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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/02
Date: 02 May 2000 13:27:58 -0400

1) NucNews archives have been posted through April 25, 2000.
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.

2) At the meeting of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons last
Friday, April 28, 2000, I promised I'd try to ascertain and distribute the
presidential candidates' speaking schedules.  Today I submitted requests to
both Gore and Bush campaigns for schedules of their upcoming speeches.
I'll send the lists out to you as soon as received.  I hope this will help
you bring the question of Nuclear Abolition to the Town Halls during this
year's campaign for President.  Until I hear from the campaigns, I must
rely on the day's news.  Today, VICE PRESIDENT GORE travels to Atlanta and
Atlantic City, N.J.

3)  At the International Abolition 2000 Annual Meeting last Sunday, April
30, 2000, the dangers of Ballistic Missile Defense and the plight of the
islanders of Vieques, were issues all agreed deserve our active attention.
  See http://prop1.org/calendar.htm for links to relevant websites.

4)  Intern(s) needed:  If you're a student who has or wants experience
editing web pages, we could sure use your help making NucNews more
user-friendly.  You don't have to live in Washington D.C. to help.

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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) ASK YOUR GOVT TO SUPPORT NEW AGENDA COALITION NOW AT NPT REVIEW
Date: 03 May 2000 17:31:56 +1000

PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT USE IT

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd

Dear All who recieve this email,

As you may be aware both from emails from me and from the media, the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is being discussed right now at
United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is a kind of 'bargain' or 'deal'
between the nuclear weapon states,  signed in 1968 and in force since 1970,
whereby the nuclear weapon states agreed to work to get rid of their
nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and everybody else agreed not to get any
of them.

Article VI of the NPT obliges the nuclear weapon states to negotiate to
eliminate their nuclear arsenals.

The 'New Agenda Coalition' is a group of countries (New Zealand, Ireland,
Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa), who have a commonsense
program aimed at pushing the nuclear weapons states to fulfil their legal
obligations under the NPT.

They ask the nuclear weapon states to:
--Make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of
their nuclear arsenals and to engage in an acellerated process of
negotiation  taking steps to nuclear disarmament in the coming five years

--They ask the US and Russia to implement START-II and immediately commence
negotiation in START-III

--They want all five nuclear weapon states to be integrated into the
process of elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

Interim steps include taking nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert, 'no
first use' guarantees,  reduction and elimination of tactical nuclear
weapons, and other commonsense measures.

All governments should support this program.

It is vital that governments over the next weeks (From April 24-May19th)
recieve as many faxes and letters as possible, asking them to support the
New Agenda Coalition's program during the NPT Review.

That could make the difference between whether our world moves toward more
and more nuclear weapons, or toward the elimination of these devices of
omnicide.

Felicity Hill of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom has
published an appeal to the whole world to support the New Agenda
Coalition's efforts.  There's just a month to do this. (text at end, please
read it)

Do please write your foreign minister and if possible your UN mission at
the fax number below.

If your government is NOT part of the New Agenda Coalition, ask them to
join it, or to actively support its aims. If your government IS a member of
the New Agenda Coalition, let them know (no matter what other faults that
government may have), that you support them, at least in this.

Ask them to redouble their efforts at the NPT Review, and congratulate them
on what they have already done.  If your government is the Mexican, South
African, New Zealand, Irish, Swedish, Brazilian or Egyptian government,
please congratulate them and support them strongly for their efforts at the
NPT Review and in the UN, to eliminate nuclear weapons (no matter what
other faults they may have).

If your government is a nuclear weapons state (US, Russia, france, China,
UK, India, Pak, Israel), ask them to do what the New Agenda Coalition want
them to do.

Tell them the NPT requires them to get rid of nuclear weapons 'at an early
date' and not 'ultimately'.

It really will make a difference as to whether we move to eliminate nuclear
weapons, or down the slippery slope to a possible nuclear catastrophe.

Do it now.

The original appeal sent by Felicity Hill of the Womens international
League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is after these fax numbers. I urge you
to read it and use its points.

BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS.

NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL.


FAX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS

A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in
the world is listed plus lots of information is this:
Http://www.abolition2000.org.

(Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers
and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is:
Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org )

Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not
on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of
the two URLs above.
(The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be.
You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope
however, that  people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister
but also those of Russia and the US.)

Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me
know at <[e-mail]>  and check the number on the URL or with
your own telephone system.

If you are in the US, President Clintons fax number is 1-202-456-2461
The US United Nations mission is on  Fax. + 1 212 415 4443

If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is
[phone] or [phone]. (You need to be persistent with these
numbers)
The general Kremlin fax number is [phone]. (This is the slowest fax
in the universe)
Russia's UN mission is on 1-212-628-0252

If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is [phone],
Jacques Chirac's fax number is [phone].
France's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889

If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is [phone].
The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is:  [phone]
The United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 745 9316

If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: [phone],  or
[phone]
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: 49-228-168-6662,
49-30-20186-252,
[phone], [phone]
The German UN mission is on: Fax [phone]

Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions:
If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: [phone].
Canada, UN Mission -Fax.+ 1 212 848 1195
If you are in Japan, you need to fax [phone] UN Mission -  Fax. +1
212 751 1966
If you are in Italy please fax [phone], or 39-6-3222-850 or 39-6-3222-734
Italy UN Mission - Fax. [phone]
If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on [phone]
If you are in Korea, try  your minister of foreign affairs on
[phone], [phone]
If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be [phone]
Brazil UN Mission - Fax.+ 1 212 371 5716 or + 1 212 758 9242
If you are in Mexico, try [phone]
If you are in Greece try 30-1-645-0094 (or 0095)
If you are in Thailand, try [phone], or 66-2-226-1374

BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL APPEAL BY FELICITY HILL, DIRECTOR OF THE WILPF - UN
OFFICE.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL NETWORKS

Dear Colleagues,

One month is a long time in politics.

The nuclear disarmament movement has been given one month to support the
activities of the New Agenda Coalition at the Non Proliferation Treaty
Review Conference April 24 - May 19, 2000.

As you know, the New Agenda Coalition is a post Cold War grouping of states
that have proposed a practical, reasonable, achievable programme for
nuclear disarmament since 1998.  Building on the language contained in
treaties, legal opinions and consensus language developed over the 55 year
dialogue on nuclear weapons through the UN system, the New Agenda Coalition
have presented a brief four page programme of action to the NPT Review
Conference called WORKING DOCUMENT ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.

Although this forward looking action plan does not go as far as many in the
NGO community may, when advocating abolition, the ideas contained in the
New Agenda Coalitions Working Document are something that we can all agree
are the obvious first steps to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.
Think of it as a platform of consensus rather than a compromise.

Pressure placed on governments NOW to support this realistic and doable
programme, WILL MAKE AN IMPACT on this four-week meeting of 187
governments.  You are urged to make a concerted effort at this critical
time of international political tension wherein treaty regimes are
weakening and a new arms race is brewing.

o  Please send letters and visit your elected representatives
o  Please send letters and visit your departments of Foreign Affairs and
Defence
o  Please send letters to the editor
o  Please create press releases and direct actions around this opportunity

Following you will find:
* Some points to use in your letters, lobbying and press work

Lobbying Points

o  The Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament was presented on Monday 24
by Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green at the United Nations.  Mexico is
speaking on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition at the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference.

o  Taking place every five years, these Review Conferences bring together
187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty
ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law
in 1970.

o  The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they
committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6.  "Each of
the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith
on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an
early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and
complete disarmament under strict and effective international control."

o  The New Agenda Coalition is made up of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico,
New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.  Their resolution at last years
General Assembly adopted on December 1, 1999 was co-sponsored by 60 states
and enjoyed the support of 111 countries.

o A precise understanding of the fact that nuclear disarmament is a
complicated process that will not happen overnight informs the forward
looking plan of action crated by New Agenda Coalition which is doable,
practical and reasonable and realistic.

o  If your government has any resistance to the following measures
identified by the NAC for the implementation of the NPT, ask them
specifically what points could possibly object to in the following:

1.   the five nuclear-weapon States make an unequivocal undertaking to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, and engage in
an accelerated process of negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear
disarmament in the coming five year period;

2.  the USA and the Russian Federation undertake to fully implement START
II and begin negotiations on START III;

3. all five nuclear weapon-states are integrated into the process leading
to the total elimination of their nuclear weapons.

Six interim steps were identified:

1.  an adaptation of policy and posture to preclude the use of nuclear
weapons;
2. de-alerting;
3. the reduction of tactical nuclear weapons towards their elimination;
4. a demonstration of greater transparency regarding arsenals and fissile
materials;
5. further development of the Trilateral Initiative; and
6. the application of the principle of irreversibility in all nuclear
disarmament, arms reduction and arms control measures.
*******       *******       *******       *******
Felicity Hill, Director
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
United Nations Office
777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA

Ph:  1 212 682 1265
Fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail]
web: www.wilpf.int.ch  www.reachingcriticalwill.org

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/03 - (1) Presidential Candidates (2) Congress
Date: 03 May 2000 13:12:56 -0400

(1) Presidential Candidates' whereabouts: =20

Ralph Nader (http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html):=20

Wednesday, 5-3-00 - 5:45 pm Speech
Columbia, SC - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2701 Haywood St.

Friday, 5-5-00 -  6:00 pm Speech
Charleston, WV - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 520  Kanawha Blvd W,
Charleston  WV 25302

--

Al Gore:

     9:15 a.m. =97 Addresses the AFL-CIO 25th Constitutional Convention,
Bally's  Park Place Hotel, Atlantic City, N.J.

     12:45 a.m. =97 Addresses a Democratic National Committee luncheon,
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City.

--

George Bush and Pat Buchanan - unknown.


2) May 3, 2000 Washington Times Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200053214843.htm

      Energy policy discussion =97 noon =97 The Heritage Foundation holds a
discussion on "How America's Energy Policy Undermines Our National
Security." Participants include Denise Bode, Oklahoma Corporation
Commission, and Donald Hodel, former energy secretary. Location: Lehrman
Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE, DC. Contact: 202-608-6143.
Broadcast live on web at www.heritage.org.

      Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers briefing =97 9 a.m. =97 The Coalit=
ion
to Reduce Nuclear Dangers holds a briefing on the upcoming U.S.-Russia
summit, the national missile-defense debate and the future of nuclear arms.
Location: Old Ebbitt Grill, 675 15th St. NW. Contact: 301/384-4338.

      Iraqi sanctions briefing =97 3 p.m. =97 Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio
Democrat, holds a briefing on the current U.N. sanctions policy against
Iraq, its effect on the Iraqi civilian population, and its impact on the
Iraqi regime. Location: 2203 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-5871.

SENATE COMMITTEES=20

      9:30 a.m. =97 Appropriations defense subcommittee holds a hearing on
fiscal 2001 defense appropriations. Location: 192 Dirksen Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-3471.

      3 p.m. =97 Armed Services Committee marks up the fiscal Authorization
Act. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.


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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Harris Poll on Nuclear Disarmament at Excite.com today!
Date: 03 May 2000 15:13:04 -0500

Dear friends,

Here's an opportunity for some electronic organizing.  Today's Harris
Poll on the website of the search engine Excite asks the question:

Should the world's five key nuclear powers eliminate their nuclear
arsenals?

Currently, of over 26,000 "votes" cast, 45% said "yes", 50% said "no",
4% said "don't know".

Never mind why they excluded Israel, India, and Pakistan (actually, you
can post that question on the webpage after you vote). Go to
http://news.excite.com/news/poll/  and cast your "vote" for for nuclear
abolition.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!


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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/04 - Daybook
Date: 04 May 2000 07:36:59 -0400

May 4, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook

http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200054215436.htm

    Kissinger speech =97 7:30 p.m. =97 Henry Kissinger, former secretary of
state, addresses the prospects of peace in the Middle East during a lecture
at the University of Maryland Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development.
Location: Tawes Theatre, University of Maryland, College Park. Contact:
301/405-4625.

      Small-arms trafficking conference =97 9 a.m. =97 The Eminent Persons
Group holds a conference to discuss small-arms trafficking. A news
conference will be held at the National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW,
at 2 p.m. Location: School of International Service Lounge, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/885-5950 or=
 703/855-5556.

      Handgun Control briefing =9710 a.m. =97 Handgun Control holds a news
briefing to focus on the gun-control records of prominent elected
officials. Location: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets
NW. Contact: 202/898-0792.

    U.N. report discussion =9712:30 p.m. =97 The National Press Club hosts a
panel discussion, "The U.N. Secretary-General's Millennium Report: A Vision
for the 21st Century." Location: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 14th
and F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7500.

      Iraqi sanctions news conference =97 2 p.m. =97 Reps. Joseph Crowley, N=
ew
York Democrat, and John E. Sweeney, New York Republican, hold a news
conference to announce a letter to President Clinton urging that the United
Nations maintain sanctions against Iraq. Location: Capitol, House Triangle.
Contact: 202/225-3965.

     Youth violence discussion =97 7 p.m.  =97 The Creative Coalition holds =
a
panel discussion, "Youth Violence in America: The Reel Story?" Location:
National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/778-1251.

(etc.)

Ralph Nader's schedule:  http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html

Gore and Bush schedules unknown.=20
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) sample letters to the editor on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and missile defense
Date: 04 May 2000 11:01:53 -0500

Dear Friends:

Following are two sample letters to the editor for use with your local
newspaper on U.S. nuclear policy, particularly regarding the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference currently meeting at
the U.N. and plans to deploy a national missile defense.  Project
Abolition Field Coordinator Karina Wood drafted the first, I drafted the
second (as you'll see, hers is much better).  Feel free to use or adapt
as you see fit, and let us know of any success you have in getting
letters published.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
####

Letter #1

To the editor,

Question: What sounds like disarmament, but isn't? Try this: "We
reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goal of a complete
elimination of nuclear weapons." A statement from the five major nuclear

powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) at the
2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), currently
taking place at the UN in New York.

You have to love that phrase "ultimate goal." That's diplomat-eeze for
"not for a very, very long time, and probably not in your lifetime if we

can help it." The nuclear weapons-owning countries remind me of a group
of old alcoholic drinking buddies, who, in the height of their
drunkenness regale us with promises of their "unequivocal commitment" to

the "ultimate goal" of sobriety. Who do they think they're kidding?

Their statement was immediately and quite rightly lambasted by many
non-nuclear nations and disarmament advocates at the conference as
inadequate, vague and contradictory. Inadequate, because the statement
simply reiterated the commitment of the nuclear powers to the 1970
treaty's original goals, to which they are already legally bound - that
the nuclear weapons owning countries will give up their nukes in return
for non-nuclear countries agreeing never to acquire them. Vague, because

the statement neglects to mention any new undertakings to actually
achieve disarmament. Contradictory, because while US diplomats mouth
reassuring platitudes at the UN, back in Washington, DC, their
Administration bosses are colluding with Congress on a missile defense
plan that will surely spark a new nuclear arms race. And there's also
the little problem of the Senate's rejection of the test ban treaty, and

the nearly $5 billion the US is spending every year on experimental new
nuclear
weapons research and development.

It's high time the United States and company quit their dangerous
addiction to nuclear weapons. I want to see their 12 step recovery
program for ridding the world of the nuclear threat. Here's some
concrete actions to back up their wiley words. Step one: reject the
misguided, unworkable waste of taxes known as "missile defense." Step
two: take missiles off hair-trigger alert. Step three: accept Russia's
lowest offer for mutual reductions in our two countries' nuclear
stockpiles. Step four: convene multilateral negotiations on a convention

to abolish all nuclear weapons.

Sincerely,


#####

Letter #2

To the editor:

According to documents made public last week by the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists,
the U.S. is working hard to gain Russian acquiescence to an American
limited
missile defense system to protect the U.S. against a small missile
attack by a "rogue state".  This is necessary to convince Russia to
amend the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, which limits missile
defenses on the theory such systems would provoke an offensive nuclear
missile buildup by the other side. A Pentagon
document reassures Russia, "Both the United States and the Russian
Federation
now possess and, as before, will possess under the terms of any possible
future arms reduction
agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of strategic offensive
weapons=85"

How wonderful. Ten years after the end of the Cold War, which should
have removed any rationale for such a thing, the U.S. wants to extend
indefinitely the ability of our country and of Russia to destroy each
other.

The U.S., Russia, China, Great Britain, and France are bound by the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, currently being reviewed at a United
Nations conference in New York, to negotiate the elimination of nuclear
weapons.  Those states, which are also the permanent members of the U.N.
Security Council, released a joint statement the other day re-affirming
their commitment to disarmament that is directly contradicted by the
U.S.=92s =93Dr. Strangelove=94statement to Russia.

So which is it? Do we hold sacred the Cold War doctrine of =93mutual
assured destruction=94 =96 MAD =97 or are we serious about abolishing nuc=
lear
weapons?  Clearly, U.S. policy-makers are confused. They need to hear,
from we the people, loud and clear: stop the MADness, abandon plans for
a missile defense system that will provoke a new arms race, and get
serious about negotiating a treaty to rid the planet of the scourge of
nuclear weapons.
>
> Sincerely,



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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 000504-2 - Vieques Actions; Italy DU Programs; Global
Date: 04 May 2000 12:49:33 -0400

(1) Vieques Arrests and Upcoming Actions
(2)  Italian DU in Iraq TV Series
(3)  Global Connections

--

(1) Urgent-U.S. Arrests Vieques Demonstrators - Actions Listed Below


Today, Thursday, May 4, 2000, at 5:30 A.M. federal authorities began to arrest
the people conducting Civil Disobedience in Vieques. For more details, please
access news media.

This is the moment to put forward the planned activities. Today and tomorrow
protests will take place in U.S. and Puerto Rico, please access
(http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm) for scheduled protests.

For more information: wwww.ViequesLibre.org

The time to act is NOW QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO y VIEQUES LIBRE. NOT ONE MORE BOMB
!!!

Contact: Anthony Cruz   -  [e-mail]

Condemn the U.S. invasion of Vieques by attendingthese protests events that
will be held in the following areas. (See
http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm for times and places.)

So far protests May 4th and 5th have been scheduled for:

Boston, Massachusetts
Burlington, Vermont
Cornell University
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Hartford, Connecticut
Miami, Florida
Minnesota, Minneapolis
Montpelier, Vermont
New Orleans, Louisiana
New York City
Orlando, Florida
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Francisco, California
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Seoul, South Korea
Springfield, Massachusetts
Toronto, Canada
Tucson, Arizona
Vieques, Puerto Rico
Washington, D.C. --

On May 5 there will be a mobilization in Lafayette Park, in front of the White
House at at noon. Please, contact the media and call your people.
DC Contact: David Santiago 202-223-3915 ext. 308

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(2) 15 TV-programs about DU in Iraq


Today, Father Benjamin (onorary member of the italian NGO Ethical Environmental
Observatory) is in Bagdad were he will stay 15 days with a troupe of the
italian TV - Canale 5.

Each day, starting from 6 May, there will be a 5 to 8 minutes program
(broadcasted in real time) for a total of 15 evenings, during "Striscia la
Notizia",  a program with an audience of about 10 million people. In this
program, the effects of the UN embargo on Iraqi population are shown, with a
special attention on DU. During the same time, we will campaign here in Italy
to put an end to the embargo on Iraq.

Marco Saba
Osservatorio Etico Ambientale
via F.lli Cervi Res. Idra, 20090 Segrate (MI)
Tel. [phone] - GSM 0338 5838282

http://stop-u238.i.am

----

(3) For those looking for activists in your region, check out Global
Connections:  An International Roster of Prominent Non-Government Organizations
Advocating Abolition, Containment, or Cleanup  of Nuclear Weapons.  Incomplete,
but a good idea, and your additions to the list invited.....

http://members.home.net/globalconxion/index.htm

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Oops! re NucNews 000504-2 - Vieques Actions; Italy DU
Date: 04 May 2000 13:05:30 -0400

Oops.  Sorry.

Marco Saba wrote about Italy, not Vieques.

Contact: Anthony Cruz -  [e-mail] - about Vieques.
http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm

Ellen

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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Supporting New Agenda Coalition In NPT Review
Date: 05 May 2000 18:47:27 +1000

PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT USE IT

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd

Dear All who recieve this email,

As you may be aware both from emails from me and from the media, the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is being discussed right now at
United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is a kind of 'bargain' or 'deal'
between the nuclear weapon states,  signed in 1968 and in force since 1970,
whereby the nuclear weapon states agreed to work to get rid of their
nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and everybody else agreed not to get any
of them.

Article VI of the NPT obliges the nuclear weapon states to negotiate to
eliminate their nuclear arsenals.

The 'New Agenda Coalition' is a group of countries (New Zealand, Ireland,
Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa), who have a commonsense
program aimed at pushing the nuclear weapons states to fulfil their legal
obligations under the NPT.

They ask the nuclear weapon states to:
--Make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of
their nuclear arsenals and to engage in an acellerated process of
negotiation  taking steps to nuclear disarmament in the coming five years

--They ask the US and Russia to implement START-II and immediately commence
negotiation in START-III

--They want all five nuclear weapon states to be integrated into the
process of elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

Interim steps include taking nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert, 'no
first use' guarantees,  reduction and elimination of tactical nuclear
weapons, and other commonsense measures.

All governments should support this program.

It is vital that governments over the next weeks (From April 24-May19th)
recieve as many faxes and letters as possible, asking them to support the
New Agenda Coalition's program during the NPT Review.

That could make the difference between whether our world moves toward more
and more nuclear weapons, or toward the elimination of these devices of
omnicide.

Felicity Hill of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom has
published an appeal to the whole world to support the New Agenda
Coalition's efforts.  There's just a month to do this. (text at end, please
read it)

Do please write your foreign minister and if possible your UN mission at
the fax number below.

If your government is NOT part of the New Agenda Coalition, ask them to
join it, or to actively support its aims. If your government IS a member of
the New Agenda Coalition, let them know (no matter what other faults that
government may have), that you support them, at least in this.

Ask them to redouble their efforts at the NPT Review, and congratulate them
on what they have already done.  If your government is the Mexican, South
African, New Zealand, Irish, Swedish, Brazilian or Egyptian government,
please congratulate them and support them strongly for their efforts at the
NPT Review and in the UN, to eliminate nuclear weapons (no matter what
other faults they may have).

If your government is a nuclear weapons state (US, Russia, france, China,
UK, India, Pak, Israel), ask them to do what the New Agenda Coalition want
them to do.

Tell them the NPT requires them to get rid of nuclear weapons 'at an early
date' and not 'ultimately'.

It really will make a difference as to whether we move to eliminate nuclear
weapons, or down the slippery slope to a possible nuclear catastrophe.

Do it now.

The original appeal sent by Felicity Hill of the Womens international
League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is after these fax numbers. I urge you
to read it and use its points.

BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS.

NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL.


FAX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS

A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in
the world is listed plus lots of information is this:
Http://www.abolition2000.org.

(Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers
and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is:
Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org )

Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not
on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of
the two URLs above.
(The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be.
You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope
however, that  people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister
but also those of Russia and the US.)

Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me
know at <[e-mail]>  and check the number on the URL or with
your own telephone system.

If you are in the US, President Clintons fax number is 1-202-456-2461
The US United Nations mission is on  Fax. + 1 212 415 4443

If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is
[phone] or [phone]. (You need to be persistent with these
numbers)
The general Kremlin fax number is [phone]. (This is the slowest fax
in the universe)
Russia's UN mission is on 1-212-628-0252

If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is [phone],
Jacques Chirac's fax number is [phone].
France's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889

If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is [phone].
The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is:  [phone]
The United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 745 9316

If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: [phone],  or
[phone]
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: 49-228-168-6662,
49-30-20186-252,
[phone], [phone]
The German UN mission is on: Fax [phone]

Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions:
If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: [phone].
Canada, UN Mission -Fax.+ 1 212 848 1195
If you are in Japan, you need to fax [phone] UN Mission -  Fax. +1
212 751 1966
If you are in Italy please fax [phone], or 39-6-3222-850 or 39-6-3222-734
Italy UN Mission - Fax. [phone]
If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on [phone]
If you are in Korea, try  your minister of foreign affairs on
[phone], [phone]
If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be [phone]
Brazil UN Mission - Fax.+ 1 212 371 5716 or + 1 212 758 9242
If you are in Mexico, try [phone]
If you are in Greece try 30-1-645-0094 (or 0095)
If you are in Thailand, try [phone], or 66-2-226-1374

BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL APPEAL BY FELICITY HILL, DIRECTOR OF THE WILPF - UN
OFFICE.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL NETWORKS

Dear Colleagues,

One month is a long time in politics.

The nuclear disarmament movement has been given one month to support the
activities of the New Agenda Coalition at the Non Proliferation Treaty
Review Conference April 24 - May 19, 2000.

As you know, the New Agenda Coalition is a post Cold War grouping of states
that have proposed a practical, reasonable, achievable programme for
nuclear disarmament since 1998.  Building on the language contained in
treaties, legal opinions and consensus language developed over the 55 year
dialogue on nuclear weapons through the UN system, the New Agenda Coalition
have presented a brief four page programme of action to the NPT Review
Conference called WORKING DOCUMENT ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.

Although this forward looking action plan does not go as far as many in the
NGO community may, when advocating abolition, the ideas contained in the
New Agenda Coalitions Working Document are something that we can all agree
are the obvious first steps to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.
Think of it as a platform of consensus rather than a compromise.

Pressure placed on governments NOW to support this realistic and doable
programme, WILL MAKE AN IMPACT on this four-week meeting of 187
governments.  You are urged to make a concerted effort at this critical
time of international political tension wherein treaty regimes are
weakening and a new arms race is brewing.

o  Please send letters and visit your elected representatives
o  Please send letters and visit your departments of Foreign Affairs and
Defence
o  Please send letters to the editor
o  Please create press releases and direct actions around this opportunity

Following you will find:
* Some points to use in your letters, lobbying and press work

Lobbying Points

o  The Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament was presented on Monday 24
by Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green at the United Nations.  Mexico is
speaking on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition at the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference.

o  Taking place every five years, these Review Conferences bring together
187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty
ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law
in 1970.

o  The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they
committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6.  "Each of
the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith
on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an
early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and
complete disarmament under strict and effective international control."

o  The New Agenda Coalition is made up of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico,
New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.  Their resolution at last years
General Assembly adopted on December 1, 1999 was co-sponsored by 60 states
and enjoyed the support of 111 countries.

o A precise understanding of the fact that nuclear disarmament is a
complicated process that will not happen overnight informs the forward
looking plan of action crated by New Agenda Coalition which is doable,
practical and reasonable and realistic.

o  If your government has any resistance to the following measures
identified by the NAC for the implementation of the NPT, ask them
specifically what points could possibly object to in the following:

1.   the five nuclear-weapon States make an unequivocal undertaking to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, and engage in
an accelerated process of negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear
disarmament in the coming five year period;

2.  the USA and the Russian Federation undertake to fully implement START
II and begin negotiations on START III;

3. all five nuclear weapon-states are integrated into the process leading
to the total elimination of their nuclear weapons.

Six interim steps were identified:

1.  an adaptation of policy and posture to preclude the use of nuclear
weapons;
2. de-alerting;
3. the reduction of tactical nuclear weapons towards their elimination;
4. a demonstration of greater transparency regarding arsenals and fissile
materials;
5. further development of the Trilateral Initiative; and
6. the application of the principle of irreversibility in all nuclear
disarmament, arms reduction and arms control measures.
*******       *******       *******       *******
Felicity Hill, Director
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
United Nations Office
777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA

Ph:  1 212 682 1265
Fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail]
web: www.wilpf.int.ch  www.reachingcriticalwill.org

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/04 - Daybook
Date: 05 May 2000 06:13:09 -0400

Nuclear Accountability for the New Millennium
DC Days 2000=20
May 7-10, 2000 Washington, DC

Co-sponsored by Friends Committee on National Legislation & Fellowship of
Reconciliation, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability=20

Contact:  mailto:[e-mail], 202/833-4668
http://www.ananuclear.org/dcdays.htm

What is DC Days?

 In each of the past eleven years, ANA has hosted four days of training,
education, and political advocacy that bring activists from around the
country to Washington, DC, to explain the concerns of their constituencies.
It is an opportunity to make your voice heard at the national level and to
network with people and organizations working on similar issues.

 Why should you participate?

 This year the administration is set to make major decisions concerning the
nuclear weapons complex. Our national priorities can be for health, safety,
and the environment, or they can be for more waste and new weapons. Your
participation in DC Days will make a difference in the outcome. Join us and
be part of the solution....

Several Alliance for Nuclear Accountability groups have used DC Days to
organize effectively in their communities and are available to talk to you
about their successes. Please call the ANA offices or call the experienced
grassroots activists directly if you need some assistance.

 ANA Seattle Office - 206-547-3175, [e-mail]

 ANA Washington, DC Office - 202-833-4668, [e-mail]

 Margaret Stewart, Snake River Alliance, ID - 208-726-7271 -
[e-mail]

 Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, CA - 925-443-7148 - [e-mail]

 Tom Marshall, Rocky Mountain Peace Center, CO - 303-444-6981 -
[e-mail]


----

May 5, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook

http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200055224049.htm

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE Travels to Lansing, Mich., and Farmington, Pa. Today

[RALPH NADER  - 6:00 pm Speech
Charleston, WV - Unitarian  Universalist Fellowship, 520  Kanawha Blvd W,
Charleston  WV 25302
http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html]

In D.C.--

    Russia discussion =97 8:30 a.m. =97 The National Press Club holds a Morn=
ing
Newsmaker news conference featuring Walter Schwimmer, secretary-general of
the Council of Europe (COE), discussing "Russia's Relations with the West
Under President Putin, the COE Role in Southeast Europe, Chechnya, and
U.S.-Council on Foreign Relations." Location: National Press Club, 14th and
F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593.
     =20
      Highlight =97 12:30 p.m. =97 Walter Schwimmer, secretary-general of th=
e
Council of Europe, "The Ascent of the Far Right in Europe." Location:
Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K streets NW. Contact: 212/751-4000, Ext.=
 271.

    "Clean" cars briefing =97 noon =97 The Sierra Club hosts a luncheon
briefing to discuss the future of "clean" cars and hold a demonstration of
the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius, the first commercially available
"clean" cars. The speakers are Jim Motavalli, author of "Forward Drive,"
and Shirley Smith, a Honda Insight owner. Location: 408 C St. NE. Contact:
202/675-2383.

      China and Taiwan discussion =97 2:30 p.m. =97 The American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research sponsors a panel discussion, "China
and Taiwan: The Linkage Between Trade and Security." Location: Wohlstetter
Conference Center, 1150 17th St. NW. Contact: 202/862-5800.
 =20
   China trade conference =979:15 a.m. =97 The Brookings Institution, the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heritage
Foundation, the Institute for International Economics, the Nixon Center for
Peace and Freedom, and the Rand Corporation co-sponsor a conference,
"China's Bid for Permanent Normal Trade Relations: A Hearing on the Debate."
      Highlights =97 9:30 a.m. =97 Panel One: "The Deal, Its Economic
Implications and Prospects for Chinese Compliance."
      10:30 a.m. =97 Panel Two: "Labor, Environmental and Human Rights=
 Concerns."
      11:50 a.m. =97 Panel Three: "The Geopolitical Stakes."
Location: 902 Senate Hart Office Building. Contact: 212/434-9544.

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Activist sentenced to Ten days for trying to Stop Subcritical
Date: 06 May 2000 15:19:18 -0700



Activist sentenced to Ten days for trying to Stop Subcritical Nuclear

Weapons test "Oboe 3"


On Thursday, May 4, in an attempt to deter future nonviolent actions at
the

Nevada Test Site (NTS),  Nye County's Justice of the Peace Bill
Sullivan

found Susi Snyder guilty of Trespass, Resisting Arrest and Public
Nuisance.

This was for her nonviolent actions during a February 3rd early morning

blockade of the main road leading into NTS in an attempt to stop

subcritical nuclear weapons test "Oboe 3". Susi was one nine activists
that

linked arms and walked across the main entrance into NTS blocking
worker

traffic from entering the site, several hours before the planned
detonation

of Oboe 3. All of the activists carried permits issued by the Western

Shoshone National Council allowing them to be on Western Shoshone land.


NTS is located in the heart of the Western Shoshone Nation known as
"Newe

Sogobia". For many decades the Western Shoshone Nation (the most bombed

nation on Earth with over 1000 nuclear devices exploded within their

traditional territory) have been stridently working to shut down NTS
and

begin immediate clean up and environmental remediation.


The nonviolent activists walked about 15 feet into the site until stopped
by a line of Nye

County Sheriffs and Wackenhut private security guards and then sat down
on

the roadway. At this time the sheriffs and Wackenhut began using

intimidation tactics and pain compliance holds while dragging the

demonstrators off the road into the holding pens built for just this

purpose. 3 of the activists agreed to walk with the guards. Soon Susi
and

Graham Sullivan (no relation to Justice Sullivan) were the only ones
left

on the road. Then the Sheriffs escalated their abuse of this nonviolent

duo. Grahams thumb was sprained while being twisted around and Susi was
hit

in the face and pushed roughly to the ground. After Graham had been
removed

from the roadway, the Sheriffs decided to separate Susi and send her to
the

county jail in Beatty. Susi and others believe that this was to single
her

out because of her vocal and effective efforts to raise public awareness
in

Las Vegas about what was going on at NTS and organize public opposition
to

the subcritical nuclear testing program as well as ongoing nuclear
waste

dumping and plans for the Yucca Mountain High Level Nuclear Waste dump.


After a four hour trial presided over by Justice Sullivan during which
both

Sheriff and Wackenhut witnesses perjured themselves, and the five
defense

witnesses testified that they all did the same action and were not

prosecuted while  Susi who was totally nonviolent was singled out, she
was

found guilty and fined a total of $450 and thirty days in jail- 16

suspended for one year, and she was given credit for four days
time-served

for a total of ten days.  She has until May 15th to notify the court of
her

intent to appeal, or the sentence will be imposed on May 16 at that
time.

Susi plans on appealing the verdict and sentencing noting that the
judge

was very biased and nonobjective.


     "If the justice court thinks this is a deterrent," Susi said "they
are

sorely mistaken- now is the time for thousands to converge on the test

site, and SHUT IT DOWN."   These subcritical nuclear weapons test, one
of

which Susi was attempting to stop are detonated dangerously close to

Nevada's groundwater.  The plutonium in these tests- which is exploded
into

dust, travels quickly through to the water table- and is deadly to all

living things.  These tests violate the non proliferation treaty,
recently

under review at the United Nations.  They demonstrate the United States

military desire (driven by the greed for tax dollars of Lockheed
Martin,

Bechtel and others) to continue in the arms race.  These subcritical

nuclear weapons tests have been denounced by nations throughout the
world.


"With the lack of ratification of the CTB and expanded weapons research
at

the NTS this action by the Nye county officials is yet another
escalation

in their efforts to squash the opposition to the destruction occurring
at

all nuclear facilities.  I hope that folks will recognize that what the
DOE

is Doing at the Test Site is similar to taking the Test underground in

1963.  All of us that can should come down and support the effort to
close

the NTS as it is an icon of US Global dominance in a starving  world."
said

Mateo Ferreira, a "loser carpenter from Michigan".




(Next weekend, May 12 - 15th, a Mothers Day 2000 gathering will be held
at

the gates to the Nevada Test Site. People from around the world will
gather

to learn about nuclear abolition efforts and support the Western
Shoshone

Nation as they call for a closure to the test site. A Prayer walk
around

NTS has been organized by the Western Shoshone National Council and
will

end at the Mercury entrance on May 12.) more info
http://www.shundahai.org/momspring00.html

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From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/08 - Daybook
Date: 08 May 2000 05:51:28 -0400

May 8, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200058223855.htm

    Health news conference =9710 a.m. =97 Alliance for Nuclear Accountabilit=
y
holds a news conference to unveil a   health care agenda for nuclear plant
neighbors at risk from radioactive and  toxic contamination from U.S.
nuclear  weapons facilities. Location: Capitol,  Room SC-6. Contact:
202/543-0251.

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE Travels to New York City today

[RALPH NADER - for updates on schedule:
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) strong Senate letter on nuclear disarmament
Date: 08 May 2000 10:58:43 -0500

Dear Friends,

Below is a letter urging President Clinton to get serious about nuclear
disarmament from Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. Note in the "Dear
Colleague" cover letter, Sen. Dorgan mentions that fromer Sen. Alan
Cranston of the Global Security Institute (and a co-chair of Project
Abolition) helped write the letter to the president.  I think you'll
agree it's a strong letter.

The deadline for additional signers has been extended for approximately
another week, so keep your calls flowing! Call your senators and urge
them to sign onto Dorgan's letter.  The Capitol switchboard is at
202-224-3121.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin,
Director, Project Abolition

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!
#######

>                                               April 27, 2000
>
>
>
>Dear Colleague:
>
>The world's confidence in America's commitment to nuclear
non-proliferation
has been shaken recently, particularly because of the Senate's failure
to
ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.  After years of championing
international attempts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons, the United

States now is on the defensive at the NPT Review Conference in New
York.  A
broad alliance of arms control advocates, U.N. officials and diplomats
have
charged that the United States is impeding the non-proliferation
movement
rather than leading it.
>
>If you share my concern about this issue, I hope you will consider
signing
the attached letter to President Clinton which I drafted in coordination

>with former Senator Alan Cranston and several non-government
organizations.

> It proposes a number of steps that the President could take during the

remainder of this administration to help shore up confidence in
America's
commitment to the international non-proliferation regime.
>
>If you would like to sign the letter, or wish additional information,
please contact Wayne Pieringer or Brian Moran on my staff (224-2551) by
May
3, 2000.
>
>                                               Sincerely,
>
>
>
>                                               Byron L. Dorgan
>                                               U.S. Senator
>
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
>The President
>The White House
>Washington, D.C. 20500
>
>Dear Mr. President:
>
>We laud your March 6th statement on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty
(NPT), particularly your reiteration that "the United States is
committed
>to the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons."  Nevertheless, we
are
concerned that the non-proliferation regime will be corroded unless you
>take dramatic steps to back up your words with actions.
>
>The NPT review conference is now underway in New York, and it is clear
that
the world's confidence in America's commitment to nuclear
non-proliferation
has been compromised by the Senate's failure to ratify the Comprehensive

Test Ban Treaty and by contradictions between American rhetoric and
action.

>For example, the 1997 Presidential Decision Directive 60 stated that
nuclear weapons remain the "cornerstone" of our security policy, and the

U.S. has prodded NATO to reaffirm that nuclear weapons "will continue to

>fulfill an essential role" in its strategic policy.
>
>The apparent rush to deploy a National Missile Defense (NMD) system
threatens the integrity of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and
strategic arms reductions. Unilateral NMD deployment could stimulate a
>dangerous new arms race with China and Russia. Even if there is a
bilateral
START/NMD compromise, NMD deployments will inevitably impede deep
strategic
>force reductions.
>
>When NATO members sought a review of NATO nuclear policy, the United
States
objected.  Virtually all the countries in the Southern Hemisphere are
members of nuclear weapons-free zone agreements. Yet, when they
attempted to
make the southern hemisphere one unified nuclear weapons free zone, the
United States objected. The U.S. has also thwarted attempts to
>institute formal bodies to discuss the preconditions necessary to
negotiate
nuclear disarmament. Countries without nuclear weapons are sensitive to
the
>global hazard of maintaining nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.
For
these and other reasons, the world's confidence in the commitment of
nuclear
weapons states to disarmament has been seriously weakened.
>
>We propose some simple steps that you can take during the remainder of
your
administration to help shore up confidence in the commitment of the
United
States to non-proliferation.
>
>=95      Because the U.S. has an obligation under Article VI of the NPT
to pursue
the elimination of nuclear weapons, we urge you to take the lead in
promoting multilateral discussions on how the international community
can
best pursue that goal.
>
>=95      The U.S. should accept the lowest offer that Russia has extende=
d
for
mutually-verifiable cuts in nuclear arsenals under START III.
>
>=95      The U.S. should take clear steps to diminish the salience of
nuclear
weapons by, for example, making reasoned efforts to take them off
hair-trigger alert, pledging never to use them first, negotiating an
>agreement that assures non-nuclear weapon states that nuclear weapons
will
not be used against them, and committing to an international prohibition
on
>the development of new nuclear weapons.
>
>=95      The U.S. should promote the establishment an international
accounting
system for all nuclear weapons and weapons-grade materials, and continue
to
>push for a verifiable fissile material cut-off treaty.
>
>=95      The U.S. should encourage NATO to adopt a policy of  "no first
use of
nuclear weapons."
>
>Mr. President, it is unlikely that the NPT regime can endure
indefinitely
if a few states insist that nuclear weapons provide them with unique
security benefits while denying these alleged benefits to others.
>
>Unless the United States takes tangible steps now to stride beyond the
lethargic bilateral processes commenced during the Cold War, arms
control
>and disarmament will stagnate and the
>non-proliferation regime will be weakened. There could hardly be a less

attractive legacy for your Presidency. However, people around the world
would forever be indebted to you if you took some simple, practical
steps
to help fulfill one of humanity's deepest longings: a world free from
the
threat of nuclear destruction.
>
>                                                       Sincerely,








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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) strong Senate letter on nuclear disarmament
Date: 08 May 2000 16:40:49 EDT

Hi,

Any information about who has signed on?

thanks,

Colby

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From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/09 - Daybook / Today in Congress / Presidential
Date: 09 May 2000 07:29:06 -0400

May 9, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200059221122.htm

SENATE COMMITTEES=20

9:30 a.m. =97 Armed Services Committee marks up the fiscal 2001 Defense
Department Authorization Act. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building.
Contact: 202/224-3871.
        =20
HOUSE COMMITTEES=20

2 p.m. =97 Government Reform's government management, information and
technology subcommittee holds hearing on "Financial Management at the
Defense Department." Location:
2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074.

---

Washington Post "Today in Congress"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30301-2000May8.html

Senate Committees:
=20
Armed Services--9:30 a.m. Closed. Markup of pending legislation. 222
Russell Office Building.

Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs--9 a.m. China-WTO agreement and
financial services. Treas. Sec. Lawrence Summers. 538 Dirksen Office=
 Building.

Judiciary--10 a.m. Criminal justice oversight subc. Drug enforcement
efforts in the Caribbean. 226 DOB.

HOUSE Committees:

Armed Services--1 p.m. Military procurement subc. Mark up pending
legislation. 2118 RHOB.

Armed Services--4 p.m. Military research and development subc. Mark up
pending legislation. 2118 RHOB.

Commerce--10 a.m. Health and the environment subc. Mark up pending
legislation. 2322 RHOB.

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200059221122.htm

Gore speech =97 12:45 p.m. =97 Vice President Al Gore addresses the
Anti-Defamation League's National Leadership Conference. Location:
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave. NW.
    =20
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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/10 - Daybook / Today in Congress / Presidential
Date: 10 May 2000 08:30:35 -0400

May 10, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000510211732.htm

SENATE COMMITTEES=20

      9:30 a.m. =97 Indian Affairs Committee holds a hearing on draft
legislation to authorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. Location:
485 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-2251.

      10:30 a.m. =97 Foreign Relations international operations subcommittee
holds a hearing on the United Nations and the state of its efficacy and
reform. Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4651.

