU Member State. A USA that we sometimes regard as
 arrogant in its foreign and security policy, an arrogance we have=20
 accepted over the years since USA is "the leading hound". This is real
 politics now. A couple of days ago Mr Carl Bildt gave a very sharp speech
 with a clear address in EU over the lack of combined security and foreign
 policy within EU itself. I have heard the same speech emerge from many
 European capitols And in the choice between NATO in its present form and
 EU, well it is really not a choice. EU of course. First the conflict must
 be solved - hopefully after new negotiations - and then there is the
 aftermath. Europe trade a lot with North America, but it is only a fraction
 of how much we trade with ourselves within EU. And EU already has a
 military branch. And Russia poses no threat anymore, as well as Germany is
 not, or the old conflict between France and United Kingdom, or the even
 older conflict in Italy, or the once raging war between the Nordic
 countries aren=B4t posing any threats. And we have OSCE. And we are
 neighbouring countries and the countries that always must pay the heaviest
 burden of war in Europe. We have at least learned to dance within EU, two
 steps forward and one step back. And now we also have a reason for doing
 the last part, regardless of how many Marshall Plans USA has provided
 Europe with during this century, regardless of our centiments over the
 years. A century that by the way soon will be history. This is not to be
 against USA in itself, it is only the inevitable outcome of history.=20
=20
 So, what is the new policy for NATO? Well, I for one think that one of them
 is EDO - European Defence Organization. But while this academic debate
 continues people are dying on the ground. They will not be given ten years
 of time. Thanks to Us.=20
=20
 Yours cincerely
=20
 Magnus Kellerdal,
 former Liaison Officer in CIMIC Affairs (Civil-Military Cooperation),
 Swedish Battalion, Nordic-Polish Brigade, Task Force Eagle, SFOR.
=20
 Hvitfeldtsgatan 44
 S-302 34 HALMSTAD
 Sweden
=20
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Nobel Laureates' Kosovo Peace Initiative
Date: 23 Apr 1999 12:52:30 EDT

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<<=20
 1999.04.22 Zenit
=20
 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS'=20
 PROPOSAL FOR PEACE IN KOSOVO
 Resolution of Conflict Must Come through United Nations
=20
 ROME, APR 22 (ZENIT).- Following an audience with John Paul II, the
 participants in the first summit of Nobel Peace Prize Winners, held in=20
 Rome from April 21-22 and sponsored by the Gorbachov Foundation,=20
 presented their proposal for the reestablishment of peace in Kosovo=20
 on the Capitoline hill of the Eternal City.
=20
 The document is the fruit of the collaboration of Betty Williams, Frederik
 de Klerk, Rigoberta Mench=FA, Simon Peres, David Trimble, Joseph=20
 Rotblat and Mikhail Gorbachov.
=20
 On behalf of the participants in the summit, Mikhail Gorbachov, the=20
 former Soviet president, said that the peace proposal for Kosovo is=20
 based on the immediate suspension of military activities and the beginning=20
 of direct negotiations among the contending parties. Specifically, the=20
 Nobel winners called for the urgent return of the refugees to Kosovo,=20
 based on the guarantee of a broad autonomy for the separatist province=20
 and on the decisive intervention of the international community in=20
 humanitarian support for these people. These measures must be=20
 implemented as the "highest priorities."
=20
 The summit participants also support the presence of a multinational=20
 force under the direction of the United Nations, with the express=20
 approval of the Security Council.
=20
 Finally, the Nobel Prize winners believe the conflict will not end=20
 unless an international conference is called which, in the words of=20
 Mikhail Gorbachov, would allow for the "Europeanization of the Balkans=20
 instead of the Balkanization of Europe."
=20
 The participants expressed their willingness to mediate in the crisis.=20
 In fact, they want to collaborate with the U.N. and Kofi Annan, its=20
 secretary, to put an end to this war and prevent new threats and=20
 possible dangers to peace. They even stated that they are ready to=20
 travel to Belgrade to attempt direct mediation.
=20
 At the end of the press conference, the participants said it was
 inadmissible to use force to solve problems of a strictly political nature=20
 and, therefore, are convinced these can only be resolved through=20
 diplomacy.
=20
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: AP: Journalists Protest NATO Attack
Date: 23 Apr 1999 12:52:48 EDT

In a message dated 4/23/99 11:09:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<
 April 23, 1999

 Journalists Protest NATO Attack

 Filed at 8:07 a.m. EDT

 By The Associated Press

 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The International Federation of
 Journalists expressed deep concern today over NATO's attack
 against Serbia's state television center in Belgrade, saying the
 alliance had violated its pledge to hit military targets only.

 "This bomb attack seems to make a very clear statement that
 civilian and particularly media targets are legitimate," IFJ
 General-Secretary Aidan White told a news conference.

 He said the attack meant that Serbian journalists who are working
 for a free media are now more than ever in danger of being
 persecuted.

 "We need more solidarity with these journalists, not actions
 which mean they will be put more in the firing line," White said.

 The attack came a day after missiles slammed into a Belgrade
 high-rise that housed Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's
 governing party and a radio and TV station owned by his daughter.

 "The rules of the game seem to have been changed over the last
 few days and that's very dangerous," White said.

 NATO argues Serbian television is a legitimate military target
 because it spreads "propaganda" about the Western air campaign.
 It said the attack against the earlier attack against the radio and
 TV station on Thursday was justified by the fact the building
 housed Milosevic's party.

 The Brussels-based IFJ is a federation of journalism unions
 representing about 450,000 journalists around the world.

 * * *
 the Orthodox Peace Fellowship web site on Church
 response to the NATO attack on Yugoslavia has been
 expanded and updated:
 www.incommunion.org/nato.htm
 * * *

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: jhurd_newparty: NATO gears up for invasion of Kosovo at end of
Date: 23 Apr 1999 12:52:23 EDT

In a message dated 4/22/99 11:46:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Subj:     jhurd_newparty: NATO gears up for invasion of Kosovo at end
of May
 Date:    4/22/99 11:46:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    [e-mail] (David L. Wilson)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail]

 The Guardian/The Observer (London)

     Nato gears up for invasion of Kosovo at end of May

 By Peter Beaumont, Andy McSmith and Patrick Wintour in London and Ed
 Vulliamy in New York, Sunday April 18, 1999

 Nato is making plans for a ground invasion of Kosovo as early as the end
 of May. The Observer has established that 80,000 troops have been
 earmarked for the operation. American forces have already started training
 in a reconstruction of a Balkan village in the Colorado Rockies.

 Military planners believe six weeks is the minimum period necessary to
 wear down Serb military and police units in the province.

 According to sources in London and Washington, the accelerated timetable
 follows the insistence by Nato's political leaders that the allied
 military campaign against Yugoslavia must be wrapped up within three
 months.

 It also follows a radical rethinking of Nato's air strategy to include
 lower level and higher precision raids against Serb forces in Kosovo and
 economic targets.

 Evidence is emerging that more than 3,000 ethnic Albanians may have been
 murdered by Yugoslav forces in Kosovo in a three-week orgy of ethnic
 cleansing and village burning.

 'We are no longer talking about sending peacekeeping troops into an
 entirely permissive environment,' said one source last week. 'We are
 talking about the use of ground forces in a way that would have been taboo
 a month ago. That is, sending troops in semi-opposed.'

 Such an intervention would require Serb lines of communication and
 logistic support to forces in Kosovo to be cut to the point of being
 negligible.

 'Already we are seeing evidence that this is happening,' said the source.
 'The main road between Belgrade and Pristina has been cut. They are
 running out of petrol and diesel in the province, and we are hearing
 reports that when Serb troops use their radios they are not working. We
 are also hearing of collapsing morale in the Pristina corps, including
 defections.'

 Planning for a limited ground campaign is being rushed ahead. A senior
 adviser to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said yesterday that they would
 never admit detailed plans for a ground troop invasion since it would
 leave Nato open to the charge of giving Belgrade advance warning of its
 plans.

 Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, predicted yesterday that the
 air campaign would enter a new stage this week. He said: 'I think the
 conflict will come to a head in the next few days. It's not the end but
 the beginning of the end.'

 In Washington a senior US army officer said planning a ground assault was
 being examined on two levels: the invasion of Kosovo and what was being
 called the 'securing' of Serbia proper and the region around Belgrade.
 Combat units amounting to 'between 75,000 and 80,000' soldiers are to take
 part in what officials are calling an envisaged 'limited invasion' of
 Kosovo itself once the frontiers have been sealed.

 The force would be preceded by an advance guard of 20,000, including
 special forces, minesweeping and explosives experts, followed by an
 artillery and tank spearhead to blast a narrow way as far towards central
 Kosovo as possible.

 A US official said a ground war could not commence until the weather was
 reliable and 'the defences are more than degraded' - 'say, no sooner than
 six weeks, but not necessarily later than two months'.

 Using a Balkan village replica in the Colorado Rockies, US troops are
 already training for the invasion. The Pentagon insists the site will be
 used as a training ground for US servicemen on their way to Bosnia but, as
 a military source said, 'there's not too much difference between a village
 in East Bosnia and a village in Kosovo'.

 The numbers of troops needed for each phase of the operation have been
 worked out. In preparation for the strike force of up to 80,000, 8,000
 troops are to secure the border between Albania and Kosovo, and a further
 200,000 Serbia's other borders with Bosnia, Hungary and Romania. The
 200,000 would be a massive deployment intended 'to all but throttle Serbia
 and to cage Milosevic'.

 US troops based in Tuzla, Bosnia, have already been briefed on an
 operation to deploy along the Drina valley and the border with Montenegro,
 and to go into Montenegro if necessary.

 Meanwhile in Washington, a Romanian diplomat confirmed that there had been
 overtures from Clinton administration officials to the pro-western
 government of Professor Emil Constantinescu in Bucharest, to discuss a
 mass Nato deployment along Yugoslavia's eastern and Danube frontiers.
 Romania is torn between its religious and historical ties to Serbia and
 its new reformist pro-American mood, particlarly its desperation to become
 a member of Nato.

 Although a Romanian diplomat denied that Nato membership had been
 mentioned in the discussions, a State Department official said: 'The issue
 of membership cannot be far from their minds. If Romania does not
 co-operate with a Nato ground war against Serbia, they know they can
 forget joining Nato, and they don't want that.'


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Subject: (abolition-usa) NATO to Target Serb Nuclear Institute?
Date: 23 Apr 1999 19:50:23 -0700


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FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA

The Special "Kosovo Crisis" Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletins,
such as the one enclosed below, can also be accessed at our Web site:
www.truthinmedia.org which is being updated throughout the day.

DAY 30, Update 1
-----------------------
Apr. 22, 1999; 6:00PM EDT

1. NATO to Target Serb Nuclear Institute?

BELGRADE, Apr. 22 - We've just received a letter from Mr. P.R. Adzic,
of the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, which suggests that this
nuclear research facility near Belgrade may soon become a NATO target.
And that the consequences of such a strike may spell doom for all
Balkan, and many other European countries.  Here Mr. Adzic's warning:

"I can confirm now we expect that NATO planes will bomb VINCA
Institute. In the passed several days we received this warning, but
today we got this information as serious threat from the highest
authorities.

Our reactor is not working for more than 15 years, but the significant
amount of 235-U enriched and unused fuel is still in its interior.
Highly radioactive material for everyday activities is also located in
several research laboratories.

I fear that a big disaster may occur. In the worst case, no Balkan and
even European country would be safe. Not to mention ecological
catastrophe. I still hope that this disaster could be avoided, unless
we are already late. I would appreciate if you succeed in informing as
many people as possible on the eventual tragedy. God bless you."

P.R. Adzic, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Laboratory of Physics
---
TiM Ed.: Mr. Adzic's letter brings up an interesting, perhaps
unintended, point.  He says that "the highest (Yugoslav) authorities"
today confirmed this threat.  Which means that either NATO is
telegraphing its list of targets to Belgrade in advance of the strikes
(frankly, an unlikely scenario), or that the Yugoslav authorities have
found a way to get early warnings by some other means.

NATO, of course, has already voiced its concerns that a high level spy
is in its midst (see Day 23, Update 2, Item 4, Apr. 15).  But there
are other possibilities, too...

Forwarded by

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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Stop The War In The Balkans!
Date: 23 Apr 1999 23:41:09 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Greens, Green Sympathizers, and Peace Activists:

Aside from the awful civilian casualties in Serbia, the bombing of Serbia
has strengthened Milosevic by rallying all Serbians around him, and has
given him cover to intensify the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo.

In recent days, NATO has accidently bombed a passenger train and a refugee
convoy.

The bombing of Serbia has also angered the Russians into further delaying
their ratification of START II and suspending cooperation with the West,
including cooperation to avert a Y2K nuclear war.

Worst of all, the bombing of Serbia has caused Russia to consider deploying
nuclear weapons in Belarus, and caused the Ukraine to renounce its
non-nuclear policy.

However, I see an opportunity to stop this awful war.  I have read that
Milosevic is now open to accepting an international presence in Kosovo and
allowing the refugees to return.  Please contact President Clinton (1600
Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC 20500; [phone];
[e-mail]) to urge him to adopt the following policies to
defuse the Kosovo crisis and repair the damage to U.S.-Russian relations and
to the nuclear disarmament process:

I. Declare a 24 hour halt to the bombing as a gesture of good faith, invite
Russia to mediate, and make the following counter proposal: A well armed
(which I believe is necessary to prevent further violence between Serbs and
Albanians) UN or OCSE (Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe)
Peacekeeping Force (containing both Russian and NATO troops) in Kosovo
instead of a NATO force, in the hope that it would be more acceptable to the
Serbs.  The Kosovo Peacekeeping Force would have the job of protecting Serbs
and Albanians from each other, escorting the refugees back in, disarming
both sides, and creating an integrated Serb-Albanian force over the next
several years.  If Yugoslavia accepts, the bombing halt would be extended
indefinitely.

II. Propose massive international aid to repair the damage caused by the
war.  Since all the villages in Kosovo have been destroyed, I see a golden
opportunity to build energy efficient homes and industries equipped with
solar panels all over Kosovo.

III. Dramatically announce that the U.S. is taking its nuclear weapons off
alert, removing the warheads from their delivery vehicles, and halting all
nuclear weapons design, testing, production, and deployment activities.