HOUSE COMMITTEES=20

      10 a.m. =97 Government Reform national security, veterans affairs and
international relations subcommittee holds a hearing on acquisition
revisions in the Defense Department's joint strike fighter program.
Location: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074.
 =20
    11:30 a.m. =97 Commerce Committee marks up legislation to prohibit the
imposition of access charges on Internet-service providers, followed by a
telecommunications, trade and consumer protection subcommittee markup of
the Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom of Expression Act of 2000 and the
Wireless Telecommunications Sourcing and Privacy Act. Location: 2123
Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927.
 =20
GENERAL AGENDA=20

    Skin cancer screening day =979 a.m. =97 The American Academy of
Dermatologists holds a skin cancer screening day. Location: B-334,
first-aid station, Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/737-8400.
 =20
    Asia policy discussion =97 7:30 p.m. =97 The Asia Society holds a
discussion, "U.S. Security Policy Toward Asia." The speakers are Defense
Secretary William S. Cohen and Japanese Ambassador Shunji Yanai. Location:
JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 703/695-0169 or=
 202/833-2742.

Compiled by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times. For an e-mail subscription
to the Washington Daybook, click here - mailto:[e-mail].

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagena
me=3Dwpni/print&articleid=3DA37331-2000May9

Wednesday, May 10, 2000 ; A04=20

SENATE Committees:

Foreign Relations--10:30 a.m. International operations subc. U.N. efficacy
and reform. 419 DOB.

Foreign Relations--2 p.m. Pending nominations. 419 DOB.

Indian Affairs--9:30 a.m. Indian Health Care Improvement Act. 485 Russell
Office Building.

Select Intelligence--2:30 p.m. Closed. 219 Hart Office Building.

HOUSE Committees:

Armed Services--10 a.m. Mark up pending legislation. 2118 RHOB.

Government Reform--10 a.m. National security, veterans affairs and
international relations subc. Revisions in Defense Department's Joint
Strike Fighter program. 2247 RHOB.

Select Intelligence--Noon. Closed. H-405 Capitol.

International Relations--10 a.m. Extension of permanent normal trade
relations status to China. 2172 RHOB.

Science--10 a.m. Technology subc. Protecting computers from malicious
attack. 2318 RHOB.

Science--2 p.m. Space and aeronautics subc. FY 2001 budget request for
NASA's earth science program. 2318 RHOB.
 =20
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000510211732.htm

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE=20

      9 a.m. =97 Hosts a town hall meeting at a conference on the future
economic development of the Mississippi Delta, Crystal Gateway Marriott
Hotel, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington.
    =20
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT: support needed for Dorgan letter on U.S. nuclear policy
Date: 10 May 2000 17:27:41 -0500

May 10, 2000

TO: anti-nuclear colleagues
FR: Daryl Kimball & Kevin Martin

RE: Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) letter on nuclear weapons policy and the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review (NPT) Conference

At the moment, only 7 Senators including Dorgan have agreed to sign
Senator
Dorgan's letter. This is due to the short amount of time that the
letter has out and the very strong message it delivers on U.S. nuclear
policy.

In order increase the possibility that the letter gains a more
respectable
number of signatories and to increase the possibility that it can be
wrapped-up and delivered before the end of the NPT Review Conference
(May
19), your help is needed.

PLEASE REDOUBLE YOUR EFFORTS TO CONTACT SENATORS MOST LIKELY TO SIGN THE
LETTER.

Most likely candidates for signing Dorgan letter:

NOTE: Senators in (parentheses) have agreed to sign.

(Biden) - DE
Bingaman - NM
Boxer - CA
Durbin - IL
Feingold - WI
(Harkin) - IA
Johnson - SD
Kennedy - MA
Kerrey - NE
Kerry - MA
Kohl - WI
Lautenberg - NJ
(Leahy) - VT
Levin - MI
(Murray) - WA
Reed - RI
Reid - NV
Schumer - NY
(Wellstone) -MN
Wyden - OR
Jeffords - VT

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

DEAR COLLEAGUE AND TEXT OF LETTER


                                                   April 27, 2000



Dear Colleague:

The world's confidence in America's commitment to nuclear
non-proliferation
has been shaken recently, particularly because of the Senate's failure
to
ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.  After years of championing
international attempts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons, the United

States now is on the defensive at the NPT Review Conference in New
York.  A
broad alliance of arms control advocates, U.N. officials and diplomats
have
charged that the United States is impeding the non-proliferation
movement
rather than leading it.

If you share my concern about this issue, I hope you will consider
signing
the attached letter to President Clinton which I drafted in coordination

with former Senator Alan Cranston and several non-government
organizations.

It proposes a number of steps that the President could take during the
remainder of this administration to help shore up confidence in
America's
commitment to the international non-proliferation regime.

If you would like to sign the letter, or wish additional information,
please contact Wayne Pieringer or Brian Moran on my staff (224-2551) by
May
3, 2000.

                                               Sincerely,



                                               Byron L. Dorgan
                                               U.S. Senator

********

The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

We laud your March 6th statement on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

(NPT), particularly your reiteration that "the United States is
committed
to the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons."  Nevertheless, we
are
concerned that the non-proliferation regime will be corroded unless you
take dramatic steps to back up your words with actions.

The NPT review conference is now underway in New York, and it is clear
that
the world's confidence in America's commitment to nuclear
non-proliferation
has been compromised by the Senate's failure to ratify the Comprehensive

Test Ban Treaty and by contradictions between American rhetoric and
action.

For example, the 1997 Presidential Decision Directive 60 stated that
nuclear weapons remain the "cornerstone" of our security policy, and the

U.S. has prodded NATO to reaffirm that nuclear weapons "will continue
tofulfill an essential role" in its strategic policy.

The apparent rush to deploy a National Missile Defense (NMD) system
threatens the integrity of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and
strategic arms reductions. Unilateral NMD deployment could stimulate a
dangerous new arms race with China and Russia. Even if there is a
bilateral START/NMD compromise, NMD deployments will inevitably impede
deep
strategic
force reductions.

When NATO members sought a review of NATO nuclear policy, the United
States
objected.  Virtually all the countries in the Southern Hemisphere are
members of nuclear weapons-free zone agreements. Yet, when they
attempted
to make the southern hemisphere one unified nuclear weapons free zone,
the
United States objected. The U.S. has also thwarted attempts to institute

formal bodies to discuss the preconditions necessary to negotiate
nuclear disarmament. Countries without nuclear weapons are sensitive to
the
global hazard of maintaining nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

For these and other reasons, the world's confidence in the commitment of

nuclear weapons states to disarmament has been seriously weakened. We
propose some simple steps that you can take during the remainder of your

administration to help shore up confidence in the commitment of the
United
States to non-proliferation.

=95      Because the U.S. has an obligation under Article VI of the NPT t=
o

pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons, we urge you to take the lead
in
promoting multilateral discussions on how the international community
can
best pursue that goal.

=95      The U.S. should accept the lowest offer that Russia has extended
for
mutually-verifiable cuts in nuclear arsenals under START III.

=95      The U.S. should take clear steps to diminish the salience of
nuclear
weapons by, for example, making reasoned efforts to take them off
hair-trigger alert, pledging never to use them first, negotiating an
agreement that assures non-nuclear weapon states that nuclear weapons
will not be used against them, and committing to an international
prohibition on the development of new nuclear weapons.

=95      The U.S. should promote the establishment an international
accounting system for all nuclear weapons and weapons-grade materials,
and
continue to push for a verifiable fissile material cut-off treaty.

=95      The U.S. should encourage NATO to adopt a policy of  "no first
use
of nuclear weapons."

Mr. President, it is unlikely that the NPT regime can endure
indefinitely
if a few states insist that nuclear weapons provide them with unique
security benefits while denying these alleged benefits to others.

Unless the United States takes tangible steps now to stride beyond the
lethargic bilateral processes commenced during the Cold War, arms
control
and disarmament will stagnate and the
non-proliferation regime will be weakened. There could hardly be a less
attractive legacy for your Presidency. However, people around the world
would forever be indebted to you if you took some simple, practical
steps
to help fulfill one of humanity's deepest longings: a world free from
the
threat of nuclear destruction.

                                                       Sincerely,



____________________________________

Daryl Kimball, Executive Director
Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
110 Maryland Avenue NE, Suite 505
Washington, DC 20002
(ph) 202-546-0795 x136 (fax) 202-546-7970
website http://www.crnd.org

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
219-534-3402, ext. 21
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Should political parties be able to endorse Unity 2000?
Date: 11 May 2000 00:43:37 -0700

TO:  Michael Morrill
         Unity 2000
1-610-478-7888
www.unity2000.com

Dear Michael,

Please consider an alternative or additional idea of having your network
coming together for July30th in Philly for RNC, long BEFORE then, to
collaborate on formation of a grassroots all-progressive-issues "American
Platform 2000" that can be well publicized and all candidates for all
elections this year be thereby compelled to take a stand on its
issues/planks.

Wouldn't this be better than seeking endorsements of your event/coalition
from candidates and political parties?

Why not just ask your Unity2000 network below to contribute ideas for
platform issues that candidates and parties should adopt and effect in their
campaigns instead of just a token endorsement of somewhat nebulous and yet
to be formalized goals?

In collaboration with a few folks here in California hoping for some
consensus on this idea I have set up an "American Platform 2000 Committee"
egroup list at http://www.egroups.com/group/amplcom and have stepped forward
as interim temporary committee chair until someone more qualified steps
forward to bring the idea to fruition.  Ideas for inclusion in American
Platform 2000 can be sent to [e-mail] and such submissions will
be archived for public review at above committee list website address.

What do you think?

David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. (Chartered Life Underwriter)
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:16 AM


Friends:

Unity 2000 has had a number of endorsements come in recently from political
parties.  Local or national chapters of Socialist, Communist, Labor and
Green
Parties have formally endorsed us.

However, Unity 2000 made a decision over a year ago that we would not accept
formal endorsements from electoral political entities.  The reasons were
myriad.  We wanted to make it clear that we were not doing electoral
political work and that we were conducting an issue-based march and rally.
We also did not want to be seen as de facto endorsing some other party or
candidate because we were organizing during the RNC.  There was also a
concern about 501(c)(3) organizations jeopardizing their tax status.

Recent events have made it clear to everyone that we are, in fact, an
issue-based action.  That is no longer a question, especially since we are
working with organizers in LA to create a common issues platform.  It is
also
clear from recent major actions in Seattle, D.C. and Columbia that 501(c)(3)
organizations and political parties can both endorse the same event, as long
as the event is organized as an issue-based educational action.  Unity 2000
is designed to educate people about the issues we care about.  We are not
endorsing any candidates or parties, nor are we advocating the passage or
defeat of any particular legislation, so we are safe in that area.

My question is this.  Should we open up our endorsement to political parties
and other electoral entities?  I would especially like to hear from
501(c)(3)
endorsers or potential endorsers. Will opening up endorsement to political
parties prevent you from participating in any way?  Also for political
parties, will the fact that you could not formally endorse prevent your
participation?

Please send your responses to the <[e-mail]> discussion list.  If
you are not a member of that list, please send your responses to me
<[e-mail]> and I'll forward them to the Spokes Council.

Michael Morrill
Unity 2000
1-610-478-7888
www.unity2000.com

P.S. Has your organization endorsed Unity 2000?  Check the list below.  If
not, forward your organization's information (contact person, organization
name, street address, phone, fax, email, url) to: <[e-mail]>

Pennsylvania
╪ ACT-UP Philadelphia
╪ Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care
╪ American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1723
╪ Animal Defense League PA
╪ Au Courant
╪ Berks United Consumers
╪ Black Radical Congress-Philadelphia LOC
╪ Brandywine Peace Community
╪ Center City Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
╪ Center for Progressive Political Communication
╪ DUTV-Cable 54
╪ Equal Partners in Faith
╪ Germantown Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
╪ Greater Philadelphia DSA
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╪ Interfaith Working Group
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╪ Philadelphia Coalition of Labor Union Women
╪ Philadelphia NAACP
╪ Philadelphia NOW
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╪ Physicians for a National Health Program
╪ Question Everything Challenge Everything Magazine
╪ School of the Americas Watch, Northeast
╪ The Shalom Center
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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/10 - Report on ANA - Daybook / Today in Congress
Date: 11 May 2000 07:06:32 -0400

Report from Ellen Thomas, NucNews editor:

Yesterday the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability's DC Days lobbying event
closed, an intense learning experience which I would recommend to everyone.
 Next year's event will be the 14th.  If you're sorry you missed this
year's, you can contact ANA at 1801 18th St, Suite 9-1, Washington, DC
20009, 202-833-4668, fax [phone], and sign up in advance.

I personally spoke to Representatives Lynn Woolsey and Mark Udall, both of
whom expressed interest in co-signing a letter to President Clinton which
specifically asks him to propose de-alerting nuclear weapons to President
Putin of Russia during Clinton's visit to Moscow on June 4th.
Representative Woolsey in particular thought it was a great idea, but
thought Representative Ed Markey should have first shot at drafting it,
since he has de-alerting legislation pending in the House (with 90+
signatures).  Ms. Woolsey asked me to advise Mr. Markey that she would
actively help him collect signatures on such a letter.

The legislative aides of Senators Harkin and Wellstone both said they
believed their bosses would be interested in such a letter from the Senate
side, "perhaps a Harkin-Markey letter with other signatures," said Lowell
Unger, Senator Harkin's aide.  I spoke to Representative Markey's aide,
Craig Jaczko, yesterday, and he said he would discuss the offers with Mr.
Markey, and hopefully have a decision by Monday, May 15. =20

I'll continue updating on this.  A note why such a letter is important:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Armed Services
Committee are notoriously bad about sitting on legislation, which takes a
ponderously long time to wend its way through both houses of Congress.
However, President Clinton, as Commander-in-Chief, has the authority to
order the nuclear weapons to be de-alerted as a safety measure.  There are
various degrees of "de-alerting" that can be utilized, from removing the
firing pin but leaving the bomb otherwise intact, to removing the warhead
from the missile and storing it in a separate place.  Removing the firing
pin would increase the launch time to perhaps an hour from current
hairtrigger alert status.  (At present, from the time a possible missile
has been detected to the time of launch is only 15 minutes, during which
time the technician advises his or her commander, who advises the Pentagon,
which advises the President, who must make a decision based on data only a
few minutes old.)

----

May 11, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000511212112.htm

    Report release =97 9:30 a.m. =97Physicians for Social Responsibility hol=
ds
a news conference to release its report linking common household and
industrial chemicals to behavioral and learning disabilities in children.
Location: First Amendment Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW.
Contact: 202/463-6671.

    War-crimes discussion =97noon =97 The Woman's National Democratic Club
holds a discussion on war crimes. The speaker is Diane Orentlicher,
Washington College of Law professor, and authority on human rights law and
war-crimes tribunals. Location: 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. Contact:
202/232-7363.

    China news conference =97 1 p.m. =97 House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert,
Illinois Republican, holds a news conference on technology, China and
trade. Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Contact: 202/225-0600.

---

Today in Congress=20
Reuters / Washington Post  Thursday , May 11, 2000 ; A04=20
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45371-2000May11.html

SENATE

Meets at 9:30 a.m.

Committees:

Commerce, Science and Transportation--9:30 a.m. Safety, public awareness &
environmental protection in pipeline transportation. 253 Russell Office=
 Bldg.

Energy and Natural Resources--2:30 p.m. National parks, historic
preservation & recreation subc. Pending legislation. 366 DOB.

Environment and Public Works--9:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. Administration's
legislative proposal on Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. 406 DOB.

Foreign Relations--10 a.m. Pending nominations. 419 DOB.

Judiciary--10 a.m. Executive business meeting on pending legislation. 226
DOB.

HOUSE

Meets at 10 a.m.

Committees:

Banking and Financial Services--10 a.m. Economic impact on financial
industry of proposed permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China.
Treasury Sec. Lawrence Summers. 2128 Rayburn House Office Bldg.=20

Commerce--10 a.m. Finance & hazardous materials subc. "Competition in the
New Electronic Market: Part II." 2123 RHOB.

Commerce--11:30 a.m. Health & environment subc. Programs to improve
quality of health care available to minorities. 2332 RHOB.

Government Reform--10:30 a.m. Criminal justice, drug policy & human
resources subc. "Drug Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Are They Working?" 2154
RHOB.

International Relations--10 a.m. State Department computer security lapses.
2172 RHOB.

Resources--2 p.m. Water & power resources subc. Mark up pending
legislation. 1334 LHOB.

Science--10 a.m. NASA's Mars program after report issued by Mars Program
Assessment Team. 2318 RHOB.

Veterans Affairs--10 a.m. Mark up Montgomery GI Bill, which would increase
educational assistance to veterans. 334 Cannon House Office Bldg.

---

NO WORD ON PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS' LOCATIONS TODAY


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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/12 - Gore in Oregon; Congress
Date: 12 May 2000 08:08:18 -0400

Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook, May 12, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000512213358.htm

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE

      11:30 a.m. =97 Holds a discussion on Social Security, Portland
Community College, Portland, Ore.

GENERAL AGENDA

       Chinese airfields news conference =97 9 a.m. =97 The Center for
Defense Information and the Federation of American Scientists hold a
news conference to reveal new high-resolution satellite images of
Chinese airfields facing Taiwan. Location: Zenger Room, National Press
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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 2000 BY 2000: 28 MORE ENDORSERS NEEDED!
Date: 12 May 2000 08:24:36 -0700

"2000 BY 2000" COUNTDOWN!  ABOLITION 2000 NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!!!

ABOLITION 2000 HAS GROWN TO 1972 ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS AND
MUNICIPALITIES!  WE NEED ONLY 28 MORE TO REACH OUR GOAL OF "2000 BY 2000".
WITH 6 MORE WORKING DAYS TO GO BEFORE THE END OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE,
WE CAN MAKE IT, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT AWAY!!  PLEASE REACH OUT TO
PEACE, ENVIRONMENTAL, LABOR, CHURCH, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER GROUPS
AND ASK THEM TO SIGN ONTO THE ABOLITION 2000 STATEMENT.  ENDORSEMENTS CAN
BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY ON THE ABOLITION 2000 WEBSITE
www.abolition2000.org
OR FOLKS CAN E-MAIL ENDORSEMENTS TO ABOLITION 2000 COORDINATOR CARAH ONG AT
[e-mail]

ABOLITION 2000 PLANS TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE NEXT FRIDAY, THE LAST DAY
OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE, TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE NOW 2000 STRONG AND
THAT WE INTEND TO KEEP GROWING UNTIL WE ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!  PLEASE
HELP US GET THOSE LAST 28 ENDORSMENTS IN.  2000 THANKS!!!


****************************************************************************
***************
Jacqueline Cabasso
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California 94612 USA
Tel: + 1 [phone]
Fax: + 1 [phone]
Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member of the
ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) STOP THE NEW NUCLEAR ARMS RACE IN SPACE
Date: 12 May 2000 14:35:21 -0400

www.times-up.net

************************************************
US REJECTS RUSSIAN OFFER TO CUT NUCLEAR ARSENALS
************************************************

President Putin of Russia has offered to cut
Russia's long-range nuclear arsenal to
1000-1500 warheads, provided the US does
not build its $60 billion "Son of Star Wars", in
violation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Russia also urged that the world negotiate a
global missile ban, a much less expensive and
more secure way to prevent attacks from
so-called "rogue" states, but the US is
determined to proceed with its corporate-driven
scheme to militarize and control the heavens.
Outrageously, the Pentagon rejected the
Russian offer and advised them to maintain a
larger arsenal of 2,500 warheads on
launch-on-warning, hair-trigger alert as a way of
"re-assuring" the Russians that they would be
able to overcome the planned US shield.
Russia said it will revoke its recent ratification
of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the
Start II Treaty (cutting to 3,500 warheads) if the
US goes ahead with its "national missile
defense" scheme. Both Russia and China plan
to build up their nuclear arsenals if the US
militarizes space.

Sign a petition to stop this madness and
forward a message to President Clinton or your
head of state.

**********************************************
STOP THE NEW NUCLEAR ARMS RACE IN SPACE
**********************************************

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

**********************************************
1. Sign our petition and send a message to
elected leaders.
**********************************************

**US RESIDENTS**
To send a letter electronically, go to
http://actionnetwork.org/add.tcl?domain=TIMESUP

(Note: You will need to create a new password to sign
up - do not use your usual email password;
create a new one.)

OR - you can print out and send the letter below.

Dear President Clinton,
I am shocked and outraged that you have rejected President PutinÆs offer to
cut
the US and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,000 from 1,500 warheads in order to
build a ôSon of Star Warsö against the so-called ôrogue statesö.  RussiaÆs
suggestion to negotiate a global ban on missile technology is much more
sensible, would save lots of money, and would make our country more secure.
Instead, you have told the Russians to keep 2,500 warheads on
launch-on-warning
hair-trigger alert, which is a much greater threat to our security that any
missile North Korea might be able to build some day.  We could easily handle
the North Korean threat by welcoming them into the family of nations and
establishing relations with them.

Please cancel any decisions to violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to
build a ônational missile defenseö.  Take up the Russian offer to cut to 1,000
warheads and then invite the other nuclear weapons states to negotiations
for a
ban on nuclear weapons, just as we have banned chemical and biological
weapons.

Sincerely,

(Your name and address)

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

***NON-US RESIDENTS***

http://www.gracelinks.org/gracelinks/timesup/nonusresidents.html

If you live outside the United States, you can click on the
link above or cut and paste the letter below to your Head
of State, or put it in your own words.

To find your Head of State,
go to http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen/elinx.html

Sample Letter

Dear

I am shocked and outraged that the US has rejected
President Putin's offer to cut the US and Russian
nuclear arsenals to 1,000 - 1,500 warheads in order to
build a "Son of Star Wars" against the so-called "rogue"
states.

Russia's suggestion to negotiate a global ban on
missile technology is much more sensible, would
preserve the ABM Treaty, and would make our world
more secure. Instead, the US has advised the Russians
to keep 2,500 warheads on launch-on-warning
hair-trigger alert, which is a much greater threat to our
world security that any missile North Korea might be
able to build some day. We could easily handle the
North Korean threat by welcoming them into the family
of nations and establishing relations with them.

Please urge President Clinton to cancel any decisions
to violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to build a
"national missile defense". Ask him to take up the
Russian offer to cut to 1,000 warheads, and then invite
the other nuclear weapons states to negotiations for a
ban on nuclear weapons, just as we have banned
chemical and biological weapons.

Sincerely,

(your name and address)

***********************************************
2. Enroll your organization in Abolition 2000 -
a global network to eliminate nuclear
weapons.
***********************************************
http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/orgendorse.html


***********************************************
Thank you - YOUR LETTER CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
***********************************************

www.times-up.net




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: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 2000 BY 2000: 28 MORE ENDORSERS NEEDED!
Date: 12 May 2000 15:06:49 -0700

"2000 BY 2000" COUNTDOWN!  ABOLITION 2000 NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!!!

ABOLITION 2000 HAS GROWN TO 1972 ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS AND
MUNICIPALITIES!  WE NEED ONLY 28 MORE TO REACH OUR GOAL OF "2000 BY 2000".
WITH 6 MORE WORKING DAYS TO GO BEFORE THE END OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE,
WE CAN MAKE IT, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT AWAY!!  PLEASE REACH OUT TO
PEACE, ENVIRONMENTAL, LABOR, CHURCH, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER GROUPS
AND ASK THEM TO SIGN ONTO THE ABOLITION 2000 STATEMENT.  ENDORSEMENTS CAN
BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY ON THE ABOLITION 2000 WEBSITE
www.abolition2000.org
OR FOLKS CAN E-MAIL ENDORSEMENTS TO ABOLITION 2000 COORDINATOR CARAH ONG AT
[e-mail]

ABOLITION 2000 PLANS TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE NEXT FRIDAY, THE LAST DAY
OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE, TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE NOW 2000 STRONG AND
THAT WE INTEND TO KEEP GROWING UNTIL WE ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!  PLEASE
HELP US GET THOSE LAST 28 ENDORSMENTS IN.  2000 THANKS!!!


****************************************************************************
***************
Jacqueline Cabasso
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California 94612 USA
Tel: + 1 [phone]
Fax: + 1 [phone]
Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member of the
ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
****************************************************************************
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NM Fire = Nuclear Emergency Alert, Global Peace Walk
Date: 12 May 2000 16:09:53 -0700

Below post describes info regarding radioactivity source and danger of smoke
plume from New Mexico fire threatening Los Alamos Nuclear Labs.

This morning in a phone call Reverend Yamato, now in that area with the
Global Peace Walk, explained he considers the situation a global emergency
and I should send out this announcement to email contacts following the
walk's progress.

Rather than just consider the origin of this fire, "brush clearing" by
Forest Service, the consequences of its expansion due to global climate
change induced increasing planetary wind velocities needs to be understood
in terms of potentially grave global consequences including now the
radioactive smoke plume moving across country, let alone the potential of
greater fallout depending on what else burns near the labs.

Tomorrow, Rev. Yamato will be conducting a memorial prayer ceremony at the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial near Angelfire, NM, community (Eagle's Nest) and
then the walkers and kitchen support vehicles, etc., will be going to the
Los Alamos area to conduct prayers and offer help in whatever way they can
to support local community and firefighting efforts.

Yamato has advised that he considers this so serious that Oklahoma schedule
of Global Peace Walk may be readjusted depending on how long the walkers
stay and are able to help in Los Alamos area.

Within 24-48hours I should receive another phone call update and will send
more info when available.

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


It was just announced that Lawrence Livermore is tracking and
calculating all possible travel patterns of the smoke plume from Los
Alamos.  Due to this, one can safely presume the cloud falls under their
jurisdiction which means it is radioactive.

They (DOE) do not normally track fire/smoke plumes, nor does the DOE get
usually involved in tracking and projecting smoke trajectories from
forest fires.  The formal announcement from Los Alamos is that the
Radioactive substances INSIDE the lab are safe, but they said nothing
about the off site hot spots, nor radioactive substances stored outside
of the actual Laboratory buildings.  The cloud is visible from outer
space and is traveling east rapidly. Troy, NY was hit hard with Fallout
from Nevada many years ago.  Presently Vermont is having massive rains
and that will need to be watched....

Denise
Keep your Geiger counters handy...

---------end forwarded post------

David Crockett Williams
Chartered Life Underwriter
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
http://www.egroups.com/group/legal-services-prepaid

General Agency Services  [e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
Updates/Voicemail  415-267-1877

Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

USCampaign  [e-mail]
D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams

The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

Easy way to Email Media and Government
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd

"An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html









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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) =?iso-8859-1?Q?NUKES_=93FOREVER=94--_US_PLANS_REVEALED?=
Date: 12 May 2000 16:31:57 -0700

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2000                            =20
CONTACTS: Jacqueline Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation c/o (212) 818
-1861
                Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group: [phone]
                John Burroughs, Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear Policy (212)
818-1861

NUKES =93FOREVER=94-- US PLANS REVEALED

United Nations Headquarters, New York -- According to United States=
 Department
of Energy (DOE) documents just made public for the first time at the United
Nations, the US has plans to keep nuclear weapons =93forever.=94  This is in=
 spite
of the thirty-year agreement signed by the US as part of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) under which the US has pledged to end the
nuclear arms race and eliminate its nuclear arsenal.

As recently as last week the US renewed what it called an =93unequivocal=94
agreement to the =93ultimate=94 goal of complete nuclear disarmament in a=
 joint
statement with the other four major nuclear powers =96 Russia, Britain,=
 France
and China =96 released at the month-long NPT Review Conference now underway=
 at
the United Nations.

The documents revealing plans that would enable the US to keep nuclear=
 weapons
=93forever=94 were acquired by the Los Alamos Study Group, a=
 non-governmental
organization (NGO) that monitors the US nuclear weapons laboratory at Los
Alamos New Mexico.  The documents were unveiled at a UN meeting between NPT
delegates and NGOs on Wednesday evening by Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive
Director of the California-based Western States Legal Foundation, an NGO=
 that
researches and analyzes US nuclear weapons policy and activities.

The documents reveal US plans, presented at a DOE briefing in March this=
 year
by A.E. Whiteman of the DOE=92s Albuquerque New Mexico Office of Technology,=
 as
part of a report on restructuring of US nuclear weapons production=
 facilities
and technologies. Whiteman outlined what will be required to ensure that US
nuclear weapons =93remain viable forever=94 under the so-called =93Stockpile
Stewardship=94 program. Requirements, he said, include =93replacement and
certification of every part of every weapon.=94  A program called =93SLEP=94
(Stockpile Life Extension Program), Whiteman said, =93will be the driver for=
 the
replacement and certification.=94 According to the documents, Stockpile
Stewardship is intended to maintain US nuclear weapons =93indefinitely,=94=
 without
underground nuclear testing.=20

Commenting on the revelations, Cabasso told NGOs and UN delegates that in
combing through government statements, her organization has found numerous
references to US reliance on nuclear weapons =93for the foreseeable future=
=94 and
even =93indefinitely.=94  However, she said, =93this is the first official=
 reference
we have found confirming US plans for keeping nuclear weapons forever.=94=
 She
added: =93Viewed in combination with the shocking US =91talking points=92=
 recently
obtained by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists declaring that both the
United
States and Russia =91will possess under the terms of any possible future=
 arms
reduction agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of strategic
offensive weapons,=92 it is has become undeniable that the real US intention=
 is
=91nukes forever.=92=94=20

According to Greg Mello, Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group:
=93These documents reveal a resurgent nuclear weapons complex that is=
 completely
out of step with the requirements of the NPT.  These legal requirements are
seldom mentioned in DOE documents and have had no effect whatsoever on US
weapons production plans. The DOE=92s proposal to spend more than $4 billion=
 on
new nuclear weapons production facilities and to produce at least 450=
 plutonium
bomb =93triggers=94  per year is outrageous and irrational. We call on the
international community to help up put the brakes on all plans for new=
 nuclear
weapons design and production facilities.  If built the facilities will be
used.=94

John Burroughs, Executive Director of the Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear=
 Policy
in New York stated: =93US plans to modernize its nuclear arsenal and to=
 maintain
nuclear arms indefinitely flagrantly violate both provisions of the NPT
disarmament obligation =96 the requirement to end the nuclear arms race and=
 the
requirement for good faith negotiations leading to complete nuclear
disarmament.=94 =20


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WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California 94612 USA
Tel: + 1 [phone]
Fax: + 1 [phone]
Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member of the=20
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United Nations Headquarters, New York</b> -- According to United States
Department of Energy (DOE) documents just made public for the first time
at the United Nations, the US has plans to keep nuclear weapons
=93forever.=94  This is in spite of the thirty-year agreement signed by
the US as part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) under which
the US has pledged to end the nuclear arms race and eliminate its nuclear
arsenal.<br>
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As recently as last week the US renewed what it called an =93unequivocal=94
agreement to the =93ultimate=94 goal of complete nuclear disarmament in a
joint statement with the other four major nuclear powers =96 Russia,
Britain, France and China =96 released at the month-long NPT Review
Conference now underway at the United Nations.<br>
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The documents revealing plans that would enable the US to keep nuclear
weapons =93forever=94 were acquired by the Los Alamos Study Group, a
non-governmental organization (NGO) that monitors the US nuclear weapons
laboratory at Los Alamos New Mexico.  The documents were unveiled at
a UN meeting between NPT delegates and NGOs on Wednesday evening by
<b>Jacqueline Cabasso</b>, Executive Director of the California-based
Western States Legal Foundation, an NGO that researches and analyzes US
nuclear weapons policy and activities.<br>
<br>
The documents reveal US plans, presented at a DOE briefing in March this
year by A.E. Whiteman of the DOE=92s Albuquerque New Mexico Office of
Technology, as part of a report on restructuring of US nuclear weapons
production facilities and technologies. Whiteman outlined what will be
required to ensure that US nuclear weapons =93remain viable forever=94 under
the so-called =93Stockpile Stewardship=94 program. Requirements, he said,
include =93replacement and certification of every part of every
weapon.=94  A program called =93SLEP=94 (Stockpile Life Extension
Program), Whiteman said, =93will be the driver for the replacement and
certification.=94 According to the documents, Stockpile Stewardship is
intended to maintain US nuclear weapons =93indefinitely,=94 without
underground nuclear testing. <br>
<br>
Commenting on the revelations, <b>Cabasso</b> told NGOs and UN delegates
that in combing through government statements, her organization has found
numerous references to US reliance on nuclear weapons =93for the
foreseeable future=94 and even =93indefinitely.=94  However, she said,
=93this is the first official reference we have found confirming US plans
for keeping nuclear weapons forever.=94 She added: =93Viewed in combination
with the shocking US =91talking points=92 recently obtained by <u>The
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists</u> declaring that both the United
States and Russia =91will possess under the terms of any possible future
arms reduction agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of
strategic offensive weapons,=92 it is has become undeniable that the real
US intention is =91nukes forever.=92=94 <br>
<br>
According to <b>Greg Mello</b>, Executive Director of the Los Alamos
Study Group: =93These documents reveal a resurgent nuclear weapons complex
that is completely out of step with the requirements of the NPT.
These legal requirements are seldom mentioned in DOE documents and have
had no effect whatsoever on US weapons production plans. The DOE=92s
proposal to spend more than $4 billion on new nuclear weapons production
facilities and to produce at least 450 plutonium bomb =93triggers=94
per year is outrageous and irrational. We call on the international
community to help up put the brakes on all plans for new nuclear weapons
design and production facilities.  If built the facilities will be
used.=94<br>
<br>
<b>John Burroughs</b>, Executive Director of the Lawyers=92 Committee on
Nuclear Policy in New York stated: =93US plans to modernize its nuclear
arsenal and to maintain nuclear arms indefinitely flagrantly violate both
provisions of the NPT disarmament obligation =96 the requirement to end the
nuclear arms race and the requirement for good faith negotiations leading
to complete nuclear disarmament.=94  <br>
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WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION<br>
1440 Broadway, Suite 500<br>
Oakland, California 94612 USA<br>
Tel: + 1 [phone]<br>
Fax: + 1 [phone]<br>
Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member of the <br>
ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS<br>
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Subject: (abolition-usa) 28 more endorsers needed for abolition 2000
Date: 13 May 2000 18:25:32 +1000

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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT URGENT ACTION 2 (From Felicity Hill  Via FOE Sydney)
Date: 13 May 2000 21:03:42 +1000

Dear All,

I am passing on Felicity Hill's second alert, from the NPT Review Confernce
at the UN, which is now moving into a final, crucial, stage.

I have appended to it the sample letter springing out of Felicity's first
alert, which also includes fax numbers, URL's,  that are also useful for
Alert No 2.

I have also appended a letter written by FOE Australia and the Australian
Peace Committee in immediate response to Flick's appeal, hoping it may be
useful in writing to your own governments.

If you use the sample letter, please take careful note of what Felicity has
said in her second alert.

Both alerts call for support for the New Agenda position, especially for
paragraph 1 of the New Agenda working paper.   Alert No 2 is much more
specific and nuanced.

NPT URGENT ACTION 2

from
=46elicity Hill, WILPF
Sharon Riggle, CESD
Merav Datan, IPPNW

The 2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty brings together
187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty
ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law
in 1970.

The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they
committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6.  "Each of
the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith
on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an
early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and
complete disarmament under strict and effective international control."

The Main Committee devoted to non-proliferation, disarmament and
international peace and security concluded its work at the NPT Review
Conference today.  Three draft texts were discussed at the last meeting of
Main Committee I.

There are still six working days of the conference in which there is
opportunity for NGOs to have an impact on the final outcome.   NGOs all
around the world can reinforce the efforts of NGOs at the UN by:

1.  Writing to and visiting your foreign ministry in your capital city.

2.  Writing to and visiting your parliamentary representatives, urging them
to contact the foreign ministry.

3.  Faxing and calling your delegation here in New York.  (For the contact
details in many capitals and all New York Missions, see
www.reachingcriticalwill.org  Click on the Governmental Disarmament
Contacts button).

4.  Writing to your newspapers (either articles, letters to the editor, or
particular journalists who might take up the issue)

This Urgent Action relates in particular to the most contentious language
in the FORWARD LOOKING DOCUMENT for ACTION OVER THE COMING 5 YEAR PERIOD,
developed in a Working Paper of Subsidiary Body I (a subcommittee of Main
Committee I) under the Chairmanship of Clive Pearson of New Zealand.  The
full document, (NPT/CONF.2000/MC.1/SB/1/CRP.7) can be found at:
http://www.basicint.org

We think it would be useful to concentrate on five paragraphs in particular
which relate to

1.  Unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of arsenals (para 17)
2.  The ABM treaty (para 5)
3.  Annual reporting by nuclear weapon states (para 11)
4.  Dealerting, Deactivating (para 13)
5.  A diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies  (para 14) &
the use of "Strategic stability" throughout the document

1.  Unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of arsenals (para 17)

Para 17.  An unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the
forthcoming NPT review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated
process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to
which all States parties are committed under Article VI.

Currently the last paragraph in the document, NGOs believe that this
"unequivocal undertaking" is in fact one of the most important elements of
the working paper.  This language reflects Operative Paragraph 1 from the
New Agenda Coalition's Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament, tabled on
the first day of the Conference.  (The New Agenda Coalition is made up of
Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.)   An
"unequivocal undertaking" is the language proposed to replace the "ultimate
goal" language of the 5 Nuclear Weapon States. "Ultimate" means: last or
last possible, final. This explains why many states and all NGOs are fairly
suspicious of the word ultimate.  An undertaking is an action, not a
promise, which would then translate into a faster process than we have seen
in the past 30 years of the existence of the NPT.   Once there is a
demonstrated commitment to the TOTAL elimination of nuclear weapons, the
consequences will be an accelerated programme of action.

2.  The ABM Treaty

Para 5.  The early entry into force and full implementation of START II and
the conclusion of START III as soon as possible while preserving and
strengthening the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as
a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons, in
accordance with its provisions.

The majority of this language is taken directly from the joint statement of
the five nuclear weapon states.  The consensus nature of this document was
only possible because of differing interpretations of the word
"strengthening".  Strengthening cannot necessarily mean modify but that is
how the US is interpreting this language. An unfortunate consequence of the
5 agreeing to common language has been the rest of the states parties being
reticent to comment on the danger of US plans for a national missile
defense which could spark a new arms race.   The essence of the ABM was a
recognition that reduction of offensive weapons requires a limit on
defensive capabilities.  The US government talking points leaked 2 weeks
ago (available on www.thebulletin.org) indicate that the US "comforted" the
Russians that they should maintain between 1,000 and 2,000 nuclear weapons
to have "the certain ability to carry out an annihilating counterattack=8A"

 3.  Annual reporting by nuclear weapon states (para 11)

Para 11.  Annual reports within the framework of the NPT review process by
all States parties on the implementation of Article VI and paragraph 4 (c)
of the 1995 Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and
Disarmament.

NGOs support an annual reporting mechanism and propose that there be a
standardised format or structure to the annual reports to streamline the
information provided and to avoid the proliferation of glossy propaganda
and self-serving or selective reporting.  The reports should cover the
number of weapons dismantled, in storage and deployed. The reports should
also detail nuclear doctrines and policy changes that relate to, facilitate
or obstruct nuclear disarmament.

4.  Dealerting, de-activating, removal of warheads from delivery vehicles
(para 13)

Para 13.  Measures to de-alert and de-activate nuclear weapon systems, the
removal of nuclear warheads from delivery vehicles and the withdrawal of
nuclear forces from active deployment for the maintenance and promotion of
strategic stability.

Even though dealerting was identified as the first step towards disarmament
in the Canberra Commission, it is still being resisted.  For persuasive
arguments and facts on dealerting go to www.dealert.org

5.  A diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies  (para 14) &
the use of "Strategic stability" throughout the document

Para 14.  A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to
minimise the risk that these weapon ever be used, to facilitate the process
of elimination, to enhance strategic stability and to contribute to
international confidence and security.

This paragraph was originally targeted at NATO's renewed nuclear posture,
but has since been broadened to include any state that is explicitly
increasing reliance on these weapons.  On face value this paragraph might
appear positive but it contains contradictions.  The diminishing role of
nuclear weapons in security policies is necessary for disarmament, however,
the addition of "to enhance strategic stability" cannot be supported by
NGOs because this language reinforces a minimum level of possession of
nuclear weapons.  In other words, strategic stability and the abolition of
nuclear weapons are mutually exclusive notions.  The irony is that the
concept of elimination is right next to the concept of strategic stability.


*******       *******       *******       *******
=46elicity Hill, Director
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
United Nations Office
777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA

Ph:  1 212 682 1265
=46ax: 1 212 286 8211
email: [e-mail]
web: www.wilpf.int.ch  www.reachingcriticalwill.org

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


SAMPLE LETTER TO ALL NPT SIGNATORY FOREIGN MINISTERS AND NPT REVIEW
CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES

(Address and fax number of foreign minister)
(Address and fax number of UN mission/NPT Review Conference Representative)

Dear Foreign Minister, UN Mission, or NPT Review Conference Representative,

I am writing to you to persuade your government to support the working
paper of the New Agenda Coalition at the Review Conference of the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York at the United Nations
Headquarters, and most particularly paragraphs 17,5,11,13,and 14 of the
chairmans working paper of subsidiary body-1 of main committee1.

On 24April, the New Agenda Coalition group of nations, led by Mexico, New
Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa and Egypt, presented a
working paper to the NPT review Conference. This working paper provides a
realistic, moderate, practical, and reasonable program of action for
nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament that should serve as the basis for
the final decision of the Conference.

That program includes the following elements:
--An unequivocal undertaking by the five nuclear weapons states to
eliminate their nuclear arsenals, not as an 'ultimate' aim to be
accomplished at some remote date, but as an immediate obligation. For the
five nuclear weapons states to engage in an accelerated process of
negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear disarmament in the coming
2000-2005 period.

--Implementation of START-II and commencement of negotiations on START-III

--The integration of all five nuclear weapon states into a process leading
to the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

--Adaptation of policies and postures to preclude the use of nuclear weapons
--Taking strategic nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert.

It is requested that your government  support Operative Paragraph 1 of the
New Agenda working paper, which reads:
"The five nuclear weapon states make an unequivocal undertaking to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the
course of the forthcoming review period 2000-2005, to engage in an
accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading  to nuclear
disarmament to which states parties are committed under Article VI."

This is pariticularly important  because the nuclear weapons states have
themselves issued a joint statement on 1 May, which included the following
sentence:
 "We reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goals of a
complete elimination of nuclear weapons and a treaty on general and
complete disarmament under strict and effective international control".

However, the use of the world 'ultimate' in this context,   as well as the
linkage to general and complete disarmament, means that the objective of
the elimination of nuclear weapons is in fact being postponed to a distant
future. The original language of the NPT itself (in force since 1970)
refers to the need to achieve results by an early date. The  1996 advisory
opinion of the International Court of Justice unanimously emphasizes the
obligation to actually achieve the goal of elimination of nuclear weapons.

I//(My organization) therefore urges you, Foreign Minister, to support
Operative Paragraph 1 of the New Agenda Working Paper, as offering a series
of practical steps to move towards the fulfillment of what are in any case
the clear legal obligations of the nuclear weapons states, to eliminate
their nuclear weapons arsenals at an early date. Your government should
especially support also the chairmans working paper of subsidiary body-1 of
main committee1, paragraphs 17,5,11,13,and 14 which now embody the intent
of the NAC working paper.

We urge you to give your full support to the measures outlined by the New
Agenda Coalition in their working paper, especially if your government has
not seen fit to do so before now. These measures offer a realistic way out
of the nuclear quagmire which the P5 statement does not.

The current embodiment of these proposals in the chairs working paper of
SB-1 of main committee 1 must therefore also be supported.

(Signed)

LETTER FROM AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE/FOE AUSTRALIA TO FOREIGN MINISTER DOW=
NER






AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE
=46RIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA
12/5/2000

ATTN
THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER,
02-6273-4112, 08-8370-8166
PENNY WENSLEY, AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS,  0015-1-212-351-6610
cc
MARINA TSIRBAS, BOB TYSON, AUSTRALIAN NPT REVCON DELEGATION

RE:NPT REVIEW, CHAIRS WORKING PAPER, SUBSIDIARY BODY-1, MC-1

Dear Foreign Minister Downer, Penny Wensley,  Marina Tsirbas, Bob Tyson,
and Australian NPT Review Conference Delegation,

We are writing over language to be incorporated in the 'Forward Looking
Document for Action over the Coming Five Year Period', developed in the
Working Paper of Subsidiary Body-1 of Main Committee 1, chaired by
Ambassador Clive Pearson of New Zealand.

There are a number of paragraphs which in our view are particularly worthy
of support. Our comments and recommendations follow.

1)Paragraph 17 refers to 'an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon
states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and,
in the forthcoming NPT Review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated
process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to
which all states parties are committed under article VI'.

We view this paragraph and its wording as vital.

We note that this language differs from that of the P5 statement in which
the elimination of nuclear weapons is referred to as an 'ultimate goal',
and that, as such, it reflects more closely the actual legal obligations
unanimously reaffirmed by the 1996 advisory opinion of the ICJ.

We also note that the UK has proposed that the reference to the forthcoming
NPT Review period 2000-2005 be dropped, and that,  as would be expected,
there is resistance amongst the P5 to this language.

It is our view that this resistance should not be allowed to prevail, and
that Australia should take no steps that weaken the position of the NAC and
indeed the majority of the governments of the world in pushing the weapons
states as far as possible.

2) Paragraph 5 of the SB-1 Chair's paper refers to:
"The early entry into force and full implementation of START-II and
conclusion of START-III as soon as possible  while preserving and
strengthening the ABM treaty as  a cornerstone of strategic stability  and
as a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons in
accordance with its provisions".

This language in many respects mirrors that of the P5 statement.
However, we would draw attention to a number of points:

a)We are fully aware of the obstacles that exist to the full implementation
of START-II, namely that the Russian Duma's ratification legislation
provides that instruments of ratification shall not be exchanged until the
US Senate in turn ratifies protocols to the ABM treaty agreed to in 1997,
but which the US Senate has made clear it does not desire to ratify.  A
mechanism needs to be found to short-circuit this block.

b)We are also aware that documents leaked to the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists show that a negotiating position,  'Talking points', conveyed to
the Russians, actually envisioned the maintenance, on hairtrigger alert, of
higher overall warhead numbers than the Russians themselves, for economic
reasons, wish to maintain in order to provide an assurance of deterrence in
the face of the possible deployment by the US of an ABM system.

Such a position undercuts any assurances by the US in particular that it is
interested in moving toward the elimination of nuclear weapons at all, and
in this context the word 'ultimate' appears very 'ultimate'.

We would strongly urge that START-III negotiations be aimed at achieving
the lowest possible warhead totals and that they encompass also the
standing down of nuclear forces from hairtrigger alert, as recommended by
the Canberra Commission.

c)The maintenance of the ABM treaty as a 'cornerstone' of strategic
stability has been emphasized in this context by the UN Secretary General,
by Russia, by China, by France, by the P5 statement itself, by the EU, by
the NAM and by the NAC as well as by a variety of individual countries.
Needless to say none of these statements emphasizing its importance seems
to have meant that a BMD system should be deployed,  or that such a system
is in any way compatible with the maintenance and strengthening of the ABM
treaty.  Australia should in no way encourage the US toward the belief that
it will be in any way supported in deploying a BMD system.

3)Paragraph 13 of the SB-1 MC-1 Chair's paper refers to:
"Measures to de- alert and deactivate nuclear weapons systems, the removal
of nuclear warheads from delivery vehicles and the withdrawal of nuclear
forces from active deployment for the maintenance and promotion of
strategic stability"

It will be well known to you that de-alerting was strongly recommended by
the Canberra Commission in 1996. The Australian Senate has twice carried
resolutions calling for nuclear weapons to be taken off hairtrigger alert
in the leadup to the Y2K rollover, as has the European Parliament.
Resolutions incorporating de-alerting have also been carried by the United
Nations General Assembly.

De-Alerting, or the standing down of nuclear forces from hairtrigger alert
would do much to lessen the probability of accidental nuclear war resulting
from computer or sensor glitches or from human miscalculation during a
crisis.  You will be aware that a number of frightening 'near misses' have
occurred over the years in both Russian but also in US nuclear weapons
command and control systems.

4) Paragraph 14 refers to:
"A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to minimize
the risk that these weapons ever be used, to facilitate the process of
elimination, to enhance strategic stability, and to contribute to
international confidence and security".

In this context it is disturbing that recent Russian pronouncements on
nuclear doctrine have moved away from the strong 'no first use' position
previously held, to one in which certain circumstances (no matter how
supposedly desperate) might justify the use of nuclear weapons. US and NATO
statements too, continue to envisage nuclear weapons as having a continuing
role, and recent developments in the proposed deployment of an ABM system
also point in that direction.

'...to enhance Strategic Stability' in this context should not be seen (but
is often seen) as a rationale for maintaining high numbers of warheads in
order to be able to assure deterrence in the light of the deployment of a
BMD system, or otherwise to ensure 'deterrence'.  In view of its potential
use as a way to defend the retention of numbers of nuclear warheads it
would be better if this phrase were removed.

It would be prefereable if it were absolutely clear to all that this phrase
means the standing down of weapons systems and the movement to lower and
lower (and then to zero) warhead numbers, not the maintainance of any
number at all of nuclear warheads.

5)NGOs favour the adoption of an annual reporting mechanism on Article VI
and Paragraph 4(c) of the 1995 principles and Objectives for
Nonproliferation and Disarmament, and that in order to avoid self- serving
and selective reporting,   there be a standard format in which the number
of weapons dismantled, in storage, and deployed as well as nuclear
doctrines, policy changes, force postures, and other relevant matters be
reported.

We commend these points to your attention and trust that you will be able
in particular to be able to offer strong support for Paragraph 17 of the
working paper.

John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner Friends of the Earth,
Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee


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=46AX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS

A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in
the world is listed plus lots of information is this:
Http://www.abolition2000.org.

(Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers
and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is:
Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org )

Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not
on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of
the two URLs above.
(The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be.
You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope
however, that  people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister
but also those of Russia and the US.)

Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me
know at <[e-mail]>  and check the number on the URL or with
your own telephone system.

If you are in the US,
Secy of State Madeleine Allbrights fax number is: [phone]
President Clintons fax number is [phone]
The US United Nations mission is on  Fax. [phone]

If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is
[phone] or [phone]. (You need to be persistent with these
numbers)
The general Kremlin fax number is [phone]. (This is the slowest fax
in the universe)
Russia's UN mission is on [phone]

If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is [phone]=
,
Jacques Chirac's fax number is [phone].
=46rance's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889

If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is [phone].
The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is:  [phone]
The United Nations mission is on Fax. [phone]

If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: [phone],  or
[phone]
=46oreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: [phone]=
,
[phone],
[phone], [phone]
The German UN mission is on: Fax [phone]

Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions:
If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: [phone].
Canada, UN Mission -Fax. [phone]
If you are in Japan, you need to fax [phone] UN Mission -  Fax. +1
212 751 1966
If you are in Italy please fax [phone], or [phone] or
[phone]
Italy UN Mission - Fax. [phone]
If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on [phone]
If you are in Korea, try  your minister of foreign affairs on
[phone], [phone]
If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be [phone]
Brazil UN Mission - Fax. [phone] or [phone]
If you are in Mexico, try [phone]
If you are in Greece try [phone] (or 0095)
If you are in Thailand, try [phone], or [phone]




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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FIRE-ALERT: Global Peace Walk 2000
Date: 13 May 2000 15:51:44 -0700

"We are concerned about our future. We are concerned about our human life."
-- Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org


Today again I spoke to Reverend Yamato on the phone from New Mexico
about the Global Peace Walk plans concerning what he feels is a Global
Emergency Situation resulting from the fire that has ravaged the Los Alamos
area including outlying areas of the Nuclear Weapons Lab reportedly
aerosolizing in the smoke decades of radioactive contamination from areas
surrounding the Lab, smoke now settling as potentially very dangerous ash
over several States so far and moving eastward. (details/evidence on this
point below)

Yamato has asked me to sound a Global Emergency Alert on this matter to call
on supporters everywhere to take media publicity actions to get the facts
known to ameliorate potential present dangers, to prevent any future
such dangerous nuclear radioactivity threat situations, and to focus the
current national and global public attention on this tragedy towards
increasing public support and activism for the global abolition of
nuclear weapons.

Please forward this post to your lists.

Tomorrow, Sunday, May 14th, Mother's Day (originally called Mothers Day for
Peace) Reverend Yamato (zen buddhist monk and initiator of the Global Peace
Walk project) will be conducting a global peace prayer and healing ceremony
at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Hall in Angelfire near Eagle's Nest, New
Mexico, caravaning there from Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico, after
gathering at 9AM.

In the afternoon, the Global Peace Walkers and support kitchen bus and
shuttle vehicles will be going to the Los Alamos area, in spite of reported
dangers mentioned above and evidenced below, to offer their help in any way
possible to the community ravaged by fire and, if needed, in firefighting
efforts.  Please keep them in your prayers.  Depending on how long their
help may be of value there, the walk's next schedule of May 29th ceremony at
the Oklahoma City National (bombing victims') Memorial may be postponed.

This Mother's Day ceremony is in solidarity with the prayer gathering being
held this weekend near the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in support of Western
Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney and efforts to abolish nuclear
power, testing and weapons globally, stop uranium mining and waste
contaminations especially such as the proposed Yucca Mountain, NV,
nuclear waste repository http://www.shundahai.org

Yamato specifically asked for all those dedicated to the cause of Nuclear
Abolition 2000 to write letters with their messages about the dangers of
nuclear weapons and their production's contamination of the land, and send
these letters of support to their local media and to the Global Peace Walk
to distribute to New Mexico and the national/international media on site in
Los Alamos to address the need for Abolition 2000.

Closing the weapons lab after this fire would be another idea.

Such letters/messages may be emailed (asap) to
<[e-mail]> for forwarding to the walk, and/or signed
copies (on letterhead if available) faxed to 561-658-2735.

He feels strongly that this situation at Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab now
has the national and international media attention which should be utilized
quickly by the Abolition 2000 network to inspire public support for ending
the danger of nuclear weapons.  He feels that it is not just a "coincidence"
that the Global Peace Walk is now in a position to help facilitate this by
being on site in Los Alamos starting tomorrow afternoon for, if necessary,
an extended period of time.  If you have not already, you may join the
Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons (in response to
whose call for such cross-country peace walk this year Reverend Yamato is
conducting Global Peace Walk 2000) at http://www.abolition2000.org

An easy way to email your letters to your local or Statewide media all in
one email send, is via the Media Guide at http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd (also
same for government leaders indexed at that site by your zip code)

Excerpts of recent emails received discussing the radioactivity danger in
the smoke from the Los Alamos fire (don't expect to see this in your media
unless they are pressured by you since from history we know that the US and
DOE will try to keep this kind of information from the public as long as
possible to "avoid panic" -- and outrage)

Remember, one microgram of plutonium can be lethal if inhaled.

I leave it to your best judgement and hope the fears are overblown but
"better to be safe than sorry", etc.

One thing I do feel fairly sure about from past history of US/DOE on
reporting nuclear accidents/dangers, if there is a radioactivity danger in
the smoke it will be kept as secret as possible on orders from on high to
prevent public panic and outrage.  Details will only filter gently into the
media over many years in the future.  If you feel the info below is worth
investigating, I suggest we need to get media folks to look into it and what
can be done to ameliorate potential problems (eg, wearing dust filters when
in the smoke to prevent breathing ash, treat ash as hazardous waste just in
case, etc.)

-----------------begin forwarded related posts/evidence------

Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 5:58 PM

> Tell your walkers to go indoors or get out from under the
> Los Alamos smoke plume! It's radioactive!
>
> See http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a391ba0417204.htm

[Gary Vesperman, in Las Vegas NV, regularly follows nuclear issues including
the Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation advanced technologies to neutralize
radioactive wastes and related Emerging Energy (ZPE, etc.) technologies to
replace nuclear and fossil fuel power.  His extensive summary on this info
that he submitted as public comments last month on DOE Strategic Plan are
among others on these topics archive for public review at
http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan ]

Another, very long, important compilations of posts by Gary on the Los
Alamos fire situation, with a map and satellite photo, I am not including
due to length but you can see it at
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/360.html


Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 9:32 PM

> Check out these two web sites.  The first one is a DOE site that details
> some of the contamination present.  The second site is a local citizens
> monitoring group.
>
> www.em.doe.gov/bemr96/lanl.html
>
> www.lasg.org
>
> Stephen Dunifer  [e-mail]
> [Free Radio Berkeley (CA)]
> www.freeradio.org
----------------


<snipped>
I got the photo of Bush and Yamato which I used in our page at
http://globalcircle.net/mm.htm . More on the Peace Walk
http://globalcircle.net/peace1.htm and the fire
http://globalcircle.net/losalamosfire.htm . I live right under that cloud.
 I see the Peace Walk is doubling back to this area because of the fire,
but I can't find any verification of radioactive cloud, though our fire
page has several major media questioning the monitoring of above ground
contaminants.

--paul, webmaster
http://globalcircle.net



Peace Walk will meet at Kit Carson Park in Taos at 9:00 am tomorrow Sunday
May 14, to go to Angelfire for their ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial. We get that from Mike and Rev. Yamato in Taos when we talked to
them on the phone this morning. Then they plan to come down here to the
Espanola area to volunteer help for evacuees etc. and revise their OK City
schedule as a result.

I think we all know better than to believe anybody in government that says
there's no radiation danger. Lie and coverup is SOP for "national security"
(read: saving agency costs and discrediting opposition), from 3-mile Island
to every nuclear plant in the country. We do not have verified radiation
readings so we are not claiming proof. We just know. After all, they lied
to the Navajo uranium miners all those years, and all the lab workers
exposed to Beryllium etc. for decades.  We have more of this now on our
fire page at http://globalcircle.net/losalamosfire.htm .  There's a great
deal of source information linked there now, and people can make up their
own minds. But "national security" always demands that those officials
stonewall and coverup.

We've seen everybody who could get his face on TV go on Channel 4 in
Albuquerque and claim the air monitors show nothing but "background"
levels. They go on and on about no loss of life, and the outpouring of help
from around New Mexico. Too many flaws in that to even count them. Reports
tell us the original monitors burned up around the lab before getting any
readings from them. What they've installed afterward won't tell us what was
in the smoke to start with. And who exactly is reading those monitors? Not
me or you. Why weren't monitors put out in the 700 places where depleted
uranium was exploded for decades? Or where all the outdoor storage of
contaminants could burn? I could go on and on. And who is monitoring for
all the other toxic materials?

My real concern now is for the work crews that have to go in hot and do
all kinds of stuff up there because it's their job. Whatever it is, they'll
take the brunt of it. What will they die of 2 or 20 years from now?

Barb and I are taking the position that the Lab should be decomissioned,
boarded up, fenced, abandoned, and guarded for the next 100 years, minimum.

And none of it's functions should be transferred elsewhere. Everybody who
worked and lived there should be compensated and taken care of for life.
The whole mountain should be a memorial to the people who suffered, and the
animals killed without a thought.  Besides, it's sitting on an active fault
line.

One microgram of plutonium is lethal. The lab has 2.7 metric TONS. And the
Manhattan Project was over 50 years ago.

It all started here. It has to stop here.  The world is watching.

--paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> <[e-mail]>
> Cc: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> <[e-mail]>
> Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:46 AM
> Subject: [downwinders] Radioactivity at Los Alamos fire, will authorities
> own up to doses to public?
>
> Thanks for the update Scott.                                May 12, 2000
>
> Our Radalert nuclear radiation monitor pegged out to it's maximum reading
> following the RFETS prescribed burn a month ago, and finally settled down
> about a week afterward. It has picked up and has steadily climbed higher
> in the past 2 days here in Denver, Colorado again to 12,105 cpm total
> count, and still climbing.
>
> Unfortunately, our local authorities and DOE people can't seem to pick up
> anything. Maybe it's due to their monitors being calibrated to the Rocky
> Flats local high background, so it doesn't pick up anything of note as
> "it's all background" here. You have to wonder how much the people in
> New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado are being exposed to in
> that massive plume.  Will we ever know - officially that is?
>
> We're trying to minimize going outside as much as possible to avoid it.
> The satellite photos of the huge plume from the Los Alamos fire shown in
our
> daily papers shows most of the main plume headed east, with some portions
> headed NE. There may be some portion coming all the way up to Denver,
> following the mountain range up to us. Question is, Just how much crap is
> in that huge plume from the 50 years of immediate fallout to the
surrounding
> environs that has been settled into soils, taken up into the burning
> vegetation, etc.? Any citizens with monitors should be logging daily
> readings for comparisons.
>
> I hope this disaster teaches DOE and the U.S. Forest Service to stop
> prescribed burning near any of the DOE facilities. It probably won't. But
> we can hope.
>
> Yours,
>
> Paula Elofson-Gardine
> Executive Director
> Environmental Information Network
>
>
> In a message dated 5/12/00 9:02:31 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
> [e-mail] writes:
>
> << Subj:     radioactivity at Los Alamos fire
> Date:  5/12/00 9:02:31 AM Mountain Daylight Time
> From:  [e-mail] (Scott D Portzline)
> Sender:    [e-mail]
> Reply-to:  [e-mail] (Scott D Portzline)
> To:    [e-mail] (nukenet)
>
> Radioactive materials, including plutonium, uranium and DU, might be
> dispersed into the atmosphere at Los Alamos due to 50 years of ground
> contanimation. So far, reports from the media indicate that there is no
> increased radioactivity. Their focus is on the nuclear weapons materials
> "safely" stored in fire resistant buildings.
>
> But, a man 40 miles away in Sante Fe is recording radioactivity levels 3.5
> times greater than the safe level. He is not in the wind path.
>
> The report came from Richard Hoagland on Coast to Coast radio last night.
>
> http://www.em.doe.gov/bemr96/lanl.html >>


Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 4:37 PM

> I heard about this NM disaster from Richard C. Hoagland on Art Bell's show
> last night! What a melt-down and it's being blacked out for the most part
> even though people as far away as Santa Fe are taking geigercounter
> readings of 30-40 millirems! There's plutonium and depleted uranium in
> those smoke plumes!
>
>  A while back I sought the media support team that works on shooting the
> Global Peace Walks, got busy and have since lost that link. I would like
to
> collaborate in shaping a piece with these people-can you put me in touch
> again?
>
>  Thank's for your ceaseless vigilance...
>
> vaya con gaia,
>
> Chris Shine
> Imaging Director
> Michele Shine Media
> San Francisco, USA
> [e-mail]
>

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David Crockett Williams   661-822-3309 [phone]
Chartered Life Underwriter
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/prepaidlegal.html

Co-coordinator, Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877

Initiator, Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

dba General Agency Services  [e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html

USCampaign  [e-mail]
D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams

The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

Easy way to Email Media and Government
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd

"An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html







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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NY, May 18-20!!: "the next step after dc--re-imagining
Date: 14 May 2000 08:26:15 -0400


Dear Friends,

My name is Mark LeVine, and I am a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Department of History at Cornell, Chair of the Foundation for Ethics and
Meaning and a contributing editor at Tikkun magazine.  I am writing after
this incredible weekend of protests, celebrations, and teach-ins, to inform
you about an important conference being convened this spring by the
Foundation, Tikkun, and numerous other co-sponsoring organizations, with
the hope that you will join us at this historic event.

Entitled "Re-Imagining Politics and Society at the Millennium: Creating a
Just, Caring, and Sustainable World," and scheduled for May 18-20, 2000 at
the Riverside Church in NYC, this conference will bring together numerous
organization and thousands of individuals committed to the following basic
principles:

=85 To reawaken and foster the simple yet transformative belief that people
are yearning for meaningful connection to others and to a purpose greater
than themselves; to challenge our prevailing cultural emphasis on material
self-interest by encouraging a spirit of caring and a process of mutual
recognition that will nourish inclusive, sustainable, and just communities

=85 Our belief is that we stand today at a crucial juncture in the history=
 of
our political culture and economic life. The corrupting influence of big
money, the intensely partisan spirit, the lack of any meaningful mainstream
response to frenzied globalization, and the failure to address seriously
the long-term environmental health of the planet, all reveal an increasing
emptiness of spirit at the center of political power that cries out for
meaningful change and renewal.

=85 Thus this conference seeks to challenge the accepted values of
selfishness and materialism and develop an approach that emphasizes the
creation of a loving, just, spiritually and ecologically sensitive society.
In contrast to the often narrow agenda of traditional progressive and
conservative politics, we seek to explore how our psychological and
spiritual needs can be integrated into an agenda of human rights, corporate
and political ethics, and the healing of our relationship to nature. We
seek to bring together people who embrace holistic and ecological values,
and who have often felt excluded from the existing liberal/conservative
political debate, to discuss how ethics, a concern for the common good, and
a community spirit of caring can begin to replace the cynical self-interest
and corporate-technocratic worldview that currently dominate public
discourse.

As the email flyer below demonstrates, this conference is without a doubt
the biggest event of the year for people opposed to the WTO/IMF vision of
the world and for a just and sustainable globalization (over 200 speakers
from around the world, thousands of participants expected). I would like to
invite you all to come and participate in this conference, and to send us
materials/flyers/other information that we could distribute to our
attendees and to the press covering us about you and your organizations.
Like the movement behind this weekend's activities in Washington, we are a
totally grassroots enterprise, with no funding from anyone other than
registrations, so we appreciate any help you could give to spread the word.
Volunteers in the NY area are also eligible for scholarships to the
conference.

Finally, If any of you have interesting stories and/or perspectives about
this weekend or the larger events surrounding the protests, I would like to
invite you to write an article about your activities to publish in Tikkun
magazine, one of the most important progressive intellectual journals in
the United States, and a early leader in the fight against corporat-led,
consumer-driven globalization.

I can be reached at [phone], or email me at <[e-mail]>.
I hope to hear from you soon and that we can work together.


Best,

Mark LeVine, PhD
Chair, FEM
--------------

Re-imagining Politics & Society at the Millennium
Creating a Caring, Ethical & Sustainable World
May 18-20, 2000
Riverside Church, NYC
www.meaning.org

We stand today at a crucial juncture in the history of our political
culture and economic life. The corrupting influence of big money, the
intensely partisan spirit, the lack of any meaningful mainstream response
to frenzied globalization, and the failure to address seriously the
long-term environmental health of the planet, all reveal an increasing
emptiness of spirit at the center of political power that cries out for
meaningful change and renewal.

The protests against the WTO in Seattle have demonstrated the potential for
challenging the dominant neo-liberal, amoral, consumerist paradigms that
dominate our culture. Yet as Newsweek magazine commented about the
protests, "One thing that seems to be lacking today is a mission statement,
a credo, that gives the movement, such as it is, some focus."  This
conference seeks to achieve just such a focus, to create a new language and
credo that can unify the disparate movements who realize the long-term
damage to our personal and planetary well-being by the political, economic,
and cultural status quo.

We challenge the accepted values of selfishness and materialism and develop
an approach that emphasizes the creation of a loving, just, spiritually and
ecologically sensitive society. In contrast to the often narrow agenda of
traditional progressive and conservative politics, we seek to explore how
our psychological and spiritual needs can be integrated into an agenda of
human rights, corporate and political ethics, and the healing of our
relationship to nature. We offer an opportunity for those who embrace
holistic and ecological values, and who have often felt excluded from the
existing liberal/conservative political debate, to come together to discuss
how ethics, a concern for the common good, and a community spirit of caring
can begin to replace the cynical self-interest and corporate-technocratic
worldview that currently dominate public discourse.

Re-imagining Politics and Society is envisioned as a successor to the
historic National Summit on Ethics and Meaning held in Washington, DC in
1996, which was attended by over 1,800 people and co-sponsored by Tikkun,
Sojourner's, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, the Center for Visionary
Leadership, People for the American Way, The Unitarian Universalist
Association, the Reconstructionist Federation, and numerous other
organizations.  We encourage interested individuals and organizations to
work with us to help shape the political and cultural debate at the turn of
the new millennium.

The conference agenda and speaker roster is still in the planning stages
and will be available soon.  Confirmed speakers include (see our website,
www.meaning.org, for a full description) Nobel Peace Prize nominee Wei
Jingsheng, David Korten, Michael Lerner and Peter Gabel, Riane Eisler,
Matthew Fox, Moctar Tayeb, Eugene Gendlin, Saskia Sassen, Arianna
Huffington, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Patricia Ireland, Hamilton Fish, Cherie
Brown, Moctar Tayeb, Mark Green, C. Virginia Fields, Rev. James Forbes,
Rev. Jim Wallis, John Dalla Costa, Gar Alperovitz, Fernando Ferrer, Rep.
Major Owens, Danny Goldberg, Arturo Escobar, Bill Stephney, Randy Shaw,
Alisa Gravitz, Jay Rosen, Alan Gerson, Jerome Segal, Tracie Morris, Andrew
Ross, Jason Hill, Elizabeth Lesser, Michaele Wucker, Michael Sorkin, James
Gordon, MD, Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Mark Kingwell, Redwood
Mary, Samuel Epstein, MD, Richard Falk, Rev. Emory Searcy, Tim Keating,
Raphael Kellman, MD, Naomi Klein, Paul Wapner, David Loye, Douglas Sloan,
Ron Miller, Brent Blackwelder, Heidi Mills, Jeffrey Wilhelm, Ralph Moss,
MD, Kathy Davis, Elizabeth Dribben, Richard Schwartz, Arthur Waskow, Mark
Ritchie, Jeffrey Wilhelm, Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, Sharon Perez-Abreu, Ajani
Benjamin. Catherine Keller, Mike Flynn, Katherine Kurs, Dr. Frank Kirkland,
David Orr, Russell Hemenway, Rick Jarrow. Many other speakers are in the
process of confirming,  and will be added when confirmed.

Numerous organizations have already signed on as co-sponsors, including
UTNE Reader, WBAI (Pacifica Radio, New York City), COOP America, NYC
Friends of the Clearwater, Wetlands Environmental & Social Justice Activism
Center (Wetlands Preserve), YES! Magazine, Tikkun Magazine, The Nation, The
Riverside Church, The Interfaith Center of New York, Amnesty International,
The National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers,
Christian Peacemaker Teams, Claremont Seminary, The Center for Process
Studies, The Center For Visionary Leadership, The Positive Futures Network,
The People Centered Development Forum, Progressive America, The Employment
Project, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, the NY State
Labor-Religion Alliance, The Shalom Center of ALEPH, Healing the
North-South Wound, TJWalker.com, ONN (Online Noetic Network), The Kellman
Center for Progressive Medicine, The Centre for Ethical Orientation, and
Ithaca Hours.  More are being added weekly, and if you know of an
organization that should be joining us, let us know! or better, let them
know!

To register, call 212 219 2527, x.110 or email <[e-mail]> or visit
our website for full information: www.meaning.org

Mark LeVine, Ph.D.                       Lola Perniciaro
Dept. of History                         87 Uptown Road
Cornell University                       Apt. A206
450 McGraw Hall                          Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca, NY 14853                         607 266 8386
607 266 8386
fax - 607 255 1422

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/15 - Daybook
Date: 15 May 2000 08:14:03 -0400

May 4, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000515215450.htm

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE=20

Travels to Philadelphia and to Nashville, Tenn.

SENATE=20

      Meets at 1 p.m. for morning business until 3 p.m. At 3 p.m. the
Senate will resume consideration of S. 2521, the Military Construction FY
2001 Appropriations bill. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/224-8601, or
Democratic Cloakroom, 202/224-8541.

HOUSE COMMITTEES=20

      6:30 p.m. =97 House Rules Committee holds a meeting to consider the
rules for floor debate of laws making appropriations for military
construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2001, and for
other purposes. Location: U.S. Capitol, Room H-313. Contact: 202/225-9191.

 GENERAL AGENDA=20

      Global economics conference =97 all day =97 Economic Strategy Institut=
e
hosts the Global 2000 Forum, "The World To Come: Value and Price of
Globalization =97 How Technology and Globalization Are Changing Economics,
Politics and Society."
      Highlights =97 8:10 a.m. =97 President Kim Dae Jung, Republic of Korea=
,
"Present at the Creation: Building a New Economy for a New Era."
      2 p.m. =97 Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican, "A Tale of Two
Cities: Washington and Brussels."
      Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: Global Forum Office, 703/548-4662.

      Trade briefing =97 11 a.m. =97 The Foreign Press Center holds a briefi=
ng,
"Permanent Normal Trade Relations With China." U.S. Trade Representative
Charlene Barshefsky participates. Location: FPC, Room 898, National Press
Building, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/661-8944.

      China lecture =97 2 p.m. =97 The Woodrow Wilson Center holds a lecture=
 on
China. Gov. Paul Cellucci, Massachusetts Republican, participates.
Location: WWC, 1 Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/691-4000.


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) 2000 BY 2000: 18 MORE ENDORSERS NEEDED!
Date: 15 May 2000 12:21:12 -0400

Since the last notice on the 2000 by 2000 Campaign, 13 more organizations have
enrolled in Abolition 2000 for a total of 1,982 organizations!!  Fifteen more
to go to meet our goal of 2000 before the final day of the PrepCom this
Friday.  Please help us so that we can let the world know that the people of
the planet want nuclear abolition at the last press conference for the NPT
Review on Friday.  Reach out to another organization and let them know how we
are working in 93 countries for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons.  Send
your replies to Carah Ong, the Abolition 2000 coordinator at [e-mail]
Many thanks for your support!  Peace,
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: Andrew Lichterman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) U.S. considered nuke blast on the Moon
Date: 15 May 2000 11:06:44 -0700

From the Observer (UK)




                    US planned one big
                                          nuclear blast for
                                          mankind

                                          Antony Barnett, Public Affairs Editor
                                          Sunday May 14, 2000

                                          The US Air Force developed a top-secret
                                          plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the
                                          moon as a display of military might at the
                                          height of the Cold War.

                                          In an exclusive interview with The
                                          Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the
                                          physicist who fronted the project in the
                                          late Fifties at the US military-backed
                                          Armour Research Foundation, revealed
                                          America's extraordinary lunar plan.

                                          'It was clear the main aim of the proposed
                                          detonation was a PR exercise and a show
                                          of one-upmanship. The Air Force wanted a
                                          mushroom cloud so large it would be
                                          visible on earth,' he said yesterday. 'The
                                          US was lagging behind in the space race.'

                                          'The explosion would obviously be best on
                                          the dark side of the moon and the theory
                                          was that if the bomb exploded on the
                                          edge of the moon, the mushroom cloud
                                          would be illuminated by the sun.' The
                                          bomb would have been at least as large
                                          as the one used on Hiroshima at the end
                                          of World War II.

                                          'I made it clear at the time there would be
                                          a huge cost to science of destroying a
                                          pristine lunar environment, but the US Air
                                          Force were mainly concerned about how
                                          the nuclear explosion would play on
                                          earth,' said Reiffel.

                                          Although he believes the blast would have
                                          had little environmental impact on Earth,
                                          its crater may have ruined the face of the
                                          'man in the moon'.

                                          Reiffel would not reveal how the explosion
                                          would have taken place. But he confirmed
                                          it was 'certainly technically feasible' and
                                          that at the time an intercontinental
                                          ballistic nuclear missile would have been
                                          capable of hitting a target on the moon
                                          with an accuracy of within two miles.

                                          Reiffel was approached by senior US Air
                                          Force officers in 1958, who asked him to
                                          'fast-track' a project to investigate the
                                          visibility and effects of a nuclear explosion
                                          on the moon. The top-secret Project
                                          A119, was entitled 'A Study of Lunar
                                          Research Flights'.

                                          'Had the project been made public there
                                          would have been an outcry,' said Reiffel.

                                          Many Cold War documents are still
                                          classified in the US, but details of Project
                                          A119 emerged after a biography of
                                          celebrated US scientist and astronomer
                                          Carl Sagan was published there last year.

                                          Sagan, who died in 1996, was famous for
                                          popularising science in the US and
                                          pioneering the study of potential life on
                                          other planets. At the Armour Foundation
                                          in Chicago - now called the Illinois
                                          Institute of Technology Research - he was
                                          hired by Reiffel to undertake mathematical
                                          modelling on the expansion of an
                                          exploding dust cloud in the space around
                                          the moon. This was key to calculating the
                                          visibility of such a cloud from the Earth.

                                          At the time scientists still believed there
                                          might be microbial life on the moon and
                                          Sagan had suggested a nuclear explosion
                                          might be used to detect organisms.

                                          Despite the highly classified nature of the
                                          work, Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson,
                                          discovered that he had disclosed details
                                          of it when he applied for the prestigious
                                          Miller Institute graduate fellowship to
                                          Berkeley.

                                          Yet, until today, the full nature of Project
                                          A119 has never been revealed. Friends of
                                          Sagan believe he never would have wilfully
                                          revealed classified information, but Reiffel
                                          has come forward to put the 'historical
                                          record straight'.

                                          Reiffel continued: 'It was well known that
                                          the existence of this project was top
                                          secret. Had Sagan wanted to make any
                                          disclosures to any party, as his boss at
                                          the time, I would have had to take forward
                                          any such request and Air Force
                                          permission would have been extremely
                                          unlikely in those very tense times.'

                                          In a letter to the science magazine
                                          Nature, Reiffel said: 'Fortunately for the
                                          future of lunar science, a one or two horse
                                          race to detonate a nuclear explosion never
                                          occurred. But in my opinion Sagan
                                          breached security in March, 1959.'

                                          Reiffel produced eight reports between
                                          May 1958 and January 1959 on the
                                          feasibility of the plan, all of which were
                                          destroyed in 1987 by the foundation.
                                          Reiffel would not discuss details of these
                                          reports, believing they were still classified,
                                          but it was clear the conclusion was that
                                          the explosion would have been visible from
                                          Earth

                                          He does not know why the plans were
                                          scrapped, but said: 'Thankfully, the
                                          thinking changed. I am horrified that such
                                          a gesture to sway public opinion was ever
                                          considered.'

                                          Dr David Lowry, a British nuclear
                                          historian, said: 'It is obscene. To think
                                          that the first contact human beings would
                                          have had with another world would have
                                          been to explode a nuclear bomb. Had
                                          they gone ahead, we would never have
                                          had the romantic image of Neil Armstrong
                                          taking "one giant step for mankind".'

                                          Lowry believes Project A119 has
                                          relevance today with the US proposing a
                                          missile defence system in space. He
                                          said: 'The US has always wanted to
                                          militarise space and some of the fanciful
                                          ideas currently being put forward will
                                          seem as incredible as the idea of nuking
                                          the moon in the Fifties seems today.'

                                          A Pentagon spokesman would not confirm
                                          or deny the plans.

                                          ò [e-mail]





















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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) American Platform2000 suggestions
Date: 15 May 2000 11:49:16 -0700

Dear Joy,

Thanks for the positive feedback on the idea of public collaboration on an
"ideal" American Platform 2000 that everyone can contribute to and help
publicize to seek media coverage of important issues and compel their
acceptance by the mainstream politicial candidates for all offices this
election year.

To start this process I have created an American Platform Committee egroups
list at http://www.egroups.com/amplcom to which I am copying this post and
where a few previous ones on this topic are archived for public view at that
site.

My suggestion would be to encourage anyone interested to submit their ideas
to that list and then for some who step forward for this purpose to
gradually refine the ideas in the coming weeks into "American Platform 2000
drafts" which can also be posted at that site by those who will take the
responsiblity as "editors".

I think a good general timeframe would be to see what kind of final drafts
can be created by the end of June so that these can be publicized widely in
the last month or so before the Republican and Democratic National
Conventions.

Obviously it will be extremely difficult for "everyone" who might join in
this project/list to "unanimously agree" on all points that everyone else
might submit for such American Platform 2000.  There may, however, be
numerous points on which everyone would agree.  There may then develop a
"basic" platform and several different "supplementals" to include the
various points and when promoting the idea each issue group activist could
promote the basic and whatever supplemental format they prefer?

The basic idea is to popularize the idea that the "people" themselves in
this election cycle are composing/submitting the issues they think most
important for the candidates to address and those who take up the most
important ones are the only ones who will get elected this year.

For the time being I think the best plan is just to invite anyone interested
to submit their ideas to this egroup list by either forwarding them to a
list member to post to the list as they see fit, or by joining the list and
posting it themselves.  Egroups has many choices of how list members can
receive posts to lists or just view on the web.  I have set up the list so
that members only can post to it but anyone can view messages and files
attached to them.  Currently it is set up so anyone can join the list
without moderator approval, but if it gets out of hand the moderator(s) can
unsub any member.  It is currently set up so that "reply" function sends
replies to the member who posted the idea being replied to, so if the reply
is intended to go to the list members, it (as any posts to list) should be
addressed by list members to [e-mail]  Any non-list-member posts
to list will just bounce but anyone, list member or not, may view the posts
to the list at list website.  This is how the list is set up as of now and
can be changed as needs be in coming weeks.

To subscribe to the American Platform 2000 egroup list one can send a blank
email to [e-mail] or subscribe at the list website
where posts may also be viewed by anyone
http://www.egroups.com/group/amplcom

I will be abstracting ideas that I favor from posts to that list for
incusion also in the Williams-Peltier Independent US Presidential/VP
Candidacy Platform which will be posted with other info relevant to this
candidacy at its egroup list http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier
but I would prefer others take the initiative on editing American Platform
2000 drafts which I will most likely of course also endorse.  I would also
prefer someone(s) else to take over moderating this American Platform
Committee list as soon as the right folks step forward to do so (also a
"co-chair" team to guide this informal "e-committee" so I can bow out of
that interim function.

So first task would be to publicize the opportunity to submit ideas for
American Platform 2000 to its egroup list, then to identify folks who want
to put some time into the idea by studying the submissions and perhaps
weekly offering compilation drafts to the list for review.  An American
Platform 2000 Committee should be formed in the next couple of weeks who can
use polling functions, chat, etc. of the egroups list to make decisions on
finalizing draft ideas and wordings, etc.

If this idea catches on I suspect it will be an ongoing process into the
Fall and perhaps even after November 2000 elections.  If the list gets
enough support and publicity, the polls of its members could carry some
weight with the media, especially if each of the members indicates they
represent numbers of people in their respective issue groups.

For this reason I strongly suggest that each list member complete the
"member profile" information at egroups site so that other list members can
click to their profiles and see who it is that is posting and about their
interests, groups represented, etc.

Let's see where this idea goes after this posting to you and a few of my
lists.

David Crockett Williams
Interim Chairman, American Platform 2000 Committee
http://www.egroups.com/group/amplcom



Dear David,
     YOUR PLATFORM 2000  idea is sheer genius.
     I'm disseminating the "idea" to the various E-groups that send me
stuff,
but I'm wondering what progress you've made to put  a draft document out
there.

     There are of course several suggestions for "What-the-World-Needs" in
existence. I know we signed one in Holland, and one at a Post-Hague Appeal
meeting.  I don't have them at my finger tips. )

     I'm appending :
1. Your list from our letter--reformatted a bit.
2.  The "Irreducible Minimum" decisions that I submitted to the Hague Appeal
for Peace Agenda committee (without immediate results).
3. An abbreviated letter from Doug Hunt (a leader in the A-16 Washington
World
Bank protests.) At the end is a list of the Big Sponsors of A-16.

Blessings,
Joy

======================================================================
                              1.

 ABSOLUTE NATURE OF TRUTH.  Recognition that truth is not
 just what people are made to believe but what is factually correct.

ABOLISH  NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND REDIRECT THEIR BUDGET TO PEACEFUL  PURPOSES.
(HR  2545  http://www.prop1.org).

STOP CIA DRUG SMUGGLING.    http://www.copvcia.com and end the drug war.

 RELEGALIZE HEMP/CANNABIS For all purposes and end the fraud by which it was
outlawed as marijuana in
 937, so that this most  useful and bioefficient plant  can be widely
globally
cultivated on a global  emergency scale level to save the  trees and heal
the
atmosphere to  ameliorate global climate change
http://www.jackherer.com        http://www.chrisconrad.com .

NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.  Adequate funding for a "crash program" to
    quickly finish the research and development on the new energy
technologies
    ($108 million/year says O'Leary http://www.maui.net/~oleary -- phone
number

    on that site).

AMNESTY FOR POLITICAL  PRISONERS like Leonard Peltier who embrace and
champion
the teaching of     nonviolence;  etc. etc.

RELEASE OF NONVIOLENT DRUG PRISONERS -- funding prevention training and
rehab
centers to help those with crippling addictions and problems.
                        =============
Joy:
With a preamble to the effect that we are entering a new millennium where
decisions will be derived from principles of

    **ALL LIFE IS SACRED.
    **BOTH/AND (not either/or)   and WIN/WIN (not I win, you lose)

============================================================================
                                2.
   Suggestions (to the Hague Appeal for Peace) for "Irreducible Minim"
Decisions

UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO SUBSISTENCE: Investment of the 80 Billion dollars that
the
UN Development Program says would bring  universal access to basic
education,
clean-water-and- sanitation, basic health-and nutrition. (re-investing a
droplet of the military arms-budget.)

GLOBAL DISARMAMENT.

DEMOCRACY: People's Assembly in the U.N.
( Revocation of veto powers in the United Nations.?
( Proportional representation of political parties in the
  congress?)

TREATIES:PARLIAMENTARY RATIFICATION by each country Of the international
treaties we have have signed. (Especially disarmament and banning nukes.)

PEOPLE CLAIMING OUR  RIGHT TO ACCESS TO THE AIR WAVES.
  so that campaign-financing by Big Bucks could be  eliminated;
  so that violence and consumer-driven TV programming could
 be  changed;  so that "alternative" media could have access to mass
 media and thus a tool to raise consciousness and   political will.

PEOPLE/GOVERNMENT RE-TAKING THE HISTORIC RIGHT TO CHARTER CORPORATIONS--and
revoke charters when the 'common welfare' is not served.

ZERO INTENTIONAL DEATHS:A year's experiment with a moratorium on  war and
capital punishment.

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE--moving to change the 'penal code' to re-integrative,
restorative, healing paradigms. Reduce drastically the number of citizens in
prisons.

LIFT THE EXISTING SANCTIONS AND EMBARGOES (unless asked for by the people
themselves). Against Iraq, Cuba,Libya and some 30 other nations. (A one
year's
experiment?)