IV. Challenge all the other nuclear nations to follow our lead, and
challenge Russia to immediately ratify START II, cancel any deployment of
its nuclear weapons outside its territory, and resume cooperation with the
West to avert a Y2K nuclear war.

Sincerely,

Timothy Bruening


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From: et in dc <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) LA Times April 17 says cluster bombs did it
Date: 24 Apr 1999 14:01:20 -0400

David, I missed this one, and it's no longer oneline.  Can you copy/paste
the story and send it to me?  Thanks.

Ellen Thomas
NucNews [e-mail]

At 10:01 PM 4/17/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I happened to see a copy of today's Los Angeles Times and front page article
>details evidence that cluster bombs made in USA caused the civilian
>casualties on the roads in Kosovo/a in the news since yesterday.
>
>http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/FRONT/t000034470.1.html
>
>I caught part of David McReynolds on Fox News this evening and appreciated
>his ability to bring out the need for equal standards in applying the label
>of genocide comparing situation in Yugoslavia to Israeli treatment of
>Palestinians.  Good job DMcR
>
>
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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) WILL THE TRUE OPPRESSORS PLEASE STAND UP!
Date: 24 Apr 1999 15:16:08 -0400

Thanks, David, for the note of confidence.  You'll probably be interested
to know that Thomas was arrested yesterday.  Go to our website and click on
"current events" for the story.

Love,

ellen

At 11:56 AM 4/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>A truly significant resource for the global anti-nuclear, peace,
>environment, and justice movement exists in the website of the White House
>Peace Park Vigil, which has ongoing continually since 1981 on the Lafayette
>Park sidewalk across the street from the White House, http://www.prop1.org
>A recent article distilled from information presented in recent public
>demonstrations regarding the war in Yugoslavia is copied below.  The article
>on the webpage referenced contains several useful links and graphics not
>reproduced in the ascii format below and are worth checking out.
>
>http://www.prop1.org/protest/serbia/9904.serbialv.htm
>
>WILL THE TRUE OPPRESSORS
>PLEASE STAND UP!
>
>
>PUBLIC EXPRESSIONS
>
>
>ALBANIAN MESSAGE ---------------------- SERBIAN MESSAGE [links]
>
>
>PEACE & FREEDOM-LOVING ANTAGONISTS
>
>
>On the First Amendment front lines in Lafayette Park we are privileged to
>witness a daily stream of supplicants bringing their pleas to the White
>House, the seat of World Domination. Thus, regarding the present
>Serbian/Albanian/Kosovar disturbance, in Lafayette Park we've had an
>opportunity to listen to both sides in the field.
>
>
>
>THE AGREEMENT TO DISAGREE IN THE BALKANS
>
>
>If there is one thing which President Clinton, Serbian President Milosevic,
>as well as the head of every NATO member-state agree upon, it is the concept
>of national sovereignty. Moreover, each of the aforementioned heads of state
>also pays lip service to "the rule of law." In fact, the UN Charter, an act
>of "International Law" to which the USA, Serbia, and all NATO members are
>signatory, provides that "The (UN) is based on the principle of the
>sovereign equality of all its Members." Under these universally-accepted
>political fictions, a sovereign nation is a free, independent entity
>entitled to administer the territory within its domestic control. Thus, from
>the perspective of people who subscribe to the political fiction of the
>nation state, determining who the real Nazis are must begin from the
>question: "Who is the actual aggressor upon whose national sovereignty?"
>
>
>On the other hand, "fighting words," in a legal sense, refers to language
>intended to incite violence. Today US news media reports are using "Hitler,"
>"Nazi," "genocide," "ethnic cleansing," and "free Kosovo" as fighting words.
>Meanwhile, news media in Serbia and many other countries are likening US
>President Clinton to "Hitler," referring to NATO as the "Nazi American
>Terrorist Organization," and claiming that NATO military actions against
>Serbia have nothing to do with a "free Kosovo," but are actually genocide as
>a means of ethnic cleansing intended to subjugate Europe to the economic
>interests of the United States.
>
>
>
>Two Illustrative Examples of Sovereign States
>
>
>
>
>       Figure 1                       Figure 2
>
>Figure 1 depicts the sovereign state known as USA, the black lines represent
>domestic political fictions known as the "various separate states."
>Together, these various domestic states form the the greater national
>sovereign state. The lines separating the USA from the sovereign states of
>Mexico and Canada represent the demarcation points between "the rule of law"
>of each sovereign state. In the case of the USA there is (1) Federal Law
>[operating under authority of the U.S. Constitution], which regulates the
>entire sovereign state, and (2) State Law, which is subservient to Federal
>Law, but which regulates the territory within each of the separate domestic
>states.
>
>
>Similarly, in Figure 2 the red line depicts the territorial area which is
>internationally recognized as the sovereign state of Serbia. As with the
>USA, Serbia is composed of various separate states, highlighted in yellow
>and orange. As in the USA, while maintaining a certain degree of autonomy,
>the various separate Serbian states are ultimately ruled by provisions of
>the Serbian Constitution.
>
>
>
>For a thousand years Serbians have considered the territory of Kosovo to be
>the cradle of Serbian culture, oriented toward the Greek Orthodox Church. In
>the late 14th century armies of the Ottoman Turk empire, oriented toward
>Islam, defeated Serbian forces at the Battle of Pristina. Nontheless, Serbs
>continued to comprise the majority of the Kosovar population ... until after
>World War II, when Albanians seeking a better life began streaming northward
>into Kosovo.
>
>
>Since the breakup of Yugoslavia into the separate sovereign states of
>Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro, age-old Albanian/Serbian ethnic unrest has
>resurfaced in Kosovo. Albanians, with an average of seven children per
>marriage, versus two per Serbian marriage, have become a majority of the
>population. Because they were the minority, Serbian Kosovars suffered the
>brunt of Albanian Kosovar persecution, with instances of deadly violence and
>forced removal from their homes. Anti-Serb persecution was mainly carried
>out by a loose confederation of armed Albanian groups calling itself the
>"Kosovan Liberation Army" (KLA).
>
>
>
>After Serbian Kosovars complained to the federal government about their
>treatment at the hands of the KLA, the Serbian government declared the KLA
>to be "terrorists," and increased its police forces in Kosovo. As the KLA
>escalated its campaign to secede from Serbia, Serbia deployed military
>troops to the area.
>
>
>In contrast, as can be seen from Figure 1, the USA wasn't always all the
>territory it is today. For example California, Arizona, Nevada, and most of
>Colorado, New Mexico and Texas were taken by military force from Mexico or
>Native Americans.
>
>
>Although there has always been a considerable Mexican population, lately
>northward migration has increased the number of Mexicans living in
>California. It is estimated that Mexicans will be the majority in California
>sometime in the not so distant future. Imagine that, angered by perceptions
>of economic, police, and linguistic oppression, the Latino majority decides
>that they want to be recognized as "Mexicans," and demand "freedom for
>California." As evidenced by its Civil War, US history teaches that the
>federal government will use sufficient deadly force to "protect the Union."
>Given those considerations, it is reasonable to assume that the US
>government would not permit a simple state majority of Latinos to secede
>California from the Union.
>
>
>As can be seen in a comparison of Figures 1 & 2, the US state of California
>abuts the foreign sovereign state of Mexico, much as the Serbian state of
>Kosovo abuts the foreign sovereign state of Albania. By way of analogy,
>let's hypothesize that elements of the Latino majority of California,
>disgruntled by the Federal refusal to concede an independent sovereign state
>of "California," organize a Californian Liberation Army (CLA) to "fight" for
>the "liberation of California." The CLA will be working on a shoestring
>budget, therefore, CLA actions are likely to be low cost bombings, attacks
>on police officers and the like, because that's about all terrorists can
>afford.
>
>
>Unfortunately, when sovereign states are forced to confront terrorism,
>things tend to get messy. How would the peace-loving, democratic government
>of the USA meet a campaign of CLA terrorism? Perhaps it would begin with
>local law enforcement agencies, as with MOVE in Philadelphia, 1984.
>Probably, once the insurrection proved beyond control of local forces, the
>government would escalate, first sending in crack ATF and FBI SWAT teams, as
>in Wounded Knee (Native Americans), Waco ("extremist" Christians), or Ruby
>Ridge. Finally, if absolutely necessary, the national guard, Delta Force,
>attack helicopters, and military hardware sufficient to quell the
>disturbance would be deployed. Although those tactics are essentially the
>same as those used by the Serbian government in Kosovo, it is unlikely that
>if confronted by a CLA uprising in California the US would welcome NATO
>airstrikes on Washington, DC, or Sacramento.
>
>
>
>GENOCIDE
>
>
>Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines "genocide" as "the use of
>deliberate, systematic measures toward the extermination of a racial,
>political, or cultural group." Genocide was an apt description of the
>Hutu/Tutsi conflicts in Rwanda, where hundreds of thousands were killed,
>but, of course, NATO did nothing to resolve that disagreement.
>
>
>Notwithstanding the fact that both Serbian and KLA fighters have been
>involved in the killing of military and civilian opponents, simply because
>not enough people have died, the word "genocide" is not an appropriate
>description of either Serbian nor Albanian actions in Kosovo. Many Serbians
>claim that NATO's deliberate, systematic bombing of both Serbia and Kosovo
>qualifies as an act of genocide, particularly if NATO is using depleted
>uranium weapons. NATO probably disagrees with that assessment.
>
>
>
>ETHNIC CLEANSING
>
>
>Comparing the Albanians bent on seceding from Serbia to the hypothetical
>revolt of Mexicans in California, one can only expect that at the "peace
>talks," the US government would take a position to the effect, "Sure, you're
>free to be Mexicans, but if you want to be Mexicans you have to go across
>the line into Mexico, but you have to leave California here, because
>California is US territory."
>
>
>Maybe the CLA would not accept the US offer to let them return to Mexico in
>peace. Perhaps the CLA would insist that California was "Mexican," and that
>they were committed to a "Free California." In that event, perhaps, rather
>than just killing any Californian who no longer wished to be a US citizen,
>the US would be pursuing a more humanitarian solution by just giving them
>free transportation to Mexico. Certainly, such a "humanitarian" solution
>might be protrayed as "ethnic cleansing."
>
>
>Absent any clear examples of "genocide," in the present Serbian/Albanian
>conflict, the most terrible accusation is "ethnic cleansing" -- wherein the
>Serbians are putting dissatisfied Albanians on trains to Albania. One
>Serbian wag asked, "Would you rather have them walk?"
>
>
>
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----
>
>
>
>
>An impartial assessment of the NATO/Serb/Kosovar conflict
>
>
>To emphasize the impartiality of these observations on the
>NATO/Serbia/Kosovar conflict, the author hereby declares a firm personal
>commitment to the belief that the world would be a much more pleasant place
>if humanity would abandon its faith in the political fiction of national
>boundaries, and purge itself of any notion that military and/or police force
>might be a "good" idea. This assessment begins from the premises that all
>human beings are members of the human race, and concepts of ethnicity are
>merely shortsighted, ego-centric misperceptions of reality. This declaration
>is necessary to insure that the reader does not confuse "national
>sovereignty," "military and/or police action," or "ethnic superiority" as
>concepts endorsed by the author.
>
>Thomas, April 8, 1999, Peace Park
>Other Kosovo Demonstrations
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Peter Weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: AP: Journalists Protest NATO Attack
Date: 24 Apr 1999 14:44:24 -0400

Regardless of how people feel about the ius ad bellum aspects of the
NATO bombing, there should now be loud and effective protests about the
violations of ius in bello principles, i.e. the use of depleted uranium
bombs, the failure to discriminate between military and civilian
targets, the bombing of factories only a small part of whose production
is military and, of course, the bombing of the TV station as such, and
particularly without complying with the Hague Art. 26 obligation to warn
of impending bombardment.
                Peter Weiss

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/23/99 11:09:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [e-mail] writes:
>
> <<
>  April 23, 1999
>
>  Journalists Protest NATO Attack
>
>  Filed at 8:07 a.m. EDT
>
>  By The Associated Press
>
>  BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The International Federation of
>  Journalists expressed deep concern today over NATO's attack
>  against Serbia's state television center in Belgrade, saying the
>  alliance had violated its pledge to hit military targets only.
>
>  "This bomb attack seems to make a very clear statement that
>  civilian and particularly media targets are legitimate," IFJ
>  General-Secretary Aidan White told a news conference.
>
>  He said the attack meant that Serbian journalists who are working
>  for a free media are now more than ever in danger of being
>  persecuted.
>
>  "We need more solidarity with these journalists, not actions
>  which mean they will be put more in the firing line," White said.
>
>  The attack came a day after missiles slammed into a Belgrade
>  high-rise that housed Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's
>  governing party and a radio and TV station owned by his daughter.
>
>  "The rules of the game seem to have been changed over the last
>  few days and that's very dangerous," White said.
>
>  NATO argues Serbian television is a legitimate military target
>  because it spreads "propaganda" about the Western air campaign.
>  It said the attack against the earlier attack against the radio and
>  TV station on Thursday was justified by the fact the building
>  housed Milosevic's party.
>
>  The Brussels-based IFJ is a federation of journalism unions
>  representing about 450,000 journalists around the world.
>
>  * * *
>  the Orthodox Peace Fellowship web site on Church
>  response to the NATO attack on Yugoslavia has been
>  expanded and updated:
>  www.incommunion.org/nato.htm
>  * * *
>
>   >>
>
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 Member Arrested near White House for Sign urging stop bombing
Date: 24 Apr 1999 13:39:13 -0700

http://www.prop1.org/legal/990423t.arrest.pr.htm

PRESS RELEASE


NATO, 'Safeguarding Freedom' for Whom?
Re: White House Arrest - April 23, 1999, 12:30 p.m.


CONTACT: 202-462-0757 - Thomas - 1601 Pennsylvania Avenue


See: Press Release April 22, 1999 | Kosovo Analysis


At 12:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, 1999, 18-year vigiler for peace William
Thomas was arrested outside the White House, standing up for freedom of
assembly and freedom from violence while Albanians chanted "Bomb! NATO,
bomb!" nearby.