============================================================================

                            3. G-77


                                    Doug <[e-mail]>


Our children will gaze back aghast upon us and our time as a
period of waste, war, abandon, and oppression on a scale so vast
it screwed up the planet and humanity for a millennium.

TRADE-SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki Attempts To Secure A United Bloc

By William Dhlamini

JOHANNESBURG May 12 (IPS) - South African President Thabo Mbeki is
attempting to secure a united bloc of developing nations as a counterweight
to the G7 of most industrialised countries to push for the interests of
developing countries, ahead of the next round of the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) trade negotiations.

This bloc, it is hoped, will constitute the major emerging economies:
China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria.
SA's Erwin is a playing a key role in trying to get the next round of
global trade talks on track which stalled after they came to an abrupt end
at Seattle.

The argument in SA is that developing nations should now use their muscle
within the world trading system to kick-start global trade talks.

SA secured a coup when developing nations Group 77 body adopted a
resolution at the presidential summit in Havana, Cuba, last month calling
for the group to speak, for the first time, in one voice at the WTO.

To give form to the resolution, the heads of State and senior ministers
from the G77 countries agreed to create a new political directorate in the
bloc to give practical effect to its decisions.

The directorate, whose powers are still being defined, includes Mbeki,
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Malaysian President Mahathir
Mohamad.


"The Party's Over" for Corporate Lackeys in Both "Parties"
     Republicans: Philadelphia, PA -
        July 30th - MArch and Rally - http://www.unity2000.com
        July 31st / August- http://www.thepartysover.org
     Democrats: Los Angeles - August 14-17th - http://www.d2kla.org
  __________________________________________________

  On the Web:
    Mobilization for Global Justice, site for protesters: http://www.a16.org
    Religious Working Group on the World Bank and IMF
http://Religiouswg.org
    50 Years is Enough! http://www.50years.org
    Justice Calendar http://www.justicecalendar.org
    WhirledBank http://www.whirledbank.org
    Jubilee 2000/USA http://www.j2000usa.org


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


Our Terrorist platform: We demand transparent, accountable and wholly
democratic government and financial institutions that put the needs of the
planet and all of its' people before the short-term interests of
multi-national
corporations. Things to expect after the revolution: Fair allocation of
resources for social security, health-care, education and environmental
stewardship along with accountability from those who claim to know what we
want
and need. Sound radical? It is. It's called Democracy.

DEAR DAVID,
This is the final paragraph from a letter from Han Shan of the Ruckus
Society.
I told him of you and Platform 2000, and enclosed below is our  exchange of
letters--for your skim-reading.
Peace, Joy







Dear Han Shan and fellow Terrorists,
Great opt-ed.
Is there anything we can do to help it get published--like if a number of us
wrote the Sun, perhaps?

You forgot a couple of neat quotes, though  they  are implied:
    "One man's terrorist is another man's hero" (to wit: Patrick Henry & the
Boston Tea party people)

    "Today's hero may be another day's terrorist."   (to wit: Ben Laden "our
man" in helping us fight the Russians in Afghanistan; Noriega "our man" in
helping with the drug supply and with bases against the Sandinistas....)

AS WE BUILD THESE GREAT COALITIONS, DAVID CROCKETT WILLIAMS (presidential
candidate with Leanard Pelletier as his VP) IS SUGGESTING THAT WE ALL GET
TOGETHER ON A LANDMARK "PLATFORM 2000" --FIRST AGREEING ON IT (with our
great
concensus techniques) -- then GETTING TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
--WHICH WILL OF COURSE REALIZE THAT GUSH AND BORE'S PLATFORM LEAVES
SOMETHING
OUT.


Looks like youv'e got the essence of a PLATFORM 2000 draft in your final
paragraph!

Blessings,
Joy Crocker

===============================================

> Greetings Terrorist friends,
> In response to the afore-posted editorial from the Calgary Sun, I wrote:
> (hope it gets printed)
>
> Calgary Sun
> To the Editor:
>
> In the United States, Europe and Canada, journalists have ruminated since
> last fall about this 'new face of protest' which walked onto the world's
> stage in Seattle. Never mind that for decades throughout the 'developing
> world,' there have been demonstrations numbering in the hundreds of
thousands
> against the economic colonialism represented by the WTO, World Bank and
IMF.
> "But where did this new protest movement come from?", the media has
wondered
> aloud. Never mind that the Group of 77 Nations, the countries exclusively
> impacted by IMF and World Bank policies (and comprising 80% of the human
> population), released a statement strongly supporting the DC protesters.
>
> But Paul Jackson finally nailed it when he wrote that we are in fact
> [drumroll please...] international terrorists (parading very cleverly as
> steelworkers, religious people, teachers, human rights advocates,
> tree-huggers and Tibetans-in-exile). Since we started working to
democratize
> the world economy, seeking equality and environmental sustainability in
the
> global economic system, the support has been pouring in from the Middle
East!
> Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are our biggest fans! And I for one
never
> realized they had such good senses of irony.
>
> Oh, and Calgary. Yes, we in the "International Terrorist" community are
now
> turning our attention to the World Petroleum Congress, coming in June. The
> practices of the oil industry are responsible for widespread environmental
> devastation, human rights abuses, and global warming and, well... that
just
> really burns us. So with drug money-financing and training by
eco-terrorists
> such as Co-motion and the Ruckus Society, we'll once again descend on
> Calgary. We'll pave the way for Islamic world domination by attacking an
> event characterized by some DC insiders as the "turban and ten-gallon hat"
> meeting. Yes, we will come to Alberta to represent our facsist
puppetmasters
> in Beijing and the Middle East. We zealots will make unreasonable demands
> that oil exploration cease and that the billions of dollars saved be
invested
> in research and development of sustainable energy resources. Note new
> terrorist lingo: sus-tain-a-bil-ity.
>
> Yes, we are only getting started. Our Terrorist platform: We demand
> transparent, accountable and wholly democratic government and financial
> institutions that put the needs of the planet and all of its' people
before
> the short-term interests of multi-national corporations. Things to expect
> after the revolution: Fair allocation of resources for social security,
> health-care, education and environmental stewardship along with
> accountability from those who claim to know what we want and need. Sound
> radical? It is. It's called Democracy.
>
> Han Shan
> Berkeley (aha!) California, USA
>
> Han-shan
> Rocket Scientist
> The Ruckus Society
> phone: [phone]
> cell: 510-772-3166
> fax: [phone]
> e: [e-mail]
> http://www.ruckus.org
>
> "Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly
> exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses"
> -Gary Snyder


---------------end forwarded posts------

David Crockett Williams
Chartered Life Underwriter
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/prepaidlegal.html

General Agency Services  [e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877

Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

USCampaign  [e-mail]
D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams

The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

Easy way to Email Media and Government
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd

"An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html




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From: Hisham Zerriffi <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) India & nuclear disarmament
Date: 15 May 2000 18:47:41 -0400

>Source: The Hindu (http://www.the-hindu.com)
>
>India & nuclear disarmament
>
>By Arjun Makhijani
>
>THERE HAS been notable silence on the issue of nuclear apartheid
>from the Indian nuclear establishment after the May 11, 1998,
>nuclear tests. Not that nuclear apartheid has disappeared, of
>course. Of 187 parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
>(NPT), 182 do not have nuclear weapons; five do. Having broken
>down the door to the nuclear club, India has been seeking
>legitimacy from its charter members, most notably the United
>States. India knows that this cannot be achieved by accession to
>the NPT as a nuclear weapons state, because most countries would
>not stand for it. Rather, India's hope seems to be that it will
>be recognised as a weapon state in other ways, such as being a
>party to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) that will
>engage in new weapons design through American-style stockpile
>stewardship, and by acquiring nuclear technology from members of
>the Nuclear Suppliers Group, who have heretofore restricted
>exports to India.
>
>Before going farther down this road, India should ask itself, as
>it did before the Pokhran tests, why the U.S. Government should
>be accorded special status as the provider of legitimacy. After
>all, the U.S. is in the process of violating its commitments to
>the 182 non-nuclear weapon states. It has not accepted the
>legitimacy of the World Court's opinion, which held that nuclear
>weapons are illegal and that Article VI of the NPT requires all
>nuclear weapon states party to the Treaty to actually achieve
>nuclear disarmament in all its aspects. The U.S. Senate rejected
>the CTBT breaking another commitment to the NPT parties in the
>name of maintaining U.S. superiority. Even the defence of the
>CTBT by the Clinton administration was made on the basis that it
>would lock in U.S. advantages (which the $ 60 billion, 13-year
>U.S. stockpile stewardship programme would do). It seems
>prepared, if necessary, to abrogate the Anti-Ballistic Missile
>Treaty to achieve what it believes would be unilateral security
>advantages. It led the 1998 and 1999 bombings of Iraq and
>Yugoslavia (respectively) without obtaining the necessary
>authorisation from the United Nations Security Council. This
>dismal catalog of illegitimacy can, unfortunately, be quite
>easily extended.
>
>The positions of the vast majority of countries being expressed
>at the NPT Review Conference going on now in New York, are not in
>accord with U.S. policy. Indeed, on ballistic missile defences,
>the U.S. is practically isolated. Even its NATO partners have
>grave reservations about the direction of the U.S. on this issue.
>Moreover, U.S. claims that it is attending to its NPT disarmament
>obligations by reducing weapons systems ring hollow in the halls
>of the U.N. Most are aware that the U.S. is designing new weapons
>and that its real policy is to maintain nuclear weapons as a
>principal feature of its military arrangements for the future.
>India would be far better off seeking legitimacy in a different
>direction. The ratification by the Russian Duma of the CTBT even
>in the face of its rejection by the U.S. Senate was a bold and
>refreshing departure from the politics of reaction to the U.S.
>Coming on the heels of Russian ratification of the START II
>nuclear arms reduction treaty, and just before the NPT Review
>Conference, Russia put the U.S. on the defensive, newly unsure
>how to pursue its agenda. In contrast, Russia has been applauded
>at that conference for its ratification actions. The strength of
>the Russian position derives from the fact that it acted in a way
>that was at once in its own interest, for instance, it can hardly
>afford to spend vast sums on testing readiness, and
>simultaneously in the interests of disarmament. Russia's asking
>the U.S. to stick to the ABM Treaty gained additional credibility
>because it proposed a way to address missile proliferation
>threats by intensifying missile non- proliferation policies,
>rather than by unilateral installation of national missile
>defenses that could also serve as part of a first-strike nuclear
>arsenal.
>
>Russia has taken some bold actions, but they are in the context
>of promulgating a doctrine that increases the role of nuclear
>weapons. It is still partly locked in a dangerous battle of
>nuclear wills with the U.S. India can further its own security
>and that of the whole world by being even more bold on the CTBT,
>but without condoning Russia's nuclear doctrine.
>
>The CTBT could be a sound instrument for disarmament, since it
>bans all nuclear explosions. Its disarmament goal is being
>vitiated not by its provisions, but by non-treaty factors. One of
>the principal problems is the flagship enterprise of the U.S.
>stockpile stewardship programme a huge laser-driven device,
>called the National Ignition Facility (NIF), designed to create
>laboratory thermonuclear explosions. These explosions, which are
>intended to reach ten or more pounds of TNT equivalent, would be
>illegal under the CTBT, according to the analysis done by my
>institute. Planning for them is also prohibited under Article I
>of the CTBT. Interestingly, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
>has so far failed to respond to a letter from the U.S. Senator
>from iowa, Mr. Harkin, for the basis on which laboratory
>thermonuclear explosions are considered legal, even though the
>DOE states that smaller fission explosions (four pounds TNT
>equivalent) are banned.
>
>France is similarly violating the CTBT, since it is building a
>device of the same type and size as NIF near Bordeaux. Britain is
>cooperating with the U.S. in the NIF program and such
>collaboration is also prohibited by Article I. The French and
>British actions are all the more egregious, since both countries
>have ratified the CTBT.
>
>Further, the U.S. is developing new low-yield nuclear weapons,
>and may develop pure fusion weapons, the latter by using NIF as a
>scientific proving ground (though not for detailed weapon
>design). Pure fusion weapons would have essentially no
>radioactive fallout. It may be undertaking these activities with
>one eye on the World Court opinion, which found that nuclear
>weapons are illegal, in part because they cause indiscriminate
>damage. This path of seeking to legitimise nuclear weapons
>increases the chances of nuclear war.
>
>In 1996, the Government of India frequently voiced the objection,
>quite legitimately, that the nuclear weapons powers, notably the
>U.S., were converting the CTBT into an instrument of non-
>proliferation to the exclusion of the long-cherished goal of
>disarmament. India now has the chance to help make the CTBT into
>a disarmament treaty, especially since Russian ratification has
>left the U.S. more vulnerable to international pressure.
>
>India should sign the CTBT, with the announcement that it
>intends, as a signatory, to ensure that it will be an instrument
>of disarmament and that its letter and spirit will be completely
>respected. India should announce that it will seek an end to
>design of new weapons by all nuclear weapon states, as well as
>clarification of Article I to ensure that laboratory
>thermonuclear explosions are explicitly banned. India could
>invite Pakistan to sign the CTBT and to join it in this effort.
>It could also enlist the support the vast majority of other
>signatories, possibly including Russia and China, to make the
>CTBT a true disarmament treaty.
>
>India should note that most Governments as well as non-
>governmental organisations at the NPT Review Conference have
>given pride of place to Russian treaty ratifications as well as
>to the disarmament proposals of the New Agenda Coalition (Egypt,
>Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil).
>Rather than seeking legitimacy in the nuclear arena from the one
>nuclear weapon state that is increasingly isolated and seen as an
>obstacle to nuclear disarmament, India should act independently
>in accord with its best traditions. It should sign the CTBT and
>work hard to convert it into an instrument of disarmament. That
>would be a historically fitting task for the Government of a
>country whose Prime Minister was the first world leader to call
>for such a treaty.
>
>Copyrights: 2000 The Hindu & Tribeca Internet Initiatives Inc.


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Multi-Million Victims March & GPW2000
Date: 15 May 2000 18:52:48 -0700

Dear Paula and Bill, et al,

I think your excellent suggestions warrant very serious and quick
consideration in light of the situation with the Los Alamos fire and
radioactive ash danger that will still have media and public attention in
the coming weeks with which your concept can be promoted.

I especially support Bill's idea to broaden the
issues/coalition for such an effort as he described below, and I would
suggest additional catagories of "victims" could include victims of wars and
police/prison violence/abuses, the millions of global indigenous people
victimized by various oppressions especially as related to the nuclear and
energy issues such as Big Mountain, the Shoshone people's land destruction
by nuclear testing and waste dumping in Nevada, Leonard Peltier's fraudulent
conviction over the uranium mining in the Black Hills pressures in the
1970's http://www.freepeltier.org, victims of unfair economic and world
trade policies and homelessness-poverty-hunger, victims of alcohol abuse
(drunk driving etc), prescription drug deaths, medical inequities, victims
of
the drug war and Inquisition-style forteiture laws and police abuse such as
nonviolent offenders especially medical marijuana users and victims of the
crack cocaine epidemic such as those plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the
DoJ and CIA filed on behalf of South Central Los Angeles and Oakland
California residents (with unanimous resolution of support from Oakland City
Council under mayor Jerry Brown) based on DoJ IG report vol2 acknowledging
CIA complicity in the illegal drug trade years ago (http://www.copvcia.com),
and also the victims of gun violence such as the recent Million Mom March in
DC (interesting that 12 of the 14 recent shootings by youth in schools etc
were cases where the perpetrators were prescribed users of the "youth
control drugs" [for "ADD"] such as Ritalin and Prozac which have indicated
behavioral abbherations side effects listed), victims of increasing levels
of storm damages due to global climate change, etc etc., ie, an "All Victims
March on DC" kind of thing in support of global peace, a "March of Millions
in Many Communities Globally Simultanteously on Behalf of All Victims of
Stupid Government Policies" kind of thing?

My response/offer is to incorporate this idea for such a "victims march"
into the overall timeframe and plan of Global Peace Walk 2000 which will be
arriving from San Francisco to Washington DC for main activities over
Columbus Day holiday weekend with Saturday October 7 rally in Lafayette Park
across from the White House for special focus on that day
(http://www.prop1.org) with other events globally for abolition of weapons
in space, ABM, etc., as well of course as Abolition2000 which this cross-
country walk was inititiated in support of, to further global abolition of
nuclear weapons and to unite "all survival issue messages" under the banner
of its prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve.
http://www.globalpeacenow.org

On Sunday, Oct8 will be a Global Peace Ceremony at the Jefferson Stone, the
original centerpoint site of the White House -- Capitol -- Memorials  and
where the Washington Monument was to be placed before it was discovered the
ground would not support its weight.  Many prayer ceremonies by indigenous
spiritual leaders etc have been conducted in recent years at this site being
re-energized as a Symbol of Peace Monument by Arthur Lisch who is
coordinating GPW2000 event there that day.

On the Mondy October 9th Columbus Day Holiday (Indigenous Peoples Day) the
main GPW2000 event will be a ceremony to rededicate the Washington Monument
as a Symbol of The Message of Peace, which we optimistically hope can reach
the "million people" target for participants including political candidates
for offices/election this year.  This date has a unique coincidental
symbolism this year because it is also, according to the Smithsonian
Institute, the observed 1000 year anniversary of the Vikings landing in
America (see increasing stories in coming months on this theme, eg,
May8th issue of Time Magazine cover story) and it is also John Lennon's
60th birthday (we are working on connection to invite Yoko's
participation/support), ie, a "Millennial Give Peace a Chance Ceremony".

During the following days in DC (after most folks who can only come for the
weekend leave) the walk and representatives of various issues will be
delivering the letters and messages gathered along the way to various
government agencies before the walk departs DC towards the UN after the
traditional October 12th indigenous peoples "Columbus Day" ceremony in DC
area.

Since the "momentum" of the Global Peace Walk 2000 has already been building
since the walk left SF on MLK birthday Jan15, I would invite and suggest
that the concept of a "(Million) Victims March on DC" would be an excellent
idea to
join with the GPW2000 DC events and thereby the victims message would also
be carried on with additional strength as the walk completes its journey to
end at the United Nations on its 55th charter ratification anniversary
("birthday") October 24th, to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of
Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century, and to mark the mid-point
of the UN Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples.


----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 2:42 AM


> On 05/13/00 12:46:56 you wrote:
> >
>
>
>    Dear Paula & Susan,
>                         Apologies for any multiple postings. I like your
idea of a  Multi-Million Victims March in Washington. My take on it
> is that it's doable but it will take a lot of outreach. First, most
Americans are downwinders as the vast majority of us born before the
> Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 were bombed/irradiated by our own
goverment. That's about 150 to 200 MILLION Americans that are victims
> right off the bat. Not to mention what got into the gene pool. Atmospheric
testing continued as late as October 16, 1980 when the Chinese
> detonated their last open air nuclear weapon. Fallout contaminated the USA
that late.
>
>
>    Then there are the myriad of victimizations ranging from those
perpetrated by DOD,DOE, NRC, FDA, all corporate media that hides these
> crimes/victimizations from WE THE PEOPLE. The pharmeceutical industry &
medical industry through their criminal negligence and funding of
> medical schools on a massive scale and the massive drug/allopathic
ideology they continue to dissemenate at the expense of vastly more
> effective, non-toxic treatments and preventative approaches to health have
murdered [LITERALLY murdered] tens of millions of US citizens
> see  http://www.garynull.com  and will continue to do so until stopped.
The [mis]use of DU, pesticides, the tobacco industry's lies & cover-
> ups, the auto industry. Not to mention victims of racism, sexism &
homophobia. And on & on & on. My suggestion is to approach as broad a
> coalition of these groups, their leaders & all victims as possible and to
organize a VICTIMS MARCH ON WASHINGTON.
>
>
>    Such leaders that immediately come to mind are U.N. Secretary General
Kofi Annan, Ralph Nader[Phone:[phone]] and Jesse Jackson.
> Also, Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Congresspersons Cynthia
McKinney of Georgia & Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A number of
> celebrities like Martin Sheen, Dick Gregory, Ted Turner & Michael Douglas
should be approached, too. I'd suggest you call Nader & Jesse
> Jackson first thing Monday morning and raise the idea of such a march.
It's time for both a stop to many of these ongoing practices and a
> legal accounting and exposing of these crimes and their perpetrators.
>
>
>     See  Dr Rosalie Bertell's study of 1.3 BILLION victims globally from
the nuclear industry which appearred in the November 1999 "The
> Ecologist" at: http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/victims.html
>
>
>     Victims To Come?
http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/nuclearwar.html
>
>
>    If enough people take this seriously & get active organizing &
communicating, this IS doable.
>
>
>    -Bill Smirnow
>
>
>
> >Dear ALL,
> >
> >My apologies to anyone that receives multiple copies of this from any
cross
> >posting. Our hearts go out to the people of the Los Alamos area. This was
a
> >completely preventable tragedy. Repeated calls to cease the practice of
> >"prescribed burns" near or around DOE/DOD radioactive or hazardous waste
> >sites has fallen upon deaf ears. Our government officials that should be
> >overseeing such practices have failed to recognize the dangers of burning
> >vegetation that holds radioactive and hazardous waste within it -
releasing
> >it to local residents to inhale, possibly to become quite ill from it
later
> >on. These are valid concerns.
> >
> >There was a "prescribed test burn" at Rocky Flats here in Colorado
> >immediately upwind of 3.5 million people just over a month ago, despite
> >multiple protests against it (see email & photos below). The arrogance of
the
> >DOE, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Parks Service has been staggering in
this
> >regard. The U.S. EPA has failed to protect us, as have local health
> >departments.
> >
> >This utter disregard and failure to respect our breathing space needs to
be
> >addressed in a national forum hosted by the Governors, Congressional
> >Senators, Representatives, State Rep's from impacted "DOE host" states.
They
> >could turn this into a win/win situation by taking this issue in hand and
> >working with affected or concerned citizens.
> >
> >This monstrous situation must be brought back to being "for and by the
> >people". Do we have to have a "Multi-million Victim's March" in
Washington to
> >get their attention? Who can afford to do this, or who would like to
sponsor
> >such an event?  Let's get started. I can be reached at [phone].
> >
> >Yours,
> >
> >Paula Elofson-Gardine
> >Executive Director
> >Environmental Information Network
> >From the Fallout Zone of Rocky Flats and now Los Alamos



On 05/13/00 15:51:44 you wrote:
>


   Dear David,
               Concerning the media, I'd like to suggest that you and/or
those working closely on this issue contact the media watchdog
group FAIR {Phone:[phone],  http://www.fair.org] who are expert at
media work & will probably have both tips as to how best to go about
approaching media & in supplying media sources, both domestically &
internationally.


    You're doing an excellant job & those people going to the Los Alamos
area to help have a lot of guts.


   -Bill Smirnow


[earlier GPW post excerpt]:

>"We are concerned about our future. We are concerned about our human life."
>-- Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org
>
>
>Today again I spoke to Reverend Yamato on the phone from New Mexico
>about the Global Peace Walk plans concerning what he feels is a Global
>Emergency Situation resulting from the fire that has ravaged the Los Alamos
>area including outlying areas of the Nuclear Weapons Lab reportedly
>aerosolizing in the smoke decades of radioactive contamination from areas
>surrounding the Lab, smoke now settling as potentially very dangerous ash
>over several States so far and moving eastward. (details/evidence on this
>point below)
>
>Yamato has asked me to sound a Global Emergency Alert on this matter to
call
>on supporters everywhere to take media publicity actions to get the facts
>known to ameliorate potential present dangers, to prevent any future
>such dangerous nuclear radioactivity threat situations, and to focus the
>current national and global public attention on this tragedy towards
>increasing public support and activism for the global abolition of
>nuclear weapons.
>
>Please forward this post to your lists.

[full text of above excerpted GPW post with info links is archived at
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/364.html with additional
subsequent posts documenting evidence and concerns about Los Alamos fire
somke/ash radioactivity danger posted since May 12th at
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams ]


David Crockett Williams
Chartered Life Underwriter
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/prepaidlegal.html

General Agency Services  [e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877

Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

USCampaign  [e-mail]
D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams

The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

Easy way to Email Media and Government
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd

"An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html





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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/16 - Congress; Presidential Candidates
Date: 16 May 2000 07:20:43 -0400

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May 16, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200051621308.htm

HOUSE COMMITTEES=20

     11 a.m. =97 House Rules Committee meets to formulate a rule on the=
 National
Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2001. Location: Capitol, Room H-313.
Contact: 202/225-9191.=20

     Noon =97 House Commerce energy and power subcommittee holds a markup of
legislation to clarify that environmental protection, safety and health
provisions continue to apply to the functions of the national Nuclear=
 Security
Administration to the same those functions before transfer to the
administration. Location: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-2927.

    SENATE COMMITTEES=20

[Huh?  What a strange combination of issues! et]

    10 a.m. =97 Senate Governmental Affairs international security,=
 proliferation
and federal services subcommittee holds a hearing on legislation to provide
long-term care insurance for federal employees. Sen. Charles E. Grassley,=
 Iowa
Republican, and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland Democrat, participate.
Location: 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4751.

     2 p.m. =97 Senate Judiciary criminal justice oversight subcommittee=
 holds a
hearing, "Threats to Federal Law Enforcement Officers." Location: 226=
 Dirksen
Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5225.

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE=20

     Travels to Nashville, Tenn., and to New York.
     1 p.m. =97 Hosts a round-table discussion on Social Security, James B.
McNally Amphitheater, Fordham Business School, 140 W. 62nd St., New York.
     7 p.m. =97 Addresses the Columbia Law School graduation commencement,=
 Avery
Fisher Hall, 132 W. 65th St., New York.

[INSERT from "mitzi" <[e-mail]> --

GOVERNOR BUSH

George W. Bush's Schedule: May 16, 2000
=20
11:45 a.m. - Governor George W. Bush will discuss personal retirement=
 accounts
in Portland, Oregon, Gunderson, Inc. Training Center, 4700 Northwest Front=
 Ave.
- 503/972-5700
=20
5:05 p.m. - Governor departs Portland International Airport Flight Craft,=
 7505
Northeast Airport Way, Portland, OR 503/331-4200             =20
=20
5:55 p.m. - Governor Airport Arrival King County Airport, Boeing
Field,                                        Seattle, WA 206/296-7380
                                      =20
NOTE - Media credentials will be issued on-site to members of the media
 with official identification.

RALPH NADER

Ralph Nader will be in New Haven, CT on Wednesday May 17. He will meet=20
residents at the Yale Co-op Bookstore on the corner of Chapel and Temple=20
Streets opposite the New Haven Green. Mitzi Bowman [phone].]


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<br>
<div>HOUSE COMMITTEES </div>
<br>
<div>     11 a.m. =97 House Rules Committee meets to
formulate a rule on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal
2001. Location: Capitol, Room H-313. Contact: 202/225-9191. </div>
<br>
<div>     Noon =97 House Commerce energy and power
subcommittee holds a markup of legislation to clarify that environmental
protection, safety and health provisions continue to apply to the
functions of the national Nuclear Security Administration to the same
those functions before transfer to the administration. Location: 2123
Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927.</div>
<br>
<div>    SENATE COMMITTEES </div>
<br>
<div>[Huh?  What a strange combination of issues! et]</div>
<br>
<div>    10 a.m. =97 Senate Governmental Affairs
international security, proliferation and federal services subcommittee
holds a hearing on legislation to provide long-term care insurance for
federal employees. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, and Sen.
Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland Democrat, participate. Location: 342
Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4751.</div>
<br>
<div>     2 p.m. =97 Senate Judiciary criminal justice
oversight subcommittee holds a hearing, "Threats to Federal Law
Enforcement Officers." Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Contact: 202/224-5225.</div>
<br>
<div>VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE </div>
<br>
<div>     Travels to Nashville, Tenn., and to New
York.</div>
<div>     1 p.m. =97 Hosts a round-table discussion on
Social Security, James B. McNally Amphitheater, Fordham Business School,
140 W. 62nd St., New York.</div>
<div>     7 p.m. =97 Addresses the Columbia Law School
graduation commencement, Avery Fisher Hall, 132 W. 65th St., New
York.</div>
<br>
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--</div>
<br>
<div>GOVERNOR BUSH</div>
<br>
<div>George W. Bush's Schedule: May 16, 2000</div>
<div> </div>
<div>11:45 a.m. - Governor George W. Bush will discuss personal
retirement accounts in Portland, Oregon, Gunderson, Inc. Training Center,
4700 Northwest Front Ave. - 503/972-5700</div>
<div> </div>
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Craft, 7505 Northeast Airport Way, Portland, OR
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<br>
<div>Ralph Nader will be in New Haven, CT on Wednesday May 17. He will
meet </div>
<div>residents at the Yale Co-op Bookstore on the corner of Chapel and
Temple </div>
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From: "Howard W. Hallman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Los Alamos lab buildings destroyed by
Date: 16 May 2000 10:05:01 -0400

At 01:35 PM 5/16/00 +0100, Janet Bloomfield wrote:
>Forest fire razes bomb laboratories.

Dear Friends,

Is this not a parable?  There is no such thing as a "controlled burn" with
nuclear weapons.  Once started they will consume us all.

With best regards,
Howard Hallman
Howard W. Hallman, Chair
Methodists United for Peace with Justice
1500 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Los Alamos lab buildings destroyed by fire..
Date: 16 May 2000 13:53:44 -0600

Even better-  the nuclear weapons and material are safe but not the houses
of the people.  I hope the people whose houses are burned notice that it was
even the houses of those who built the weapons that were not safe.
*************************************************
Bob Kinsey
Peace and Justice Task Force
Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ
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> At 01:35 PM 5/16/00 +0100, Janet Bloomfield wrote:
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> Dear Friends,
>
> Is this not a parable?  There is no such thing as a "controlled burn" with
> nuclear weapons.  Once started they will consume us all.
>
> With best regards,
> Howard Hallman
> Howard W. Hallman, Chair
> Methodists United for Peace with Justice
> 1500 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
> Phone/fax: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]
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Subject: (abolition-usa) ONLY THREE ORGANISATIONS NEEDED TO 2000 BY FRIDAY
Date: 17 May 2000 10:39:25 +1000

PLEASE REPLY TO
[e-mail], [e-mail],
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16 May 2000

Dear Friends and Activists,

We are now in the final week of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and
Extension Conference.  As many of you know, early this year the Abolition
2000 Coordinating Committee initiated a "2000 by 2000" Campaign to have 2000
organizational and municipal endorsers of the Global Network to Eliminate
Nuclear Weapons.  We have almost reached our goal!  1997 organizations and
municipalities have now endorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement.  We only need
3 more organizations to reach our goal of 2000!  We need your HELP!  Please
enroll an organization TODAY so we can make an announcement in a press
conference on Friday that Abolition 2000 is 2000 endorsers strong and will
continue its work to eliminate nuclear weapons and create a more just and
secure world.

Thank you for your ACTION to support the Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear
Weapons.  I look forward to continuing our vital work.

In peace and solidarity,

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Subject: (abolition-usa) ONLY THREE ORGANISATIONS NEEDED TO 2000 BY FRIDAY
Date: 17 May 2000 10:39:21 +1000

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16 May 2000

Dear Friends and Activists,

We are now in the final week of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and
Extension Conference.  As many of you know, early this year the Abolition
2000 Coordinating Committee initiated a "2000 by 2000" Campaign to have 2000
organizational and municipal endorsers of the Global Network to Eliminate
Nuclear Weapons.  We have almost reached our goal!  1997 organizations and
municipalities have now endorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement.  We only need
3 more organizations to reach our goal of 2000!  We need your HELP!  Please
enroll an organization TODAY so we can make an announcement in a press
conference on Friday that Abolition 2000 is 2000 endorsers strong and will
continue its work to eliminate nuclear weapons and create a more just and
secure world.

Thank you for your ACTION to support the Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear
Weapons.  I look forward to continuing our vital work.

In peace and solidarity,

Carah



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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT APPEAL - THREE DAYS LEFT
Date: 17 May 2000 19:16:14 +1000

PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT USE IT

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd

Dear All,

There's only three days to go till the end of the NPT review.  You need to
write to your government now and urge them to support the total and
unequivocal elimination of the nuclear arsenals of the nuclear weapons
states. The fax numbers of foreign ministers worldwide are available on:
Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org

The most important numbers are also at the end of this appeal.

As things have moved very fast, I am re- issuing a sample letter and alert
from last week that gives a general call to support the language in the New
Agenda Working paper, esp paragraph 1.

This language has now gone through a variety of different working papers
under different paragraph numbers.  The bottom line is however, the same.

Please use your networks to spread this message around to anyone,
especially parliamentarians, that might use it to influence your
governments.

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference will go until the
19th of this month. It is now the 17th.  There's 3 days to go.

The New Agenda Coalition, a group of nations led by New Zealand, Ireland,
Sweden, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil and Egypt, has put forward a 'working
paper' which provides a moderate, reasonable, and practical step- by - step
way forward to the elimination of nuclear weapons as reqired by Article VI
of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty.

Especially critical is support for 'Operative paragraph 1' of the New
Agenda working paper, which asks the Nuclear Weapons states to committ to
an unequivocal and total elimination of nuclear weapons and to commence
that process over the 2000-2005 review period.  This is in contrast to the
committment they have made to the 'ultimate' elimination of nuclear weapons
- maybe a hundred years from now!
(The wording in this working paper, especially Paragraph 1, has now gone
into a variety of other working papers now under condiferation, line- by
line)

The next 3 days of the NPT Review Conference are utterly crucial as
delicate negotiations take place between the nuclear weapons states and the
New Agenda Coalition who have the support of the overwhelming majority.

THERE'S JUST THREE DAYS - PLEASE CONTACT YOUR GOVERNMENT NOW AND ASK THEM
TO SUPPORT THE NEW AGENDA LANGUAGE

*A clear message from the public direct to your country's foreign minister,
secretary of state, president, or UN mission will make a big difference at
this point.*

If you live in a nuclear weapons state or a NATO country:
Please write to your foreign minister or UN mission immediately to ask them
to to committ to the unequivocal and total elimination of nuclear weapons
starting in the 2000-2005 review period.

If you are living in a country that is part of or supports the New Agenda
Coalition,  let them know they are doing the right thing and that (no
matter what other faults they may have) on this issue at least they have
your support.

If you are not sure of the position of your country, ask them to support
the New Agenda Coalition position anyway.

A sample letter is below.  After the letter is a list of fax numbers and an
appeal  to support the NAC from Felicity Hill of WILPF which you are
encouraged to read before you write and fax.

There is also an appeal to parliamentarians which you can use.

You are encouraged to use as much of the sample letter and these appeals as
you find useful and to make whatever changes or improvements you feel
appropriate.

It is better not to use it word for word, and its best to handwrite.

It does not need to be very long.

Do please do it and get as many others as you can to do it, this is an
action that really has the potential to help rid the world of nuclear
weapons.


THIS IS A SAMPLE LETTER TO BE SENT TO FOREIGN MINISTERS AND UN MISSIONS.
YOU WILL NEED TO ALTER IT TO FIT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

SAMPLE LETTER TO ALL NPT SIGNATORY FOREIGN MINISTERS AND NPT REVIEW
CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES

(Address and fax number of foreign minister)
(Address and fax number of UN mission/NPT Review Conference Representative)

Dear Foreign Minister, UN Mission, or NPT Review Conference Representative,

I am writing to you to persuade your government to support the working
paper of the New Agenda Coalition at the Review Conference of the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York at the United Nations
Headquarters, in particular the wording in Paragraph 1, now in various
other NPT review conference documents.

On 24April, the New Agenda Coalition group of nations, led by New Zealand,
Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Egypt, presented a
working paper to the NPT review Conference. This working paper provides a
realistic, moderate, practical, and reasonable program of action for
nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament that should serve as the basis for
the final decision of the Conference.

That program includes the following elements:
--An unequivocal undertaking by the five nuclear weapons states to
eliminate their nuclear arsenals, not as an 'ultimate' aim to be
accomplished at some remote date, but as an immediate obligation. For the
five nuclear weapons states to engage in an accelerated process of
negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear disarmament in the coming
2000-2005 period.

--Implementation of START-II and commencement of negotiations on START-III

--The integration of all five nuclear weapon states into a process leading
to the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

--Adaptation of policies and postures to preclude the use of nuclear weapons
--Taking strategic nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert.

It is requested that your government  support Operative Paragraph 1 of the
New Agenda working paper, which reads:
"The five nuclear weapon states make an unequivocal undertaking to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the
course of the forthcoming review period 2000-2005, to engage in an
accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading  to nuclear
disarmament to which states parties are committed under Article VI."

This is pariticularly important  because the nuclear weapons states have
themselves issued a joint statement on 1 May, which included the following
sentence:
 "We reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goals of a
complete elimination of nuclear weapons and a treaty on general and
complete disarmament under strict and effective international control".

However, the use of the world 'ultimate' in this context,   as well as the
linkage to general and complete disarmament, means that the objective of
the elimination of nuclear weapons is in fact being postponed to a distant
future. The original language of the NPT itself (in force since 1970)
refers to the need to achieve results by an early date. The  1996 advisory
opinion of the International Court of Justice unanimously emphasizes the
obligation to actually achieve the goal of elimination of nuclear weapons.

I//(My organization) therefore urges you, Foreign Minister, to support
especially Operative Paragraph 1 of the New Agenda Working Paper, as
offering a series of practical steps to move towards the fulfillment of
what are in any case the clear legal obligations of the nuclear weapons
states, to eliminate their nuclear weapons arsenals at an early date.

We urge you to give your full support to the measures outlined by the New
Agenda Coalition in their working paper, especially if your government has
not seen fit to do so before now. These measures offer a realistic way out
of the nuclear quagmire which the P5 statement does not.

(Signed)

BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS.

(NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL.)

=46AX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS

A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in
the world is listed plus lots of information is this:
Http://www.abolition2000.org.

(Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers
and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is:
Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org )

Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not
on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of
the two URLs above.
(The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be.
You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope
however, that  people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister
but also those of Russia and the US.)

Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me
know at <[e-mail]>  and check the number on the URL or with
your own telephone system.

If you are in the US,
Secy of State Madeleine Allbrights fax number is: [phone]
President Clintons fax number is [phone]
The US United Nations mission is on  Fax. [phone]

If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is
[phone] or [phone]. (You need to be persistent with these
numbers)
The general Kremlin fax number is [phone]. (This is the slowest fax
in the universe)
Russia's UN mission is on [phone]

If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is [phone]=
,
Jacques Chirac's fax number is [phone].
=46rance's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889

If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is [phone].
The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is:  [phone]
The United Nations mission is on Fax. [phone]

If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: [phone],  or
[phone]
=46oreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: [phone]=
,
[phone],
[phone], [phone]
The German UN mission is on: Fax [phone]

Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions:
If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: [phone].
Canada, UN Mission -Fax. [phone]
If you are in Japan, you need to fax [phone] UN Mission -  Fax. +1
212 751 1966
If you are in Italy please fax [phone], or [phone] or
[phone]
Italy UN Mission - Fax. [phone]
If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on [phone]
If you are in Korea, try  your minister of foreign affairs on
[phone], [phone]
If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be [phone]
Brazil UN Mission - Fax. [phone] or [phone]
If you are in Mexico, try [phone]
If you are in Greece try [phone] (or 0095)
If you are in Thailand, try [phone], or [phone]


NPT URGENT ACTION 2

from
=46elicity Hill, WILPF
Sharon Riggle, CESD
Merav Datan, IPPNW

The 2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty brings together
187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty
ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law
in 1970.

The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they
committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6.  "Each of
the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith
on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an
early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and
complete disarmament under strict and effective international control."

The Main Committee devoted to non-proliferation, disarmament and
international peace and security concluded its work at the NPT Review
Conference today.  Three draft texts were discussed at the last meeting of
Main Committee I.

There are still six working days of the conference in which there is
opportunity for NGOs to have an impact on the final outcome.   NGOs all
around the world can reinforce the efforts of NGOs at the UN by:

1.  Writing to and visiting your foreign ministry in your capital city.

2.  Writing to and visiting your parliamentary representatives, urging them
to contact the foreign ministry.

3.  Faxing and calling your delegation here in New York.  (For the contact
details in many capitals and all New York Missions, see
www.reachingcriticalwill.org  Click on the Governmental Disarmament
Contacts button).

4.  Writing to your newspapers (either articles, letters to the editor, or
particular journalists who might take up the issue)

This Urgent Action relates in particular to the most contentious language
in the FORWARD LOOKING DOCUMENT for ACTION OVER THE COMING 5 YEAR PERIOD,
developed in a Working Paper of Subsidiary Body I (a subcommittee of Main
Committee I) under the Chairmanship of Clive Pearson of New Zealand.  The
full document, (NPT/CONF.2000/MC.1/SB/1/CRP.7) can be found at:
http://www.basicint.org

We think it would be useful to concentrate on five paragraphs in particular
which relate to

1.  Unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of arsenals (para 17)
2.  The ABM treaty (para 5)
3.  Annual reporting by nuclear weapon states (para 11)
4.  Dealerting, Deactivating (para 13)
5.  A diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies  (para 14) &
the use of "Strategic stability" throughout the document

1.  Unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of arsenals (para 17)

Para 17.  An unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the
forthcoming NPT review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated
process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to
which all States parties are committed under Article VI.

Currently the last paragraph in the document, NGOs believe that this
"unequivocal undertaking" is in fact one of the most important elements of
the working paper.  This language reflects Operative Paragraph 1 from the
New Agenda Coalition's Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament, tabled on
the first day of the Conference.  (The New Agenda Coalition is made up of
Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.)   An
"unequivocal undertaking" is the language proposed to replace the "ultimate
goal" language of the 5 Nuclear Weapon States. "Ultimate" means: last or
last possible, final. This explains why many states and all NGOs are fairly
suspicious of the word ultimate.  An undertaking is an action, not a
promise, which would then translate into a faster process than we have seen
in the past 30 years of the existence of the NPT.   Once there is a
demonstrated commitment to the TOTAL elimination of nuclear weapons, the
consequences will be an accelerated programme of action.

2.  The ABM Treaty

Para 5.  The early entry into force and full implementation of START II and
the conclusion of START III as soon as possible while preserving and
strengthening the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as
a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons, in
accordance with its provisions.

The majority of this language is taken directly from the joint statement of
the five nuclear weapon states.  The consensus nature of this document was
only possible because of differing interpretations of the word
"strengthening".  Strengthening cannot necessarily mean modify but that is
how the US is interpreting this language. An unfortunate consequence of the
5 agreeing to common language has been the rest of the states parties being
reticent to comment on the danger of US plans for a national missile
defense which could spark a new arms race.   The essence of the ABM was a
recognition that reduction of offensive weapons requires a limit on
defensive capabilities.  The US government talking points leaked 2 weeks
ago (available on www.thebulletin.org) indicate that the US "comforted" the
Russians that they should maintain between 1,000 and 2,000 nuclear weapons
to have "the certain ability to carry out an annihilating counterattack=8A"

 3.  Annual reporting by nuclear weapon states (para 11)

Para 11.  Annual reports within the framework of the NPT review process by
all States parties on the implementation of Article VI and paragraph 4 (c)
of the 1995 Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and
Disarmament.