"NATO's motto is 'safeguarding freedom,'" Thomas said as he stood quietly by
his sign waiting for the police to decide whether or not to arrest him. "I
am very confused. The President just two days ago said that differences
should be resolved through words, not guns. Today he's taken over the city
to hold a party whose main purpose seems to be to decide how many guns there
should be, and where they're going to use them. To secure this party,
they're kicking the public out of the parks."

In a letter to Stan Lock of the National Park Service on April 19, 1999,
Thomas wrote, "(O)nce security is allowed to run amok, freedom is lost. And
that is not only my opinion, but one which is gaining widespread popularity:

"'The time has come, says Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), to have a
"national conversation" about the need to make federal architecture secure
during perilous times and yet to keep it vital and open.' See ... 'A Capital
Under Security's Siege,' Washington Post, Saturday, April 17, 1999; Page
C1."

"This is the sort of thing that we need to have a 'national conversation'
about," Thomas said as the police approached today. "If I can't get a
national conversation going, then at least maybe I can talk to a judge about
it, and maybe that judge will understand what freedom means."

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From: "Olson, Inga" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Query for David
Date: 24 Apr 1999 18:12:35 -0700

Grace Thorpe may be a possibility.

> ----------
> From:     Tracy Moavero[SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Reply To:     [e-mail]
> Sent:     Thursday, April 22, 1999 9:16 AM
> To:     [e-mail]
> Subject:     (abolition-usa) Query for David
>
> Dear David,
>
> Greetings.
>
> As you probably know, Peace Action is planning our 1999 annual congress,
> to be held in Albuqueque, with a major direct action to follow at the Los
> Alamos lab on Nagasaki Day. The day befoe the action we will have a panel
> of international speakers sharing their experience
> of grassroots anti-nuclear activism. We are looking for a broad range of
> international speakers, and we need some leads on Indian and/or Pacific
> Islanders living in the United States who could join our panel. Do you
> have any suggestions for us? We are bringing some
> speakers from overseas, but as funding is uncertain, we really wish to
> find some speakers in the U.S.  So far we have confirmations from speakers
> representing campaigns in the UK, France, Pakistan, Japan and possibly
> Australia. Any suggestions you could give us for Indian
> or Pacific region activists who are living in the U.S. or who will be
> travelling here at that time (Aug. 6-9) would be much appreciated.
>
> Hope things are going well at NAPF.
>
> All the best,
>
> Tracy Moavero
>
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From: Peter Weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) IMPORTANT: ABOLITION 2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING INFORMATION
Date: 25 Apr 1999 12:13:51 -0400

Hi Jackie,

That was not a very warm message encouraging abolitionists to attend the
whole conference! Wouldn't they be interested in the core and forum
sessions dealing with nukes or, for that matter, with the overall theme
of abolishing war, rather than just Kofi and other VIPs?=20

                    Regards, Peter

Jackie Cabasso wrote:
>=20
> Dear Abolition 2000 partners,
>=20
>         THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK=
 TO
> ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL TAKE PLACE 15 - 17 MAY 1999, IN THE HAGU=
E AND
> DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEAC=
E.  YOU
> ARE INVITED!!!  In this mailing you will find information about the Abo=
lition
> 2000 General Meeting and related events. You will also find a questionn=
aire to
> answer and send back, to help guide Abolition 2000 into the future.
>=20
>         Recent events, including the terrible war in Yugoslavia, make o=
ur
> mission more
> crucial than ever.  Please read this mailing carefully and take the tim=
e to
> respond.  We want to hear from you!
>=20
> Yours, for a nuclear free 21st century, and a peaceful and just world,
>=20
>         Felicity Hill                                           Jacquel=
ine
> Cabasso
>=20
> Abolition 2000 Interim Coordinating Committee and Annual Meeting Workin=
g Group
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> ***ABOLITION 2000; A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS***
>=20
> WHAT: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF ABOLITION 2000, devoted to discussion o=
f
> strategies and activities -- local, national, and global, aimed at the
> achievement of a nuclear weapon free world.
>=20
> WHO: The meeting is open to individuals and members of organisations th=
at have
> signed the ABOLITION 2000 STATEMENT and all those interested in contrib=
uting to
> the development and refinement of Abolition 2000's strategies to EDUCAT=
E,
> ACTIVATE, and ORGANISE for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
>=20
> WHEN & WHERE/PART I: Saturday 15 May, 1:30 pm (1330) - 9:00 pm (2100)
> in the Rembrandt Room of the Netherlands Congress Center in the Hague.
>=20
> Abolition 2000 has reserved a space for 400 people as part of the =93Gl=
obal
> Forum=94 organized by the Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP), following the H=
AP closing
> plenary.
> (Note: Immediately following the first part of our meeting, we are invi=
ted to
> join a party with other HAP participants, beginning at 9:00 pm!) You ar=
e not
> required to have paid a fee of any kind for the HAP Conference in order=
 to
> attend the Abolition 2000 meeting.  However, we encourage you to attend=
 at
> least the closing plenary of the HAP, featuring Kofi Annan and other sp=
eakers,
> which will require the payment of a one-day registration fee. The entir=
e HAP
> Conference from May 11-15 requires payment a larger registration fee. (=
For more
> information about HAP registration, lodging in The Hague, etc. contact =
one of
> the HAP offices. Contact information follows. )
>=20
> * * * * * * BUT THAT'S NOT ALL * * * * * LETS HAVE SOME FUN!! * * * * *=
 *
>=20
> THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will continue on the ABOLITION 2000 WALK FOR
> NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, organised by For Mother Earth.  ALL MEMBERS OF
> ABOLITION 2000 are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to join the Abolition 2000 Walk
> from The Hague to NATO Headquarters in Brussels (not very far at all!)
>=20
> The Walk begins Sunday morning, 16 May. After a rally on the steps of t=
he
> International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the walkers will mea=
nder
> along in the European springtime to DELFT. The walk from the ICJ to Del=
ft is
> approximately 12 kilometres (7 miles). For many it will provide an oppo=
rtunity
> to recover from 5 days in conference at the HAP, to balance the right a=
nd left
> brains and energize bodies and minds for the meeting. It will also prov=
ide an
> opportunity for informal strategy discussion and
> brainstorming with other activists along the way, or a rest for those n=
ot
> wanting to walk. There is a tram to Delft which you can pick up along t=
he route
> if you prefer not to walk the full seven miles. (The Walk arrives in Br=
ussels
> 30 May.)
>=20
> WHEN & WHERE/ PART II:  Sunday, 16 May, 700 - 900 pm (1900 - 2100) the
> Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting will continue in Delft, The Nethe=
rlands,
> after the walkers arrive. (Note: you could keep your lodging in The Hag=
ue and
> return there by tram if desired.)
>=20
> WHEN & WHERE/PART III:  Monday, 17 May, 1000 am - 200 pm (1400), the fi=
nal
> session of the Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting will take place in=
 Delft
> (as necessary) to ensure that there is sufficient time to address the e=
ssential
> issues facing the network, including logistics, finances, implementatio=
n of
> activities, priorities and strategies, functioning of coordinating comm=
ittee,
> etc. (Note: Persons participating in the walk can stay behind for the m=
eeting
> and catch up with the walk later, by car or train if need be.)  We will
> conclude our meeting with a celebratory lunch!
>=20
> *****ABOLITION 2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AGENDA*****
>=20
> The agenda for the Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting will be organi=
sed
> around these goals:
>=20
> * To know who is participating in the network
> * To bring everyone up to the same level of information about Abolition=
 2000
> structure,        history, aims and style of operating
> * To identify successes and best practices from the previous year
> * To identify strategies leading up to 2000 (and beyond?) for the netwo=
rk
> * To identify proposals for enhancing the network
> * To review the present structure and improve where necessary
>=20
> In order to help us flesh out the agenda , please respond to the enclos=
ed
> questionnaire.
> *****OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION*****
>=20
> *ABOLITION 2000 will have a strong presence at the HAP.  We will need l=
ots of
> volunteers to staff our booth and to distribute information and sunflow=
ers.
> LET US KNOW IF YOU CAN HELP!  Please bring your Abolition 2000 literatu=
re and
> publications to the booth.  In addition, Abolition 2000 will be present=
ing  3
> sessions on =93Abolition of Nuclear Weapons,=94 13 - 14 May, including
> presentations by many core Abolition 2000 activists.  (Schedule enclose=
d.)
>=20
> *HELP ABOLITION 2000 GROW! Our goal is to have 2000 organizations endor=
se
> Abolition 2000 by the Hague Appeal for Peace.  We have approximately 13=
00
> organizations now, so please focus on outreach to organizations that yo=
u feel
> would support our goals.  Consider religious, environmental or social g=
roups.
> Now is the time to get the momentum going--2000 organizations by May 11=
th! (An
> endorsement card is enclosed in the hard copy mailing.  You can also do=
wnload
> the Abolition 2000 Statement and endorsement from the Abolition 2000 we=
b site.)
>=20
> *VISIT THE ABOLITION 2000 WEB SITE: http//www.napf.org/abolition 2000
>=20
> *SUBSCRIBE TO THE ABOLITION CAUCUS INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LIST. Send an e=
-mail
> message to [e-mail].  In the body of  the message type subscri=
be
> abolition caucus and your email address.
>=20
> *SEND A DONATION TO SUPPORT ABOLITION 2000!  Our Network employs a full
> time staff member to maintain communications with 1300 organizations in=
 87
> countries on six continents.  While almost all of our work is performed=
 by
> volunteers, and office space is donated by the Nuclear Age Peace Founda=
tion,
> minimal funds are needed to staff the office and for mailings, telephon=
e, fax,
> printing.  If we could raise an average of $30 from each of our organiz=
ations,
> we could meet this minimal budget.  While this sum may be excessive to =
some,
> other organizations can give much more.  Abolition 2000 never set up a =
dues
> structure--so please search your conscience and donate whatever  amount=
 you can
> to keep our work on track.  Send endorsements and donations, as well as=
 general
> inquiries about Abolition 2000 to the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, whi=
ch
> serves as the Abolition 2000 clearinghouse:
>=20
> ABOLITION 2000, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 121, Santa Barbara, CA
> 93108-2794 USA; Tel: [phone];  Fax: + 1 [phone]; E-mail:
> [e-mail]
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>=20
> *****ABOLITION 2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING QUESTIONNAIRE*****
>=20
> In order to help us flesh out the agenda for the Abolition 2000 Annual =
General
> Meeting in The Hague, please respond to the following questionnaire. Yo=
ur
> answers can be as long or as short as you like. You can respond by  e-m=
ail or
> by regular mail. There=92s no special format.
> (1) WHO ARE YOU? (Important!)  Name, organization, postal address, e-ma=
il
> address, telephone number, fax number.  Will you be attending the Annua=
l
> General Meeting in The Hague?
>=20
> (2) COMMUNICATION IN THE NETWORK: Are you on e-mail?  How could the e-m=
ail
> list be improved.  What does it need to be supplemented by to make you =
feel
> informed and connecting with groups from all over the world.  If you ar=
e not on
> e- mail,  how do you communicate with other Abolition 2000 groups.  Do =
you want
> to get information about what the over 1,300 groups in 87 countries are=
 doing
> in their Abolition 2000 work?
>=20
> (3) WHAT'S WORKING?  What are the strengths of Abolition 2000? How are
> you making Abolition 2000 visible in your area? (We want to collect a l=
ist of
> best practices and ideas to share just how busy people have been, and w=
ho knows
> what goodies will be uncovered!)
>=20
> (4) LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE: Understanding that Abolition 2000 is a =
network,
> what kinds of things do you think we could do to share Abolition 2000's=
 goals
> with others?  What is your organisation willing and able to contribute =
(not
> just financially, although that=92s important too!)
>=20
> (5) WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD?
>=20
> WHERE TO SEND YOUR RESPONSES: Western States Legal Foundation has
> volunteered to collect your responses and prepare a report for the Annu=
al
> General Meeting (which will also be posted on the abolition-caucus e-ma=
il list
> and included in the post-meeting mailing.)  Please send e-mail to
> [e-mail].  Please send regular mail to Western Stat=
es Legal
> Foundation, 1440 Broadway, Suite 500, Oakland, California, 94612 USA.
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D*****OTHER
> CONTACT INFORMATION*****
>=20
> HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE:  http//www.haguepeace.org
>=20
> Offices:
>=20
> WFM, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017 USA
> Tel: [phone];  Fax: + 1 [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]
>=20
> IALANA, Anna Paulownastraat 103, 2518 BC, The Hague, The Netherlands
> Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; E-mail: ialana@antenna.=
nl
>=20
> IPB, 41 Rue de Zurich, CH-1201, Geneva, Switzerland
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From: Proposition One Committee <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: AP: Journalists Protest NATO Attack
Date: 25 Apr 1999 17:04:19 -0400

I enthusiastically sign on to Peter Weiss's succinct and powerful statement
below.

Ellen Thomas

>Regardless of how people feel about the ius ad bellum aspects of the
NATO bombing, there should now be loud and effective protests about the
violations of ius in bello principles, i.e. the use of depleted uranium
bombs, the failure to discriminate between military and civilian
targets, the bombing of factories only a small part of whose production
is military and, of course, the bombing of the TV station as such, and
particularly without complying with the Hague Art. 26 obligation to warn
of impending bombardment.
                Peter Weiss
>
>>
>>  April 23, 1999
>>  Journalists Protest NATO Attack
>>  By The Associated Press

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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Arming the KLA
Date: 25 Apr 1999 14:06:48 -0700 (PDT)

One option in Kosovo would be to supply weapons, such as anti-tank and
anti-aircraft missiles, to the Kosovo Liberation Army so that it could
resist the Serb ethnic cleaning operation more effectively.  What do you
think of this option?


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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuking Serbia
Date: 25 Apr 1999 14:06:56 -0700 (PDT)

My brother suggests that we nicely ask the Russians to nuke Serbia on the
grounds that Serbia's ethnic cleansing operation has given Slavs a very bad
name.  What would happen if someone nuked Serbia, and do you know anyone who
wants to nuke Serbia?