NGOs support an annual reporting mechanism and propose that there be a
standardised format or structure to the annual reports to streamline the
information provided and to avoid the proliferation of glossy propaganda
and self-serving or selective reporting.  The reports should cover the
number of weapons dismantled, in storage and deployed. The reports should
also detail nuclear doctrines and policy changes that relate to, facilitate
or obstruct nuclear disarmament.

4.  Dealerting, de-activating, removal of warheads from delivery vehicles
(para 13)

Para 13.  Measures to de-alert and de-activate nuclear weapon systems, the
removal of nuclear warheads from delivery vehicles and the withdrawal of
nuclear forces from active deployment for the maintenance and promotion of
strategic stability.

Even though dealerting was identified as the first step towards disarmament
in the Canberra Commission, it is still being resisted.  For persuasive
arguments and facts on dealerting go to www.dealert.org

5.  A diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies  (para 14) &
the use of "Strategic stability" throughout the document

Para 14.  A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to
minimise the risk that these weapon ever be used, to facilitate the process
of elimination, to enhance strategic stability and to contribute to
international confidence and security.

This paragraph was originally targeted at NATO's renewed nuclear posture,
but has since been broadened to include any state that is explicitly
increasing reliance on these weapons.  On face value this paragraph might
appear positive but it contains contradictions.  The diminishing role of
nuclear weapons in security policies is necessary for disarmament, however,
the addition of "to enhance strategic stability" cannot be supported by
NGOs because this language reinforces a minimum level of possession of
nuclear weapons.  In other words, strategic stability and the abolition of
nuclear weapons are mutually exclusive notions.  The irony is that the
concept of elimination is right next to the concept of strategic stability.


*******       *******       *******       *******
=46elicity Hill, Director
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
United Nations Office
777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA

Ph:  1 212 682 1265
=46ax: 1 212 286 8211
email: [e-mail]
web: www.wilpf.int.ch  www.reachingcriticalwill.org

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


A CALL TO PARLIAMENTARIANS TO STRENGTHEN THE NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY BY
SUPPORTING THE NEW AGENDA COALITION

   3 May 2000

States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT) are meeting in New York until May 19 to review the Treaty and its
implementation including the obligations of the nuclear weapon states to
negotiate for complete nuclear disarmament.

On 24 April, the seven nations of the New Agenda Coalition submitted a
working paper to the NPT Review Conference outlining a realistic program of
action for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament that can serve as the
basis for the Conference's final decision. For the vitality of the treaty
and to strengthen the international security regime, the NPT must produce a
credible plan of action for the next five years, leading up to the next
Review Conference in 2005.

Paragraph One of the working paper states that, in order to fulfill the
disarmament requirements of the NPT:

"The five nuclear-weapon states make an unequivocal undertaking to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the
course of the
forthcoming review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated process of
negotiations and to take steps leading to the nuclear disarmament to which
all states parties are committed under Article VI of the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons."


Such an undertaking from the nuclear weapon states is necessary to
demonstrate good faith intentions from the nuclear weapon states to
implementing their disarmament obligations. A wide range of States at the
NPT Review Conference have expressed a lack of confidence in such
intentions,
citing the continued policies and programs of the nuclear weapon states and
their unwillingness to make an unequivocal commitment to achieving nuclear
disarmament.

There is considerable support from delegations for the inclusion of the
above paragraph, and other elements from the New Agenda working paper, in
the
Review Conference final document, which will most likely require consensus
to be adopted.

On May 1 China, France, Russia, the UK and the US released a statement which
included the following:

"We reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goals of a complete
elimination of nuclear weapons and a treaty on general and complete
disarmament under strict and effective international control."

The release of this statement, including the use of the New Agenda Coalition
language  "unequivocal commitment", indicates that the nuclear weapon states
are aware of the need to respond to the strong and urgent call for them to
commit themselves to nuclear disarmament.

However, the rest of the language indicates that they are choosing to
obfuscate rather than make any real commitment. They continue to use the
word ultimate  with respect to the goal of nuclear disarmament, meaning that
they
are not committing themselves to pursue complete nuclear disarmament at an
early date. The statement makes no mention of the obligation to achieve the
goal, as opposed to merely pursuing it, an obvious rejection to the 1996
International Court of Justice opinion on nuclear weapons which emphasised
the obligation to achieve the goal.
In addition, they link the goal of general and complete disarmament with
that of nuclear disarmament, a linkage which would prevent any earlier
achievement of nuclear disarmament.

=46inally, the statement of the nuclear weapons states ignores important
aspects of the New Agenda Coalition statement including:
The call for an accelerated process of negotiations, which changes the
impetus of nuclear disarmament negotiations from some undetermined time in
the future to today.
The importance of making some progress before the next NPT Review
Conference in 2005. There is no expectation that negotiations for complete
nuclear disarmament will be completed by 2005, but that such negotiations
would be underway and some interim steps would be achieved.

Therefore we, as NGOs specializing in disarmament and arms control,
respectfully request your assistance in promoting the NAC proposal - in
particular Paragraph One - in your parliaments,  to your governments and to
your delegations to the NPT Review Conference.


Contacts:
Middle Powers Initiative
727 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Tel: [phone]
UN Coordinator, Jim Wurst telephone: [phone]

Lisa von Trapp
Coordinator
Parliamentarians Network for Nuclear Disarmament
Parliamentarians for Global Action
211 ast 43rd Street, 16th floor
New York, NY 10017, USA
Tel: [phone] x104






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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Waste Manifesto at NPT
Date: 17 May 2000 12:41:59 -0400


Dear Friends,
I am presenting this paper at a strategy meeting today during the NPT and
would
appreciate your feedback.  Alice Slater

NUCLEAR WASTE MANIFESTO

The 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference is drawing to a close and
will offer little to abolitionists who are determined to see the
elimination of
nuclear weapons from our planet.  The unholy bargain for the inalienable right
to poison the planet with the so-called ôpeaceful usesö of nuclear technology,
which many non-nuclear weapons states continue to cling to,  aided by the
collusion of nuclear supplier countries, threatens to turn our planet into a
nuclear waste dump and destroy our genetic heritage.  A clear call must be
issued around the planet to stop this insanity!!   Here are some simple rules
proposed to change the thinking and speaking about nuclear waste and weapons
for the millenium.


1.      Stop mining uranium
2.      Stop producing new nuclear waste
3.      DonÆt transport wasteleave it as near as possible to the site where it
is generated
4.      DonÆt process wastedonÆt cook it, glassify it, ceramify it, transmute
it, mox it
5.      Isolate waste from the air, soil, and water in above ground
retrievable
storage in sturdy containers that can easily be replaced over time
6.      Keep contained waste under international guard
7.      Establish a Global Sustainable Energy
8.      Establish a Global Waste Project which will devote intellectual and
financial resources to studying the long term problem  of nuclear waste,
commensurate with the resources that were devoted to poisoning the planet with
nuclear weapons and nuclear power.


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]
http://www.gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE/sick nuclear workers
Date: 17 May 2000 21:56:38 -0700 (PDT)

Hi peace and enviro colleagues. Here is an article I thought would be of
interest from our recent newsletter on the compensation proposed by DOE for
its sick workers. Peace, Marylia

Aid Pledged to Sick Workers

by Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs' May 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson pledged his Department would reverse over
50 years of denial that it caused injury, illness and death amongst its
employees in U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and factories.

"Justice for nuclear weapons workers is finally happening. The government
is, for a change, on their side," Richardson proclaimed in an April 12th
press conference to announce his support for a new initiative to provide
compensation to some current and former workers exposed to toxic and
radioactive contaminants on the job.

Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, Dr. David Michaels
said workers at Livermore Lab suffered exposures to plutonium, tritium,
beryllium and other deadly materials. These workers will be eligible to
file claims, he said.

Admitting responsibility is an historic first step in the long journey of
reparation, but there are serious limitations to the DOE compensation plan.
Justice for workers and others made sick by the bomb-building enterprise
remains a still-elusive glimmer.

The DOE proposes to grant only a small number of claims nationwide.
Michaels estimated that 3,000 workers would be eligible. He said there are
perhaps 1,500 workers with radiation-induced cancers, 750 cases of
beryllium disease and 750 workers with other illnesses caused by their
employment.

Despite pronouncements by Richardson and Michaels that their agency would
no longer battle and belittle the workers' claims, it is worth noting that
most of the injured will have to prove exposure to be eligible for
compensation. That will present a difficult if not impossible hurdle for
many.

In some cases the workers' medical records are missing, in others their
files were altered after they became ill, leaving them without recourse to
even the state-run workers compensation programs. A number of Livermore
workers have spoken to us over the years about the "black holes" in the
official records, where information about exposure goes in - but nothing
comes out. We believe the problem to be widespread.

We also know of cases at Livermore and elsewhere where the workers were too
intimidated to report the exposure to their supervisors. One contractor who
experienced "flu-like symptoms" after becoming enveloped in toxic gas told
us he was afraid of losing his job. If they become ill as a result of their
exposures, these workers will likely not be able to get help.

DOE  knows that this is a problem. Michaels said that the agency would take
a sick worker's job description into account, but for most workers the
burden of proof still falls heavily on their shoulders.

Even in cases where exposure was severe and demonstrable, the worker's
eligibility hinges on whether he or she suffered the specific illness on
the DOE list for that contaminant. For example, a worker exposed to
beryllium dust who develops lung disease may be eligible, but the worker
standing next to him suffering the same exposure will not receive any
compensation if he becomes ill with cancer. While there is a strong
correlation between beryllium exposure and cancer, that disease is not on
the DOE list for that contaminant.

Moreover, the DOE initiative does not acknowledge or help the plight of
nuclear plant neighbors, some of whom suffered exposures as high as the
employees.

In Washington they call it the "Hanford mile," and many of its neighbors
have developed cancers and other rare diseases. In Livermore, a study by
the California state Department of Health Services found Lab workers
suffered a 400% increased incidence of malignant melanoma, a potentially
fatal form of skin cancer. The study correlated the increases in cancer
with five  workplace factors. In 1995, the state completed a thirty-year
study of Livermore's young  - and found that children who were born here
suffered a 640% increase in malignant melanoma. Children who were merely
moved here while young had a 240% increase. And the list goes on.

Under the Energy Department's plan, eligible workers, or their survivors,
could receive a lump-sum payment of $100,000. In other cases, sick workers
could get medical costs and lost wages, a package that could potentially
exceed $100,000.

DOE estimated it would need $120 million annually for the first three years
and then about $80 million a year after that. It is unclear as yet whether
Congress will appropriate those modest dollars.

The good news is that some who were made sick may receive  aid. As one ill
worker, retired from Livermore Lab told us, "I'm dying. I want to know that
my wife will have enough money to pay off my bills and to live."

The bad news is it is not enough. Not nearly enough.

If you or a family member may have a DOE job-related illness, you can call
a new toll-free number set up by the Department at [phone]. We at
Tri-Valley CAREs are compiling a data base of residents and workers who
believe their illnesses could be Lab related. Please call us at (925)
443-7148.



Marylia Kelley
Executive Director,
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA 94550
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Web site: http://www.igc.org/tvc



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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Subcritical Nuclear Tests
Date: 17 May 2000 22:00:04 -0700 (PDT)

Dear colleagues: Here is an article from our newsletter on subcritical
nuclear tests. Peace, Marylia

More Subcritical Nuclear Tests Planned

by Sally Light
from Tri-Valley CAREs' May 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

The Department of Energy (DOE) has detonated 11 underground subcritical
nuclear tests at its Nevada Test Site (NTS) since the first such test in
mid-1997. Tri-Valley CAREs, along with its colleague organizations, opposes
these tests.

A subcritical test is not a full-scale nuclear test. Fissile materials such
as plutonium are involved, but the nuclear chain reaction is halted before
it becomes self-sustaining. Each subcritical test consists of high
explosives being blown up along with plutonium, while sophisticated
monitoring equipment records the detonation in great detail. The data
gathered from the test are later fed into DOE's computers to update nuclear
weapons computer codes.

While DOE claims that these tests are performed in the cause of maintaining
the stockpile's "safety" and "reliability," Tri-Valley CAREs and others
counter that the tests, which are part of DOE's Stockpile Stewardship
program, are done to further the research and development of nuclear
weapons.

Livermore Lab has prepared 7 of the 11 tests carried out so far (the other
4 were prepared by the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico). Livermore is
currently completing a series of 16 subcritical tests code-named the Oboe
series. Oboe 1 was detonated at NTS last year. Three Oboe tests have been
performed so far in this fiscal year, and reportedly up to 5 more such
tests are planned by the end of September, with the balance of the Oboe
tests to be done in fiscal year 2001.

Located on beautiful desert land belonging to the Western Shoshone Nation,
NTS is an island of pockmarked, radioactively-contaminated desolation
caused by decades of U.S. nuclear weapons testing. The subcritical tests
further degrade the environment. It was confirmed recently that plutonium
from past explosions has been moving with the area's underground aquifer
towards the NTS fence line.

Subcritical testing also has serious, negative international repercussions.
Other nations see them as proof that the U.S. has no intention of complying
with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), even though the U.S. has
signed it and has an obligation under the Treaty's Article VI to take steps
to discontinue its nuclear weapons activities and to achieve nuclear
disarmament.

Subcritical tests also undermine the trust among nations needed to
accomplish the sensitive international ratification now underway of the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which bans all nuclear weapons tests.
The subcritical tests by DOE have been cited by some countries as an
impediment to ratification of the CTBT.

U.S. tests have been answered by Russian subcritical tests. Russia has been
conducting subcritical tests over the last two years. We and others have
been warning the U.S. that such tests at NTS  risk starting another nuclear
arms race, or, at the very least, keep the competitive fires burning in the
style of the Cold War. We see the responsive Russian subcritical tests as
proof of that risk.

In the Bay Area, every time a subcritical test is performed, we  local
groups respond with an action at noon on the day of the test. The actions
are in San Francisco at the international headquarters of the Bechtel
Group, the corporation that holds a multi-billion dollar contract with DOE
to operate NTS. These protests are part of an international response to the
U.S. tests - actions also take place in Nevada, Japan, Australia and
Europe.

Call us for more information -- or to be placed on the notification list
for actions.


Marylia Kelley
Executive Director,
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA 94550
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Web site: http://www.igc.org/tvc



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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/18 - Congress today; Sunday 8:45 a.m. action,
Date: 18 May 2000 07:38:24 -0400

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May 18, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000518213750.htm

SENATE COMMITTEES=20

2 p.m. =97 Armed Services Committee holds hearing to receive testimony on=
 U.S.
strategic nuclear force requirements. Gen. Henry H. Shelton, Joint Chiefs of
Staff chairman, testifies. Location: 253 Russell Senate Office Building.
Contact: 202/224-3871.

HOUSE COMMITTEES=20

2 p.m. =97 Resources energy and mineral resources subcommittee holds=
 hearing,
"Inquiry into Payments to Federal Employees." Location: 1324 Longworth House
Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2761.

11 a.m. =97 Commerce health and the environment subcommittee holds hearing=
 on the
disposition of hundreds of chimpanzees no longer needed for biomedical
research. Jane Goodall testifies. Location: 2322 Rayburn House Office=
 Building.
Contact: 202/225-2927.

GENERAL AGENDA=20

China news conference =97 1 p.m. =97 The Institute for America's Future=
 holds a
news conference to release a new economic analysis, "China's Rapid Leap into
Advanced Technologies." The participants include: Charles McMillion, report
author; and Reps. David E. Bonior, Michigan Democrat, and Dennis J.=
 Kucinich,
Ohio Democrat. Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Contact: 202/955-5665.

Citizens Trade Campaign news conference =97 9:45 a.m. =97 The Citizens Trade
Campaign holds a news conference and rally with 60 Chinese human rights=
 leaders
to ask Congress to reject permanent normal trade relations with China. Rep.
David E. Bonior, Michigan Democrat, participates. Location: Capitol, East=
 Front
lawn. Contact: 202/624-8136.

Grant presentation =97 2 p.m. =97 Energy Secretary Bill Richardson presents=
 an
Energy Department grant to Rep. Joe Baca, California Democrat, for a=
 University
of California at Riverside solar-energy project. Location: 2300 Rayburn=
 House
Office Building. Contact: 202/225-6161.

----

Albright protest this Sunday

Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:09 AM=20

Dear friends,
DC area activists are planning to protest US aggression in Iraq and the
policies of Madeleine Albright, who will be receiving an honorary degree=
 from
George Washington University at a Commencement ceremony this Sunday morning=
 at
the Ellipse. Protest assembles at 8:45 a.m., Sunday, May 21, at 15 and E
Streets, NW. The DC Coalition to Stop The US War Against Iraq, 202-452-7454



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<div>SENATE COMMITTEES </div>
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<div>2 p.m. =97 Armed Services Committee holds hearing to receive testimony
on U.S. strategic nuclear force requirements. Gen. Henry H. Shelton,
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testifies. Location: 253 Russell Senate
Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.</div>
<br>
<div>HOUSE COMMITTEES </div>
<br>
<div>2 p.m. =97 Resources energy and mineral resources subcommittee holds
hearing, "Inquiry into Payments to Federal Employees."
Location: 1324 Longworth House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-2761.</div>
<br>
<div>11 a.m. =97 Commerce health and the environment subcommittee holds
hearing on the disposition of hundreds of chimpanzees no longer needed
for biomedical research. Jane Goodall testifies. Location: 2322 Rayburn
House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927.</div>
<br>
<div>GENERAL AGENDA </div>
<br>
<div>China news conference =97 1 p.m. =97 The Institute for America's Future
holds a news conference to release a new economic analysis, "China's
Rapid Leap into Advanced Technologies." The participants include:
Charles McMillion, report author; and Reps. David E. Bonior, Michigan
Democrat, and Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat. Location: Capitol, House
Triangle. Contact: 202/955-5665.</div>
<br>
<div>Citizens Trade Campaign news conference =97 9:45 a.m. =97 The Citizens
Trade Campaign holds a news conference and rally with 60 Chinese human
rights leaders to ask Congress to reject permanent normal trade relations
with China. Rep. David E. Bonior, Michigan Democrat, participates.
Location: Capitol, East Front lawn. Contact: 202/624-8136.</div>
<br>
<div>Grant presentation =97 2 p.m. =97 Energy Secretary Bill Richardson
presents an Energy Department grant to Rep. Joe Baca, California
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<div>Albright protest this Sunday</div>
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<div>From: <[e-mail]> </div>
<div>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:09 AM </div>
<br>
<div>Dear friends,</div>
<div>DC area activists are planning to protest US aggression in Iraq and
the policies of Madeleine Albright, who will be receiving an honorary
degree from George Washington University at a Commencement ceremony this
Sunday morning at the Ellipse. Protest assembles at 8:45 a.m., Sunday,
May 21, at 15 and E Streets, NW. The DC Coalition to Stop The US War
Against Iraq, 202-452-7454</div>
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Additions and corrections to list of anti-Star Wars resources for grassroots activists
Date: 18 May 2000 12:23:48 -0500

Dear Friends,

Below are a corrections and additions to the list of resources and
activities for grassroots activists working against Star Wars national
missile defense that I sent out last week. The complete list will be
available on our website tomorrow.  Go to www.fourthfreedom.org and
click on "Hot Topics".

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
Fourth Freedom Forum
******
-=93Star Wars Action Days,=94 June 8 =96 10, contact: Jim Bridgman at Pea=
ce
Action Education Fund, [e-mail], 202/862-9740, ext.
3041.  Let both Democrats and Republicans know that you expect
congressional leadership to oppose Star Wars deployment.  Join local
activists who will demonstrate at congressional district offices or Star
Wars contractor plants (Boeing, TRW, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon) across
the country to voice public opposition.  Contact Jim for a flier on the
action days with the message: =93Star Wars: Wastes Money, Won=92t Work,
Won=92t Make Us Safer, Don=92t Let it Happen=94.  Sponsoring organization=
s as
of May 5: Disarmament Clearinghouse, Fourth Freedom Forum, Friends
Committee on National Legislation, Peace Action Education Fund, Peace
Links, Physicians for Social Responsibility, 20/20 Vision, Women Strike
for Peace, Women=92s Action for New Directions, Women=92s International
League for Peace and Freedom
(Please note, this is a correction from the previous posting, which
incorrectly listed Van Gosse of Peace Action as the contact.)

-Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers: www.crnd.org.  This site is chock
full of information on
missile defense and arguments against it.  The Coalition has produced a
report, =93Pushing the Limits: The Decision on National Missile Defense=94=
,
and maintains a very informative daily and weekly email listserv on
missile defense.  Contact Stephen Young, [e-mail], to request a
copy of the report or to subscribe to the listserv.
(Additional information from previous listing)

-Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) has a white paper on missile
defense available for download from the Global Security Institute
website at www.gsinstitute.org
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT on amendments to allow nuclear reductions and de-alerting
Date: 18 May 2000 12:54:01 -0500

Dear Friend:

Please read the important information below on amemndments to the
Defense Authorization Bill to allow cuts in strategic nuclear weapons
below the 6000 START I level and for de-alerting of the U.S. nuclear
arsenal.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
*****


May 18, 2000

TO: supporters of nuclear weapons reductions and de-alerting

FR: Daryl Kimball and Stephen Young, Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers

RE: Key House vote on nuclear weapons policy as soon as TODAY; Senate
vote as soon as NEXT WEEK

As soon as TODAY, the House may debate an amendment offered by to the
fiscal 2001 Defense Authorization bill that
would allow the President to reduce U.S. strategic nuclear force levels
below START I levels (approx. 6000) and take
weapons off combat status (i.e. de-alert). Under current law
<http://www.clw.org/coalition/xcutfy99.htm>, such actions are
prohibited until and unless START II is implemented -- an unlikely
near-term prospect.

IF the House rules committee allows it, an amendment sponsored by Allen
(D-ME), McGovern (D-MA) and Gendjenson
(D-CT), could be voted on as soon as TODAY. It would allow the President
the flexibility to reduce the U.S. arsenal
below START I levels as long as the "... reductions in the strategic
nuclear delivery systems of the United States are to be
carried out in a verifiable, symmetrical, and reciprocal manner with
Russia to ensure that the level of strategic nuclear delivery
systems deployed by the United States does not fall below the level of
strategic nuclear delivery systems deployed by the
Russian Federation.''

SENATE VERSION
Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE) will be seeking to offer a similar
amendment to the Senate version of the Defense Authorization
bill, which may be on the floor as early as NEXT WEEK. The Kerrey
amendment would allow for deactivation or
dismantlement of strategic nuclear delivery systems in excess of
military requirements so long as such steps are taken in a
verifiable and reciprocal manner.

This year's Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & Kerrey amendments are somewhat
different than the approach that Senator
Kerrey pursued last year on the floor and by Allen and Spratt in HASC
this year, which was simply striking the restriction on
cuts below START I before START II implementation. Kerrey's 1999 floor
amendment was defeated 56-44. See
<http://www.clw.org/coalition/kerreydebate052699.htm> for the floor
debate and roll call vote. Last week, Reps. Allen and
Spratt tried to strike the restriction in the House Armed Services
Committee "markup" of the fiscal 2001 Defense bill, but lost
17-40.

Opponents of the Allen/Spratt amendment characterized it as mandating
unilateral disarmament, even though the amendment
only granted flexibility and made no requirements on any levels and that
there should be no further cuts until START II is finally
approved, and that there should be symmetrical reductions.

A better result will require the leadership of key Congressional leaders
and the concerted efforts of many concerned citizens
and nuclear security experts. See the Physicians for Social
Responsibility web site <> for an action alert and information about
how you can

For further information see the following items, below:

* PSR Action Legislative Alert w/capacity for e-mail letters to Congress
<http://www.psr.org/>

* "Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal
While Russia's Declines," Coalition to Reduce Nuclear
Dangers ISSUE BRIEF, May 15, 2000
<http://www.clw.org/coalition/briefv4n6.htm>

* "Talking Points" on the Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & the Kerrey
amendments

- DK & SY

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

<?center>"Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear
Arsenal While Russia's Declines"

COALITION TO REDUCE NUCLEAR DANGERS -- ISSUE BRIEF

VOL. 4, NO. 6, May 15, 2000
<?/center>
CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION intended to encourage Russian ratification of
START II now locks in U.S. nuclear
forces at artificially high levels, despite the Russian Duma's approval
of the Treaty last month. The legislation mandates that the
U.S. maintain its nuclear arsenal at levels set in START I until START
II enters into force. The U.S. Senate, which approved
START II ratification in 1996, still must ratify new protocols to the
Treaty before entry into force can take place. Approval of
the protocols, however, has become entangled in the debate over national
missile defense and the ABM Treaty, and it is
unclear when the Senate will consider them. Unless this situation
changes, the U.S. will be forced to keep its START I arsenal
of 6,000 strategic nuclear weapons, while Russia's forces continue to
decline due to aging and funding shortfalls.

START I was signed in 1991 and entered into force in 1994. START II
calls for reductions to 3,000-3,500 strategic nuclear
warheads each and the elimination of land-based multi-warhead missiles.
The congressional legislation requires maintaining the
U.S. arsenal at START I levels of 76 B-52H bombers, 18 Trident ballistic
missile submarines, 500 Minuteman III
inter-continental ballistic missiles, and 50 MX missiles. Last year, at
the request of the U.S. Navy, Congress modified the
legislation to allow four Trident submarines to be retired if the
President certified this would not adversely impact the U.S.
nuclear deterrent.

The START II protocols — which still require Senate approval
— delay the destruction of delivery vehicles from
2003 to 2007 to allow Russia more time to accomplish that goal. Delivery
vehicles that will be destroyed must still be
de-activated by 2003. While those protocols are non-controversial, they
have been linked to protocols to the ABM Treaty that
were negotiated at the same time, making START II implementation highly
uncertain.

Military Support for Greater Flexibility

Even before Duma action on START II, General Henry Shelton, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear his
opposition to Congress mandating strategic nuclear force levels. In
response to a question for the record from Sen. Carl Levin
(D-MI), ranking minority member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
Gen. Shelton said "I would definitely oppose
inclusion of any language that mandates specific force levels. It is
important for us to retain the ability to deploy the maximum
number of warheads allowed by START I but the Services should also have
the flexibility to do so with a militarily sufficient, yet
cost effective, force structure."

There is broad support for further reductions in U.S. nuclear arsenals
both in the military and former officials. In an interview on
60 Minutes aired in February this year, former head of the U.S.
Strategic Command General Eugene Habiger said, "... the fact
that we have not been able to get down to lower and lower levels of
nuclear weapons is troubling to me, and it should be
troubling to you."

In addition, Richard Perle, the Pentagon's chief nuclear strategist
during the Reagan administration and advisor to candidate
George Bush, was quoted in the Washington Post on May 12 calling for
reductions in nuclear arsenals: "It is time for serious
rethinking of the whole nuclear question. We should no longer be
concerned about Cold War arithmetic. . . . War plans using
1,000 [or more] warheads no longer make sense."

The High Cost of Cold War Relics

A new study by the Congressional Budget Office describes the dramatic
savings that can be obtained by reducing U.S. nuclear
forces to START II levels while making further cuts in delivery
vehicles: $670 million in fiscal 2001 and $11.6 billion over ten
years. (See table.) This approach would make additional reductions in
the Trident submarine forces, from 14 down to 10, and
in the Minuteman III force, from 500 to 300. START II warhead levels of
3,000-3,500 warheads would still be maintained by
increasing the number of warheads on each Trident missile from five to
seven.

In response to another question Sen. Levin, Gen. Shelton gave support to
further cuts, indicating that no military requirement
exists for maintaining the current 50 MX ballistic missiles or more than
14 Trident nuclear-
armed submarines. According to Gen. Shelton, Admiral Richard Mies,
Commander in Chief of US Strategic Command,
conducted an "extensive analysis" and concluded that, with no
Peacekeeper missiles and only 14 Tridents, the remaining US
arsenal would "meet our current and emerging war-fighting requirements."

Removing the Congressional restriction would allow the U.S. military and
the next President to explore alternate ways to
reduce the nuclear threat through parallel, reciprocal, and verifiable
reductions with Russia. For example, in exchange for U.S.
reductions to START II levels– or even START III (2,000-2,500
strategic warheads) – levels, both sides could agree to use the
verification provisions of START I to monitor deeper
reductions.

________________________________

Reduce Nuclear Delivery Systems Within
Overall Limits of START II

Savings (Millions of Dollars)

Budget Authority Outlays

Annual:
2001 670 240
2002 420 340
2003 620 440
2004 690 540
2005 830 710

Cumulative:
2001-2005 3,230 2,270
2000-2010 8,330 7,880

Source: Congressional Budget Office, 3/00
________________________________

The Bush-Gorbachev Example

In fact, some of the most dramatic reductions in nuclear arsenals took
place outside the formal treaty process. In September
1991, President George Bush announced dramatic unilateral U.S.
reductions in tactical nuclear forces deployed in Europe and
on ships. The number of deployed tactical forces dropped significantly;
in Europe alone, they fell from over 7,000 to less than
1,000. Bush also ordered off alert a thousand U.S. warheads deployed on
strategic bombers and ballistic missiles slated for
dismantlement. In response, Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev withdrew
all tactical weapons from outside Russian territory,
removed most categories of tactical nuclear weapons from service and
designated thousands of nuclear warheads to
dismantlement.

# # #

The Coalition is a non-partisan alliance of 17 of the nation's leading
arms control and non-proliferation organizations working
for a practical, step-by-step program to reduce the dangers of nuclear
and other weapons of mass destruction.

*The views and analysis expressed in this paper do not necessarily
reflect those of every member of the Coalition. For more
information, contact Stephen Young at [phone], ext. 102, or email
<[e-mail]>

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



<?center>Talking Points on 2000 Kerrey & Allen/McGovern/Gendjenson
Amendments on Limitations on Nuclear Reductions
by Allistar Millar,
Fourth Freedom Forum, May 17, 2000

<?/center>Approval of amendment to H.R. 4205 allows the President
flexibility to retire U.S. strategic nuclear force levels in
excess of military "requirements" so long as such reductions are pursued
with Russia in a verifiable, and reciprocal manner and
do not interfere with U.S. nuclear deterrent capbilities. Such measures
would not interfere with U.S. nuclear deterrent
capabilities and it would save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Improve Strategic Stability and Reduce Risks

* Approval of the amendment would increase national security by reducing
the possibility of unintended launch or other
accident. The United States and Russia are the only nations to maintain
nuclear weapons on hyper-alert, poised to launch at a
moments notice, increasing the chances of an accident especially in
Russia where early warning and nuclear weapons safety
equipment is in serious disrepair. A total of about 4000 U.S. and
Russian nuclear weapons are on "hair-trigger" alert, prone to
an accidental launch.

* Current law prohibits the U.S. from retiring or "de-alerting" nuclear
force levels below the nearly decade-old START I treaty
(6000 deployed strategic weapons), until and unless START II is
implemented (an uncertain prospect due to disputes over
national missile defense). The existing law forces the Pentagon to keep
planes, submarines, and missiles it no longer wants or
needs. The current U.S. nuclear war-fighting plan calls for 2000-2500
strategic nuclear weapons.

General Eugene Habiger, U.S. Air Force (Retired), the former chief of
the U.S. Strategic Command testified before retiring:
"There is no need to stay at the START I level from a military
perspective" (Washington Post - January 7, 1999).

* Russia currently deploys a strategic nuclear force below START I level
(5900) and is likely to reduce that force further in the
coming years, while the U.S. deploys approximately 7200 strategic bombs.

* In the interest of strategic stability and nuclear risk reduction, the
next President should have the option of pursuing parallel,
reciprocal reductions of deployed strategic nuclear weapons as Russia
reduces the size of its deployed nuclear arsenal and
taking a substantial portion of the deployed arsenal off hair-trigger
alert. Such actions are consistent with President George
Bush's 1991 nuclear reductions initiatives and would improve national
security by reducing the probability of an unintended
launch or other accident

* Supporting this amendment would allow the United States to better
comply with its stated goals and policies toward the
non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Removing restrictions would allow
the United States to demonstrate its commitment to
the other 186 signatories of the currently fragile Nuclear
Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). The US delegation has repeatedly
touted the reductions achieved under former President George Bush as
evidence of progress towards its non-proliferation
treaty commitments. Nearly ten years later, the world is waiting for
more up-to-date evidence of further reductions in nuclear
forces, in large part hindered by the restrictions that this amendment
will remove.

* Support for this amendment will further the achievement of the
Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR). CTR is bipartisan
alliance aimed at spurring prompt dismantlement and conversion of the
post-Cold War Soviet nuclear stockpile. Eliminating
restriction on further verifiable reductions of Cold War nuclear
arsenals is a necessary part of continuing pursuit of a credible
arms control agenda that Senators such as Lugar and Dominici support.

Cut Costs

* A new study by the Congressional Budget Office describes the dramatic
savings that can be obtained by reducing U.S.
nuclear forces to START II levels while making further cuts in delivery
vehicles: $670 million in fiscal 2001 and $11.6 billion
over ten years.

* The amendment would save money by allowing for additional reductions
in the Trident submarine forces, from 14 down to
10, and in the Minuteman III force, from 500 to 300. START II warhead
levels of 3,000-3,500 warheads would still be
maintained by increasing the number of warheads on each Trident missile
from five to seven.


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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) GPW on the move again
Date: 18 May 2000 15:34:46 -0700

Yesterday, May 17th, Global Peace Walk 2000 finished its schedule in New
Mexico and began walking from Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico, on an
accelerated pace to keep on schedule for May 29th Memorial Day Holiday
Ceremony at the National Memorial in Oklahoma City.  (Attn:  Scott Bentley
405-235-3313)

The walkers were rebuffed by the authorities in the Los Alamos area as to
their offer of help.  Apparently FEMA and other authorities have the
"situation well in hand" and the area sealed off.  (For important related
info see 08Dec99 article by Uri Dowbenko "Lawsuit Alleges FEMA Funded by
Laundered Drug Profits" archived at
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/367.html )

Reverend Yamato wants me to emphasize that this fire that swept over the Los
Alamos Nuclear Weapons Labs while the walk was in the NM area means that we
must clearly sound a Global Emergency Alert, for ending the nuclear age and
reawakening humanity as to how to live together in peace, while the walk
procedes on course to inaugurate this UN Year and Decade of Creating a
Culture of Peace for the 21st Century.

If you know people in Oklahoma who would like to connect with the walkers,
you can keep checking the voicemail number for their latest overnight
locations and schedule [phone].

The walk has now completed 4/9 of its jouney in time from San Francisco
towards Washington DC (Oct6-12) before ending at the United Nations in New
York City on its 55th anniversary October 24th.
http://www.globalpeacenow.org

The walkers now number at their smallest (about 20 with 7 support vehicles)
but they are in high spirits and at last have a completely harmonious group,
after those along from the beginning struggling for "personal control" have
left the walk in process of recognition offered by deep ceremony in the last
couple of weeks.

Thanks so much to all those in New Mexico who have gone out of their way to
help.

Walk coordinator Crispin Clarke is spending a couple of weeks doing advance
work in Washington DC (his hometown) and in New York City before rejoining
the walk in Oklahoma on May 23rd.   If you have information on contacts for
him to make in DC or NYC you can email him at [e-mail]

Reverend Yamato asks me to pass on the invitation now to serious people who
want to join as walkers and supporters as Global Peace Walk begins its route
through Oklahoma.

Financial support may be send as tax deductible donations to Global Peace
Walk, PO Box 170245, San Francisco CA 94117.  For matters that require a
timely response you can call me at 661-822-3309.

Non-tax deductible donations to help me cover phone bills, etc., so as to
better be able to do advance arrangements for the walk may be sent to David
Williams, POBox 147, Tehachapi, CA 93581.

Also, check out this great idea as something of value to you in the US and
Canada that can solve some problems and also offer financial support -- "The
Legal Revolution" http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/dcwilliams


David Crockett Williams
Chartered Life Underwriter
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
Co-coordinator, Global Peace Walk 2000

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html
Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877

Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

General Agency Services  [e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html

USCampaign  [e-mail]
D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams

The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

Easy way to Email Media and Government
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd

"An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html







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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/19 - Nader today and tomorrow; DC Daybook;
Date: 19 May 2000 08:02:30 -0400

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Ralph Nader on the Road
http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html

Friday, May 19th - 7:00 pm Speech Montpelier, Vermont - Speech/rally
in Montpelier High School Auditorium.=20

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May 19, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000519222913.htm

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Justice Section, Health Law Section, and Center for Continuing Legal=
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and the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units hold "A=
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Institute on Economic Sanctions." Location: Doyle Washington Hotel, 1500 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. Contact: 800/285-2221.

    Energy/transportation conference =97 8:30 a.m. =97 America-Georgia=
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Development Council; U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and the
U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association hold a conference on "Energy,
Transportation and Security in the Caucasus and Caspian Region."
      Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican,=
 "Caspian as
a Gateway of the European Transport Corridor."
      Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/638-3040.

      Drug policy conference =97 9 a.m. =97 Drug Policy Foundation concludes=
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"13th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform."
      Highlights =97 noon =97 Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat,=
 luncheon
address.
      Location: Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. Contact:
202/537-5005.

    Procurement workshop =979:30 a.m. =97 Inter-American Development Bank=
 concludes
its procurement workshop. Location: IDB, 1300 New York Ave. NW. Contact:
202/623-1365.

      Congressional news briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 Congress holds a news=
 briefing on
monthly China trade deficit data released by the Commerce Department. Rep.
Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, participates. Location: Capitol, House
triangle. Contact: 202/225-6871.

      Trade news briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 Washington Roundtable for the
Asia-Pacific Press and the Heritage Foundation hold a news briefing on
"Trans-Pacific Trade: What's Ahead?" Location: Heritage Foundation, Lehrman
Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave. Contact: 202/675-1761.

    Film =97 noon =97 National Archives presents a screening of the film=
 "Harvest
of Shame." Location: National Archives, theater, Constitution Avenue between
Seventh and Ninth streets NW. Contact: 301/713-6000.

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<div>    Energy/transportation conference =97 8:30 a.m. =97
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From: Hisham Zerriffi <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Alternative Pu disposition plan: SIGN-ON
Date: 19 May 2000 18:39:05 -0400

Dear Friends:

    The problem of dealing with the surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear
warheads is an extremely vexing one that has both short term and long term
implications for disarmament and non-proliferation.  Please consider
signing on to this plutonium disposition plan which is an alternative to
the plans being put forth by the U.S. and Russian governments which favor
the use of plutonium in reactors.  To sign on please e-mail Michele Boyd at
<[e-mail]>

Thanks,

Hisham.

>
>Dear All:
>
>The United States and Russia are close to completing their negotiations
>on the disposition of surplus military plutonium, most of which
>is planned for use as mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in commercial reactors.
>Many NGOs around the world, however, do not support this program because
>
>of the safety, security, and environmental problems associated with MOX.
>
>A concerted push by grassroots organizations and others is needed,
>not only against MOX but also for an alternative plan that will address
>both the security of plutonium and provide financial support to Russia.
>For this, we need widespread environmental support in the US, Europe,
>Russia, and Japan. IEER is posting this plutonium disposition plan on
>safeguarding separated plutonium for your endorsement.
>
>It necessary to stop MOX and to put both Russian and US plutonium into
>non-weapons-usable form.  This plan also holds the potential for moving
>European countries that have MOX programs in the direction of
>immobilization, given the German decision to phase out nuclear power.
>Finally, it is an alternative plutonium disposition plan to the
>Non-Proliferation Trust, Inc. (NPT, Inc.) idea to import foreign spent
>nuclear fuel into Russia for storage, which is vigorously opposed by
>Russian as well as many US environmental groups.
>
>This plan is in final form.  The core points were formulated at a
>meeting in March 2000 attended by Michael Marriotte (NIRS, Washington
>DC), Mycle Schneider (WISE, Paris), Tobias Muenchmeyer (Greenpeace
>International) and Arjun Makhijani (IEER).  It has since been
>discussed extensively with several colleagues from Russia and to some
>extent also with some representatives of US groups.  Their comments
>have been incorporated. There is some urgency to creating and endorsing
>an alternative plan since President Clinton will be meeting with
>President Putin in Moscow on June 4 and 5, when they are expected to
>announce their joint agreement.
>
>IEER, in collaboration with our Russian counterparts, would like to
>release this letter to the global press in Moscow just before President
>Clinton arrives there.  So please look at this with some urgency and
>consider signing on. Thank you.
>
>Arjun Makhijani
>
>
>
>
>Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,
>
>As a contribution to permanent arms reduction and disarmament, the
>United States and Russia have declared about 50 tons each of military
>plutonium surplus to their requirements.  It is generally acknowledged
>that this commendable step must be followed by measures to put this
>plutonium into a form that cannot easily be diverted or reused in
>weapons.
>
>There are several proposals that have been discussed and studied in the
>last many years in both governmental and NGO circles as to how this
>problem is to be addressed.  The plan that the US and Russian
>governments have been negotiating involves the conversion of most of
>this plutonium into a mixed oxide (MOX fuel) for use in commercial
>nuclear power reactors, mainly light water reactors, in both Russia and
>the United States.  The use of Canadian reactors is also being
>considered as an option.
>
>This proposal has many drawbacks.  It raises many unresolved safety
>questions and could increase the risk and severity of nuclear reactor
>accidents.  Unless steps are taken to militarize security at these
>nuclear power plants, the risk of diversion of weapons grade plutonium
>will increase with time.
>
>We believe that the other option of immobilization of plutonium, which
>Russia and the US have adopted for only a small proportion of the
>plutonium, should be extended to cover the full amount.  This is a
>safer, faster, and more economically efficient option.  It involves
>putting plutonium into a non-weapons usable form by mixing it with
>other materials and making the resultant waste form proliferation
>resistant. The MOX option should be discarded.
>
>A considerable amount of discussion has also revolved around the
>financing of the Russian portion of the plutonium disposition plan.
>This is because Russia has agreed to the current plan, which is
>dominated by the use of MOX in light water nuclear power reactors,
>largely at the suggestion of the West.  One financing plan has been
>put forward by a US corporation known as the Non-proliferation Trust,
>Inc.  This would involve importation of up to 10,000 metric tons of
>foreign spent nuclear power reactor fuel for storage in Russia, a
>complete halt to commercial reprocessing, and a payment to Russia for
>building storage facilities, a nuclear waste repository
>and other purposes. Such a plan is currently illegal under Russian law
>and hence attempts are being made to amend the law.  However, the
>Russian people are overwhelmingly opposed to such a plan, as is
>demonstrated by polling and by the firm opposition of environmental
>NGOs in Russia.  Many US NGOs and those in other countries also oppose
>this plan.
>
>In recognition of the reality that a plutonium disposition plan is
>needed, we, the undersigned, would like to offer the following proposal
>based on immobilization.
>
>1.  The same disposition plan in terms of the disposition technical
>details would be carried out in parallel in the United States and
>Russia.
>
>2. It would include all separated commercial and surplus military
>plutonium.
>
>3. Reprocessing of commercial spent fuel would be halted.
>
>4. All separated commercial plutonium in US and Russian stocks, as well
>as all surplus military plutonium would be immobilized.  There would be
>some flexibility as regards the specific immobilization method.
>
>5. The immobilized plutonium of each country would be stored in that
>country and put under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
>safeguards.
>
>6. The West would lease Russia's plutonium for 50 years or would
>purchase it outright.  Since plutonium has no commercial value as a
>fuel, some means has to be found to determine the price to be paid for
>the non-proliferation benefit.  Since Russia regards plutonium as a
>potentially valuable fuel, the upper limit to the purchase price would
>be the value of the fuel normally used in light water reactors -- low
>enriched uranium (LEU) -- equivalent of the MOX that could be made
>out of the plutonium disregarding all fuel fabrication costs or any
>other additional costs associated with the use of MOX.  In other words,
>the maximum amount Russia would be paid would correspond to the LEU
>fuel value as if the plutonium had already been made into MOX.
>
>7. The payments to Russia could be stretched out over a time period
>comparable to the deal that Russia and the United States have made for
>the purchase of surplus Russian military highly enriched uranium -- that
>
>is about 20 years -- or to the time that it takes to immobilize the
>plutonium and to put it under IAEA safeguards.
>
>8. The West would also pay for the immobilization of plutonium in Russia
>
>(in addition to the payment described in Item 6 above) .
>
>9. There are a number of ways in which this plutonium disposition plan
>could be financed.  For instance:  (1) The G-7, as the group of wealthy
>western countries is known -- would fund it using the funding of the
>shut down of the reactors at Chernobyl as a precedent. (2) The European
>Union would create a Russian plutonium fund. (3) A small tax on natural
>gas imported from Russia into Europe could finance the plan.  (4) The
>United States could supply part of the funds as the wealthier party to
>the  agreement. (5) NATO could earmark funds for the plan, since this
>will enhance security for all its members.  These financing mechanisms
>are not mutually exclusive.
>
>In view of the widespread concerns relating to the use of MOX fuel in
>reactors, and the liabilities that it entails, we urge you not to adopt
>a plutonium disposition plan that includes the use of MOX but rather to
>endorse this alternative.  We want to thank you for the time and
>consideration that you have given to this letter and wish you success in
>
>your deliberations.
>
>Sincerely,
>

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Los Alamos radioactivity problems/remedies
Date: 20 May 2000 10:43:27 -0700

Following is compilation of two posts with a news article and suggested
remedies to radioactivity exposure from Los Alamos fire.