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Subject: (abolition-usa) Stop The Bogus Wars, April 29 LA, May 1st DC
Date: 25 Apr 1999 15:49:01 -0700

The war in Yugoslavia is threatening a nuclear confrontation with Russia and
the potential of NATO airstrikes on nuclear facilities in Yugoslavia with a
disaster worse than Chernobyl while the KLA-CIA drug trade finances the drug
war on the American people, especially targeting the African American
populations, to get the money to finance covert operations all over the
world to destabilize indigenous populations so that American/transnational
corporations can exploite energy, mineral and agricultural resouces, "The
American Way" of modern times.  Now there is a chance to do something about
it.  Impeachment procedings and now the Balkan war are overshadowing
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From: Peace through Reasonn <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Arming the KLA
Date: 25 Apr 1999 20:44:42 -0400

At 02:06 PM 4/25/99 -0700, Timothy Bruening wrote:

>One option in Kosovo would be to supply weapons, such as anti-tank and
>anti-aircraft missiles, to the Kosovo Liberation Army so that it could
>resist the Serb ethnic cleaning operation more effectively.  What do you
>think of this option?

Personally, I think this is an option proposed by a mind dominated by the
Ministry of Truth (see, George Orwell's "1984")

Did you know that until last year the KLA was on the State Department's
list of "Terrorist Organizations"?

Timothy, are you a US citizen?  If so that might account for your suggestion.

For an alternative point of view check out:
http://prop1.org/protest/serbia/9904.serbialv.htm

Thomas
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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) A Kosovo Karate Peacekeeping Force
Date: 25 Apr 1999 17:57:00 -0700 (PDT)

I am a Taekwondo Karate student at Rodness' Karate Club in Davis, CA.  Its
affiliated with the International Taekwondo Council.  This Thursday, I will
test for my Orange Belt.

The Tenets of Taekwondo are Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-Control,
and Indomitable Spirit, and the Taekwondo students take an oath to "observe
the tenets of Taekwondo, respect instructors and seniors, never misuse
Taekwondo, be a champion of freedom and justice, and build a more peaceful
world".  Do any of you take Karate?

I propose a Kosovo Karate Peacekeeping Force, consisting of Black Belt (the
highest belt) Karate experts.  It would be unarmed, as Milosevic wants, but
be able to subdue aggressors with their karate talents.  I understand that
Black Belts could even defeat armed personnel if they can take the armed
personnel by surprise.  The Karate Peacekeepers could also teach the
Albanians how to defend themselves without weapons.


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Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Chomsky on Kosovo
Date: 26 Apr 1999 03:56:24 EDT



<< Chomsky Replies re Kosovo
                          From the ZNet Forum System

 via a link at http://www.antiwar.com



                Chomsky was asked first about support among
                progressives for the position that "military
                intervention is needed to stop Milosevic from
                committing genocide, regardless of whether
                NATO's motivations are pure," with comparisons
                about "WWII being necessary to stop Hitler,
                even if the U.S. did not have truly
                humanitarian objectives." As well as, "Is the
                Yugoslavian government genocidal" and "Will
                the NATO intervention have the effect of
                stopping Milosevic and/or saving the people of
                Kosovo from extermination?"

      I don't want to say anything about the people you are referring
      to, because I don't know, but it seems to me reasonably clear that
      if we think the matter through, the arguments you report are
      untenable, so untenable as to raise some rather serious questions.

      First, let's consider Milosovec's "genocide" in the period
      preceding the NATO bombings. According to NATO, 2000 people had
      been killed, mostly by Serb military, which by summer 1998 began
      to react (with retaliation against civilians) to guerrilla (KLA)
      attacks on police stations and civilians, based from and funded
      from abroad. And several hundred thousands of refugees were
      generated. (We might ask, incidentally, how the US would respond
      to attacks on police stations and civilians in New York by armed
      guerrillas supported from and based in Libya). That's a
      humanitarian crisis, but one of a scale that is matched or
      exceeded substantially all over the world right now, quite
      commonly with decisive support from Clinton. The numbers happen to
      be almost exactly what the State Department has just reported for
      Colombia in the same year, with roughly the same distribution of
      atrocities (and a far greater refugee population, since the
      300,000 resulting from last year's atrocities are added to over a
      million from before). And it's a fraction of the atrocities that
      Clinton dedicated substantial efforts to escalating in Turkey in
      the same years, in the ethnic cleansing of Kurds. And on, and on.
      So if Milosovic is "genocidal," so are a lot of others -- pretty
      close to home. That doesn't say he's a nice guy: he's a monstrous
      thug. But the term "genocidal" is being waved as a propaganda
      device to mobilize the public for Clinton's wars.

      Second, the US ("NATO") intervention, as predicted, radically
      escalated the atrocities, maybe even approaching the level of
      Turkey, or of Palestine in 1948, to take another example. I
      wouldn't use the term "genocide" for such operations -- that's a
      kind of ultra-right "revisionism," an insult to the memory of the
      victims of the Holocaust, in my opinion. But it's very bad, and it
      suffices to undermine the claim that "military intervention is
      needed to stop Milosevic from committing genocide," on elementary
      logical grounds.

      About "WWII being necessary to stop Hitler," that's not what
      happened at all. The US/UK were rather sympathetic to Hitler (and
      absolutely adored Mussolini). That went on to the late '30s, with
      varying defections in the latter stages (much the same was true of
      Japanese fascism). When Hitler invaded Poland, Britain and France
      went to war -- called "a phony war," because they didn't do much.
      When Hitler attacked them, it became a real war. When Germany
      declared war on the US, after Japan had attacked mainly US
      military facilities in US colonies that had been conquered (in one
      case, with extraordinary violence) half a century before, the US
      went to war. No one went to war "to stop Hitler."

      There's always more to say: history is too complex to summarize in
      a few lines. But the basic assumptions you describe are so far off
      the mark that discussion is hardly even possible.



                Chomsky was also asked: "To what extent could
                US resort to military force in the Balkans be
                related to Caspian Sea oil and concerns over
                declining reserves, uncertainty about Russia
                and its former empire, the threat to Western
                interests of increasing conflict in the
                Balkans, the desire to increase the Pentagon
                budget, or maybe other factors, since the
                professed humanitarian concerns seem
                `dubious.'"

      On the last, "dubious" is too kind. If a Mafia don who runs the
      local branch of Murder Inc. shows some kindness to children, the
      humanitarian concerns don't rise to the level of "dubious" -- and
      that's even more so if he shows his humanitarian concerns by
      kicking the kid in the face. We can put that aside, as sheer
      hypocrisy.
      More plausible, in my view, is just what Clinton, Blair, etc.,
      have been saying from the start. It's necessary to ensure the
      "credibility of NATO." But that phrase has to be translated from
      Newspeak.

      The US is not concerned with the "credibility" of Italy or
      Holland: rather, with the US (and its British attack dog). And
      what does "credibility" mean?

      Here we can return to the Mafia don. If someone doesn't pay
      protection money, the don has to establish "credibility," to make
      sure others don't get funny ideas about disobeying orders. So what
      Clinton, et al., are saying is that it's necessary to ensure that
      everyone has proper fear of the global enforcer. I think it is
      also useful to bear in mind the Clinton strategic document called
      "Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence" that's quoted in an
      article of mine in Z a year ago on "Rogue States," the same one
      Steve Shalom reviewed in more detail in a recent post. It
      advocates that the US portray itself as "irrational and vindictive
      if its vital interests are attacked," "part of the national
      persona we project to all adversaries": "It hurts to portray
      ourselves as too fully rational and cool-headed," and surely not
      subordinate to treaty obligations or conditions of world order.
      "The fact that some elements" of the US government "may appear to
      be potentially `out of control' can be beneficial to creating and
      reinforcing fears and doubts within the minds of an adversary's
      decision makers."
      That makes sense for a rogue superpower, with a near monopoly on
      means of violence. The "humanitarian cover" has been used by
      violent states throughout history: we'd probably find it was true
      of Genghis Khan, if we had records. It was surely true of the
      Crusaders who left a hideous trail of death and destruction. In
      fact, about the only clear exceptions I know are in the Biblical
      tales, which call for outright genocide -- the Carthaginian
      solution -- with no credible motive.

      In the background is the dedicated US assault against any
      institution of international order: the UN, the World Court, even
      the WTO when it gets out of hand. That's been going on for almost
      40 years, for reasons that are explained very clearly and would be
      taught in every school in the country and headlined in every
      newspaper and journal, under conditions of authentic freedom: they
      don't follow our orders, so they can get lost. That's why the US,
      in this case, compelled its more reluctant NATO allies to reject
      even "authorization" from the UN.

      A very important observation leaked through the NY Times on April
      8, in one of the last paragraphs of a story on an inside page by
      Steven Erlanger, their Belgrade correspondent, who has a record of
      reliability. Possibly the most important bit of information about
      what has been happening. He writes that "just before the bombing,
      when [the Serbian Parliament] rejected NATO troops in Kosovo, it
      also supported the idea of a United Nations force to monitor a
      political settlement there." If Erlanger's report is true, then it
      provides very dramatic evidence of US intentions: like the bombing
      of Iraq in December, it is another brazen attack against the
      institutions of world order, since the Serbian Parliament would be
      right, and Washington wrong, on the alternatives of a UN vs. a
      NATO force. If the report is true, then the last shreds of
      legitimacy for the US/NATO operation disappear. I hadn't seen this
      reported before; maybe others have. It surely merited a front-page
      headline, the day before the bombings began, not a hidden phrase
      two weeks later -- though that's better than nothing.

      I'd be intrigued to know if others have come across similar
      reports.

      The other factors you mention could be real, but I think they are
      secondary. The US (NATO) operation is likely to exacerbate most of
      the problems. And expanding the Pentagon budget is not a value in
      itself. The kind of expansion that will follow this episode is
      largely a waste, from the point of view of the Pentagon and the
      large sectors of the "private" economy that rely on it for R&D.


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From: "Olson, Inga" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) A Kosovo Karate Peacekeeping Force
Date: 26 Apr 1999 10:02:48 -0700

I love your idea Tim

> ----------
> From:     Timothy Bruening[SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Reply To:     [e-mail]
> Sent:     Sunday, April 25, 1999 5:57 PM
> To:     [e-mail]; [e-mail];
> Darius Pazirandea
> Subject:     (abolition-usa) A Kosovo Karate Peacekeeping Force
>
> I am a Taekwondo Karate student at Rodness' Karate Club in Davis, CA.  Its
> affiliated with the International Taekwondo Council.  This Thursday, I
> will
> test for my Orange Belt.
>
> The Tenets of Taekwondo are Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance,
> Self-Control,
> and Indomitable Spirit, and the Taekwondo students take an oath to
> "observe
> the tenets of Taekwondo, respect instructors and seniors, never misuse
> Taekwondo, be a champion of freedom and justice, and build a more peaceful
> world".  Do any of you take Karate?
>
> I propose a Kosovo Karate Peacekeeping Force, consisting of Black Belt
> (the
> highest belt) Karate experts.  It would be unarmed, as Milosevic wants,
> but
> be able to subdue aggressors with their karate talents.  I understand that
> Black Belts could even defeat armed personnel if they can take the armed
> personnel by surprise.  The Karate Peacekeepers could also teach the
> Albanians how to defend themselves without weapons.
>
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From: [e-mail] (Joan Russow)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: NATO PETITION
Date: 26 Apr 1999 11:20:46 -0600

Sent Sunday April 26
PETITION
TO THE HEADS OF MEMBER STATES OF NATO
with respect to the support the NATO  campaign   in  the former Yugoslavia

CONCERNED:
* that your state through its  continued participation in  NATO which has a
"first use of nuclear weapons policy" has failed to act on its undertaking
under  the General Assembly resolution entitled the  Condemnation of
Nuclear War A/RES/38/75, 1983  "to condemn the formulation, propounding,
dissemination and propaganda of political and military doctrines and
concepts intended to provide 'legitimacy' for the first use of nuclear
weapons and in general to justify the 'admissibility' of unleashing nuclear
war (2 Condemnation of Nuclear War General Assembly Resolution A/RES/38/75,
1983

* that your state through its  continued participation in  NATO which has
been using depleted uranium  [the effect of which  in part is similar to
that of a nuclear weapon]has failed to act on its undertaking  to deem
"that  the use of nuclear weapons would be a violation of the Charter of
the United Nations and a crime against humanity, ( resolutions 1653 (XVI)
of 24 November 1961, 33/71 B of 14 December 1978, 34/83 G of 11 December
1979, 35/152 D of 12 December 1980 and 36/92 I of 9 December 1981,

*  that  your state in supporting the NATO campaign in the former
Yugoslavia has deviated from traditional peace keeping roles, and has
jeopardized any credible future peace keeping role

* that your state in supporting the NATO campaign in the former Yugoslavia
has undermined the United Nations  through contributing to the failure  (i)
to discharge obligations under  International Conventions, Treaties, and
Covenants,  (ii) to act through Commitments made under conference action
plans and (iii)  to fulfill expectations created through General Assembly
Resolutions.

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign  in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligation under the Charter
of the United Nations to "prevent the scourge of war"

*  that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to act on the  commitment made under the
Platform of Action of the UN Conference of Women To [Encourage diplomacy,
[preventive diplomacy,] negotiation and peaceful settlement of disputes in
accordance with the Charter of the United Nations in particular Article 2,
paragraphs 3 and 4] (Art. 147 b., Advance draft, Platform of Action, UN
Conference on Women, May 15)

* that your state through its  participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligations under the
Convention , entitled (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War (Geneva, 1949) to protect "persons taking no active part in
the hostilities,

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign  in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligations under the
International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights to "Prohibit any
propaganda of war" Article 20 and to "prohibit  any advocacy of national,
racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination,
hostility or violence (Article 20 -2)

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to fulfill the undertaking under  the  General
Assembly resolution entitled the  Declaration on the Use of Scientific and
Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of
humanity, 1975) to prevent scientific and technological achievements
entailing dangers for the civil and political rights of the individual or
of the group and for human dignity

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign  in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligations under the
Convention on the Rights of the Child  to ensure respect for the rules of
international humanitarian law relevant to the child in armed conflict (Art
18, Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989)

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to fulfill the expectation   under the General
Assembly Resolution, entitled "Effects of Atomic Radiation"  to prevent
harmful effects on present and future generations, resulting from the
levels of radiation to which man humans are is exposed

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia and through using Depleted Uranium, has disregarded the
decision of the International Court of Justice that the use or the threat
to use nuclear weapons is contrary to International humanitarian law (World
Court Project, 1976)

* that your state through its  participation in  the NATO Campaign  in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligations under the
Convention on Biological Diversity to  prevent  the loss or reduction of
biodiversity in a region rich in biodiversity, and  has contributed to
irreversible environmental devastation

* that your state  through its continued participation in the NATO Campaign
in the former Yugoslavia which has been using Depleted Uranium in various
weapon systems has failed act on  a commitment to eliminate the production
of weapons of mass destruction at the United Nations Conference on Humans
and the Environment (UNCHE, 1972) [ through its continued support for the
mining and distribution of uranium both for civil nuclear reactors and for
nuclear weapons)

*  that your state through its   participation in  NATO  in the former
Yugoslavia has failed to act on its undertaking under  the General Assembly
resolution
  in 1981, to reduce the military budget and to reallocate the funds thus
saved to economic and social development, particularly for the benefit of
developing countries

* that because your state does not come to any negotiating table with clean
hands, when peace negotiations take place they should be through the United
Nations by members states with clean hands.

The following petitioners urge you to discontinue all further intervention
in the former Yogoslavia, disband NATO and work collectively to strengthen
the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.

Joan Russow (PhD)
Global Compliance Research Project
1 250 598-0071



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From: [e-mail] (Joan Russow)
Subject: (abolition-usa) CORRECTED NATO PETITION
Date: 26 Apr 1999 12:00:13 -0600

Sent Sunday April 25
PETITION
TO THE HEADS OF MEMBER STATES OF NATO
with respect to your support for the NATO  campaign   in  the former Yugoslavia

CONCERNED:
* that your state through its  continued participation in  NATO which has a
"first use of nuclear weapons policy" has failed to act on its undertaking
under  the General Assembly resolution entitled the  Condemnation of
Nuclear War A/RES/38/75, 1983  "to condemn the formulation, propounding,
dissemination and propaganda of political and military doctrines and
concepts intended to provide 'legitimacy' for the first use of nuclear
weapons and in general to justify the 'admissibility' of unleashing nuclear
war (2 Condemnation of Nuclear War General Assembly Resolution A/RES/38/75,
1983

* that your state through its  continued participation in  NATO which has
been using depleted uranium  [the effect of which  in part is similar to
that of a nuclear weapon]has failed to act on its undertaking  to deem
"that  the use of nuclear weapons would be a violation of the Charter of
the United Nations and a crime against humanity, ( resolutions 1653 (XVI)
of 24 November 1961, 33/71 B of 14 December 1978, 34/83 G of 11 December
1979, 35/152 D of 12 December 1980 and 36/92 I of 9 December 1981,

*  that  your state in supporting the NATO campaign in the former
Yugoslavia has deviated from traditional peace keeping roles, and has
jeopardized any credible future peace keeping role

* that your state in supporting the NATO campaign in the former Yugoslavia
has undermined the United Nations  through contributing to the failure  (i)
to discharge obligations under  International Conventions, Treaties, and
Covenants,  (ii) to act through Commitments made under conference action
plans and (iii)  to fulfill expectations created through General Assembly
Resolutions.

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign  in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligation under the Charter
of the United Nations to "prevent the scourge of war"

*  that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to act on the  commitment made under the
Platform of Action of the UN Conference of Women To [Encourage diplomacy,
[preventive diplomacy,] negotiation and peaceful settlement of disputes in
accordance with the Charter of the United Nations in particular Article 2,
paragraphs 3 and 4] (Art. 147 b., Advance draft, Platform of Action, UN
Conference on Women, May 15)

* that your state through its  participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligations under the
Convention , entitled (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War (Geneva, 1949) to protect "persons taking no active part in
the hostilities,

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign  in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligations under the
International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights to "Prohibit any
propaganda of war" Article 20 and to "prohibit  any advocacy of national,
racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination,
hostility or violence (Article 20 -2)

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to fulfill the undertaking under  the  General
Assembly resolution entitled the  Declaration on the Use of Scientific and
Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of
humanity, 1975) to prevent scientific and technological achievements
entailing dangers for the civil and political rights of the individual or
of the group and for human dignity

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign  in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligations under the
Convention on the Rights of the Child  to ensure respect for the rules of
international humanitarian law relevant to the child in armed conflict (Art
18, Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989)

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to fulfill the expectation   under the General
Assembly Resolution, entitled "Effects of Atomic Radiation"  to prevent
harmful effects on present and future generations, resulting from the
levels of radiation to which man humans are is exposed

* that your state through its participation in the NATO campaign in the
former Yugoslavia and through using Depleted Uranium, has disregarded the
decision of the International Court of Justice that the use or the threat
to use nuclear weapons is contrary to International humanitarian law (World
Court Project, 1976)

* that your state through its  participation in  the NATO Campaign  in the
former Yugoslavia has failed to discharge its obligations under the
Convention on Biological Diversity to  prevent  the loss or reduction of
biodiversity in a region rich in biodiversity, and  has contributed to
irreversible environmental devastation

* that your state  through its continued participation in the NATO Campaign
in the former Yugoslavia which has been using Depleted Uranium in various
weapon systems has failed act on  a commitment to eliminate the production
of weapons of mass destruction at the United Nations Conference on Humans
and the Environment (UNCHE, 1972) [ through its continued support for the
mining and distribution of uranium both for civil nuclear reactors and for
nuclear weapons)

*  that your state through its   participation in  NATO  in the former
Yugoslavia has failed to act on its undertaking under  the General Assembly
resolution
  in 1981, to reduce the military budget and to reallocate the funds thus
saved to economic and social development, particularly for the benefit of
developing countries

* that because your state does not come to any negotiating table with clean
hands, when peace negotiations take place they should be through the United
Nations by members states with clean hands.

The following petitioners urge you to discontinue all further intervention
in the former Yogoslavia, disband NATO and work collectively to strengthen
the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.

Global Compliance Research Project
1 250 598-0071



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From: Joseph Gerson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Query for David
Date: 26 Apr 1999 15:17:35 -0400


4/26

Dear Tracy Moavero,

In terms of Indians, you might want to be in touch with either Zia Mian at
Princeton [e-mail] or Abha Sur at M.I.T. [e-mail]. They are
both Pakistani, but work closely with Indian abolitionists in the U.S. and
internationally. In terms of Pacific island people, you might want to see
who Richard Salvador of Belau (now in Hawaii) would recommend.
[e-mail]. There are relatively cheap flights from Hawaii, which
might lead you to want to invite him.

With best wishes,

Joseph Gerson

At 12:16 PM 4/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear David,
>
>Greetings.
>
>As you probably know, Peace Action is planning our 1999 annual congress,
to be held in Albuqueque, with a major direct action to follow at the Los
Alamos lab on Nagasaki Day. The day befoe the action we will have a panel
of international speakers sharing their experience
>of grassroots anti-nuclear activism. We are looking for a broad range of
international speakers, and we need some leads on Indian and/or Pacific
Islanders living in the United States who could join our panel. Do you have
any suggestions for us? We are bringing some
>speakers from overseas, but as funding is uncertain, we really wish to
find some speakers in the U.S.  So far we have confirmations from speakers
representing campaigns in the UK, France, Pakistan, Japan and possibly
Australia. Any suggestions you could give us for Indian
>or Pacific region activists who are living in the U.S. or who will be
travelling here at that time (Aug. 6-9) would be much appreciated.
>
>Hope things are going well at NAPF.
>
>All the best,
>
>Tracy Moavero
>
>
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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Nuking Serbia
Date: 26 Apr 1999 16:20:54 -0400

Is this some sort of sick joke?   How can anyone raise this question seriously?
It is an outrageous, disgusting idea and should be promptly identified as such.
First, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, would die.  Second, millions
more would be injured, and many of them would suffer painful deaths.  Third,
vast tracts of land would be uninhabitable.  Why are we even talking about this?

If anyone uses nuclear weapons in Serbia, the political/military/environmental
situation in the world will change in drastic, unforseeable ways.  My guess is
that both the NPT and the ABM treaty would collapse

Further, today's anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster should remind us that
nuclear fallout knows no boundaries.  Winds will blow where they will, carrying
nuclear contamination to other countries.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller



Timothy Bruening wrote:

> My brother suggests that we nicely ask the Russians to nuke Serbia on the
> grounds that Serbia's ethnic cleansing operation has given Slavs a very bad
> name.  What would happen if someone nuked Serbia, and do you know anyone who
> wants to nuke Serbia?
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Minutes, Action for NPT
Date: 26 Apr 1999 18:05:15 -0400

TO:  Abolition 2000 New York Metro Working Groups
FROM: Alice Slater
RE: Minutes
DATE: April 26, 1999

Present: Giovanni Nirosi (Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy); Nelly Sidoti
and Alice Slater(GRACE); S.D. Jayasuriya (Buddhist International); Mary
Shoiket
(NJ Green Party; Peggy Jacobs (LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives); Selma
Brackman (War and Peace Foundation); Estelle Epstein (Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom)

Next meeting: Tuesday, June 8, 12 to 2 PM, GRACE, 15 E. 26 St. (between 5th
and
Madison Aves.), brown bag lunch, coffee and tea will be served, RSVP:
212-726-9161

Kosovo and NATO:  Alice, Giovanni and Nelly reported on the NATO demonstration
and meeting in Washington last week which was carried by C-Span in its
entirety
and re-broadcast that evening.  After discussion about how misinformed the
public and even our members of Congress are on this issue, we decided to write
a simple fact sheet about events leading up to the bombing of Kosovo to
educate
people on why it is wrong for NATO to be raining destruction down on
Yugoslavia.  Peggy and Nelly will draft the fact sheet.

Women in Black demonstrate every Wednesday against the Kosovo bombing at 5:30
at the NY Public Library, 5th Ave. and 42nd St.  Spread the word and join
them!

NPT PrepCom: May 10th to 23rd.   IT IS URGENT THAT WE HAVE A GOOD TURN OUT AT
THE UN ON MAY 10TH AND 11TH WHEN NGOS ARE ALLOWED INTO THE MEETING ROOM.
PLEASE
TRY TO GET AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE TO SHOW UP ON MAY 10TH AND 11TH.

To be admitted to the UN, call the NGO Committee on Disarmament, to be placed
on a list for a pass: 212-687-5340

ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE PREPCOM, MONDAY MAY 10TH, THERE WILL BE AN ABOLITION
CAUCUS AT 8:00 AM, CHURCH CENTER, 777 UN PLAZA, 7TH FLOOR.  PLEASE MAKE EVERY
EFFORT TO ATTEND ON TIME AT 8:00 AM!!

Selma Brackman has assembled the devastating photos we have been collecting
for
ôThe Toxic Legacy of the Nuclear Ageö showing the suffering by people from 50
years of nuclear mining, weapons production and testing, and civilian power,
from all over the world.  She is publishing them with explanations in a
pamphlet for distribution to the delegates and to NGOs.   Selma is still
trying
to get sponsorship, through the World Health Organization to display the
photos
on the wall outside the delegates meeting room.  (We need an organ of the
UN to
sponsor the exhibit, according to their rules. The UN Commission on
Disarmament
turned down our request to sponsor the exhibit during the NPT, although they
may help us during the fall's Disarmament Week.)  WE WILL ALSO BLOW THE PHOTOS
UP INTO POSTERS MOUNTED ON POSTERBOARD TO BE CARRIED BY 12-15 VOLUNTEERS
OUTSIDE THE UN AND WHEREVER ELSE WE CAN BE NOTICED.  THIS ACTION WILL BE
DISCUSSED AT THE 8:00 AM CAUCUS ON MONDAY MAY 11TH, SO PLEASE TRY TO BE THERE
AND HELP OUT!!!    Giovanni will ask the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear
Policy to
inquire if we need a police permit to walk outside with the posters.  Chris
Nye
of the War Resisters League may be able to help in this matter.

Y2K SYMPOSIUM, NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR POWER: Tuesday, May 11th , 1:00 to
3:00 pm, Conference Room 4, UN
A panel has been organized by Helen Caldicott of STAR (Standing for Truth
About
Radiation) and Abolition 2000.  We have invited Ambassador Kamal of Pakistan,
who chairs Y2K efforts at the UN, and have acceptances from Michio Kaku, Mary
Olson(NIRS) Michael Craig (BASIC), and David Lochbaum (Union of Concerned
Scientists).  Please try to attend this event and invite members of your
organization to come as well.  You will need a UN pass, so call the UN NGO
Committee on Disarmament, 212-687-5340 to be put on a list.

Talking Points to Delegates: See enclosed letter from our Working Group to NPT
delegates, dated April 20, 1999,  for talking points to the delegates when you
come to the NPT. (Calling for intersessional working group, de-alerting, and
greater NGO participation and access at NPT meetings.)

Because of the importance of having good attendance at the NPT by NGOs, the
participants at the meeting volunteered to split the Abolition 2000 NY Working
Group and call all the organizations on the list to remind them to bring lots
of people to the NPT,  abolition caucus, and Y2k symposium.

WOOLSEY/MARKEY RESOLUTIONS: Please call your representative and ask that they
co-Sponsor HR 82 calling on Clinton to negotiate a nuclear weapons treaty, by
calling Mark Dooley in Lynn WoolseyÆs office 202-225-5161.  In NY only Towns,
Slaughter, Hinchley, and Nadler have signed.

Then support H.Con.Res. 74 to eliminate stockpile stewardship funding for new
nuclear weapons research and development by calling Jeff Duncan in Ed MarkeyÆs
office: 202-225-2836.  In NY, only Lowey, Maloney, Nadler, Owens have signed.
In NJ, only Pallone and Payne.

If your Congressperson is not on the lists above, PLEASE CALL TODAY!!

SCHELL/ROY MEETING: Thursday May 6, 7 pm, New School, 65 Fifth Ave.(between 13
and 14 Streets) ôA Conversation in the Second Nuclear Ageö, with Jonathan
Schell, Arundati Roy, Merav Datan.(see enclosed flyer).  Please spread the
word!!