Cc: <[e-mail]>

Howdy & heads ups from
Theresa Marie K. Gandhi
[e-mail]
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~theresamariegandhi/
P.O. Box 842, Tracyton, WA 98393 USA


May 19, 2000

Dear Editor:

Radioactive Smoke is Blowing across America take care! Exposure to the smoke
from the fire at Los Alamos, New Mexico is not healthy & could even be
America's Chernobyl. Our governments long history of not telling the public
the truth in the Name of National Security leaves it up to civil society.
Los Alamos is the heart of National Security & we are on our own.

I was born up river & down wind in 1946 from the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation. Researching & writing Radiation, Research, Rage & Realization:
the 4-R's of Growing up Downwind helped me process my outrage at lies that
endangered my life. The Experimental Remedies was a part of that article. In
my family three of five have had cancer, my 41 year old brother dead & 6 out
of 10 friends from junior high school dead from cancer. Told in 1984 of
cancer & in 1987 a brain tumor my life depended upon finding the truth &
then to find a way to health without chemo therapy, radiation or health
insurance.

Keys I use to building health include:

Drink miso soup with sea vegetables daily; Clean your colon & re-seed it
with acidophilus, amylase, protease etc.; Dry brush & soak in hot salt bath
to cleanse; Eat organic whole grains, vegetables & fruits; Juice vegetables
& fruits for raw enzymes
Drink clean fresh water; Supplement with: Complex B, multiple vitamin &
mineral, calcium & kelp; Blue green algae & wheat grass - similar to blood &
easy for body to use; Pray & meditate - as you think so you are - positive
thoughts; & Love creates a coherent energy field - source & emanate love!

     The enclosed article: Emergency Experimental Radiation Remedies gives
more information on the above.

     Fluoride was needed by the Manhattan project & a study fabricated by
the University of Rochester to protect duPont from liability in a lawsuit
because a fluoride release killed sheep & crops in New Jersey. This study
was the father of all studies & the beginning of a huge cover-up that the
American public pays for in ill health & bad bones - osteoporosis. Source
material Project Censored, Nexus & searching all my life for the truth that
would save my life.

 General Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial media complex &
that the people would have to seek the truth, stand up & demand that we as a
country work for peace. It is time to stop the era of making war on
everything. Arming for peace is not congruent. The price of winning the cold
war is a radioactive smoke cloud blowing across America, her grain belt &
eastern shores. The people downwind deserve to know & to do what ever their
own discernment tells them. I offer my experience with experimental
radiation remedies for who ever might be interested. Your help in
facilitating this would be greatly appreciated.

 Work that I did in researching the work of Mahatma Gandhi the decade of the
1980s was & is invaluable in knowing my peace of mind & heart. Although
divorced from Mahatma Gandhi's relative I often turn within & ask what would
a Mahatma Gandhi or a Jesus Christ do in this situation. Probably take a
deep breathe, feel the Presence of Love within a moment of silence & know
exactly what to next - hit the forward key & share my story that other lives
may live. Thank you!

A sister in Love & Light,

Theresa Marie K. Gandhi


EMERGENCY EXPERIMENTAL RADIATION REMEDIES

Radiation Alert Los Alamos a Dirty Fire!

Theresa Marie K. Gandhi

Severe Health Danger Alert to all in & downwind of the fire at Los Alamos,
New Mexico! Geiger counters not under Government control show high
radioactivity present in Santa Fe & downwind according to a report on Coast
to Coast AM.
I communicate not to generate fear but rather to share knowledge learned the
hard way, by experience. Fifty years of experiments with plutonium, fluoride
& other very toxic & exotic materials are now air borne. The colors in the
fire were very odd & most probably pose a Severe Health Threat to all Life
Downwind. Pray for the fire fighters & share the following information.

 I am a Hanford Nuclear Reservation Downwinder born 1946 when everything
radioactive was very, very hot & very, very loose in the environment.
Ignorance by now dead scientists have left us a very dirty & dangerous
legacy. February 1993 when the World Trade Center bomb exploded I received a
large enough dose of radiation to cause 1/3 of my hair to fall out, nausea
for month - lost 20 #s, black & blue from just a light touch etc. I had
researched how to get radiation out of the body about the time of Three Mile
Island. I immediately applied the following experimental remedies. I do not
claim that this will cure anything. The danger is so great & the remedies
harmless.
 Drink miso soup as soon & as much as possible with sea vegetables. Miso is
a live culture with enzymatic active ingredients that help the small
intestine stay healthy. The doctors at the hospital in Hiroshima found this
out. Do not boil the miso. Add the miso paste to a small amount of soup that
has cooled off, mix it & add to your soup stock just as you serve it to keep
the culture alive.

     I went to an auravedic health store & bought a bottle of liquid humus,
i.e. organic, mineral rich liquid mud (clay might work if you can't get
humus). I diluted & drank the humus to pull the radioactive material & free
radicals out of my intestines. Clean your colon & re-seed it with the proper
intestinal flora & fauna meaning acidophilus, amylase, protease & other
digestive enzymes. These are the body's labor force & become depleted with
exposure to toxins, radioactivity & under nourishment. Food from our
depleted & radioactive agribusiness practices does not help. Eat Organic
whole grains, vegetables & fruits!*

 Cleanse & build are the principles. You want calcium in your bones (milk &
dairy not a good source) & iodine in your thyroid gland. Supplement with
calcium & kelp - homeopathic if you can get it. Blue green algae - the
single cell with the broken cell wall is very good. Take a full spectrum
vitamin, mineral & B complex. Symptoms of high stress & chemo therapy are
the same as a depletion of the B vitamins. Juice vegetables & fruits & drink
lots of clean fresh water.

     Radiation, fluoride, aspartame & MSG disrupt the brain's bio-chemistry,
especially serotonin the mood governor. Depression can result & other mental
health challenges of various kinds.

 Fear is a major challenge as it attracts to oneself what one fears the
most. As you think so you are. Pray & meditate. Visualize self as healthy &
feeling the Presence of Love flowing through your heart. Love creates a
coherent energy field that supports, builds & maintains health.

 Skin is the largest elimination organ. After brushing the salty bath's
bio-chemistry helps cleanse the body. I dry brush my body & take a very hot
bath filled so you can submerse. I add to the bath: 3 handfuls of rock salt,
3 tablespoons baking soda & 3 tablespoons vinegar. I also add a drop or two
of essential oil.

I say my prayers, light a candle & mediate in the bath for about 20 minutes.
A prayer is anything you feel from your heart, Open your heart & just BE! I
daily ask Creator to be cleansed, balanced, centered in Love & connected
with the Web of Life in gratitude for the blessing of Life & Presence of
God.

If you must be in the area of exposure - Emanate Light & Love. Staying
centered in your heart consciously source love from within your heart &
radiate it out. This experimental mode might explain the natural immunity of
a Mother Teresa.

 After exposure remove outer clothes & don't sleep is same space with
outside clothes or shoes. Shower as soon as possible.

 For further information see: "Gandhi's Truth" newsletter vol. 6 - 1993:
Fighting Radiation & Chemical Pollutants with foods, herb & vitamins by
Steven R. Schechter, N.D. & Practicing the Presence by Joel S. Goldsmith.

 I applied the above & moved out of New York to the southwest to recover
from exposure. I knew I needed to minimize my further exposure & I knew that
continued exposure to electro-magnetic & intense radio & microwave fields
would make recovery difficult. The intense fields of a major city are not
body friendly. Nature, clean water, organic & whole food, mental silence,
peace of mind, an open heart & gratitude are major keys to survival,
recovery, good health & a long life.

Love & light through you & peace!
A sister in the light

Theresa Marie K. Gandhi
[e-mail]
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~theresamariegandhi/
Box 842, Tracyton, WA 98393 USA


<[e-mail]>

 Remember it's usually worse than the mainstream media is allowed to tell,
and the lack of official information in this has been unprecedented. We
attended the standing-room only meeting with state officials in Santa Fe
last night, and the meeting with Siberian environmental professionals at
St. Johns the night before, and no one has any independent assurances that
all is well. Official assurances keep going on about the concrete bunkers
being safe, but they won't talk about the tons of toxic contaminants on the
ground where it burned, and what the onsite air monitors would have read if
they hadn't burned. There are lots of tests and sampling techniques they
admit they just aren't doing at all, but radiation isn't everything. Carol
Miller of LASG and the Green Party made a well reasoned argument for
outright shutdown on that basis.  We live under that initial cloud of smoke
just as Carol does. Look at the cloud on our site at
http://globalcircle.net/losalamosfire.htm . These crowds were outraged at
the lack of sufficient warnings and information, and lack of Spanish
translation in the official warnings.
 Now it hits the fan. The summer storms start soon, and people are going to
be asking blunt questions all down the Rio Grande through Texas to the
Gulf. The fruit and citrus industry downriver may never hear the end of
this. How much food contamination will grocery buyers put up with?  Does
anybody believe they're going to clean up thousands of acres in time for
the summer storms?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  --  paul, webmaster

liberty, sustainability, for the seventh generation
http://globalcircle.net & http://fedupfeds.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Thursday, May 18, 2000
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/35548news05-18-00.htm

                     Runoff Poses Possible Danger

                     By Ian Hoffman
                     Journal Staff Writer
                        SANTA FE - Disastrous as the Cerro Grande Fire
has been
                     for Los Alamos and its federal nuclear-weapons lab,
scientists say
                     things could get uglier.
                        Envision floods and tons of cinder-speckled mud
washing out of
                     the charcoaled Jemez Mountains into Los Alamos' burned
                     neighborhoods and the lab's canyons.
                        The gushing floodwaters scour the burned EF and
PHERMEX
                     sites at the lab's Technical Area 15, both littered by
pieces of
                     chemical high explosive, toxic metals and radioactive
elements.
                     Any PCBs the fire did not convert to airborne dioxin,
the runoff
                     rinses out of a canyon behind the lab's power plant.
Back at
                     Technical Area 16, the waters carry away high
explosives from an
                     old explosives machining building and Material
Disposal Area P,
                     an explosives and toxic metals dump.
                        The floods blast through the most burned and
contaminated
                     canyons - Los Alamos, Pueblo and Water - picking
up dozens
                     of contaminants mixed in soils no longer anchored by
plants. They
                     flush into the Rio Grande and Cochiti Reservoir.
                        How real is this scenario? Quite, lab officials
say. The mountains
                     and lands of Los Alamos are likely to assume new
shapes,
                     perhaps form the beginnings of new canyons. The
largest canyons
                     probably will create large new deltas of sand and rock
in the Rio
                     Grande.
                        "We're really looking at some catastrophic problems
for the lab
                     and the county coming off national forest lands," said
Dave
                     McInroy, a LANL cleanup manager.
                        Beyond that, the uncertainties are huge.
                        No one has gauged with any confidence the mudslide
danger to
                     Los Alamos' western side. No one is sure what kinds
and what
                     levels of contaminants will leave the lab, but lab
scientists believe
                     they will and at rates much greater than those of the
last decade, if
                     not since the Manhattan Project. So far, LANL
environmental
                     officials say the canyon contaminants are so low in
concentration
                     and so likely to be diluted by water and eroded soil
that they
                     probably will not reach humans at dangerous levels.
                        But toxicologists know very little about the threat
of exposure to
                     multiple contaminants, especially for sensitive
aquatic and
                     amphibious wildlife. Sometimes, low-level toxins can
be synergistic
                     in effect. They can weaken different yet intertwined
biological
                     functions in ways that, for example, could increase
vulnerability to
                     illness.
                        "The problem is quantifying that," said Russ
MacRae, an
                     environmental contaminant specialist for the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife
                     Service in Albuquerque.
                        Much depends on what the U.S. Forest Service and
Los
                     Alamos National Laboratory do in the next few weeks.
Both are
                     mobilizing contractors and checking with dealers for
rock for
                     riprap, jute matting and native seed.
                        Scientists are flying over the burned forest and
lab today. A
                     plane specially equipped for spectral imaging also was
to perform
                     two days of passes, creating a detailed map of the
land's reflection
                     of light - an indicator of burn intensity and thus
erosion potential.
                        The Dome Fire of 1996 and the Oso Complex Fire of
1998
                     produced spots of extraordinary erosion. Heavily
burned lands
                     lost soil at rates of 100 tons an acre or more. So
far, people
                     working the Cerro Grande Fire report seeing large,
scattered
                     splotches of intense burn on steep slopes. One lab
official said he
                     has heard post-fire runoff estimated at 100 to 200
times normal.
                        Experts for LANL, the state Environment Department
and the
                     federal Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation, or BAER,
team
                     already are fanning out on foot to inspect the
blackened territory.
                     They will estimate erosion potential, then draw up a
plan to shore
                     up burned areas and protect the lab and town.
                        It is the first time such an interagency rehab team
has ever dealt
                     with a fire around and inside a nuclear site,
especially one with a
                     57-year accumulation of contaminants.
                        Meanwhile, lab scientists are checking many of the
lab's roughly
                     1,000 waste dumps or spills - potential release
sites, or PRSs.
                        The fire itself has added a new slew of
contaminants called
                     polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, that result
from
                     incomplete burning. Some are innocuous, like those in
a cup of
                     coffee; others rank among the most carcinogenic
substances.
                        Potential release sites featuring the worst
combinations of
                     potential for erosion and heavy contamination may have
to be dug
                     up or fortified by rock, mats or hay bales.
                        "We're going to make every effort we can to protest
those," said
                     McInroy, a scientist in charge of regulatory
compliance for
                     LANL's Environmental Restoration Project, which
prepares sites
                     for cleanup or stabilization.
                        Lab environmental restoration scientists are
hunkered down in a
                     Santa Fe office, poring over maps of waste sites and
the burned
                     territory. Project leader Julie Canepa has assigned
them to list the
                     10 or 15 most threatening potential release sites and
a plan of
                     attack.
                        Water Canyon alone - heavily burned and draining
several
                     sites where scientists exploded various metals -
contains traces
                     of 11 radioactive elements from nuclear-weapons
research, plus
                     95 manmade chemicals. They range from high explosives
to
                     insecticides and more than a dozen toxic metals.
                        Fortunately, few houses lie in the canyons that are
both burned
                     and contaminated. The greatest risk for human exposure
is
                     expected to be to hikers, mountain bikers and others
trekking in
                     the canyons.
                        "So we have low concentrations and low rates of
use," said Lars
                     Soholt, senior risk assessor for the restoration
project's SWAT
                     team. "Our preliminary assessment is the human risk,
even under
                     these changed conditions, hasn't changed. And we think
the risk
                     associated with the (contaminated) sediments is
minimal."
                        To be certain will require intense ground
inspections, tests of
                     water and soils and computer simulations.
                        "It's going to take weeks to months to really clear
up the
                     picture," said Soholt.
                        The work is intense, and some of Canepa's SWAT team
lost
                     homes and possessions in the fire.
                        On Tuesday, "I had them go around the room and tell
their
                     stories," Canepa said. "There's a few people who are
really
                     affected, so I have to be careful with them. Then I
have the Santa
                     Fe people, who are saying 'Let me get back to work. I
want to do
                     something.' ''


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Subject: (abolition-usa) Marshall Islands Put US Secretary of State Albright on Notice re: Kwajalein
Date: 22 May 2000 00:23:34 PDT


fyi:

it is still early to tell how the disputes between landowners of Kwajalein
Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI, the RMI Government, and
the USA may play out in the politics surrounding US National Missile Defense
system. will have to wait and see.

TOO MUCH seems to be happening in the "Pacific" Ocean right now. The Pacific
is certainly not pacific!

Richard Salvador
Honolulu, Hawaii

---

PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT
[http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/PIReport/]

Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawaiæi at Manoa

Monday, May 22, 2000


MARSHALLS PUT U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE ALBRIGHT ON NOTICE REGARDING KWAJALEIN

MAJURO, Marshall Islands û (May 12, 2000 û Marshall Islands Journal)

---Lawyers for Kwajalein landowners delivered an ultimatum last week to U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright: talk to us within 14 days or we
will start actions to remove the United States from the Kwajalein missile
range. The Kwajalein demand comes as the Clinton administration and the U.S.
Congress are debating funding for theater and national missile defense
systems, which are now being field-tested at Kwajalein.

Scott C. Taylor, who is representing Kwajalein Senators Imata Kabua, Ataji
Balos and Sato Maie among other prominent landowners, delivered the
ultimatum to Secretary of State Albright on May 1, demanding to talk with
State Department negotiator Allen Stayman.

Both Stayman and the RMI national government have turned a cold shoulder to
requests to talk with the Kwajalein landowners, he said.

Stayman told the lawyers that they should address their concerns to the RMI
government. But Taylor said the national government doesn't own land at
Kwajalein and "has no authority to speak or act on behalf of the Kwajalein
landowners."

The RMI government "has declined to participate in our efforts and has
failed to recognize or address the concerns of the displaced people of
Kwajalein," Taylor said in his May 1 letter.

While Kwajalein landowners do not want to jeopardize any aspect of U.S.
missile testing, "we do, however, intend to address by whatever means
necessary what we see as grossly inadequate payments to our clients for the
use of Kwajalein, which is unquestionably invaluable to the U.S.," he said.

Taylor asked Albright for an "opportunity" to discuss these issues with
Stayman. "If we are unable to do so within 14 days, we will be left with no
alternative but to begin proceedings, on which we believe we stand on firm
legal ground, to remove the U.S. from Kwajalein," he said.

Landowners would prefer to reach an agreement that would provide fair
compensation to the landowners as well as secure for the U.S. its continued
presence at Kwajalein, without interruption, for an agreed upon duration,
Taylor said.



RMI READY TO WORK WITH KWAJALEIN OWNERS

MAJURO û Marshall Islands (May 18, 2000 û Marshall Islands Journal)---RMI's
Foreign Minister Alvin Jacklick has repeatedly told Kwajalein landowners
that the national government is happy to raise any issues the landowners
want addressed in upcoming negotiations with the U.S., a Cabinet official
told the Journal.

"We've been most cooperative in raising issues (for Kwajalein)," said
Minister Gerald Zackios, who indicated that the same couldn't be said for
the landowners.

His comments were made in reaction to a letter from Kwajalein attorney Scott
Taylor to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Commenting on Taylor's contention that the RMI has no authority to act on
behalf of Kwajalein, Zackios said the land use agreement for Kwajalein is a
"legally binding agreement between the RMI government and the landowners,"
which guarantees U.S. use of Kwajalein.

It is a government-to-government agreement so any discussions on Kwajalein
have to go through the government, he said.



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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/22 - Daybook: Bush & Gore & Conferences;
Date: 22 May 2000 07:53:54 -0400

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May 22, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000522215927.htm

Presidential Candidates:

George W. Bush, 1:15 p.m. =97 special address (Israel), Washington Hilton=
 Hotel,
1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/639-5200.

Al Gore, 1 p.m. =97 Hosts a luncheon for South African President Thabo=
 Mbeki,
State Department, 2201 C St. NW.

Conferences:

    Defense Department conference =97 all day =97 Defense Department holds
Acquisition and Logistics Reform Week 2000. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Gen. Henry Shelton participates.
      Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Opening ceremony; presentation of the David=
 Packard
Excellence in Acquisition Award.
      Location: Pentagon Courtyard, the Pentagon. Contact: 703/697-9312.

      American Israel policy conference =97 all day =97 American Israel=
 Public
Affairs Committee holds its "2000 Policy Conference."
      Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers; and=
 Senate
Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican, "The Peace
Dividend: America's Investment in Middle East Peace."
      1:15 p.m. =97 Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Republican Party presidential
candidate, special address.
      7:30 p.m. =97 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, "A Salute to the=
 106th
Congress" banquet.
      Location: Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact:
202/639-5200.

    Defense Department conference =97 2 p.m. =97 Defense Department Defense
Modeling and Simulation Office and the National Training Systems Association
hold a conference, "Industry Days 2000: State of Modeling and Simulation
Briefing to Government and Industry." Location: Sheraton Premiere Hotel,=
 8661
Leesburg Pike, Tysons Corner. Contact: 703/247-2569.

    Energy news briefing =97 3 p.m. =97 Environmental and Energy Study=
 Institute
holds a news conference on "Why Has Europe Taken the Lead in Wind Energy
Technologies?" Location: 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact:
202/662-1886.

    Film =97 noon =97 National Archives presents a screening of the=
 documentary
"Harvest of Shame." Location: National Archives, Auditorium, Constitution
Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets NW. Contact: 301/713-6000.

    Lobbying workshop =97 6:45 p.m. =97 Institute for Policy Studies Social=
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Location: IPS, Suite 1020, 733 15th St. NW. Contact: 202/334-9382.
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<div>George W. Bush, 1:15 p.m. =97 special address (Israel), Washington
Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/639-5200.</div>
<br>
<div>Al Gore, 1 p.m. =97 Hosts a luncheon for South African President Thabo
Mbeki, State Department, 2201 C St. NW.</div>
<br>
<div>Conferences:</div>
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<div>    Defense Department conference =97 all day =97 Defens=
e
Department holds Acquisition and Logistics Reform Week 2000. Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton participates.</div>
<div>      Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Opening
ceremony; presentation of the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition
Award.</div>
<div>      Location: Pentagon Courtyard, the
Pentagon. Contact: 703/697-9312.</div>
<br>
<div>      American Israel policy conference =97
all day =97 American Israel Public Affairs Committee holds its "2000
Policy Conference."</div>
<div>      Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Treasury
Secretary Lawrence H. Summers; and Senate Appropriations Committee
Chairman Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican, "The Peace Dividend:
America's Investment in Middle East Peace."</div>
<div>      1:15 p.m. =97 Texas Gov. George W.
Bush, Republican Party presidential candidate, special address.</div>
<div>      7:30 p.m. =97 Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak, "A Salute to the 106th Congress" banquet.</div>
<div>      Location: Washington Hilton Hotel,
1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/639-5200.</div>
<br>
<div>    Defense Department conference =97 2 p.m. =97 Defense
Department Defense Modeling and Simulation Office and the National
Training Systems Association hold a conference, "Industry Days 2000:
State of Modeling and Simulation Briefing to Government and
Industry." Location: Sheraton Premiere Hotel, 8661 Leesburg Pike,
Tysons Corner. Contact: 703/247-2569.</div>
<br>
<div>    Energy news briefing =97 3 p.m. =97 Environmental an=
d
Energy Study Institute holds a news conference on "Why Has Europe
Taken the Lead in Wind Energy Technologies?" Location: 628 Dirksen
Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/662-1886.</div>
<br>
<div>    Film =97 noon =97 National Archives presents a
screening of the documentary "Harvest of Shame." Location:
National Archives, Auditorium, Constitution Avenue between Seventh and
Ninth streets NW. Contact: 301/713-6000.</div>
<br>
<div>    Lobbying workshop =97 6:45 p.m. =97 Institute for
Policy Studies Social Action and Leadership School for Activists holds a
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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/23 - Gore and Bush in DC; Congressional Daybook;
Date: 23 May 2000 07:19:47 -0400

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May 23, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200052321324.htm

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Vice President Gore -
        8:30 a.m. =97 Addresses the American Israeli Public Affairs=
 Committee
Convention, Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW.
      2:20 p.m. =97 Addresses the Service Employees International Union's=
 22nd
Annual International Convention, David Lawrence Convention Center, 1001
Pennsylvania Ave., Pittsburgh.

        Governor Bush news conference =97 10:30 a.m. =97 George W. Bush for
President hosts a news conference. Texas Gov. George W. Bush participates.
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 512/637-777
 =20
SENATE COMMITTEES=20

      9:30 a.m. =97 Armed Services Committee holds a hearing to receive=
 testimony
on U.S. strategic nuclear force requirements. Walter Slocombe, defense
undersecretary, and Gen. Henry H. Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman,
testify. Location: 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact:=
 202/224-3871.

    10 a.m. =97 Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on African affairs=
 meets
with Mr. Mbeki, Capitol, Room S-116. Contact: 202/438-1657.

HOUSE COMMITTEES=20

    10 a.m. =97 Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the Secret Evidence=
 Repeal
Act of 1999. Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-3951.

        2 p.m. =97 Armed Services oversight panel on terrorism holds a=
 hearing on
domestic terrorism. Location: 2212 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-4151.

        2 p.m. =97 Resources Committee holds a hearing on "Funding of
 Environmental Initiatives and their Influence on Federal Public Lands
Policies." Location: 1324 Longworth House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-2761.
                                       =20
GENERAL AGENDA=20

    Secret Evidence Repeal Act news conference =97 9 a.m. =97The National=
 Coalition
to Protect Political Freedom holds a news conference on "The Secret Evidence
Repeal Act." Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Rain site: 122 Cannon House
Office Building. Contact: 202/488-8787.

    Clinton-Putin summit briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 The Heritage Foundation=
 holds a
briefing on the upcoming President Clinton-Russian President Vladimir Putin
summit. Location: Van Andel Center, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE. Contact:
202/608-6143.

    Putin hearing =97 10:30 a.m. =97 The Commission on Security and=
 Cooperation in
Europe holds a hearing on "The Putin Path: Are Human Rights In Retreat?"
Location: 2200 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-1901.

    Mbeki speech =97 3 p.m. =97 South African President Thabo Mbeki delivers=
 a
keynote speech for a special convocation at Howard University. Location:
Cramton Auditorium, 2400 Sixth St. NW. Contact: 202/238-2332.

-----

Message From: [e-mail] re Saturday May 26 --

Do lend our pals the GWV's attention for their "Rolling Thunder" rally in DC=
 --
go down and visit and share with them. They are just downwinders from=
 nuclear
and chemical plants that are sick like the rest of the nuked folks.
Rolling Thunder event is May 26 in DC=20
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES<br>
<br>
Vice President Gore -<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>8:30 a.m.
=97 Addresses the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee Convention,
Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW.<br>
      2:20 p.m. =97 Addresses the Service
Employees International Union's 22nd Annual International Convention,
David Lawrence Convention Center, 1001 Pennsylvania Ave.,
Pittsburgh.<br>
<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>Governor
Bush news conference =97 10:30 a.m. =97 George W. Bush for President hosts a
news conference. Texas Gov. George W. Bush participates. Location:
National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 512/637-777<br>
  <br>
SENATE COMMITTEES <br>
<br>
      9:30 a.m. =97 Armed Services Committee holds
a hearing to receive testimony on U.S. strategic nuclear force
requirements. Walter Slocombe, defense undersecretary, and Gen. Henry H.
Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testify. Location: 106 Dirksen
Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.<br>
<br>
    10 a.m. =97 Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on
African affairs meets with Mr. Mbeki, Capitol, Room S-116. Contact:
202/438-1657.<br>
<br>
HOUSE COMMITTEES <br>
<br>
    10 a.m. =97 Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the
Secret Evidence Repeal Act of 1999. Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office
Building. Contact: 202/225-3951.<br>
<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>2 p.m. =97
Armed Services oversight panel on terrorism holds a hearing on domestic
terrorism. Location: 2212 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-4151.<br>
<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>2 p.m. =97
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Lands Policies." Location: 1324 Longworth House Office Building.
Contact: 202/225-2761.<br>
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GENERAL AGENDA <br>
<br>
    Secret Evidence Repeal Act news conference =97 9 a.m.
=97The National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom holds a news
conference on "The Secret Evidence Repeal Act." Location:
Capitol, House Triangle. Rain site: 122 Cannon House Office Building.
Contact: 202/488-8787.<br>
<br>
    Clinton-Putin summit briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 The Heritag=
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President Vladimir Putin summit. Location: Van Andel Center, 214
Massachusetts Ave. NE. Contact: 202/608-6143.<br>
<br>
    Putin hearing =97 10:30 a.m. =97 The Commission on
Security and Cooperation in Europe holds a hearing on "The Putin
Path: Are Human Rights In Retreat?" Location: 2200 Rayburn House
Office Building. Contact: 202/225-1901.<br>
<br>
    Mbeki speech =97 3 p.m. =97 South African President Thabo
Mbeki delivers a keynote speech for a special convocation at Howard
University. Location: Cramton Auditorium, 2400 Sixth St. NW. Contact:
202/238-2332.<br>
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-----<br>
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Message From: [e-mail] re Saturday May 26 --<br>
<br>
Do lend our pals the GWV's attention for their "Rolling
Thunder" rally in DC -- go down and visit and share with them. They
are just downwinders from nuclear and chemical plants that are sick like
the rest of the nuked folks.<br>
Rolling Thunder event is May 26 in DC <br>
<font color=3D"#0000FF"><u><a href=3D"http://www.gulfwarvets.com/thunder.htm=
" eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.gulfwarvets.com/thunder.htm</a></font></u>
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: wilpf-news NPT Press Stories
Date: 23 May 2000 08:29:32 -0400

>Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:04:36 -0400
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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/24 - Congress; Gore & Bush; Makhijani; SOA; Los
Date: 24 May 2000 06:55:09 -0400

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May 24, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000524215816.htm

HOUSE COMMITTEES=20
    10 a.m. =97 Government Reform national security, veterans affairs and
international relations subcommittee holds a hearing on the Defense
Department's management and oversight of its chemical and biological-defense
program. Location: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:=
 202/225-5074.

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE=20
      10 a.m. =97 Joins Diane Rehm for a special edition of WAMU-FM's "The=
 Diane
Rehm Show."

----

Governor Bush's Schedule: May 24, 2000=20
 Event: 10:30 a.m. Conversation with Governor Bush at Cornerstone Schools
Association - 6861 East Nevada, Detroit, MI. (Note: Gov. Bush will visit a
kindergarten class with a press pool before conversation begins)=
 313/892-1860 -
Time: 8:30 a.m.- Press check-in begins=20
NOTE - Media credentials will be issued on-site to members of the media with
official identification.=20

----

MEDIA ADVISORY

TRANSMUTATION OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES IS =93NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE=94
Expensive Technology Would Increase Environmental, Health, Safety
and Weapons Proliferation Risks, According To New Report

WHEN: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 -- 10 am

WHERE: Zenger Room, National Press Club 13th Floor, 529 14th Street, NW,
Washington, DC

WHO: Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research (IEER), who has written numerous articles, reports,=
 and
books on nuclear issues.
Hisham Zerriffi, Senior Scientist at IEER and principal author of the study.
Annie Makhijani, Project Scientist at IEER and co-author of the study.

WHAT: News conference to release a new study, The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble:
An Assessment of Transmutation as a Nuclear Waste Management Strategy.

The report analyzes expensive proposals now under consideration by Congress=
 and
the US Department of Energy, as well as in other countries such as France=
 and
Japan, to transform highly radioactive wastes into less dangerous materials.
The authors warn that these schemes will not solve the problem and will
increase the environmental, health, safety, cost and weapons proliferation
risks.

For further information, contact
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Hisham Zerriffi: 301-270-5500
Bob Schaeffer:   941-395-6773

---

DAY OF ACTION MAY 24th

   7 am ~ South Entrance~ Pentagon
   12 noon! Bring Signs, Banners, music, voice and spirit to the White=
 House,
option for CD.  Come to the meeting or call for more information.

Events will be held in the following locations:

SOA WATCH, Washington, D.C. 202.234.2440 [e-mail] =20
Chicago, IL Kathleen Desautels or Dorothy Pagosa 312.641.5151
[e-mail] =20
Boston, MA ~ Ann Eno ~978.692.5483 =20
St. Louis, MO Christie Hauck 314.721.2977 [e-mail] =20
Syracuse, NY Ed Kinane 315.478.4571 [e-mail]=20
Philadelphia, PA Linda Panetta 215.473.2162 or 215.477.5892
[e-mail] =20
San Antonio, TX ~ Shoko, Timon, Hauke, Andy ~ 210.271.3630 =20
Norfolk, VA Patrice Schwermer 757.583.0291 or 757.858.8176 =20
Takoma, WA Bruce Triggs 253.572.6582 [e-mail]

BACKGROUND: On Thursday, May 18, the U.S. Congress dismissed the Moakley
mendment, accepted the Pentagon proposal to close the SOA and open an SOA
Clone  the very next day. The House opted to change the SOA=92s name rather=
 than
close its doors. The name is basically all that is changed. The Pentagon=92s
deceptive proposal is not a move towards responsible policy for Latin=
 America.
It is merely an attempt to silence those working for human rights and=
 justice.
It is an attempt to silence the bloody truth about the School of Assassins,=
 but
THE TRUTH CANNOT BE SILENCED!

Support in the House was strong and the amendment lost by only ten votes!=
 All
week long people fighting to close the SOA lobbied on Capitol Hill, but=
 human
rights activists weren=92t the only ones lobbying. Secretary of the Army=
 Caldera,
Col. Weidner and Colin Powell were there lobbying to keep the SOA open at=
 any
cost. This shows we are the threat of a good example, we are winning and now=
 is
the time to rise up!

Register your outrage at the congressional vote to accept the Pentagon=92s=
 SOA
Clone. Let the White House, the Pentagon and Congress know that we are not
falling for the Pentagon deception and we REJECT THE SOA CLONE!

Come to Washington to participate in civil disobedience and demonstrations=
 at
the White House, Pentagon and other locales, hook into organizing in your=
 own
community or organize yourself! Bring your spirit of hope and resistance,=
 bring
your outrage, bring your passion, bring your creativity and bring your=
 puppets
and banners and help send the message that the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS MUST=
 BE
CLOSED!

----

Los Alamos Wildfire Update, from KRSN Radio

http://krsn.losalamos.com/

All neighborhoods are now open to residents. Most roadblocks have been
removed.  The Fire Department and Forest Service are monitoring all black=
 areas
and will not respond to hot spots in remote areas. These areas are not
currently a threat to the community or to any property, and will probably
continue for a few weeks or until it rains.  Protection Technology Los=
 Alamos
is Posted to Traffic Checkpoints Around the Lab controlling access. More=
 info
in LANL Information: http://krsn.losalamos.com/lanl.asp. You can also check
LANL's website - http://www.lanl.gov/.=20


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<html><div>May 24, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse
Daybook</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000524215816.htm"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000524215816.ht=
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<br>
<div>HOUSE COMMITTEES </div>
<div>    10 a.m. =97 Government Reform national security,
veterans affairs and international relations subcommittee holds a hearing
on the Defense Department's management and oversight of its chemical and
biological-defense program. Location: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building.
Contact: 202/225-5074.</div>
<br>
<div>VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE </div>
<div>      10 a.m. =97 Joins Diane Rehm for a
special edition of WAMU-FM's "The Diane Rehm Show."</div>
<br>
<div>----</div>
<br>
<div>Governor Bush's Schedule: May 24, 2000 </div>
<div> Event: 10:30 a.m. Conversation with Governor Bush at
Cornerstone Schools Association - 6861 East Nevada, Detroit, MI. (Note:
Gov. Bush will visit a kindergarten class with a press pool before
conversation begins) 313/892-1860 - Time: 8:30 a.m.- Press check-in
begins </div>
<div>NOTE - Media credentials will be issued on-site to members of the
media with official identification. </div>
<br>
<div>----</div>
<br>
<div>MEDIA ADVISORY</div>
<br>
<div>TRANSMUTATION OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES IS =93NUCLEAR ALCHEMY
GAMBLE=94</div>
<div>Expensive Technology Would Increase Environmental, Health,
Safety</div>
<div>and Weapons Proliferation Risks, According To New Report</div>
<br>
<div>WHEN: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 -- 10 am</div>
<br>
<div>WHERE: Zenger Room, National Press Club 13th Floor, 529 14th Street,
NW, Washington, DC</div>
<br>
<div>WHO: Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research (IEER), who has written numerous articles,
reports, and books on nuclear issues.</div>
<div>Hisham Zerriffi, Senior Scientist at IEER and principal author of
the study.</div>
<div>Annie Makhijani, Project Scientist at IEER and co-author of the
study.</div>
<br>
<div>WHAT: News conference to release a new study, The Nuclear Alchemy
Gamble:</div>
<div>An Assessment of Transmutation as a Nuclear Waste Management
Strategy.</div>
<br>
<div>The report analyzes expensive proposals now under consideration by
Congress and the US Department of Energy, as well as in other countries
such as France and Japan, to transform highly radioactive wastes into
less dangerous materials. The authors warn that these schemes will not
solve the problem and will increase the environmental, health, safety,
cost and weapons proliferation risks.</div>
<br>
<div>For further information, contact</div>
<div>Institute for Energy and Environmental Research</div>
<div>Hisham Zerriffi: 301-270-5500</div>
<div>Bob Schaeffer:   941-395-6773</div>
<br>
<div>---</div>
<br>
<div>DAY OF ACTION MAY 24th</div>
<br>
<div>   7 am ~ South Entrance~ Pentagon</div>
<div>   12 noon! Bring Signs, Banners, music, voice and spirit
to the White House, option for CD.  Come to the meeting or call for
more information.</div>
<br>
<div>Events will be held in the following locations:</div>
<br>
<div>SOA WATCH, Washington, D.C. 202.234.2440
[e-mail]  </div>
<div>Chicago, IL Kathleen Desautels or Dorothy Pagosa 312.641.5151
[e-mail]  </div>
<div>Boston, MA ~ Ann Eno ~978.692.5483  </div>
<div>St. Louis, MO Christie Hauck 314.721.2977 [e-mail]
</div>
<div>Syracuse, NY Ed Kinane 315.478.4571 [e-mail] </div>
<div>Philadelphia, PA Linda Panetta 215.473.2162 or 215.477.5892</div>
<div>[e-mail]  </div>
<div>San Antonio, TX ~ Shoko, Timon, Hauke, Andy ~ 210.271.3630
</div>
<div>Norfolk, VA Patrice Schwermer 757.583.0291 or 757.858.8176
</div>
<div>Takoma, WA Bruce Triggs 253.572.6582 [e-mail]</div>
<br>
<div>BACKGROUND: On Thursday, May 18, the U.S. Congress dismissed the
Moakley mendment, accepted the Pentagon proposal to close the SOA and
open an SOA Clone  the very next day. The House opted to change the
SOA=92s name rather than close its doors. The name is basically all that is
changed. The Pentagon=92s deceptive proposal is not a move towards
responsible policy for Latin America. It is merely an attempt to silence
those working for human rights and justice. It is an attempt to silence
the bloody truth about the School of Assassins, but THE TRUTH CANNOT BE
SILENCED!</div>
<br>
<div>Support in the House was strong and the amendment lost by only ten
votes! All week long people fighting to close the SOA lobbied on Capitol
Hill, but human rights activists weren=92t the only ones lobbying.
Secretary of the Army Caldera, Col. Weidner and Colin Powell were there
lobbying to keep the SOA open at any cost. This shows we are the threat
of a good example, we are winning and now is the time to rise up!</div>
<br>
<div>Register your outrage at the congressional vote to accept the
Pentagon=92s SOA Clone. Let the White House, the Pentagon and Congress know
that we are not falling for the Pentagon deception and we REJECT THE SOA
CLONE!</div>
<br>
<div>Come to Washington to participate in civil disobedience and
demonstrations at the White House, Pentagon and other locales, hook into
organizing in your own community or organize yourself! Bring your spirit
of hope and resistance, bring your outrage, bring your passion, bring
your creativity and bring your puppets and banners and help send the
message that the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS MUST BE CLOSED!</div>
<br>
<div>----</div>
<br>
<div>Los Alamos Wildfire Update, from KRSN Radio</div>
<br>
<div><a href=3D"http://krsn.losalamos.com/"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://krsn.losalamos.com/</a></div>
<br>
<div>All neighborhoods are now open to residents. Most roadblocks have
been removed.  The Fire Department and Forest Service are monitoring
all black areas and will not respond to hot spots in remote areas. These
areas are not currently a threat to the community or to any property, and
will probably continue for a few weeks or until it rains.
Protection Technology Los Alamos is Posted to Traffic Checkpoints Around
the Lab controlling access. More info in LANL Information:
<a href=3D"http://krsn.losalamos.com/lanl.asp" EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://krsn.=
losalamos.com/lanl.asp</a>.
You can also check LANL's website -
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! -PLS SIGN START-III  CLINTON/PUTIN MOSCOW SUMMIT LETTER
Date: 25 May 2000 12:15:16 +1000

URGENT! -PLS SIGN START-III  CLINTON/PUTIN MOSCOW SUMMIT LETTER (JUN4-5)
Sign by emailing FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>

Dear All,
This is a sign - on letter for organisations and parliamentarians,
organised mainly by myself and Commander Robert Green of the World Court
Project, with a great deal of input from Daryl Kimball and Steven Young.

Essentially it asks Clinton and Putin at the Moscow Summit on 4/5 June, to
go for the lowest possible START-III warhead numbers, and not to proceed
with the NMD system.

It reminds them forcefully of the final document from the NPT Revcon which
has just finished, esp where the NMD is concerned.

It's already got the signatures of CDI, WILPF, WCP, Abolition2000, TVC,
Proposition One, PSR, and a number of members of the European Parliament,
the Belgian Parliament and the Australian parliament.

You are urged to sign it as a matter of urgency, given the shortness of
time beween now and the Moscow summit.


PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
[phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
[phone], [phone]-205-4219

CC
FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
[phone], [phone]

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
[phone]

MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
[phone], [phone],

DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
[phone]

Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,

We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of
your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification
of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD)
system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
weapons.