Cassini Fly-by:  Global Demonstrations, June 12th  Contact Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, [e-mail](See enclosed
flyer)

Food Irradiation:  Congress has passed a law directing the FDA to review
whether
we still need labeling requirements for irradiated food.  The FDA is to
consider removing the radiation warning on packages, or re-naming it ôcold
pasteurizationö or ôelectronic pasteurizationö so as not to alarm people who
stay away from irradiated food. .  If food irradiation is made more
ôpalatableö
there will be a whole new source of nuclear waste to poison America as
thousands of radiation plants are built across the country, operated with
deadly cesium and cobalt-60.

WRITE A LETTER TO THE FDA DEMANDING PROMINENT USE OF THE TERMS
ôIRRADIATIONö OR
ôIRRADIATEDö AND THE USE OF THE RADURA SYMBOL.
Write to:
Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

Re: Docket #98N-1038, ôIrradiation in the production, processing and handling
of foodö

Write your letter to the FDA before May 18th when the comment period on the
new
rule closes.  Demand that all comments be posted on the internet, which the
FDA
is not now doing.  LetÆs nip this thing in the bud before we have a whole new
nuclear waste problem to deal with!!  For more details, see www.purefood.org

Philadelphia Project: Gloria Lawrence sent in an extended list of influential
New Yorkers to invite to a city dialogue on nuclear policy.  It was suggested
that we may want to broaden the topic to US foreign policy and use of force in
order to cover the events in Kosovo.

School of the Americas: There will be demonstrations from Saturday May 1st
through Tuesday May 4th in Washington, DC to close down the US military
program
to train assassins and thugs in Latin America.  For info, contact Peggy
Jacobs,
[e-mail], or the Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives,
516-741-4360


Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Re:WAR IS ILLEGAL
Date: 26 Apr 1999 17:41:59 -0700

>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999
>Subject: Re:WAR IS ILLEGAL
>
>CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
>666 BROADWAY
>NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10012
>
>CONTACT: David Lerner, Riptide Communications, Inc. [phone] or
>Michael Ratner [phone] or [e-mail]
>
>CCR SAYS WAR IN KOSOVO IS FLATLY ILLEGAL
>
>Failure to Obtain Congressional or UN Approval Violates Domestic and
>International Law, Says Leading Rights Group as Congress
>Prepares to Vote on Declaration of War
>
>New York, April 27th, 1999 - Legal experts associated with the New York-
>based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today said that the NATO
>bombing of Kosovo is flatly illegal and that it violated both the U.S.
>Constitution and the United Nations Charter. CCR issued its statement as
>Representative Tom Reynolds (R.CA) prepares to introduce resolutions
>requiring the House to vote up or down on the war.
>    CCR has litigated numerous cases challenging the legality of war
>making including Dellums v. Bush, which forced the Bush Administration
>to obtain congressional consent for the 1991 Gulf War. According to CCR
>attorney Michael Ratner, "By bypassing Congress and the UN, the U.S. and
>NATO have jeopardized the entire system of international restraints on
>war-making.Under this standard any Nation can go to war whenever it
>wants."
>Ratner also pointed out that in this case, had the President sought
>congressional approval before bombing, members might have pointed out
>the consequences such as the refugee crisis in Kosovo and the
>destabilization of the region.
>Furthermore, Congress might have required that all peaceful means of
>resolving the crisis, such as a joint NATO and Russia peacekeeping
>force, be explored.
>        Representative Campbell is expected to bring two resolutions
>before the House this week in an effort to force an up or down vote on
>the war.  If neither resolution succeeds then the US will be continuing
>to fight the war without any legal authority.
>        This is the first major war since WWII that has neither the UN
>nor congressional consent.  Korea had UN consent, Vietnam was arguably
>authorized under the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and Congress also
>approved the Gulf War. Additionally, under the War Powers Resolution,
>the president must withdraw all troops within 60 days of the
>commencement of hostilities. This means that they must be out by
>approximately May 26th unless Congress affirmatively approves their
>engagement.
>-30-


******************************************************
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California USA 94612
Tel: +[phone]
Fax: +[phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
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Western States Legal Foundation is part of  ABOLITION 2000
A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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From: Tracy Moavero <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Query for David
Date: 27 Apr 1999 10:08:41 -0400

Dear Joseph,

Thanks for the tips on speakers for New Mexico. I've been in touch with Zia and
Ramana, but I'll try Richard too.

For the Hague Appeal I've been told that you are organizing a workshop with
indigenous activists. Is that true? Could I have more information? We have a
Native American woman from New Mexico going with our delegation.

Thanks,

Tracy Moavero


Joseph Gerson wrote:

> 4/26
>
> Dear Tracy Moavero,
>
> In terms of Indians, you might want to be in touch with either Zia Mian at
> Princeton [e-mail] or Abha Sur at M.I.T. [e-mail]. They are
> both Pakistani, but work closely with Indian abolitionists in the U.S. and
> internationally. In terms of Pacific island people, you might want to see
> who Richard Salvador of Belau (now in Hawaii) would recommend.
> [e-mail]. There are relatively cheap flights from Hawaii, which
> might lead you to want to invite him.
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Joseph Gerson
>
> At 12:16 PM 4/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear David,
> >
> >Greetings.
> >
> >As you probably know, Peace Action is planning our 1999 annual congress,
> to be held in Albuqueque, with a major direct action to follow at the Los
> Alamos lab on Nagasaki Day. The day befoe the action we will have a panel
> of international speakers sharing their experience
> >of grassroots anti-nuclear activism. We are looking for a broad range of
> international speakers, and we need some leads on Indian and/or Pacific
> Islanders living in the United States who could join our panel. Do you have
> any suggestions for us? We are bringing some
> >speakers from overseas, but as funding is uncertain, we really wish to
> find some speakers in the U.S.  So far we have confirmations from speakers
> representing campaigns in the UK, France, Pakistan, Japan and possibly
> Australia. Any suggestions you could give us for Indian
> >or Pacific region activists who are living in the U.S. or who will be
> travelling here at that time (Aug. 6-9) would be much appreciated.
> >
> >Hope things are going well at NAPF.
> >
> >All the best,
> >
> >Tracy Moavero
> >
> >
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Wed. War Powers Act Vote???--Hearing today
Date: 27 Apr 1999 09:21:51 -0700


=====================================
TODAY, Tuesday 4-27
the House Intnl. Relations Committee is marking up
War Powers legislation 2pm 2172 Rayburn Building
(I'll be there.)
TOMORROW Weds. 4-28 as we see below the vote could
come as early as tomorrow.
Time to take action!!!
Call, fax, email your senators and congressperson. 202-224-3121
Also, there is a new webpage that will email them for you easily.
http://www.stopthewarnow.com  (If it is having initial technical
problems, try back again soon.)

Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Jesse Helms, (NC) Chairman
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]

House Committee on International Relations
Congressman Benjamin A. Gilman, (NY) Chairman
Phone: [phone]
Fax:[phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Also call President Clinton at White House Comment line
202-456-1111 and say you are  against bombing and ground
troops.  (Go straight to Operator since as of yesterday it was
not a question on the menu.)  Or email [e-mail]
And don't forget Madeline Albright <[e-mail]>
--------------------------
Fran Teplitz of Peace Action <[e-mail]> wrote:

> PRIORITY ONE ALERT:
>
> This alert is not based in the 1999 program plan, but since it
addresses
> legislation on whether or not the United States will declare war, it
rises
> to the top of our priorities.
>
> KOSOVO LEGISLATIVE ALERT:  VOTE EXPECTED AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY
>
> A vote is expected in the House of Representatives this week or next -

> possibly as soon as Wednesday, April 28, 1999 - on whether or not to
> continue the U.S. military attacks on Yugoslavia. Rep. Tom Campbell
(R-CA)
> has introduced two bills, one calling for withdrawal from the attacks
and
> the other requiring an official declaration of war in keeping with the

War
> Powers Act. Rep. Campbell aims to have the two bills debated and voted

on
> together, but this is not guaranteed.
>
> H. Con. Res. 82 calls on the President "to remove United States Armed
> Forces from their positions in connection with the present operations
> against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
>
> H. J. Res. 44 declares "a state of war between the United States and
the
> Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
>
> Campbell supports the withdrawal position, although he has introduced
both
> resolutions to ensure Congress acts either to approve or disapprove
the
> military action now underway. In addition to the consequences for the
> people of Yugoslavia, these votes are important procedurally because
they
> uphold a system of checks and balances on the use of force, a system
that
> has been evaded by recent presidential decisions to bomb other
nations.
>
> There may be other resolutions introduced as well, for example,
legislation
> linking U.S. military withdrawal to negotiations to end the war. It is

also
> possible that Congress could table the legislation, and thereby avoid
> taking a clear stand.
>
> ACTION:
>
> Call your Representative TODAY and urge him/her to:
>
> 1)      vote in favor of H. Con. Res 82 to remove U.S. forces from the

NATO
> attacks on Yugoslavia.
> 2)       vote against H. J. Res. 44 to declare war on Yugoslavia
>
> Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
>
> Thanks to the Friends Committee on National Legislation for their
> information on this legislation.








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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Nuking Serbia
Date: 27 Apr 1999 11:13:03 -0700 (PDT)

At 04:20 PM 4/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Is this some sort of sick joke?   How can anyone raise this question seriously?
>It is an outrageous, disgusting idea and should be promptly identified as such.
>First, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, would die.  Second, millions
>more would be injured, and many of them would suffer painful deaths.  Third,
>vast tracts of land would be uninhabitable.  Why are we even talking about
this?

I was not advocating the nuking of Serbia, merely reporting that my brother
favors nuking Serbia and asking what the consequences would be and if the
people on this list knew anyone else who favored nuking Serbia.


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From: Joseph Gerson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Query for David
Date: 27 Apr 1999 17:03:28 -0400

4/27

Dear Tracey,

    This note will be quick. I can fill in with more information if it will be
helpful to you.

    We have organized (in conjuction with Japanese organizations) a "Global
Hibakusha Delegation."  It includes Dorothy Purley and Carletta Garcia of
the Laguna-Acoma Coalition in New Mexico, Norio Kebenli from Rongelap Atoll
in the Marshall Islands,and Gabriel Tetiarahi from Tahiti. The delegation
also includes a number of non-indigenous people: two Utah down winders, an
atomic vet from Arizona, a nuclear weapons victim from Kazakhstan, a Korean
Hiroshima Hibakusha and four Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hibakusha.

    We have global forum sessions set for the 12th and 13th and a core agenda
session mid-afternoon on the 13th. Because time will be so limited in the
core agenda session, we are structuring the global focus sessions to allow
other nuclear weapons victim/activists speak (about 7 minutes each will be
max for statements), network, and engage in the Q&A.

    When I can catch my breath I will post times and places on the abolition
caucus list serve.

    Hope that does it, and I look forward to meeting you and people traveling
with you there.

    Best

    Joseph Gerson

At 10:08 AM 4/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Joseph,
>
>Thanks for the tips on speakers for New Mexico. I've been in touch with
Zia and
>Ramana, but I'll try Richard too.
>
>For the Hague Appeal I've been told that you are organizing a workshop with
>indigenous activists. Is that true? Could I have more information? We have a
>Native American woman from New Mexico going with our delegation.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tracy Moavero
>
>
>Joseph Gerson wrote:
>
>> 4/26
>>
>> Dear Tracy Moavero,
>>
>> In terms of Indians, you might want to be in touch with either Zia Mian at
>> Princeton [e-mail] or Abha Sur at M.I.T. [e-mail]. They are
>> both Pakistani, but work closely with Indian abolitionists in the U.S. and
>> internationally. In terms of Pacific island people, you might want to see
>> who Richard Salvador of Belau (now in Hawaii) would recommend.
>> [e-mail]. There are relatively cheap flights from Hawaii, which
>> might lead you to want to invite him.
>>
>> With best wishes,
>>
>> Joseph Gerson
>>
>> At 12:16 PM 4/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Dear David,
>> >
>> >Greetings.
>> >
>> >As you probably know, Peace Action is planning our 1999 annual congress,
>> to be held in Albuqueque, with a major direct action to follow at the Los
>> Alamos lab on Nagasaki Day. The day befoe the action we will have a panel
>> of international speakers sharing their experience
>> >of grassroots anti-nuclear activism. We are looking for a broad range of
>> international speakers, and we need some leads on Indian and/or Pacific
>> Islanders living in the United States who could join our panel. Do you have
>> any suggestions for us? We are bringing some
>> >speakers from overseas, but as funding is uncertain, we really wish to
>> find some speakers in the U.S.  So far we have confirmations from speakers
>> representing campaigns in the UK, France, Pakistan, Japan and possibly
>> Australia. Any suggestions you could give us for Indian
>> >or Pacific region activists who are living in the U.S. or who will be
>> travelling here at that time (Aug. 6-9) would be much appreciated.
>> >
>> >Hope things are going well at NAPF.
>> >
>> >All the best,
>> >
>> >Tracy Moavero
>> >
>> >
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Report on War Powers Vote--Call Congress!!!
Date: 27 Apr 1999 19:54:42 -0700


and Washington D.C. Area War Tax Resistance

I don't know if this made the TV news--didn't see it on the newswires.
The resolutions debated by the House Committee on International
Relations for forwarding to the House floor were:
**House Joint Resolution 82 calls on the President "to remove United
States
Armed Forces from their positions in connection with the present
operations
against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."  (CALL CONGRESS AND
TELL THEM YOU SUPPORT IT!!)
**House Joint Resolution 44 declares "a state of war between the United
States and the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
     Both were introduced by Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA).
Both Democratas and Republicans agreed that there is a Constitutional
issue since technically only Congress can declare war.  (Under the War
Powers Act, the President must, within a maximum of 90 days of reporting

to Congress that he has placed US troops "into hostilities or into
situations
where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the
circumstances"-- to withdraw those troops unless Congress has
declared war or voted to grant a specific authorization for the use
of armed forces.  Clinton ignored the law in Bosnia and Congress
did not make him obey, defeating a 1998 Campbell Resolution. So
the War Powers issue may yet be fought again.)
   As an ex-Democrat, I found it disgusting to watch the Democrats
mostly supporting Clinton's right to make war or peace without Congress
getting very involved--the two standout exceptions being Reps. Barbara
Lee and Cynthia McKinney who called for an immediate end to
the bombing, negotiations and a UN or other peacekeeping role.
    The Republicans were all over the place on the issue, though most
were
critical of Clinton and the military as either too aggressive or not
aggressive enough.
The biggest fireworks occured when Rep. Chabot (R) declared that
the bombing had made the refugee problem much worse.  Rep. Lantos
(D) (who continuously reminds everyone he is a holocaust survivor)
tried to bully Chabot into taking the statement back but he refused.
Rep. Gejdenson (D) then ranted in the same vein.  However, Ms.
Lee and McKinney both later made the same points
as did Chabot (though more subtly) without having to suffer such taunts.

   Mr. Campbell was asked what he would do if both his resolutions fail.

He said he would do what Representative Dellums did in the Iraq War
situation, and sue claiming the war is illegal.  Dellums lost that case
in
District Court.
   The Committee did vote to send both resolutions to the floor of the
House, but also recommended the House vote *against* both.
The vote could be as early as tomorrow, but the Committee did
not specify when. While Congress will not vote to declare war,
the Democrats obviously were a bit worried it might vote to
bring the troops home.  But that would take a massive citizens
effort, which is not likely in the next few days.
    One moment of drama was when Rep. Curt Weldon of the
Armed Services Committee asked to speak about his plan to
meet with a Russian representative Friday in Vienna, along with Reps.
Steny Hoyer and (unintelligible) another representative.  He emphasized
the only problem the Russians had with NATO's demands was
that NATO should not be the peacekeepers.  It would be nice
if Rep. Weldon and his crew could singlehandly resolve the issues,
but I don't think we should hold our breaths.
   Overall, the hearings gave me the feeling that we live in a
dictatorship
where the president has complete power of life and death over all
of us, via war, world war and nuclear war.  Happily, the House guards
were nowhere to be seen so I wore my peace buttons and gave out
my article "Four Reasons We May See Nuclear War in 1999"
http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/4-reasons-nuke-war.hmtl
to press, public and congresspersons without interference.
(Only mention of nuke war at the hearing!)  One can only hope
that one's being there makes some small difference!!
=====================================
Call, fax, email your senators and congressperson. 202-224-3121
Tell them you support House Joint Resolution 82 to bring the troops
home.
Also, there is a new webpage that will email them for you easily.
http://www.StoptheWarNow.com

Also call President Clinton at White House Comment line
202-456-1111 and say you are  against bombing and ground
troops.  (Go straight to Operator since as of yesterday it was
not a question on the menu.)  Or email [e-mail]
And don't forget Madeline Albright <[e-mail]>
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) MMMayDay March to Stop Bogus Wars, "Belly up to The Barr" in the Belly of The Beast
Date: 28 Apr 1999 11:37:15 -0700

MMMayDay March to Stop Bogus Wars, "Belly up to The Barr"
in the Belly of The Beast

Inspired by the need to avert potential nuclear catastrophe in Yugoslavia,
grassroots activists will target Congressman Bob Barr, and support former
LAPD narcotics investigator Michael Ruppert, by joining the DC MayDay
(Saturday, May 1, 1999) "March on Washington '99" ( http://www.march99.com ,
see speakers schedule below), to demonstrate against bogus US wars like the
war on Yugoslavia and the war on drugs, as part of the international Million
Marijana March ( http://www.cures-not-wars.org/mmm ) being held that day in
over a dozen cities worldwide to overcome the historical fraud on the US
Congress by which hemp/cannabis has been outlawed as marijuana (since
hemp/cannabis prohibition began in 1937 to protect financial interests in
the paper and chemical industries) and has been targeted by Federal
authorities with a cynical Drug War in which the truth has been censored
from the public and this valuable natural medicine is outlawed while the CIA
has by its own admission been complicit in smuggling cocaine and heroin into
the US and while health authorities continue to stonewall legalization of
the
Ibogaine antidote to addiction, a biochemical analog to marijuana proving it
is anti-addictive.

Meanwhile the US and NATO are bombing Yugoslavia in support of the KLA which
evidence indicates is collaborating with the CIA drug smuggling to fund
covert guerilla warfare to destabilize populations for transnational
corporate exploitation of mineral, energy, and agricultural resources on the
lands from which they are removed (see details below).

Medical marijuana has been legalized in numerous States by ballot initiative
but in California police have stepped up arrests and property forfeitures to
profit the US prison/industrial complex and to fund increasing police
brutality while in Washington, DC, a misguided Congress pushed by Barr has
passed specific legislation to prohibit the counting of the vote last
November to legalize medical marijuana in which exit polls showed 70%
passage.  Mr. Ruppert is scheduled to speak at 2:30PM to the "March on
Washington '99" and is expected to detail the CIA confession and to mention
the need to end the cynical war on drugs by facing the truth about the
marijuana issue.

The CIA Inspector General's Report Volume 2, held secret for a year and
released to Congress one hour after impeachment procedings started,
acknowledges CIA involvement in hard drug smuggling but Congressional
hearings called for by Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters have been
stalled and the report obscured from public view, first by the impeachment
process and now by the War against Yugoslavia. (details on this report at
http://www.copvcia.com )

Grassroots activists on Saturday have vowed to "get in Barr's face" during
his scheduled speech at 12:10 PM at the Ellipse near the White House.  They
will be carrying Million Marijuana March and I-59 (DC's medical marijuana
initiative) signs at the Ellipse gathering and some patients will be
provoking arrest by ingesting medical marijuana using vaporizers recommended
by the recent report from the Institute of Medicine, the latest in a number
of Federally commissioned reports favorable to marijuana which have been
disavowed by the US Government that sponsored them. (more info at
http://www.jackherer.com and http://www.chrisconrad.com )

The secrecy policies of our society on these issues not only contribute to
growing domestic violence and wars around the world, but by now also
endanger the future of all life on Earth due to environmental degradation
from deforestation and combustion of fossil fuels.  The obscured facts
clearly prove the need for a global scale revival of the USDA 1941-45 Hemp
for Victory program for the environmental-emergency-level widespread
cultivation of this most valuable plant in human history for its superior
bioefficiency to heal the atmosphere, to save the remaining trees from
deforestation, and for the overall majority of Earth's paper, fiber, food,
biofuels to replace fossil fuels, medicines, chemical feedstocks, and
composite construction materials.  The fraudulent drug policies against
hemp/cannabis/marijuana are an incidental obstacle to saving life on Earth
from increasingly devastating climate change and the ozone layer depletion
(exacerbated by reduction of oxygen levels due to fossil fuel combustion)
that threatens destruction over the next nine years of all oceanic
phytoplankton (the one-celled plants at the beginning of the oceanic
foodchain that produce over half of Earth's oxygen supply).  (more info and
links at  http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 )

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity"

--Robert Heinlein, 'Logic of Empire'


MARCH ON WASHINGTON '99 - SPEAKER LIST
Sat. May 1st, 12-5 p.m.     White House Ellipse, 17th & E St.
For Truth, Justice, Peace, Security & Freedom

12:00-12:10 p.m.  Introductions and Benediction

12:10-12:30 p.m. Bob Barr- China, Kosovo and our National Security;
U.S. Congressman, (7th-GA), House Manager, author of  H. Res. 304

12:30-12:50 p.m. Bill Triplett - How Bill Clinton Compromised American
Security for Chinese Cash;  U.S. Senate Investigator, co-author of the Year
of the Rat,

12:50- 1:10 p.m. Herb Titus - The Unconstitutional President ;
1996 Vice Presidential Candidate for U.S. Taxpayers Party

1:10 - 1:30 p.m. Cliff Kincaid (for Accuracy in Media) - Unreported Crimes
Against the Constitution; Founder, America's Survival; co-author, Michael
New: Mercenary or American Soldier

1:30 - 1:50 p.m. Bob Djurdjevic -  Five Weeks of America's Infamy: Why
Clinton Cannot Win the Illegal War He Started;  Founder, Truth in Media,
author and columnist; global, geopolitical and economic affairs expert

1:50 - 2:10 p.m. Steve Meyers -  Are You or Have You Ever Been a Member of
the New World Order/Council on Foreign Relations? ;  Editor of Exegesis,
British Foreign Affairs Committee Secretary during the  Thatcher
Administration

2:10 - 2:30 p.m. Garland Favorito - The Protectors of Bill Clinton Exposed;
Citizens for Honest Government, Georgia Chapter Coordinator

2:30 - 2:50 p.m. Michael Ruppert - The Real Impeachment Scorch;
Editor of From the Wilderness, Former L.A.P.D. Narcotics Officer
<http://www.copvcia.com> <[e-mail]>

2:50 - 3:10 p.m. Pat Matrisciana - Arkansas' Dirty Little Secret;
Produced Clinton Chronicles, Death of Vince Foster, Mena Cover-up, 60
Minutes Deception

3:10 - 3:30 p.m. Steve Miroy - How Bill Clinton Can Stay in Office After the
Year 2000;  Clinton Investigative Commission

3:30 - 3:50 p.m. Tom Adkins -  How We Lost America and How We Can Save It;
Founder, CommonConservative.com, author of 25 Snappy Comebacks to Stupid
Impeachment Soundbites

3:50 - 4:10 p.m. Andrew Amirault - America's Future;
Journalist, activist and organizer of the March on Washington '99

4:10 - 4:30 p.m. Steve Ulrey - A New Campaign; A Concerned American Citizen

4:30 - 4:50 p.m. Pat Cooksey - Speak Out for the Sake of Freedom
Founder, True Blue Patriots

4:50 - 5:00 p.m. Some Historically Important Announcements
<http://www.march99.com>



The Following is an article from the April 24 edition of my newsletter, From
The Wilderness, which is sent via U.S. Mail to paid subscribers. The April
issue also contains a detailed discussion of covert operative Richard
Armitage's role in the current crisis and how CIA operatives with a long
tradition of drug dealing have planned this new Vietnam for a long time. For
subscription information please visit the web site at www.copvcia.com .



Kosovo Liberation Army and Albanian Sponsors Have Well Documented Roots in
The Heroin Trade

The Drug Trade is an Entrenched Part of the World Economy and NATO Politics

by Michael C. Ruppert

(c) COPYRIGHT 1999 Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness at
www.copvcia.com . All rights reserved. Permission to quote or reprint for
non-profit purposes only if the preceding appears.

An exceptional record of respected media sources from the U.S. and Europe
have documented that the Kosovo Liberation Army and their Albanian sponsors
are heroin financed organized crime groups struggling to dominate the flow
of middle eastern heroin into Europe and even the Eastern United States.
The Christian Science Monitor reported on Oct. 20, 1994: "Disrupted by the
Yugoslav conflict, drug trafficking across the Balkans is making a comeback
as Albanian mafia barons carve out a new smuggling route to Western Europe,
bypassing the peninsula's war zones, according to United Nations and other
narcotics experts." To document the increase in traffic through the Albanian
Kosovar region The Monitor continued, "For example, just 14 pounds of hard
drugs were seized by Hungarian police in 1990, but by August this year
[1994] the figure had risen to 1,304 pounds." In describing the then
evolving trade, which was coming to be dominated by Kosovar Albanians The
Monitor added, "But European police chiefs fear the conduit will strengthen
Kosovo Albanian drug syndicates - some of the most powerful on the
continent - whose tentacles have stretched as far as the East coast of the
United States...

"From their base in Velki Trnovac in southern Serbia, dubbed the 'Medellin
of the Balkans,' Albanian mafia chiefs oversee their European drug operation
and are suspected of masterminding the new Balkan route."


Colombia in the Balkans

The highly respected Jane's Intelligence Review from Great Britain went much
deeper in predicting the coming crisis in a February 1, 1995 article
entitled The Balkan Medellin. Three paragraphs from that article are so
compelling we reprint them here in their entirety.  "The Albanian-dominated
region of western Macedonia accounts for a disproportionate share of
Macedonia's (FYROM) shrinking GDP. This situation has strengthened
Albanophobic sentiments among the ethnic Macedonian majority, especially as
a great deal of revenue is thought to derive from Albanian narco-terrorism
as well as associated gun-running and cross-border smuggling to and from
Albania, Bulgaria and the Kosovo province of Serbia.  Although its extent
and forms remain in dispute, this rising Albanian economic power is helping
to turn the Balkans into a hub of criminality.  "Previously transported to
Western Europe through former Yugoslavia, heroin from Turkey, the
Transcaucus and points further east is now being increasingly routed to
Italy via the Black Sea, Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia. This is a
development that has strengthened the Albanian mafia which is now thought to
control 70% of the illegal heroin market in Germany and Switzerland. Closely
allied to the powerful Sicilian mafia, the Albanian associates have also
greatly benefited from the presence of large numbers of mainly Kosovar
Albanians in a number of western European countries;
Switzerland alone now has over 100,000 ethnic Albanian residents. As well as
providing a perfect cover for Albanian criminals, this diaspora is also a
useful source of income for racketeers...

"If left unchecked, this growing Albanian narco-terrorism could lead to a
Colombian syndrome in the Southern Balkans, or the emergence of a situation
in which the Albanian mafia becomes powerful enough to control one or more
states in the region. In practical terms, this will involve either Albania
or Macedonia, or both. Politically, this is now being done by channeling
growing foreign exchange (forex) profits from narco-terrorism into local
governments and political parties. In Albania, the ruling Democratic Party
(DP) led by President Sali Berisha is now widely suspected of tacitly
tolerating and even directly profiting from drug-trafficking for wider
politico-economic reasons, namely the financing of secessionist political
parties and other groupings in Kosovo and Macedonia." These four-year-old
evaluations, along with an abundance of other evidence of Albanian-Kosovar
mafia expansion paint a whole new picture of what is really happening in
Kosovo. Clearly Serbia is legitimately defending itself from an organized
crime syndicate taking control of one of its provinces.  How powerful is the
Albanian mafia? Well, as far back as 1985 it was powerful enough to frighten
New York U.S. attorney Rudy Giulliani who, according to a Wall Street
Journal story dated September 9, was receiving special personal protection
after prosecuting a heroin case in New York City connected to a ring of
powerful Albanian traffickers.  The Journal wrote, "But it is drug
trafficking that has gained Albanian organized crime the most notoriety.
Some Albanians, according federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials, are key
traders in the 'Balkan connection' the Istanbul-to-Belgrade heroin route.
While less well known than the so-called Sicilian and French connections,
the Balkan route in some years may move 24% to 40% of the U.S. heroin
supply, officials say.  If the Albanians were moving 24 to 40% fourteen
years ago then, given their growing control over the traffic through the
region, their access to Western Europe and mobility throughout the world,
they may well control more than half of the heroin now entering the United
States and law enforcement sources indicate that they control 75% of the
heroin entering Western Europe.