The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not
content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations
(or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of nuclear
weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations
for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention
is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.

Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis
for your Moscow discussions include:

(1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination

The five recognized nuclear weapon states (NWS) responded to global
concerns expressed at the NPT Review Conference  with a joint statement
pledging an 'unequivocal' commitment to 'ultimate' elimination of nuclear
weapons. Non-nuclear weapon states responded  that they consider the word
'ultimate' to be inadequate, and want an accelerated program of
negotiations toward the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

There are disturbing signs that 'ultimate' in the P5 statement  may  in
fact mean 'forever'.  Documents presented by the US to Russia (the ABM
Treaty 'Talking Points') indicate that the US essentially encouraged Russia
to maintain a large nuclear arsenal on permanent constant alert. This is
exactly the opposite of what needs to happen.

The NWS statement  fell far short of the much stronger commitment expressed
in the 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
authority. Reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,  it unanimously stated:

"There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control."

A significantly stronger position than the NWS statement has been adopted
in the final declaration of the NPT Review,  in which the NWS made an
'unequivocal undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their
nuclear arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.

The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of
your compliance with it.


(2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'.
We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.

The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning'
makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a
number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were
sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center
for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend
this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear
weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward
the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.


(3)Implementation of START-II

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US Senate
opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
Consequently, both sides should  should agree to  unilateral reciprocal
measures to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1
levels in accordance with START-1 verification procedures.

(4)START-III

The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as
soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to  agree
to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.

If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of
the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must
join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your
nuclear arsenals down to zero.

(5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty

The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.

We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
(NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow
such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment
merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.


The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed the
importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly system
of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may
never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories.

The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under
START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons under strict international control.

Signed:

Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
NY/Geneva.,

Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England,
Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,

Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother,
Secy., World Court Project UK,
Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
Brussels, Belgium.,

Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,

Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defence
Information, Washington DC.,
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
Analyst, Tri-Valley CAREs, Calif.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,

Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,

Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Aust.,

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) TVC advisory: Sandia says cut NIF
Date: 24 May 2000 22:18:55 -0700 (PDT)

Dear peace and environmental advocates: This is an extremely significant
development, one demonstrating erosion of support from within the Dept. of
Energy complex for the National Ignition Facility, and I trust you will
find this media advisory of interest and use. Peace, MK

For Immediate Release: Wednesday eve, May 24, 2000
Contact: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs [phone]

SANDIA NATIONAL LAB CALLS FOR MAJOR CUTS AT LIVERMORE LAB'S PROBLEM-RIDDLED
MEGA-LASER;
CALIFORNIA GROUP PREDICTS $10 BILLION PRICE TAG FOR NIF
AND SAYS CANCEL IT OUTRIGHT

In an unprecedented move, Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New
Mexico today officially broke ranks with its "sister" lab in California and
issued a public statement calling for cuts in both size and budget for the
National Ignition Facility (NIF) mega-laser, currently under construction
at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

"The apparent delay and significant increase in cost for the NIF is
sufficient that it will disrupt the investment needed at the other
laboratories, and perhaps by the production plants, by several years," said
Tom Hunter, Sandia's vice-president for nuclear weapons programs.

Today's statement puts Sandia Lab at odds with the policy of its parent
agency, the Department of Energy (DOE), which announced earlier this month
it would seek an additional $95 million for NIF in fiscal year 2001. This
increase would come on top of the $350 million already requested for the
mega-laser in the coming fiscal year. (NIF budget summary faxed upon
request)

Following a report last year by Tri-Valley CAREs, a Livermore-based
organization that monitors nuclear weapons activities, DOE announced that
NIF was more than $350 million over budget and one and one-half years
behind schedule. With NIF the object of continuing investigations both
inside and outside of the Department, on May 3rd DOE was forced to revise
its numbers upward, admitting that NIF's construction costs would
essentially double -- from $1.2 billion to over $2 billion. Further, the
NIF construction schedule would slip five years, according to DOE, from
2003 to 2008.

"This causes us to question what is a reasonable additional investment in
the NIF," said Tom Hunter in explaining Sandia Lab's position today.

The Sandia statement calls for "a reduced project," though it stops short
of making a specific recommendation on how many of NIF's proposed 192 laser
beams should be abandoned.

"Scientists at Sandia and other DOE laboratories have been discussing a
one-quarter NIF option for some time now," said Marylia Kelley, executive
director of Tri-Valley CAREs. "It is the opinion of a number of scientists
that NIF construction should be limited to 48 laser beams."

"Many scientists at the DOE labs are worried that NIF will rob money from
other, more valuable programs," Kelley added. "For example, an astrophysics
program was recently canceled at Livermore Lab and staff scientists there
expressed a belief that their funding had been diverted to NIF."

Tri-Valley CAREs' recommendation goes one step further than Sandia's.

"We advocate cancellation of the entire NIF project," explained Kelley.
"NIF's technical problems will cause its price tag to continue to spiral
upward. Moreover, NIF is simply not a necessary facility in order to ensure
the 'safety' or the 'reliability' of existing nuclear weapons -- a fact
that many prominent weapons physicists have already pointed out," she
continued. "Add to this that NIF poses very real proliferation and
environmental risks, and you have in a nutshell the reasons we want to see
it stopped."

In the wake of jolting revelations about NIF's severe technical
difficulties, mismanagement and continuing budget overruns, the General
Accounting Office began an investigation late last year. During a recent
Congressional briefing, the GAO told members of the Science Committee that
DOE still underestimates NIF's costs by around $1.5 billion, according to a
New Mexico newspaper account.

Add the GAO's tally of the extra $1.5 billion to the current construction
estimate of $2.1 billion, and that brings the price tag for NIF to $3.6
billion, all before construction is completed in 2008 and the switch is
thrown to start NIF's proposed 192 beams.

Tri-Valley CAREs has conducted its own independent analysis of NIF costs,
and the group projects the mega-laser will consume at least $3.7 billion by
2008. "In round numbers, this is very similar to the GAO estimate," said
Kelley. "However, when the out-year program and operating costs over NIF's
'life-cycle' are factored in, that figure will balloon to $10 billion," she
predicted.

-- 30 --

FYI -- a "same day" news story can be found at www.abqtrib.com, and copies
of the statement issued by Sandia National Laboratory can be obtained from
their Albuquerque press office.

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/25 - Star Wars News Conference; Nader;
Date: 25 May 2000 08:46:11 -0400

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12-2pm, May 25, 2000, DC STAR WARS NEWS CONFERENCE at the Hotel Willard, 1401
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW -- New information on national missile defense and
negotiations on nuclear arms reductions will be presented by diverse critics
from Capitol Hill to Hollywood at a news conference for DC media. Buchanan Room
(downstairs).  Speakers: Bruce Gagnon, coordinator, Global Network Against
Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space; William Hartung, World Policy Institute; Rep.
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH); Theodore Postol, professor of science and national
security studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a short
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NATIONAL GREEN GATHERING AND GREEN CONGRESS
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Friday-Monday, May 26-29, Chicago
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[phone] (24 hour number for incoming emergency calls; there are pay
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Re: TRANSMUTATION OF RADWASTE IS "NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE"


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12-2pm, May 25, 2000, DC STAR WARS NEWS CONFERENCE at the Hotel Willard,
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW -- New information on national missile
defense and negotiations on nuclear arms reductions will be presented by
diverse critics from Capitol Hill to Hollywood at a news conference for
DC media. Buchanan Room (downstairs).  Speakers: Bruce Gagnon,
coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space;
William Hartung, World Policy Institute; Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH);
Theodore Postol, professor of science and national security studies at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a short  Paul Newman
video to be premiered at the news conference;  <br>
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-----------<br>
<br>
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<[e-mail]> <br>
<br>
NATIONAL GREEN GATHERING AND GREEN CONGRESS <br>
Greens/Green Party USA <br>
Friday-Monday, May 26-29, Chicago<br>
The International Conference Center of the Ecumenical Institute and The
<br>
Institute of Cultural Affairs 4750 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL. 60640,
<br>
[phone] (24 hour number for incoming emergency calls; there are
pay <br>
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Check out International Conference Center's site:<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://members.aol.com/iccchgo/confcenthomepage.htm" eudora="autourl">http://members.aol.com/iccchgo/confcenthomepage.htm</a><br>
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(draft) <br>
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<br>
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<br>
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<br>
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Re: TRANSMUTATION OF RADWASTE IS "NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE"
<br>
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I suggest that the federal government take a proactive look at using
low-voltage nuclear transmutation methods such as the ones being
developed by Trenergy, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah [e.g.
<a href="http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_5_10_2.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_5_10_2.html</a>].
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Organisations Signatures Urgently needed for Moscow Summit Letter
Date: 26 May 2000 18:47:37 +1000

ORGANISATIONAL SIGNATURES URGENTLY NEEDED -
Sign by emailing FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>

Dear All,

On June 4/5, Presidents Putin and Clinton will meet in Moscow. High in the
list of things they are expected to discuss is the possibility of START-III
negotiations, and the US plan to weaken the ABM treaty by deploying a
national missile defence (NMD) system.

This comes on the heels of a prolonged review meeting of the nuclear
nonproliferation treaty at UN headquarters, in which the nuclear weapons
powers have undertaken the 'unequivocal and total' elimination of their
nuclear arsenals, and in which the ABM treaty's importance has been
strongly affirmed by everyone from the UN secretary - general downwards.

This letter urges Putin and Clinton to negotiate the lowest possible
START-III warhead levels with a view to going to zero, and urges that the
BMD system not be deployed.

It needs signatures immediately if it is to be faxed in sufficient time to
Putin and Clinton.


PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
[phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
[phone], [phone]-205-4219

CC
FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
[phone], [phone]

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
[phone]

MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
[phone], [phone],

DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
[phone]

Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,

We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of
your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification
of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD)
system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
weapons.

The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not
content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations
(or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of nuclear
weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations
for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention
is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.

Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis
for your Moscow discussions include:

(1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination

The five recognized nuclear weapon states (NWS) responded to global
concerns expressed at the NPT Review Conference  with a joint statement
pledging an 'unequivocal' commitment to 'ultimate' elimination of nuclear
weapons. Non-nuclear weapon states responded  that they consider the word
'ultimate' to be inadequate, and want an accelerated program of
negotiations toward the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

There are disturbing signs that 'ultimate' in the P5 statement  may  in
fact mean 'forever'.  Documents presented by the US to Russia (the ABM
Treaty 'Talking Points') indicate that the US essentially encouraged Russia
to maintain a large nuclear arsenal on permanent constant alert. This is
exactly the opposite of what needs to happen.

The NWS statement  fell far short of the much stronger commitment expressed
in the 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
authority. Reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,  it unanimously stated:

"There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control."

A significantly stronger position than the NWS statement has been adopted
in the final declaration of the NPT Review,  in which the NWS made an
'unequivocal undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their
nuclear arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.

The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of
your compliance with it.


(2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'.
We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.

The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning'
makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a
number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were
sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center
for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend
this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear
weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward
the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.


(3)Implementation of START-II

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US Senate
opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
Consequently, both sides should  should agree to  unilateral reciprocal
measures to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1
levels in accordance with START-1 verification procedures.

(4)START-III

The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as
soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to  agree
to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.

If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of
the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must
join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your
nuclear arsenals down to zero.

(5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty

The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.

We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
(NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow
such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment
merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.


The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed the
importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly system
of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may
never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories.

The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under
START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons under strict international control.

Signed:

Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
NY/Geneva.,

Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England,
Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,

Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother,
Secy., World Court Project UK,
Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, West Midland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK.,
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American
Bases, Otley, Yorks, UK.,
Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, UK.,

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
Brussels, Belgium.,
Fiona Dove, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands,

Dr. Arthur Muhl, President, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, (IPPNW) Switzerland.,

Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Alba Circle Non-Violent Movement, Hungary,
Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Austria,

Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,

Victor Khazan, Zelenyi Zvit (FOE Ukraine), Dniepropretrovsk, Ukraine,
Nadia Sosovkina, Coordinator, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable
Development, Kiev, Ukraine.,

Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt.
Jean P. Patterson, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom,
Costa-Rica.,

Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance.,
Linda Murphy, President, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada,
Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture and Native
Exchange, Vancouver, Canada,
David Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defence
Information, Washington DC.,
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
Analyst, Tri-Valley CAREs, Calif.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland Calif, USA.,
Bishop Walter Sullivan, President, Pax Christi, USA.,
Phyllis Yingling, President, Womens International League for Peace and
Freedom, USA,
Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
Dana L. Richter, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Michigan, USA.,
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space, Gainesville, Fl, USA.,
George W. Albee, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
Washington DC., USA.,
John M Phelan, Chairman, Fordham Centre for Communication Policy and
Ethics, USA.,

Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, National Secretary, Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom, Aotearoa/NZ.,
Barney Richards, National Secretary, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ.,
Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ,

Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP Member for Fremantle, Parliamentarians for a
Nuclear-Free Future,  Australia.
Jill Hall MP, Federal Member for Shortland, Australia,
Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Julia Gillard, Federal Member for Lalor, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Kelly Hoare MP, Federal Member for Charlton, (Newcastle) NSW, Aust.,
Daryl Melham, Federal Member for Banks., NSW., Aust.,
Senator Vicky Bourne, Democrat Senator for NSW.,
Senator Sue Mackay, ALP Senator for  Canberra,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW.,
Tom Helm, MLC Mt Newman, W.A.,
Helen Hodgson, MLC., W.A.,
Kerry Tucker MLC., Green Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
Geoff Holland, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Qld,
Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory,
Darwin, NT.,
David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation.,
Fitzroy, Vic.,
Angela Drury, People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) NSW.,
Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founding President, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Womens Action for Nuclear Disarmament.,
Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Aust.,



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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/26 - 1) Daybook; 2) Presidential Candidates;
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1) Daybook - Washington Times and Agence France Presse
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm

      Gulf war health workshop =97 8:30 =97 The Institute of Medicine holds=
 a
workshop, "Identifying Effective Treatments for Gulf War Veterans' Health
Problems." Location: National Research Council, Cecil and Ida Green=
 Building,
2001 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Contact: 202/334-1318.
 =20
    Clinton trip briefing =97 11:15 a.m. =97 The State Department holds a
background briefing on President Clinton's trip to Russia. Location: Press
Briefing Room 2118, 2101 C St. NW. Contact: 202/647-6607.

2) Presidential Candidates:

V.P. Al Gore - http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm
7:15 a.m. =97 Participates in the school day, Cordova School, Cordova, Tenn.
12:30 p.m. =97 Discusses education issues with students, parents, teachers=
 and
administrators, gymnasium.

Ralph Nader On The Road - http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html
Today, May 26:
12:00 pm
March                                                                     =
=20
        Anchorage, AK - Alaska Injured Workers March against hospitals that
rent space to Outside physicians who deny workman=D5s comp claims for=
 insurance
companies. The Alaska Regional Hospital=20
8:00 pm Speech
Anchorage, AK - First United Methodist Church 725 9th Ave. Seating for 300
Contact: Jim Sykes [phone], [phone] Steve Cleary (907)=
 222-1630=20
Tomorrow, May 27 -  Honolulu, HI - 5:00 pm Speech
Harris United Methodist Church Sponsored by the Kokua Council holds 200=
 people
20 South Vineyard Blvd

3)  Report on Star Wars Press Conference 5/25/00
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) hotly described the National Missile "Offense"
system a "boondoggle" and "scam," and suggested that the sudden=
 classification
of Dr. Theodore Postol's letter to John Podesta was an attempt to "cover up"
that "won't work," saying that a number of Congresspeople agree with him.
Several other fine speakers were ignored after Dr. Postol spoke at length=
 about
why Star Wars won't work, presenting graphs and photos to prove that it=
 would
be easy to fool any missile detection system with heated mylar balloons. =
 Dr.
Postol said he hadn't received personal notice from the government that his
letter is classified, and that it can be found online at the Moscow=
 Institute
of Technology (see below).  A member of the audience advised that Federation=
 of
American Scientists also has the letter on their website (www.fas.org).

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: http://www.armscontrol.ru/

Pentagon Classifies a Letter Critical of Antimissile Plan: Letter of Prof.
Theodore A. Postol to John D. Podesta, the White House Chief of Staff,
Letter, May 18, 2000:
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/letter.pdf

Attachments A., B., and C. (all in PDF format)=20
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-a.pdf
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-b.pdf
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-c.pdf

4) Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) held a press conference outside the Capitol=
 Building
yesterday at 3 p.m., at which he and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (again appearing)
called on President Clinton to agree with President Putin to de-alert=
 nuclear
weapons at their meeting June 4 and 5. =20




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<div>      Gulf war health workshop =97 8:30 =97 Th=
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Treatments for Gulf War Veterans' Health Problems." Location:
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<div>    Clinton trip briefing =97 11:15 a.m. =97 The State
Department holds a background briefing on President Clinton's trip to
Russia. Location: Press Briefing Room 2118, 2101 C St. NW. Contact:
202/647-6607.</div>
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<div>V.P. Al Gore -
<a href=3D"http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm"=
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<div>7:15 a.m. =97 Participates in the school day, Cordova School, Cordova,
Tenn.</div>
<div>12:30 p.m. =97 Discusses education issues with students, parents,
teachers and administrators, gymnasium.</div>
<br>
<div>Ralph Nader On The Road -
<a href=3D"http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html</a></div>
<div>Today, May 26:</div>
<div>12:00 pm
March            =
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Anchorage, AK - Alaska Injured Workers March against hospitals that rent
space to Outside physicians who deny workmanÕs comp claims for
insurance companies. The Alaska Regional Hospital </div>
<div>8:00 pm Speech</div>
<div>Anchorage, AK - First United Methodist Church 725 9th Ave. Seating
for 300 Contact: Jim Sykes [phone], [phone] Steve Cleary
[phone] </div>
<div>Tomorrow, May 27 -  Honolulu, HI - 5:00 pm Speech</div>
<div>Harris United Methodist Church Sponsored by the Kokua Council holds
200 people 20 South Vineyard Blvd</div>
<br>
<div>3)  Report on Star Wars Press Conference 5/25/00</div>
<div>Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) hotly described the National Missile
"Offense" system a "boondoggle" and "scam,"
and suggested that the sudden classification of Dr. Theodore Postol's
letter to John Podesta was an attempt to "cover up" that
"won't work," saying that a number of Congresspeople agree with
him. Several other fine speakers were ignored after Dr. Postol spoke at
length about why Star Wars won't work, presenting graphs and photos to
prove that it would be easy to fool any missile detection system with
heated mylar balloons.  Dr. Postol said he hadn't received personal
notice from the government that his letter is classified, and that it can
be found online at the Moscow Institute of Technology (see below).
A member of the audience advised that Federation of American Scientists
also has the letter on their website
(<a href=3D"http://www.fas.org/" EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>www.fas.org</a>).</div>
<br>
<div>Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology:
<a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/</a></div>
<br>
<div>Pentagon Classifies a Letter Critical of Antimissile Plan: Letter of
Prof. Theodore A. Postol to John D. Podesta, the White House Chief of
Staff,</div>
<div>Letter, May 18, 2000:</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/letter.pdf"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/letter.pdf</a=
></div>
<br>
<div>Attachments A., B., and C. (all in PDF format) </div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-a.pdf"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-a.pdf</a>=
</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-b.pdf"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-b.pdf</a>=
</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-c.pdf"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-c.pdf</a>=
</div>
<br>
<div>4) Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) held a press conference outside the Capitol
Building yesterday at 3 p.m., at which he and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (again
appearing) called on President Clinton to agree with President Putin to
de-alert nuclear weapons at their meeting June 4 and 5.  </div>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: nuclear chat
Date: 26 May 2000 15:47:45 -0400

Hi Friends,
Can anyone go on this chat show and tell them that nuclear energy isn't the
answer to global warming?  Alioe Slater

>Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:21:04 -0400
>Subject: nuclear chat
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>maybe some nuclear people should called into the chat to mention the
>environmental destruction of nuclear energy.......
>
>
>Live Chat
>Upcoming chats
>Join a live chat on the environmental benefits of nuclear energy with
>Maureen Koetz, director of environmental policy for the Nuclear Energy
>Institute. This chat is scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET.
>Join a live chat on June 2 at 8 p.m. ET with Mike Pelly, a proponent of
>green fuel oils and energy independence. Currently he is promoting a
>biodiesel that people can refine on their own.
>Join a live chat with Dr. Luis Baptista, chairman and curator at the
>Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences.
>The chat is June 15 from 9-10 p.m. ET. Baptista is an authority on
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>what the songs mean.
>For more information about these chats, please contact David Skillman at
>[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> .
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>
>
>
>
>Diane Hatz
>Communications Director
>Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
>15 East 26th Street, Room 915
>New York, NY 10010
>tel. [phone]
>fax [phone]
>www.gracelinks.org
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: press release
Date: 26 May 2000 16:37:04 -0400

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News Release for Immediate Release=AD MAY 25, 2000
Contacts:         Jordan Benjamin 202-822-5200
                  Stephen Kent 914-424-8382


Blinding Us With =93Science=94

Critics Charge National Missile Defense Fanfare Conceals Massive Campaign
Contributions from Defense Contractors, Falsified Test Results, Damage to
US
National Security, US Rejection of Disarmament Opportunity, & Hidden Agenda
For Offensive Space-Based Weapons

[Washington, DC --May 25, 2000] As President Clinton prepares to depart for
the Moscow summit next week, missile defense is at the top of the national
agenda.  While funding authorization for limited national missile  defense
(NMD)  moves through Congress, George W. Bush this week made a proposal for
reductions in nuclear arsenals coupled with an expanded missile defense
program.

Proponents say missile defense is a way of applying  American technological
know-how to shield the US from a perceived threat of nuclear attack by
"rogue states."  But experts presented new evidence today of massive
defense
lobby spending to push it through Congress, falsified test results and
fraudulent science, and underlying agendas pursued at the cost of spurning
nuclear disarmament opportunities and directly compromising US national
security. Missile defense, they warned, is a smokescreen obscuring and
exacerbating growing nuclear danger, and concealing its ultimate agenda,
which is to create space-based and other futuristic offensive weapons.

These points were made at a DC press conference today by spokespeople as
diverse as Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), an outspoken critic of US
nuclear policy, and actor Paul Newman, appearing by video (broadcast copies
available), whose role in a 1966 Hitchcock film about an "anti-missile
missile" system influenced President Reagan's conception of Star Wars.  The
conference was co-sponsored by the Global Resource Action Coalition for the
Environment (GRACE), the Fourth Freedom Forum and The Bulletin of Atomic
Scientists. It laid out in detail the rapidly mounting case against
deploying NMD, as Congress, the White House, and George W. Bush all seem
prepared to do. It also made the case for the US to engage Russia's
unprecedented offers of new nuclear treaties plus deep cuts in nuclear
arsenals to 1000-1500 warheads when President Clinton meets with Russian
President Vladimir Putin next week.
=AD 2 =AD

Bush Proposal Fatally Flawed
Commenting on the Bush proposal for an expansive missile defense program,
including space-based weapons, GRACE president Alice Slater said, " Bush
talks about rejecting the Cold War mentality, but Star Wars is worse than
the Cold War, because it means a whole new arms race. At least while the
Cold War was on we signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and ruled out
new weapons development.  Now we're abandoning those commitments to pursue
destabilizing space-based weaponry."

Strategic policy analyst Jack Mendelsohn says Bush=92s linkage of missile
defense with deep cuts in arsenals is contradictory.   =93It is impossible=
 to
mix steep nuclear force reductions with the deployment of a robust national
missile defense, let alone the kind of space-based weapon Star Wars system
Bush envisions," he said.  "If the US deploys NMD, China must increase its
arsenal to defeat it. Russia has to maintain a large arsenal on
hair-trigger
alert to defeat it, plus deal with Chinese escalation, as must India.  To
talk about building missile defense and cutting arsenals in the same breath
is empty rhetoric.  NMD will have a provocative effect on China and a
chilling effect on Russia."

US Sends Contradictory Signals To Russia
The Clinton administration faces the same sort of contradiction going into
the Moscow summit as it seeks cuts in nuclear arsenals with Russia while
pushing for NMD deployment.  According to Steven Schwartz, publisher of The
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, documents the Bulletin obtained show the US
actually encouraged Russia to put an increased number  nuclear warheads
aimed at the US on hair-trigger alert so that it will be assured of
defeating a US missile shield and acquiesce in NMD deployment, even at the
price of lost opportunities for de-alerting and deep cuts. By the same
logic
of needing to justify the assertion that NMD would not affect Russia=92s
nuclear deterrent, at a May 23 Senate hearing the Joint Chiefs of Staff
reiterated they would oppose cuts in Russia=92s arsenal below 2000-2500
warheads, even though Russia wants to go lower.

Falsified NMD Test Results
If the hidden costs of missile defense to US security include more Russian
warheads on heightened alert, they are not likely to be balanced by anytime
soon by  practical gains in US ability to stop an attack from even a single
incoming missile, according to a new report by MIT scientist Ted Postol
entitled =93Scientific Fraud in the National Missile Defense Program.=94=
 Postol
advises the US Chief of Naval Operations on ballistic missile technologies,
and was the expert who discredited the myth propagated by the defense
industry that Patriot missiles shot down Scuds accurately during Desert
Storm.  He charges, together with former TRW employee- turned-whistleblower
Neera Schwartz, that even the limited successes reported in NMD tests were
falsified.  The story broke last week in The New York Times.  The letter
Postol wrote to the White House detailing the charges has since been
classified by the Pentagon, although the details are explained in Postol=92s
new report. The New York Times says the charges, if true, "could cripple or
kill the proposed weapons system."



=AD 3 =AD

New Figures on Massive Defense Contractor Contributions
=93Test results may indicate national missile defense may have a low
probability of successfully defending the country from long-range ballistic
missiles,=94 said Bill Hartung of the World Policy Institute,  =93but it has=
 a
very high probability of defending the profit margin of Lockheed Martin,
Boeing, Raytheon and TRW.=94According to a new report Hartung unveiled=
 today,
these four companies have split more than 2.2 billion in missile defense R&
D in the last two years alone, which represents roughly 60% of all
contracts
let by the Pentagon during FY =9198 and =9199.  The four gave over $2=
 million
in
campaign contributions in this election cycle to 25 pro-NMD Senators who
signed an April letter to the White House demanding President Clinton not
cut any deals with Moscow that would limit the missile defense program.=20
The
report is posted to the World Policy Institute website,
www.worldpolicy.org.

A Thinly Veiled Bid for Space-Based Weapons
Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
Power in Space, warns that the NMD program is a thinly veiled bid for the
militarization of space. National weapons lab research under the Stockpile
Stewardship program coupled with US nuclear weapons policy directives and
speculation on space-based weapons such as Bush made this week, telegraph
an
intent to build on missile defense infrastructure to develop systems which
are anything but defensive. The labs are at work on projects to achieve
global military dominance from space with technolgies such as exotic
fusion-powered direct energy weapons.  In the US Space Command document
=93Vision for 2020=94 (available at www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace) the US Air
Force openly portrays missile defense as a platform to create systems for
=93dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US
interests and investments, integrating space forces into warfighting
capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.=94 In a significant move,
the US Space Command has recently changed its name to the US Space and
Missile Defense Command.

#  #  #

For further information, contact Jordan Benjamin, 202-822-5200 or Stephen
Kent 914-424-8382.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ASlater [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 1:37 PM
>> To: [e-mail]
>> Subject: press release
>>
>>
>> Hi Jordan,
>> Could you email me the press release as an attachment that i could post
>to
>> our email lists?  Many thanks.  Alice
>> 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]
>> http://www.gracelinks.org
>>
>> GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the
>elimination
>> nuclear weapons.


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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]
http://www.gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT Report-Exceptions to Final Consensus
Date: 26 May 2000 19:23:32 -0400

Dear Friends,
Having stuck with the grinding NPT Review through four weeks in the
basement of the UN, even until 5:00 AM Saturday morning (although the
delegates "stopped the clock" at 10 minutes to midnite--a diplomatic
fiction that their work would be completed on Friday) and having returned
on Saturday at 11:00 am to 7:00 pm when the meeting finally adjourned, I
have a few notes to add to the excellent reporting that has already been
posted.

After consensus was reached on the final report which deleted the nefarious
word "ultimate" and instead adopted the New Agenda language of an
"unequivocal undertaking by the Nuclear Weapons States to accomplish the
total elimination of their nuclear arsenals", as well as some other
welcomed promises which have been posted previously, there were exceptions
raised orally to the final consensus.  According to my notes, China stated
that the weaponization of space "impedes nuclear non-proliferation", that
the Nuclear Weapons States with the biggest stockpiles should take the lead
in reductions, abandon deterrence, adopt positions of no-first use,
"abolish the nuclear umbrella" and "withdraw nuclear weapons to your own
borders".  It noted that "these issues have been neglected."  China added
that the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty should be "phased in with the
prevention of an arms race in outer space" and that the "CD should deal
with three issues: Outer Space, FMCT, and nuclear disarmament."  It also
stated that greater transparency without those measures "is infeasible."

Russia re-affirmed its commitment to the ABM Treaty and stated that without
it, "it is impossible to make progress on nuclear disarmament."  It further
stated that "strategic stability" means to "strenghthen international
security to enable future cuts in nuclear weapons and conventional arms."

On the so-called "peaceful uses" of nuclear energy, the final document had
language which "recognized the importance of the concept of sustainable
development as a guiding principle for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
The Conference endorses the role of IAEA in assisting Member States, upon
request, in formulating projects that meet the objective of protecting the
global environment by applying sustainable development approaches." AN
OXYMORON, FOR SURE!!   Three countries took exception to this language:
Germany, Austria ("can't accept this wording. Nuclear power is not able to
play a role in sustainable development") and Denmark.


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]
http://www.gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
nuclear weapons.

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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! Organisations Pls Sign Clinton/Putin Moscow Summit
Date: 27 May 2000 15:37:18 +1000

URGING AS MANY ORGANISATIONS AS POSSIBLE TO SIGN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
To sign, email me at
FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd

Dear All,
Presidents Clinton and Putin are meeting in Moscow on June 4/5, but Clinton
leaves the US on 30th.

This letter urges Clinton and Putin, in the light of the recent NPT Review,
to go for the lowest possible START-III warhead totals and not to proceed
with an NMD system.

(Those who have already signed, please note that two paras noting the May 1
P5 statement, refering to 'ultimate' elimination of weapons have been
removed. The letter rests now completely on the NPT Review final
declaration and on the ICJ interpretation of Article VI.)

This makes it clearer and tighter than before.

I urge you to sign it.



PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
[phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
[phone], [phone]-205-4219

CC
FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
[phone], [phone]

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
[phone]

MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
[phone], [phone],

DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
[phone]

Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,

We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of
your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification
of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD)
system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
weapons.

The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not
content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations
(or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of nuclear
weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations
for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention
is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.

Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis
for your Moscow discussions include:

(1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination
The 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
authority, reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,   unanimously stated:

"There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control."

In the final declaration of the NPT Review, the NWS made an 'unequivocal
undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear
arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.

The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of
your compliance with it.


(2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'.
We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.

The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning'
makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a
number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were
sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center
for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend
this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear
weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward
the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.


(3)Implementation of START-II

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US Senate
opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
Consequently, both sides should  should agree to  unilateral reciprocal
measures to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1
levels in accordance with START-1 verification procedures.

(4)START-III

The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as
soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to  agree
to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.

If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of
the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must
join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your
nuclear arsenals down to zero.

(5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty

The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.

We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
(NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow
such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment
merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.


The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed the
importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly system
of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may
never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories.

The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under
START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons under strict international control.

Signed:

Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
NY/Geneva.,

Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England,
Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,

Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother,
Secy., World Court Project UK,
Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, West Midland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK.,
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American
Bases, Otley, Yorks, UK.,
Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, UK.,

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
Brussels, Belgium.,
Fiona Dove, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands,

Dr. Arthur Muhl, President, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, (IPPNW) Switzerland.,

Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Alba Circle Non-Violent Movement, Hungary,
Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Austria,

Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,

Victor Khazan, Zelenyi Zvit (FOE Ukraine), Dniepropretrovsk, Ukraine,
Nadia Sosovkina, Coordinator, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable
Development, Kiev, Ukraine.,

Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt.
Jean P. Patterson, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom,
Costa-Rica.,

Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance.,
Linda Murphy, President, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada,
Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture and Native
Exchange, Vancouver, Canada,
David Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defence
Information, Washington DC.,
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
Analyst, Tri-Valley CAREs, Calif.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland Calif, USA.,
Bishop Walter Sullivan, President, Pax Christi, USA.,
Phyllis Yingling, President, Womens International League for Peace and
Freedom, USA,
Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
Dana L. Richter, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Michigan, USA.,
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space, Gainesville, Fl, USA.,
George W. Albee, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
Washington DC., USA.,
John M Phelan, Chairman, Fordham Centre for Communication Policy and
Ethics, USA.,

Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, National Secretary, Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom, Aotearoa/NZ.,
Barney Richards, National Secretary, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ.,
Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ,

Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP Member for Fremantle, Parliamentarians for a
Nuclear-Free Future,  Australia.
Jill Hall MP, Federal Member for Shortland, Australia,
Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Julia Gillard, Federal Member for Lalor, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Kelly Hoare MP, Federal Member for Charlton, (Newcastle) NSW, Aust.,
Daryl Melham, Federal Member for Banks., NSW., Aust.,
Senator Vicky Bourne, Democrat Senator for NSW.,
Senator Sue Mackay, ALP Senator for  Canberra,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW.,
Tom Helm, MLC Mt Newman, W.A.,
Helen Hodgson, MLC., W.A.,
Kerry Tucker MLC., Green Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
Geoff Holland, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Qld,
Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory,
Darwin, NT.,
David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation.,
Fitzroy, Vic.,
Angela Drury, People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) NSW.,
Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founding President, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Womens Action for Nuclear Disarmament.,
Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Aust.,



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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/27 - Archives updated; Star Wars followup;
Date: 27 May 2000 07:46:29 -0400

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Apology to the other fine speakers at the May 25th Star Wars press conference
who weren't mentioned in my report of yesterday.  Among these was William D.
Hartung of the World Policy Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center, who has
posted his summary of findings at
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/tangled.htm -
TANGLED WEB: THE MARKETING OF MISSILE DEFENSE 1994-2000, by William D. Hartung
and Michelle Ciarrocca,
Arms Trade Resource Center Special Report, May 2000

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES -

Ralph Nader On The Road - http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html
Today, May 27 -  Honolulu, HI - 5:00 pm Speech
Harris United Methodist Church Sponsored by the Kokua Council holds 200 people
20 South Vineyard Blvd

Gov. George Bush, Monday, May 29, 2:00 p.m. - Killeen Community Center
Amphitheater 2201 East Veterans Memorial Blvd., Killeen, Texas



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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 1.3 BILLION People Killed, Maimed,...??
Date: 27 May 2000 10:53:14 -0700

& Nuke Plants

This is one of the more unpleasant emails to read for some time.
It is one thing to claim that Chernobyl caused $300 billion of damage.
It is another thing to read about the experiences of the people who
had to put out the reactor's fires and clean up some of the radioactive
mess, sometimes with bare hands! Gary

-----Original Message-----
Sickened By Atmpospheric Testing & Nuke Plants


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

Atmpospheric Testing & Nuke Plants

>      For Bookmarking this site:
http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/bertell.html
>
>  The following is from the November 1999 "The Ecologist" Volume 29, No. 7
from pages 408 to 411.
>
>
> Copies can be obtained in the USA at: Phone:[phone], Fax:[phone]
>
>
> Main Office in UK:  Phone:[phone], Fax:[phone] E-mail:
[e-mail]
>
>
>   "VICTIMS OF THE NUCLEAR AGE"  Up to 1,300 million people have been
killed, maimed or diseased by nuclear power since its
inception. The industry's figures massively underestimate the real cost of
nuclear power, in an attempt to hide its victims
from the world. Here, the author calculates the real number of victims of
the nuclear age. By Dr. Rosalie Bertell
>
>
>
On the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, I was standing at a
public meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, listening to the
story of one of the firemen employed to clean up the site after the
explosion. These workers took huge doses of radiation
during this task, and their story is a terrifying one.About 600,000 men
were conscripted as Chernobyl 'liquidators' [also
called bio-robots']: farmers, factory workers,miners, and soldiers- as well
as professionals like the firemen- from all
>across Russia. Some of these men lifted pieces of radioactive metal with
their bare hands. They had to fight more than 300
fires created by the chunks of burning material spewed off by the inferno.
They buried trucks, fire engines, cars and all
sorts of personal belongings. They felled a forest and completely buried
it, removed topsoil, bulldozed houses and filled
all available clay-lined trenches with radioactive debris. The minimum
conscription time was 180 days, but many stayed for a
year. Some were threatened with severe punishment to their families if they
failed to stay and do their duty.
>
>
>   These 'liquidators' are now discarded and forgotten, many vainly trying
to establish that the ill health most have
>suffered ever since 1986 is a result of their massive exposure to
radiation. At the Centre for Radiation Research outside
>Kiev, there is an organization of former liquidators. This group reports
that by 1995, 13,000 of their members had died-
>almost 20 percent of which deaths were suicides. About 70,000 members
were estimated to be permanently disabled. But the
>members of this organization are the lucky ones. Because many former
liquidators are now scattered throughout Russia, they
>neither have the benefit of the organization's special hospital, nor of
membership of a survivor organization. They are
>known as the 'living dead.'
>
>
>   The fireman whose story I was listening to seemed to be an exception to
this grim litany of illness and death. He was
>telling the meeting how pleased and excited he was that, for the first time
in ten years, his blood test findings were in
>the normal range. I was standing next to a delegate from the International
Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA]- the organisation
>charged with promoting the use of atomic energy. On hearing the fireman's
story, he leaned over to me and said: "You see! We
>said these were only transient disorders." A rough translation might read:
Chernobyl? What's the problem?
>
>
>   IGNORING THE VICTIMS
>
>
>    The IAEA man's attitude was perfectly in keeping with that of his
organization which, along with the International
>Commission on Radiation Protection [ICRP] exists in practice largely to
play down the effects of radiation on human health,
>and to shield the nuclear industry from compensation claims from the
public. The IAEA was set up in the late 1950s by he UN,
>to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to promote the peaceful use of
atomic energy- ironically, two contradictory
>objectives. The ICRP which evlved from the 1928 International Committee on
X-Ray and Radium Protection, was set  up in the
>fifties to explore the health effects of radiation and [theoretically] to
protect the public from it. In fact, both
>organizations have come to serve the industry rather than the public.
>
>
>   The Chernobyl case is a classic example of the IAEA's inadequacy and
questionable science. Despite massive evidence to
>the contrary, not least from the many thousands of victims themselves, the
IAEA insists that only 32 people have so far died
>as a result of Chernobyl- those who died in the radiation ward of Hospital
six in Moscow.All other deaths related to the
>disaster and its aftermath [and there have been many more than 10,000 in
Ukraine alone according to the Minister of Health
>there] are ignored. Belarus had the highest fallout, and yet there is an
international blackout among the IAEA and the rest
>of the "radiation protection community" on the suffering of its people
>
>
>  The essential problem is that both the IAEA and the ICRP are dealing not
with science but with politics and
>administration;  not with public health but with maintaining an
increasingly dubious industry. It is their interests, and
>those of the nuclear industry, to play down the health effects of
radiation.
>
>
>   RESTRICTIVE DEFINITIONS
>
>
>   The main way in which the "radiation protection industry"  has succeeded
in hugely underrating the ill-health caused by
>nuclear power is by insisting on a group of extremely restrictive
definitions as to what qualifies as a radiation-caused
>illness statistic. For example, under IAEA's criteria:
>
>
>   If a radiation-caused cancer is not fatal, it is not counted in the
IAEA's figures
>
>  If a cancer is initiated by another carcenogen, but accelerated or
promoted by exposure to radiation, it is not counted.
>
>  If an auto-immune disease or any non-cancer is caused by radiation, it is
not counted.
>
>  Radiation-damaged embryos or foetuses which result in miscarriage or
stillbirth do not count
>
> A congenitally blind, deaf or malformed child whose illnesses are are
radiation-related are not included in the figures
>because this is not genetic damage, but rather is teratogenic, and will not
be passed on later to the child's offspring.
>
> Causing the genetic predisposition to breast cancer or heart disease does
not count since it is not a "serious genetic
>disease" in the Mendelian sense.
>
> Even if radiation causes a fatal cancer or serious genetic disease in a
live born infant, it is discounted if the estimated
>radiation dose is below 100 mSv [mSv= millisievert,a measurement of
radiation exposure. One hundred millsievert is the
>equivalent in radiation of about 100 X-Rays].
>
> Even if radiation causes a lung cancer, it does not count if the person
smokes- in fact whenever there is a possibility of
>another cause, radiation cannot be blamed.
>
> If all else fails, it is possible to claim that radiation below some
designated dose does not cause cancer, and then
>average over the whole body the radiation dose which has actually been
received by one part of the body or even organ, as
>for instance when radio-iodine concentrates in the thyroid. This arbitrary
dilution of the dose will ensure that the 100 mSv
>cut-off point is nowhere near reached. It is a technique used to dismiss
the sickness of Gulf War veterans who inhaled small
>particles of ceramic uranium which stayed in their lungs for more than two
years, and in their bodies for more than eight
>years, irradiating and damaging cells in  a particular part of the body.
>
>
>  THE REAL VICTIMS
>
>
>  Despite the authorities' attempt at concealment, we can still begin to
enumerate the real victims of the nuclear age.
>Although the calculations and statistics which I have brought to bear below
do not include all of the human suffering that
>has been caused by the nuclear age, a closer look will show that the
methodology is adequate for a first estimate of major
>damage. The magnitude of the harm already caused is startling, and even
more so when we realise many types of damage have
>been omitted from this first estimate.
>
>
>   In my estimate cancer, whether fatal or non-fatal [excluding non-fatal
skin cancer], genetic damage and serious
>congenital malformations and diseases will be included in the figures.
Other damage is acknowledged but not estimated.
>Ultimately, whether or not one cares about the damage caused by radiation
exposure  is ultimately a human, not a
>scientific question. Damage is damage, and causing an unwanted attack on
someone's person or reproductive capacity is a
>violation of human rights. Such damage can be rated for importance, but it
should not be arbitrarily ignored.
>
>
>   "Statistics are the people with the tears wiped away" stated one of the
Rongelap people of the Republic of the Marshall
>Islands, who 'hosted' the United States Bikini nuclear testing in the
1950s. This is the story of many tears, and of a hard
>hearted mindset that laid down the degree of suffering  and ill-health that
would be the 'acceptable' price to pay for the
>world 'benefitting' from nuclear technology.
>
>
>   RISK ESTIMATES USED IN THIS ANALYSIS
>
>
>In order to estimate the real victims of the nuclear industry [as oppossed
to those figures enumerated by the ICRP, IAEA and
>other nuclear apologists] I will take the customary risk estimates,
indicate their probable range of error, and then extend
>the definition to cover related events not recognized as 'detriments' by
the regulators. For example, while the nuclear
>regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments' by
the regulators, others, especially those who endure
>a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of
consideration. And limiting genetic effects to live born
>offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a
spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth.
>
>
> ESTIMATING THE FATAL AND NON-FATAL CANCER RISKS
>
>
> In 1991, the ICRP concluded that the projected lifetime risk of fatal
cancer for members of the population exposed Sievert
>whole-body radiation at a low dose rate, was between seven and 11 excess
fatal cancers, and seven to eight excess fatalities
>for in the nuclear industry aged 25 to 64 years. We  extend these estimates
to non-fatal cancers by estimating the total
>number of cancers which were used by the ICRP in order to obtain the number
of fatalities. We therefore estimate 16 fatal
>and non-fatal cancers if we exclude non-fatal skin cancers] or 36 if we
count them.If the estimate of fatal cancers was off
>by a factor of two then we can double all those numbers.
>
>
>   The estimate I use for cancer 16 per 100 Person Sieverts, but the reader
can adjust this estimate to suit other
>inclusions, exclusions or uncertainties.
>
>
>   ESTIMATING DAMAGE TO AN EMBRYO OR FOETUS
>
>
> According to the BEIR Committee [Bilogical Effects of Ionizing Radiation]
1990 report, a dose of 150 mSv to human male
>testes will cause temporary sterility, and a single dose of 3.5 Sv will
cause permanent sterility. According to the ICRP in
>1991, just 5 mSv to the testes will cause damage to offspring - YET THIS
DOSE WAS PERMITTED YEARLY TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC,
>AND TEN TIMES MORE TO NUCLEAR WORKERS, IN ALL COUNTRIES PRIOR TO 1990. It
continues today to be permitted yearly for nuclear
>workers in most countries.
>
>
>   Women carry with them all of the ova from birth which they will ever
have. The threshold for permanent female
>sterilisation decreases with age, but in general about 650 mSv is
considered to be the threshold for temporary sterility in
>women. After the Bravo event- the detonation of a hydrogen bomb at the
Bikini Atoll in the Pacific  in March 1954- the women
>of Rongelap Atoll experienced about five years of sterility. As they
regained their sterility, they experienced faulty
>pregnancies, miscarrigies, stillbirths and damage to their offspring. Since
some radionucleides can be retained in bone or
>fatty tissues, they are able to cross the placenta barrier and disrupt the
developing embryo or foetus. Radionucleides in
>the mother's body can also be transferred  in her breast milk.
>
>
>   The official nuclear industry definition of 'detriment' includes only
serious genetic disease not judged to be serious,
>and teratogenic diseases [those which are not passed on to offspring] are
not counted.  Recently the 1990 BEIR committee
>made one small concession in recognizing mental retardation in children
exposed to radiation during the fifth to 15th weeks
>of their mother's pregnancy. Radiation kills brain cells, causing both an
underdeveloped brain [microcephaly] and mental
>retardation. For the individual child, BEIR estimates that a dose in utero
of 100 to 500 mSv can cause a range of problems
>from poor school performance to severe mental retardation.
>
>
>   GENETIC DAMAGE
>
>
>   The U.N. Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation
[UNSCEAR] and BEIR both agree that a population of one
>million live births exposed to 100 Person Sieverts will result in one to
three genetic damage effects to offspring, and so
>to the human gene pool. The doubling dose for genetic effects [the dose
that will cause twice as many genetic effects] is
>more contentious, with some geneticists claiming that it is 2.5 Sv, and
others claiming much greater sensitivity with a 0.12
>Sv doubling dose. If the latter is true, then the increase in genetic
effects will be 8.3 per cent for every 10mSv and
>therefore 83 such effects per million live births when the total averaged
dose is 100 Person Sieverts rather than the 4
>such effects in the first instance. On the conservative side, we have taken
10 genetic effects to be the number for exposed
>offspring.
>
>
>   ESTIMATE OF TERATOGENIC EFFECTS'
>
>
>  The damage to an embryo from ionizing radiation when in the womb is not
considered to be genetic. Such irradiation can
>lead to some 30 different congenital anomolies including permanent damage
to the brain, mental deficiency, skull
>deformities, cleft palate, spina bifida, club-feet, genital deformities,
growth retardation and childhood cancer. A total of
>all those effects, including mortality, amount to 46, of which 25 are live
born.
>
>   When we summarise those risk estimates, we get 16 cancers, 10 genetic
effects and 25 congenital effects for one million
>exposed to 100 Person Sieverts.The task now is to apply those numbers for
the global population from industrial nuclear
>activities, including weapons testing in the fifties, sixties and early
seventies and electricity production from nuclear
>power over the past half century. When we do this we find that weapons
testing has lead to nearly 376 million cancers, 235
>million genetic effects and 587 million teratogenic effects to give A TOTAL
OF APPROXIMATELY 1,200 MILLION.  Meanwhile,
>electricity production from nuclear plants between 1943 and 2000 may have
lead to another million victims,of which as many
>one-fifth will have been premature cancer deaths. Although not officially
accounted for, about 500 million foetuses would
>have also been lost as stillbirths during that period from radiation
exposure while in the womb.
>
>
>   Another century of nuclear power, and this carnage would continue with
more than 10 million victims a year. An industry
>which has the potential to kill, injure and maim that number of innocent
people- and all in the name of 'benefitting'
>society
>- is surely wholly unacceptable.
>
>
>Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, is President of the International Institute of
Concern for Public Health and Editor in Chief of
>International Perspectives in Public Health and Editor in Chief of
International Perspectives in Public Health [IICPH]. Dr.
>Bertell can be reached via e-mail at: [e-mail]
>
>
>   Maybe we can get the anti-abortion  crowd aware of this mass slaughter
of embryos and
>foetuses.
>
>
>   International war crimes arrest warrants ought also to be issued  for
the perpetrators of these crimes. People in the
>United States like Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, Michael Jordan CEO
of Westinghouse and the usual litany of military
>types, mostly Soviet & American. Does anyone know anything about initiating
legal proceedings against these
>people?
>
>
>  -Bill Smirnow
>
>
>
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I'm in a (principled) argument (on another list)
over the science & politix of health-effects
modeling for low-level radiation.  I've read
(basically) John Gofman's critiques of the A-
bomb studies & Benjamin Gould's analysis of
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'establishment' science -- also well-documented
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Sunday, May 28 at 10:30 a.m. - Airs in Washington, DC on Channel 32.
"Dark Cloud: Our Strange Love Affair with the Bomb"
Airs in NYC on Friday, June 2 on Channel 25 at 7:30 p.m., and on Saturday,
June 3 at 7:00 a.m. on Channel 13.
This week on America's Defense Monitor:
WEBSITE: http://www.cdi.org/adm/1338
Nukes as portable infantry weapons. Nukes for digging tunnels. Nuclear
decontamination with a whisk broom. Secret government films of the 1940's,
'50s and '60s form the backdrop for this darkly entertaining exploration
of America's fascination with the Bomb. At times humorous, strange and
disturbing, these films reveal how the culture of nuclear weapons shaped
American society during the Cold War, and how the advocates of nuclear
culture sought to make atomic weapons a part of everyday life.