A Brilliant Voice From Canada

Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa has
written an absolutely brilliant article on the Kosovo war which decimates,
in its entirety, the U.S. government's stated version of events and lays
bare a plan to re-colonize the region on behalf of Germany and the United
States. The meticulously footnoted article sums up the entire Kosovo
nightmare in one sentence by saying, "The west was relying on its KLA
puppets to rubber-stamp an agreement which would have transformed Kosovo
into an occupied territory under Western administration." After describing
in detail the heroin-financed, organized crime, political power structure of
the region, and noting carefully that there are other organized political
entities not involved in the drug trade speaking on behalf of ethnic
Albanians from Kosovo, Chossudovsky documents the military and intelligence
alliance between Bonn (now Berlin) and Washington to create the KLA.
"Since the early 1990s, Bonn and Washington have joined hands in
establishing their respective spheres of influence in the Balkans. Their
intelligence agencies have also collaborated. According to intelligence
analyst John Whitley, covert support to the Kosovo rebel army was
established between the CIA and Germany's [BND]...The task to create and
finance the KLA was initially given to Germany: "They used German uniforms,
East German weapons and were financed, in part, with drug money. According
to Whitley, the CIA was subsequently instrumental in training and equipping
the KLA in Albania."

Giving the overall economic perspective, Chossudovsky notes the effect of
often brutal economic sanctions imposed by the IMF and other banking
institutions which so often presage a region's descent into apparent anarchy
before its rescue by the "benevolent" industrial powers.  "The application
of strong 'economic' medicine' under the guidance of the Washington based
Bretton Woods institutions had contributed to wrecking Albania's banking
system and precipitating the collapse of Albania's economy. The resulting
chaos enabled American and European transnationals to carefully position
themselves. Several western oil companies [some represented by Richard
Armitage] including Occidental, Shell and British Petroleum had their eyes
riveted on Albania's abundant and unexplored oil deposits. Western investors
were also gawking Albania's extensive reserves of chrome, copper, gold
nickel and platinum..." Given these undeniable facts, and a well documented
history which the Internet and publications like this will not forget, the
current propaganda and very real war being fought in Kosovo takes on a new
and unforgivable light. Ronald Reagan's comparison of the Contras in Central
America to America's Founding Fathers is today as comical as it is offensive
in light of what we know about the Contra war and how the Contras were
financed. The Mujahedeen Freedom Fighters of Afghanistan and Pakistan who we
financed with heroin from the same fields which now supply the KLA have
become terrorists who attack embassies and target American citizens. The
forgotten Meo tribesman of Laos, who Ted Shackley created with heroin from
the Golden Triangle are now basically forgotten - those who survived having
been resettled in the U.S. and elsewhere. But the warlords remain in
Washington, Berlin, London, the Golden Triangle, the Golden Crescent,
Albania and Kosovo.

This writer has said many times and in many places that these wars,
destabilizations and "economic cleansings" are planned and orchestrated
years, even decades in advance. It was a bittersweet affirmation for me to
read Chossudovsky's own analysis:

"The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully laid out prior to the signing
of the 1995 Dayton agreement. NATO had entered an unwholesome 'marriage of
convenience' with the mafia. "Freedom Fighters were put in place, the
narcotics trade enabled Washington and Bonn to "finance the Kosovo conflict"
with the ultimate objective of destabilizing the Belgrade government and
fully recolonizing the Balkans."

What remains to be seen is whether or not a badly misled American public
will be willing to sacrifice the blood of her sons in this utterly dishonest
conflict. I read somewhere once that the historical memory of a nation lasts
only about one generation. Funny, Vietnam doesn't seem that long ago.

Suggested Reading:
KOSOVO FREEDOM FIGHTERS FINANCED BY ORGANIZED CRIME
by Michel Chossudovsky, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Voice Box 1-613-562-5800 ext. 1415, e-mail [e-mail]
[The full text of Professor Chossudovsky's article will be placed on the web
by April 24, with permission, at www.copvcia.com.]

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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Re:WAR IS ILLEGAL
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:50:48 -0700

>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:41:14 -0400
>From: Michael Ratner <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re:WAR IS ILLEGAL
>
>CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
>666 BROADWAY
>NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10012
>
>CONTACT: David Lerner, Riptide Communications, Inc. [phone] or
>Michael Ratner [phone] or [e-mail]
>
>CCR SAYS WAR IN KOSOVO IS FLATLY ILLEGAL
>
>Failure to Obtain Congressional or UN Approval Violates Domestic and
>International Law, Says Leading Rights Group as Congress
>Prepares to Vote on Declaration of War
>
>New York, April 27th, 1999 - Legal experts associated with the New York-
>based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today said that the NATO
>bombing of Kosovo is flatly illegal and that it violated both the U.S.
>Constitution and the United Nations Charter. CCR issued its statement as
>Representative Tom Reynolds (R.CA) prepares to introduce resolutions
>requiring the House to vote up or down on the war.
>    CCR has litigated numerous cases challenging the legality of war
>making including Dellums v. Bush, which forced the Bush Administration
>to obtain congressional consent for the 1991 Gulf War. According to CCR
>attorney Michael Ratner, "By bypassing Congress and the UN, the U.S. and
>NATO have jeopardized the entire system of international restraints on
>war-making.Under this standard any Nation can go to war whenever it
>wants."
>Ratner also pointed out that in this case, had the President sought
>congressional approval before bombing, members might have pointed out
>the consequences such as the refugee crisis in Kosovo and the
>destabilization of the region.
>Furthermore, Congress might have required that all peaceful means of
>resolving the crisis, such as a joint NATO and Russia peacekeeping
>force, be explored.
>        Representative Campbell is expected to bring two resolutions
>before the House this week in an effort to force an up or down vote on
>the war.  If neither resolution succeeds then the US will be continuing
>to fight the war without any legal authority.
>        This is the first major war since WWII that has neither the UN
>nor congressional consent.  Korea had UN consent, Vietnam was arguably
>authorized under the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and Congress also
>approved the Gulf War. Additionally, under the War Powers Resolution,
>the president must withdraw all troops within 60 days of the
>commencement of hostilities. This means that they must be out by
>approximately May 26th unless Congress affirmatively approves their
>engagement.
>-30-


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 2000 Looms for US Nuclear Plants
Date: 30 Apr 1999 16:05:29 -0700

 http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19419.html

2000 Looms for US Nuclear Plants
by Declan McCullagh

3:00 a.m.  30.Apr.99.PDT
One-third of US nuclear plants will not be finished with Y2K repairs in time
to meet the industry's self-imposed summer deadline, says a report due for
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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) "Honoring the Mother," Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering.
Date: 30 Apr 1999 22:06:34 -0700

Healing Global Wounds, PO Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389

Phone: [phone]     Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]    Web: http://www.shundahai.org/HGW


MEDIA ADVISORY                                CONTACT:

April 30, 1999                                    Linda Micciche [phone]



HONORING THE MOTHER


Arise then Women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts... From
the bosom of the devestated earth, avoice goes up with our own. It say,
"Disarm, Disarm!" Let (women) solemnly take counsel with each other as
the means whereby the great human family can live in peace....

-Julia Ward Howe, 1870


Mothers and others from around the world answer the call of this original
Mothers Day proclamation. Far from the sentimental Sunday of Hallmark
cards and roses, the original proclamation was a powerful call to action.
129 years later women from around the world unite in nonviolent
resistance at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) to demand an end to war and
nuclear colonialism.


WHAT:    "Honoring the Mother," Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering.


WHEN:    May 7-10, 1999


WHERE:    Peace Camp, NTS.  US Hwy. 95-Mercury exit, 65 miles northwest of
Las Vegas.


WHO:        Healing Global Wounds (HGW) seeks a respectful and sustainable
living relationship with Mother Earth. Our primary focus is radiation
contamination and closing the Nevada Test Site.

A multi-cultural alliance, HGW events and strategies are planned with the
guidance of the Western Shoshone and other Elders. Since 1991, HGW has
addressed the entire nuclear chain and exposes "nuclear colonialism":
issues of racism and class in international nuclear policies.


WHY:        HGW holds bi-annual spiritual, educational and nonviolent direct
action encampments at NTS, which is the epicenter of the U.S.
government's nuclear weapons and waste programs.

Celebrations, Workshops and Healing Ceremonies scheduled will:

* honor women in the struggle for their lands and rights in Newe Segobia
(Western Shoshone Nation) 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 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.


DAILY GATHERING SCHEDULE


May7:  Delegations from many nations will share cultural visual and
spoken presentations. Also, the Youth Program begins today.

May 8:  Nonviolence training and action planning is today. Major portion
of Youth Program takes place, also.

May 9:  Mother's Day Brunch will be served. A rally will follow the
brunch at the gates of the Nevada Test Site. Scheduled speakers include
women affected by the nuclear chain and nonviolent direct action. This is
a primary event and photo opportunity; media are invited to attend.

May 10:  Nonviolent Occupation of NTS reclaiming Western Shoshone land.


Peace Camp is located on Western Shoshone land at the gates of the Nevada
Test Site. Each day, Healing Global Wounds begins with a Sunrise Ceremony
led by Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney. Sweat Lodges are
available for all wishing to join in healing prayers. The program for the
main portion of each day is followed by a community dinner and cultural
events.


Interviews with women and mothers who are leaders in the Native Rights,
Environmental Justice and Anti-Nuclear Movements will be
available-excellent video, photo and audio opportunities. To schedule a
pre-gathering or on-site interview please call 760-852-4175. Please visit
our web site at http://www.shundahai.org/HGW for updated information.


QUOTES FROM MOTHERS ATTENDING HGW GATHERING


-Interviews are Available Please Call: 760-852-4175


"People all over the world are living with nuclear threats. You probably
live near a uranium mine, a nuclear power plant, a nuclear weapons
stockpile, or near a nuclear waste dump. Or you may 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." Beth Wittke


"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. Demand 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 on Mother's Day weekend.
We stand united; we say No more to Waste and Weapons, No more to poisons
in our Water, Earth and Air!" -Mari Todd


"As Women we are the bringers of life. Whether it begins in the womb or
as a sacred seed in the soil, all life begins in darkness ands emerges in
to the light. It is our hope, as an alliance to emerge from the darkness
of the nuclear age into the light of a new millennium free of nuclear
weapons and the unwanted spread of nuclear waste." -Jennifer Viereck.


"We mothers 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. 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." -Michelle Xenos


BACKGROUND INFORMATION:


Mother's Day Proclamation, 1870, by Julia Ward Howe


Arise, then, women of this day!

Arise, all women who have hearts,

whether your baptism be that of water or tears!

Say firmly:

"We will not have great questions

decided by irrelevant agencies.

Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking

 with carnage, for caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us

to unlearn all that we have taught them

of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country

will be too tender of those of another to

allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated earth,

a voice goes up with our own.

It says,

"Disarm, Disarm!"

The sword of murder is not

the balance of justice.

Blood does not wipe out dishonor,

nor violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the

plow and the anvil at the summons of war,

 let women now leave all that may be left of home

for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women,

to bewail & commemorate the dead.

Let them solemnly take counsel with each other

as the means whereby the great human family

can live in peace,

and each bearing after his own time

the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Other Mother's Day Events will be held simultaneously


Whole Earth Festival-in Davis, CA


SF Abolition 2000 Event-Honor the original meaning behind Mothers' Day.
Music, speeches, reading of original proclamation, and closing ceremony.
San Francisco Mother's Day Weekend Events, at Civic Center from 12:00 to
1:30 p.m. For more information contact Bill McCarthy at Unity Foundation
744 Treat Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110.  Phone-415-643-0270,
fax-415-206-1622, [e-mail]


Sonoma Abolition 2000 Event-Renew the true beginning of the first
Mothers' Day observance from 1870. Gather at the Sonoma Courthouse
Square, Santa Rosa from 4-5:30 p.m. for more information contact Robert
Manning at Sonoma Center for Peace and Justice, 540 Pacific Avenue, Santa
Rosa, CA 95404.  Phone -707-575-8902, fax-707-575-8903, or
[e-mail], or web address www.sonic.net/~peacentr


Mother's Day Celebration in Berkeley-Meet at UC Berkeley march to MLK,
Jr. Park. Music, short speeches. Celebrate mothers, children and families
working hard to teach real family values.  Contact Women for Peace at
510-849-3020.


Grandmother's Circle: A Gathering of Women Healers-Garden of the Gods &
Manitou Springs, Southern Colorado will include Ceremony, Workshops,
Healing Circles, and Community Building. For more information contact
Allison Smith at the
website-www.exploremaine.com/~whtknt/grandmotherscircle/Main.html or
email-spiritreki@juno


Mothers' Day at Anathoth Farm to protest Project Elf-Camp at Anathoth
farm Friday and Saturday, May 7&8, Caravan to Project ELF on Sunday, May
9. Noon lunch followed by multi-faceted program and action to protest the
Navy's nuclear submarine launch system. For more information contact
Nukewatch or Anathoth 740 Round Lake Road, Luck, WI 54853.
Phone-715-472-4185 or 715-472-8721, [e-mail] or
[e-mail]


4/30.99: Media Advisory Additional Materials-Healing Global Wounds Spring
Gathering May 7-10, 1999

760-852-4175-phone            [phone]-fax


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Info about Spring Mother's Day Gathering, May 7-10, 1999 at

http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/


Healing Global Wounds: PO Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389-0420 USA

Phone [phone]  Fax [phone]   email: [e-mail]

Coordinator: Jennifer Olaranna Viereck

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    HGW is a multi-cultural alliance of organizations and individuals

seeking restoration of respectful sustainable living with the Earth. We

coordinate a Spring and Fall Gathering at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site.

Events combine education on issues, community and skills building,
daily

spiritual ceremony and taking personal nonviolent action to break every

link in the nuclear chain.


HGW is proud to be a member of the Abolition 2000 Global Network.

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