Show Transcript
http://www.cdi.org/adm/1338/transcript.html

Related ADM Videos:
Can We Learn to Live Without Nuclear Weapons?
http://www.cdi.org/adm/1206
Military Leaders for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
http://www.cdi.org/adm/1049
Test Anxiety: Should America Ratify the Test Ban Treaty?
http://www.cdi.org/adm/1235

---

Live Chat

Can anyone go on this chat show scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m., and
tell them that nuclear energy isn't the answer to global warming? Alice Slater

For more information: http://chat.enn.com/

Join a live chat on the environmental benefits of nuclear energy with Maureen
Koetz, director of environmental policy for the Nuclear Energy Institute. This
chat is scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET. Join a live chat on June
2 at 8 p.m. ET with Mike Pelly, a proponent of green fuel oils and energy
independence. Currently he is promoting a biodiesel that people can refine on
their own. Join a live chat with Dr. Luis Baptista, chairman and curator at the
Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences. The
chat is June 15 from 9-10 p.m. ET. Baptista is an authority on birds,
particularly about how their singing traditions are learned and what the songs
mean. For more information about these chats, please contact David Skillman at
mailto:[e-mail].

----

A crucial Senate vote on reducing the threat of accidental nuclear war is
coming up the week of June 5th and we need your help!


Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE)is offering an amendment to the Defense
Authorization bill that would allow the President to take nuclear weapons off
alert status and to significantly reduce U.S. nuclear forces -- so long as
Russia also takes these steps.
Passage of this amendment would allow the US to get rid of Cold War weapons we
no longer need or want and save taxpayers billions of dollars currently wasted
on unnecessary weapons.

Please call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to support the Kerrey
amendment to allow the President to reduce U.S. strategic nuclear forces below
START I levels, and to take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert.

Please forward this message on to friends and family and help spread the word!
With your help we can reduce the threat of accidental nuclear war and reduce
nuclear weapons world-wide. THANK YOU!

---

Priority One Alert - Call until end of Memorial Day Recess (June 5). Senate
vote on Kerrey (Neb.) amendment expected week of June 5th!!


The following message is baesd on discussion from yesterday's Nuclear Weapons
Working Group meeting here in Washington, DC and a previous email from Daryl
Kimball, Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers[mailto:[e-mail]]

As soon as June 6th , the Senate may debate Sen. Bob Kerrey's (NE) amendment
offered to the fiscal 2001 Defense Authorization bill that would allow the
President to reduce U.S. strategic nuclear force levels below START I levels
(approx. 6000) and take weapons off combat status (i.e. de-alert). Under
current law <http://www.clw.org/coalition/xcutfy99.htm>, such actions are
prohibited until and unless START II is implemented -- an unlikely near-term
prospect. This restriction exists despite the Russian Duma's ratification of
START II because of several related protocols that need to be approved (see
CRND's Stuck at First START factsheet at bottom for more info).
TARGET LIST: Bayh, Byrd, Graham (FL), Lincoln, Chafee, Jeffords, Snowe,
Collins, Hagel, Domenici, Warner, Fitzgerald, McCain, Specter, Santorum, Gordon
Smith, Thomas, Lugar (call Lugar at district office only please). If your
Senator is not on this list, please feel free to call anyway!!!
RAP for Republicans: With G.W. Bush's speech this week supporting reductions
and de-alerting, you should tell GOP Senators, "A vote against Kerrey's
amendment is a vote against George Bush!"

The House rules committee ruled the counterpart amendment sponsored by Allen
(D-ME), McGovern (D-MA) and Gendjenson (D-CT), out of order, making the vote on
the Senate amendment even more crucial (so it can go on to conference
committee).

This year's Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & Kerrey amendments are somewhat
different than the approach that Senator Kerrey pursued last year on the floor
and by Allen and Spratt in HASC this year, which was simply striking the
restriction on cuts below START I before START II implementation. Kerrey's 1999
floor amendment was defeated 56-44. This vote is on the Peace Action Education
Fund 1999 Voting Record at http://www.peace-action.org/99votingrecord.pdf. You
can also see <http://www.clw.org/coalition/kerreydebate052699.htm> for the
floor
debate and roll call vote.

For further information see the following items, below:

* PSR Action Legislative Alert w/capacity for e-mail letters to Congress
<http://www.psr.org/>

* "Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal While
Russia's Declines," Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers ISSUE BRIEF, May 15,
2000 <http://www.clw.org/coalition/briefv4n6.htm>

----

NEW DATES FOR LOS ALAMOS RETREAT

The Los Alamos retreat will now be be held from September 5-8, 2000. The
Ponderosa Campground will still be available on Sept. 9 for those who are
staying over until that morning. Please let me know if you plan to attend. Best
regards, Vilma Ruiz
<[e-mail]>

----


I'd suggest that anyone that's been exposed/poisoned by DU or for that matter
ANY human being that wants to be healthy, either by preventing disease &
enhancing immunity or mitigating or reversing any disease or injury they have,
educate themselves as to the validity of alternative natural therapies most of
which are backed up by hard science. This includes DU exposure. Please see the
web site of Gary Null at: http://www.garynull.com Null has worked with Gulf War
vets who've been poisoned by DU & other agents and has produced a documentry on
it, contact info for interested parties is listed at the web site. He's also
worked with many GW Vets & had much success in restoration of health IF the
person chooses to remain on the protocol.

Mainstream pharmeceutical, allopathic "health" practice is NO WHERE near as
successsful in treating any disease there is- immune suppression which is
strongly related to cancer, arthritis, lupus, AIDS, heart disease, chronic
fatigue syndrome, DU exposure- as are many alternative, natural homeopathic
approaches. The heart of the problem and the reason for the existence, much
less massive institionalized practice of allopathic[drug based] approaches is
two fold. One obviously is huge $, the other closed minds and a medical school
education which is funded by over 60% by the pharmeceutical industry.

Please read & study this web site, get the video & educate yourself via other
sources- DO NOT trust maninstream MDs or other "health" practitioners who are
illiterate when it comes to what constitutes health & how one goes about
restoring it or preventing disease. Once learned, the fundamentals are
amazingly simple. People just have to know & do them.

Another good site is either of the following 2: http://www.preventcancer.org or
http://www.preventcancer.com The book "The Politics of Cancer" by Dr Samuel
Epstein, is avalable in bookstores & via http://www.amazon.com is a great place
to start educating oneself as to the nature, economically & ideologically of
the medical-industrial complex.

Again, the site is: http://www.garynull.com

-Bill Smirnow

----

Two Puerto Rico websites:

http://www.micronetix.net/virus/facts.htm -- Vieques Libre
http://www.viequesvive.com/ -- Vieques Vive

----

Price-Anderson Act ruling 1978

DUKE POWER CO. v. CAROLINA ENV. STUDY GROUP,
438 U.S. 59 (1978)
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH
CAROLINA  No. 77-262.

Argued March 20, 1978
Decided June 26, 1978 *

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L%>&graphurl=<%GRAPHURL%>&court=US&case=/us/438/59.html


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Sunday, May 28 at 10:30 a.m. - Airs in Washington, DC on Channel
32.<br>
"Dark Cloud: Our Strange Love Affair with the Bomb"<br>
Airs in NYC on Friday, June 2 on Channel 25 at 7:30 p.m., and on
Saturday,<br>
June 3 at 7:00 a.m. on Channel 13.<br>
This week on America's Defense Monitor: <br>
WEBSITE:
<a href="http://www.cdi.org/adm/1338" eudora="autourl">http://www.cdi.org/adm/1338</a><br>
Nukes as portable infantry weapons. Nukes for digging tunnels.
Nuclear<br>
decontamination with a whisk broom. Secret government films of the
1940's,<br>
'50s and '60s form the backdrop for this darkly entertaining
exploration<br>
of America's fascination with the Bomb. At times humorous, strange
and<br>
disturbing, these films reveal how the culture of nuclear weapons
shaped<br>
American society during the Cold War, and how the advocates of
nuclear<br>
culture sought to make atomic weapons a part of everyday life.<br>
<br>
Show Transcript <br>
<a href="http://www.cdi.org/adm/1338/transcript.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.cdi.org/adm/1338/transcript.html</a><br>
<br>
Related ADM Videos: <br>
Can We Learn to Live Without Nuclear Weapons? <br>
<a href="http://www.cdi.org/adm/1206" eudora="autourl">http://www.cdi.org/adm/1206</a><br>
Military Leaders for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons<br>
<a href="http://www.cdi.org/adm/1049" eudora="autourl">http://www.cdi.org/adm/1049</a><br>
Test Anxiety: Should America Ratify the Test Ban Treaty?<br>
<a href="http://www.cdi.org/adm/1235" eudora="autourl">http://www.cdi.org/adm/1235</a><br>
 <br>
---<br>
<br>
Live Chat <br>
<br>
Can anyone go on this chat show scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30
a.m., and tell them that nuclear energy isn't the answer to global
warming? Alice Slater<br>
<br>
For more information:
<a href="http://chat.enn.com/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://chat.enn.com/</a></font></u>
<br>
<br>
Join a live chat on the environmental benefits of nuclear energy with Maureen Koetz, director of environmental policy for the Nuclear Energy Institute. This chat is scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET. Join a live chat on June 2 at 8 p.m. ET with Mike Pelly, a proponent of green fuel oils and energy independence. Currently he is promoting a biodiesel that people can refine on their own. Join a live chat with Dr. Luis Baptista, chairman and curator at the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences. The chat is June 15 from 9-10 p.m. ET. Baptista is an authority on birds, particularly about how their singing traditions are learned and what the songs mean. For more information about these chats, please contact David Skillman at <a href="mailto:[e-mail]" eudora="autourl">mailto:[e-mail]</a>. <br>
<br>
----<br>
<br>
A crucial Senate vote on reducing the threat of accidental nuclear war is <br>
coming up the week of June 5th and we need your help!<br>
<br>
<br>
Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE)is offering an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill that would allow the President to take nuclear weapons off alert status and to significantly reduce U.S. nuclear forces -- so long as Russia also takes these steps. <br>
Passage of this amendment would allow the US to get rid of Cold War weapons we no longer need or want and save taxpayers billions of dollars currently wasted on unnecessary weapons.<br>
<br>
Please call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to support the Kerrey amendment to allow the President to reduce U.S. strategic nuclear forces below START I levels, and to take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert.<br>
<br>
Please forward this message on to friends and family and help spread the word! With your help we can reduce the threat of accidental nuclear war and reduce nuclear weapons world-wide. THANK YOU! <br>
<br>
<font color="#0000FF">---<br>
<br>
Priority One Alert - Call until end of Memorial Day Recess (June 5). Senate vote on Kerrey (Neb.) amendment expected week of June 5th!!</font> <br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#0000FF">The following message is baesd on discussion from yesterday's Nuclear Weapons Working Group meeting here in Washington, DC and a previous email from Daryl Kimball, Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">[</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF"><u>mailto:[e-mail]</font></u><font face="Times New Roman, Times">] <br>
<br>
As soon as </font><font color="#0000FF">June 6th </font>, the <font color="#0000FF">Senate </font>may debate <font color="#0000FF">Sen. Bob Kerrey's (NE) </font>amendment offered to the fiscal 2001 Defense Authorization bill that would allow the President to reduce U.S. strategic nuclear force levels below START I levels (approx. 6000) and take weapons off combat status (i.e. de-alert). Under current law <<a href="http://www.clw.org/coalition/xcutfy99.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.clw.org/coalition/xcutfy99.htm</a>>, such actions are prohibited until and unless START II is implemented -- an unlikely near-term prospect.<font color="#0000FF"> This restriction exists despite the Russian Duma's ratification of START II because of several related protocols that need to be approved (see CRND's Stuck at First START factsheet at bottom for more info).</font> <br>
<font color="#0000FF">TARGET LIST: Bayh, Byrd, Graham (FL), Lincoln, Chafee, Jeffords, Snowe, Collins, Hagel, Domenici, Warner, Fitzgerald, McCain, Specter, Santorum, Gordon Smith, Thomas, Lugar (call Lugar at district office only please). If your Senator is not on this list, please feel free to call anyway!!!</font> <br>
<font color="#0000FF">RAP for Republicans: With G.W. Bush's speech this week supporting reductions and de-alerting, you should tell GOP Senators, "A vote against Kerrey's amendment is a vote against George Bush!" <br>
<br>
The </font>House rules committee <font color="#0000FF">ruled the counterpart </font>amendment sponsored by Allen (D-ME), McGovern (D-MA) and Gendjenson (D-CT), <font color="#0000FF">out of order, making the vote on the Senate amendment even more crucial (so it can go on to conference committee). <br>
<br>
</font>This year's Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & Kerrey amendments are somewhat different than the approach that Senator Kerrey pursued last year on the floor and by Allen and Spratt in HASC this year, which was simply striking the restriction on cuts below START I before START II implementation. Kerrey's 1999 floor amendment was defeated 56-44. <font color="#0000FF">This vote is on the Peace Action Education Fund 1999 Voting Record at <a href="http://www.peace-action.org/99votingrecord.pdf" eudora="autourl"><u>http://www.peace-action.org/99votingrecord.pdf</a></u>. You can also s</font>ee <<a href="http://www.clw.org/coalition/kerreydebate052699.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.clw.org/coalition/kerreydebate052699.htm</a>> for the floor debate and roll call vote. <br>
<br>
For further information see the following items, below:<br>
<br>
* PSR Action Legislative Alert w/capacity for e-mail letters to Congress <<a href="http://www.psr.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.psr.org/</a>><br>
<br>
* "Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal While Russia's Declines," Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers ISSUE BRIEF, May 15, 2000 <<a href="http://www.clw.org/coalition/briefv4n6.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.clw.org/coalition/briefv4n6.htm</a>><br>
<br>
----<br>
<br>
NEW DATES FOR LOS ALAMOS RETREAT <br>
<br>
The Los Alamos retreat will now be be held from September 5-8, 2000. The Ponderosa Campground will still be available on Sept. 9 for those who are staying over until that morning. Please let me know if you plan to attend. Best regards, Vilma Ruiz<br>
<[e-mail]> <br>
<br>
----<br>
<br>
<br>
I'd suggest that anyone that's been exposed/poisoned by DU or for that matter ANY human being that wants to be healthy, either by preventing disease & enhancing immunity or mitigating or reversing any disease or injury they have, educate themselves as to the validity of alternative natural therapies most of which are backed up by hard science. This includes DU exposure. Please see the web site of Gary Null at: <a href="http://www.garynull.com/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.garynull.com</a></font></u> Null has worked with Gulf War vets who've been poisoned by DU & other agents and has produced a documentry on it, contact info for interested parties is listed at the web site. He's also worked with many GW Vets & had much success in restoration of health IF the person chooses to remain on the protocol.<br>
<br>
Mainstream pharmeceutical, allopathic "health" practice is NO WHERE near as successsful in treating any disease there is- immune suppression which is strongly related to cancer, arthritis, lupus, AIDS, heart disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, DU exposure- as are many alternative, natural homeopathic approaches. The heart of the problem and the reason for the existence, much less massive institionalized practice of allopathic[drug based] approaches is two fold. One obviously is huge $, the other closed minds and a medical school education which is funded by over 60% by the pharmeceutical industry.<br>
<br>
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) 2 NIF articles
Date: 28 May 2000 10:12:56 -0700 (PDT)

Greetings NIF foes:

The other day I posted Tri-Valley CAREs' media advisory regarding the
Sandia Lab position paper stating that the National Ignition Facility
mega-laser at Livermore Lab should be cut in size and budget. Since then,
there has been a flurry of activity, including a sharp rebuke from Energy
Secretary Bill Richardson and a next day "mea culpa" statement from Sandia
about making its position public -- but, very importantly,  not in any way
backing off from the substance of the position. There have been a number of
good stories in the press, including in the New York Times, the "trade"
papers, the New Mexico papers and the Livermore, California area papers.
For some articles, I don't have electronic files, and for others the
e-files are a formatting disaster zone with as many weird symbols as there
are words. Also, I don't want to burden the list serve with too many
articles. So I have chosen two -- one from Energy Daily and one from the
Alburquerque Tribune to post to you all. I think that you will enjoy
reading them, and together, they will give you a pretty good idea of what's
going on. Peace, Marylia
Read on...

NIF story #1, this one from Washington, DC...

Sandia Crosses Richardson, Urges NIF Cut

BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
Energy Daily

In a stunning statement of dissent, a top official at Sandia National
Laboratories called for scaling down the National Ignition Facility, saying
its massive cost overruns threaten to take funding away from other key
Energy Department nuclear weapons programs.

The statement by Tom Hunter, Sandia's senior vice president for defense
programs, directly challenged Energy Secretary Bill Richardson's decision
to proceed with the so-called NIF facility as currently planned-despite a
near doubling of the project's official cost estimate, from $1.2 billion to
$2.1 billion.

Hunter's remarks also represented an unprecedented public break with a
sister weapons laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
California, which is building NIF.

But while DOE's three nuclear weapons laboratories traditionally have
avoided criticizing each other, the Sandia statement shows the depth of
concern at Sandia, Los Alamos National Laboratory and even at Lawrence
Livermore that the department will be forced to cannibalize other weapons
and science research programs in order to fund NIF.

In particular, Hunter said NIF threatened to bleed other lab programs
needed for DOE's stockpile stewardship program, under which the department
is developing computer-based programs to verify the reliability and safety
of the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal now that the nation has stopped
underground bomb testing.

"We emphasize that science-based stockpile stewardship was based on a
number of important investments at the laboratories," Hunter said. "These
investments include a balanced approach to major facilities that allows for
the work of each of the laboratories to be performed.

"The apparent delay and significant increase in cost for the NIF is
sufficient that it will disrupt the investment needed to be made at other
laboratories, and perhaps at the production plants, by several years. This
causes us to question what is a reasonable additional investment in the
NIF."

Hunter said a smaller NIF would provide more certainty about cost, schedule
and performance of the huge laser facility, which is aimed at helping
researchers learn more about the physics of nuclear bomb explosions.

"[W]e believe that a facility less than full-scale, i.e., less than the 192
laser beams, should be established at a new baseline," he said. "This
facility of new scope should be assessed and a reasonable cost should be
established. The project should then be managed toward that new cost
baseline.

"After the facility has operated for a number of years, we should then
consider the expansion of the facility to full-scale, in light of other
important investments that need to be made around the [nuclear weapons]
complex...."

Among other needed projects, he said, were advanced radiography and
hydro-dynamic facilities-which also are used to assess warhead
performance-as well as Sandia's new MESA microelectronics facility, aimed
at improving warhead circuitry.

In sum, Hunter said: "We need an approach that addresses bringing the
entire capability and infrastructure of the complex to the desired level of
readiness."

The exact circumstances of Hunter's statement remained unclear, with some
sources saying Sandia released it after being queried about the lab's
statements to the General Accounting Office, which is conducting a review
of the NIF project for Congress.

Sandia officials Thursday issued a statement apologizing for the
"inadvertent" release of Hunter's statement-but not disavowing it.

Not surprisingly, Hunter's remarks brought a blistering response from
Richardson.

"This statement is totally out of line and inconsistent with the nation's
stockpile stewardship policies and the critical role that NIF will play,
which was recently reaffirmed by the three lab directors in a white paper,"
Richardson said in a statement. "Needless to say, Mr. Hunter's view will be
totally disregarded and it is the type of lab divisiveness that is
extremely unhelpful."

Richardson last year was outraged when he learned of NIF's cost overruns
and technical problems, saying Livermore officials had essentially lied to
him about the project's status.

But after internal DOE reviewers declared the project's scientific
underpinnings sound, he announced he would allocate an additional $95
million in fiscal year 2001 to get NIF back on track. He also recommitted
DOE to building all 192 lasers-despite ongoing technical problems with
high-tech optical devices needed to make the facility work correctly.

The facility-which had been scheduled for startup in 2002 and full
operation by 2004-is now slated to begin operations in 2004, with full
operation by 2008.

But NIF critics outside DOE maintain the problems have only begin for NIF,
and that current cost estimates and schedules are almost certainly way too
optimistic.

Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs, a Livermore
watchdog group, said the project already cost much more than the advertised
$2.1 billion. She said the ongoing GAO review already had identified
another $1.5 billion that would be needed for research and development work
needed to assure NIF could be operated effectively.

Kelley also questioned why Richardson did not considering scaling down NIF,
saying DOE scientists at Sandia and other DOE labs have suggested that a
facility with only 48 lasers could still meet DOE's weapons program needs.

And the concerns about other weapons programs being bled to support NIF
also have been voiced on Capitol Hill.

In a report accompanying its defense authorization bill for fiscal year
2001, the House Armed Services Committee provided Richardson's request for
an extra $95 million for NIF, but expressed concern about DOE's proposals
for offsetting other programs to pay for NIF.

"[T]he committee believes that the sources for the additional NIF funds
identified in the secretary's recommendation will detract from activities
that are key to sustaining the safety, reliability and effectiveness of the
nuclear stockpile and that lower priority funding should be identified for
realignment," said the panel, which added that it would work with DOE to
find other programs to cut.

Kelley maintained science research programs would be targeted for NIF
funds, and said some DOE scientists believe an astrophysics program at
Livermore was canceled so its funding could be transferred to NIF.

NIF story #2, this one from New Mexico...

Sandia labs 'regrets' its NIF project assessment

By Lawrence Spohn
Albuquerque Tribune reporter

     Sandia National Laboratories went from superhero to wimp in 24 hours
in the eyes of critics of a multibillion-dollar laser project.

     After being verbally hammered by Department of Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson, the Albuquerque labs issued a statement "of regret" Thursday
for revealing its assessment of the over-budget and delayed national fusion
laser at a sibling lab in California.

     Sandia believes the multibillion-dollar National Ignition Facility at
Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., should be reduced in
size, scope and budget because of its impact on other vital nuclear-weapons
missions.

     But Sandia President Paul Robison on Thursday called the public
release of Sandia's "internal" position paper "inadvertent." He said Sandia
regrets it got out. However, nothing in his one-page statement countered
Sandia's analysis of NIF.

     Tom Hunter, Sandia's senior vice president for defense programs, said:
"It is not our role to take a formal public position on this issue, nor to
second guess the Department of Energy."

     DOE operates the nation's three nuclear-weapons labs, Sandia and Los
Alamos in New Mexico, and Livermore in California.

        "Public divisiveness between the laboratories is not helpful in
finding good solutions," Hunter said, "and is counter to the approach we
try to take in dealing with these important national issues."

        While NIF critics had praised Sandia's independence Wednesday, the
lab was called on the carpet by Richardson, who called its assessment of
NIF "totally out of line and inconsistent with the nation's
(nuclear-weapons) stockpile stewardship policies."

     Richardson's own NIF plan, announced earlier this month, is to
complete the troubled laser that has been under construction since 1997 at
Livermore, where lab officials acknowledged last fall that the project was
hundreds of millions of dollars over budget and some 18 months behind
schedule.

        Livermore public affairs official Susan Houghton said Thursday that
NIF's original $1.2 billion budget will need an additional $1 billion to
complete, and it will be delayed until about 2008.

        But critics contend that NIF has ballooned into a $10 billion
boondoggle -- the ultimate cost to taxpayers for completing it. That
amount, critics contend, will be needed to pay for conducting research to
fix NIF's extensive and unique technical deficiencies, and for operating it
for experiments designed to simulate nuclear-weapons explosions. Even then,
they claim, it will fail.

     In a terse statement issued after Sandia's analysis was reported in
The Tribune on Wednesday, Richardson, a former New Mexico congressman,
blasted Sandia and especially Hunter, who had prepared the assessment.


        Richardson said Sandia's "view will be totally disregarded" in the
process of salvaging NIF.

     But longtime NIF critic, Marylia Kelly said she hopes that it's
Richardson who Congress disregards in dealing with NIF and Livermore lab, a
facility she sees as a spoiled child.

     "They're like children in a candy store who want it all, and I mean
everything, no matter what it costs," said Kelly, who is director of the
Livermore citizens watchdog group Tri-Valley Cares.

        She said if Richardson can't be the responsible parent acting in
the interests of taxpayers footing the bill, Congress needs to step in and
reign the project in.

     Kelly's organization favors canceling NIF, saying it's too costly and
serves "no national-security role."

     The Energy Department and Livermore contend NIF is crucial to
maintaining the nation's nuclear arsenal, and the directors of the three
national labs issued a white paper last month re-validating the project's
potential scientific role.

     But Kelly; Tom Cochran, a nuclear-weapons analyst at the Natural
Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C.; and Leo Mascheroni, a former
Los Alamos Lab fusion scientist, are among NIF critics calling for full
congressional hearings.

     "This is a $3.6 billion monkey on the taxpayers' backs," Mascheroni
said Thursday. "It has an incredible history of mismanagement, waste, lies
and fraud that needs to be exposed."

     He said Richardson himself likely is not aware of most of it.

     Kelly said the important thing about the Sandia assessment is "that
horse is out of the barn. They can't take it back, and it's about time
somebody stood up and told the truth about NIF.

        "I was heartened by Sandia's courage and independence (Wednesday),"
she said, "but today I am disheartened by their backing off of issuing it.
But the content remains, and that's what's important for the public and
Congress to look at."

PS -- if you have electronic files of any NIF articles I may not have seen,
please send them to me. Thanks!



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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Need help on radiation health science
Date: 28 May 2000 10:22:45 -0700 (PDT)

We have in our TVC library (and perhaps it is available closer to you
somewhere) Karl Morgan's book, One Man's Walk Through the Atomic Age (or
whatever the EXACT title is). In it he describes his experiences with the
AEC and Oak Ridge lab and in so doing provides a critique of mainstream
science regarding health effects and discusses suppression and denial (as
you call them). the book is easy reading and may help you in your email
discussion. Peace, Marylia

>I'm in a (principled) argument (on another list)
>over the science & politix of health-effects
>modeling for low-level radiation.  I've read
>(basically) John Gofman's critiques of the A-
>bomb studies & Benjamin Gould's analysis of
>Three Mile Island data.  But I'll need a lot more,
>preferably good lit reviews & critiques of
>'establishment' science -- also well-documented
>instances of suppression & denial.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ed Rippy
>
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Tri-Valley CAREs
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<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

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Materials Production Center (FEMP-FMPC), in TOTAL Process SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT UNIT (SWMU) COMPLIANCE Enforcement Engineering Analysis, Mr.
Linker Assisted with CFR 40:271, RCRA-RADWASTE Complex-21 3Q-FMPC-FEMP,
HTGTR/HWR/LWBR Th228/U235 Fuel Fab & THORIUM Separations Refinery, CFR 10:20
- Appendix Part B EH&S, OR/SRL Ohio EPA Dissolver Rubble, Hanford 100H
THOREX Recycle, BNL/KAPL & West Valley Actinide Debris, TRU Environmental
Technology:  3D Safe Geometry.

    7.    As a Senior Nuclear Licensing & COMPLIANCE ENGINEER with the
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION (WEC), Mr. Linker assisted with the WAC,
Parameters & Rationale Remote Control Systems, WASTE RECEIVING AND
PROCESSING (WRAP) FACILITY Appendix B, Waste Analysis Plan (WAP), WASTE MIN
initial CRAY-YMP KENO.V.a Criticality Playground Support, in recognition of
the RECUPLEX PLUTONIUM Finishing Plant (PFP) Final Safety Analysis Report
(FSAR), and the PLUTONIUM Reclamation Facility (PRF) - formerly Z-Plant,
under the direction of BATTELLE NORTHWEST.

    8.    Prior to having joined WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC, Mr. Linker served Duty
Station as Senior Engineer to the U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS with JMM-RMP
Parsons Engineering Science (Parsons-ES), under supportive
LATA-SAIC-SCIENTEC-TENERA, directional IFR
EBRII/PBF/PREPP/SL1/SPERT/SWEPP/ZEEP, Fast Breeder Blanket (FBB) guidance.
His work scope included technical support to Hanford's CRAY-YMP discretized
parabolic elliptical Partial Differential Equation, Computational Fluid
Dynamic WESTINGHOUSE PDE-CFD-ARMY, Title 42 USC PDE-CFD-CERCLA-Finite
Element, Fixation
DCM3D-DYNA3S-LSODES-MESOILT2-NEFTRANII-NWFT/DVM-PORFLO-SESOIL-SWIFT2-TAURUS-UCBNE10.4,
sizzling EM ASI-IT RI/FS Feasibility Study, Smoothest CHEM-NUC/S&W/MACTEC
Draft, in addition to the Modular FUS/HAZWRAP Hamiltonian, WESTINGHOUSE
ELECTRIC WRAP, Schrodinger Hartree-Frock Molecular MINDI MINDO Orbital
TRUMP-S. AMPX/MNMCP/SCALE YMP KENO.V.a-NEPA Remote Systems, Final
Environmental Analysis Report (FEAR), Operable Linear/Nonlinear AP600
Nuclearestoration WRAP.

    9.    As a "Permanent" full-time Civil/I&C/SCADA Project Engineer with the
civil sanitary engineering & Construction Management firm MacDonald Stephens
Sanitary Engineers, Mr. Linker's efforts reenforced proliferating activity
in Tertiary Advanced Wastewater Treatment (AWT) plant modification to
several of the smaller municipal AWT Facilities in technical Southern
California.  His scope of work included BOD/COD Process Calculation;
Commercial Grade MCC, PLC, RTU, and Switchgear Generator Dedication;
Configuration Management; Obedient CWBS Contracts Administration;  MSDS
Strap-On; Corporate Communications; Critical Path Projects Cost Estimation;
Demographics; Construction Inspection; PERT General Planning; Engineering
Plans & New Improved Standard TECH SPECS; Quality Assurance; CEGA MIL-STD
EIR CAC EH&S Liaison Engineering Technology; and contractor submittal Shoppe
Drawing review.

    10.    With the ARMY Package Power Prototype, Rocky Flats, GCEP, NPR MOX Fuel
Fab, Neon Tritium Target Practice - Gas Cooled Offices of FLUOR DANIEL -
following completion of Hanford's Chop Leach (SNM Metal) PLUTONIUM/URANIUM
Extraction (PUREX), Process Facility Modification (PFM) Project (PFMP) and
Idaho's Exxon WINCO FluorINEL FDP RMP FAST RAL ICPP Chem Plant, UNITED
ENGINEERS & CONSTRUCTORS (UCAT) Liquid Effluent Treatment & Disposal (LET&D)
Preconceptual Facility - Mr. Linker contributed as a modular Nuclear General
Atomic sub-Task-Force Nuclearemedial Process Man to the WESTINGHOUSE HANFORD
directorate, Probabilistic HWVP HAZOP-FMECA Regulatory Wasteform
Qualification Feed Prep, TRU-Recycle, Time-in-Motion, WVNS-BNFL Turntable,
total nonlinear fractal Chaos strange attractor, Melter/Off-Gas (MOG)
perturbation, PLUTONIUM Processing Building(s) 703F/771 (PPB), B-Plant
TRUEX/SYREX Pretreatment FB/HB/NSR Canyon(s), Strategic Root Cause,
Source-Term reorganizational Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF)
NTSB/DNFSB/NWTRB MIL-STD-UNIT(S).  On the Force, Mr. Linker followed through
with Operable OnSite DWPF remote control & analytical process systems
spreadsheet database MIL-STD-PRODUCTION for CFR/WAC Canyon Crane accordance
and Frenkel Shottke hot OnSite on-line STARTUP & MSM manipulator repair
quick Stop'n-Go Cray-YMP Hot Shops of the East meets West,
CFT-CWNT-FAFT-FDCT-FFT-KFT-MFT-NAFT-OACT-OANT-PFT-RAT-RCT-RLST-SCAT-SCT-SFHT-SME-SMECT-SRAT-WAT-WHT
  functional management support.  Also, Mr. Linker assisted with totally
exhaustively zoned ANSI/ASME NQA-1 AHU-HVAC/R technology assurance, chemical
process penetration Hot Cell (CPC) operating process control (PCD) all
discipline Control-Room Advanced Procedures bilateral verification for
Vitrification Building distributed control (DCS) and glovebox snubber/jumper
burnup accountability, human performance, formal Fluor-type lattice
displacement process hand calculation (CALC) - PFDs and P&IDs.  In addition,
Mr. Linker serviced independent review to Los Alamos' Backscattering IAED
RTF/WETF TA-33/55/91, WIPP MST-12, Photochromic Bursting Pumped Liquid
PU-239 Modulating Nuclearemedial SP-100, disciplinary ELECTRIC environmental
Sandia MIL-STD-SNM-SIS, PANTEX Metal Weapons Evaluation Test (WET) Lab, and
the Homer URENCO Claiborne Parish, Louisiana Energy Services (LES-URENCO)
U-235 Centrifugal URANIUM 0.025 Enrichment Project, together with assorted
good Total Quality Value Engineeering Principal.

    11.    On Advanced "Extra-Help"/Ultratemp assignment to Santa Barbara County's
Air Pollution Control District - Energy Division, as Air Quality Control
(CAA-BACT/PSD. NAAQS, NAPAP, NESHAPS, NSPS, NSR) CAC Permit Licensing &
COMPLIANCE ENGINEER, Mr. Linker acted principally in QUALITY ENGINEERING and
regulatory technology MIL-STD-LIAISON roles for obedient grandfathered
one-step two-step, Permit-to-Operate (PTO) remedial licensing of previously
exempt stationary source combustion equipment - in support of Departement of
Interior (DOI), Minerals Management Agency, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
offshore oil exploration/production and the VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE STS
Shuttle Transport System, Space Launch Complex ("Slick VI").  Secondarily,
Mr. Linker was instrumentally attentive in providing advanced environmental
assistance in Authority-to Construct (ATC) & PTO Clean Air Act (CAA) State
Implementation Plant (SIP) & remedial PTPLU activity Programme managing
involovement in soils and groundwater contaminated with
Benzene-Toluene-Xylene (BTX), Stoddard's Solvent and Chromic Acid compounds,
pursuant to SARA RCRA.

    12.    With Holguin & Associates, Mr. Linker applied advanced OnSite
MIL-STD-NUCLEAREMEDIATION techniques to sensitive noncompliant licensees
along the South Central Coast.  As acting RFI/CMS Director of TOTAL
ENFORCEMENT for MIL-STD-NUCLEARESTORATION, Mr. Linker performed expedited
roles in Remedial Licensing, backhoe utilization, electrical work &
carpentry, jack & sledgehammer operation, E&C and operations management of
commercial grade Nuclearemedial NAVY Nuclearemediation facilities,
groundwater monitoring well E&C, hand auger soil sampling, hollow stem auger
drill rig penetration & sample logging, lysimeter installation, masonry,
plumbing, soil-gas assessment and source-receptor AIRDOS modeling - TOTAL
Remediation (NUCLEAR).

    13.    With Daniel Grosjean & Associates - Consultants in Environmental
Research, Mr. Linker participated (as an atmospheric chemist) in an
international interdisciplinary physical/organic MIL-STD-AEROSOL
disciplinary environmental research environment on PT MUGU PACIFIC MISSILE
TEST STATION, strategic San Nicholas Island.  Mr. Linker's research involved
laboratory analytical synthetic methods development & Standard Operating
Procedure (SOP) technical writing, coupled with field sampling of primary
atmospheric pollutants and their remedial secondary molecular multiphasic
environmental RADM/ADOM reaction products.

    14.    Appointed Assistant III to the University of California, Department of
Chemical and NUCLEAR ENGINEERING, Center for RISK Studies and SAFETY (CRSS),
Mr. Linker participated in numerous principally environmental
MIL-STD-TECHNICIAN level capacities in NRC-ACRS SAFETY Facilities
Navier-Stokes support & programmatic accrediational Quality Maintenance
Implementation pedagogy - Peer Review.  During this period, Mr. Linker's
research assignments involved arenas in:  FBR/GCR/HWR/LWR severe accident
analysis, Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR), heterogeneous hydroformylation
Supported Liquid Phase Catalysis (SLPC), Nuclearemedial NAVY
diradical-electrorganoanionic Molecular quantum multiphasic thermalhydraulic
ANNA/BEBOP-BLEVE/CASMO-3/COBRA/CONcERT/DETECTOR/EAL/EPZ/FOLLOW/G-FLOW/IFB/
INCA/INCORE/INPAX-II/LOFT/MAGIC/MELCOR/MICBURN-3G/MICROBURN-B/P/MOD03/NSSS/
PAR/READS/RELAP5/RETRAN02/SCDAP/SGTR/SIMULATE-3/SNUPPSII/SOV/TABLES-3/THEATRe
/TOTE/TRAC/VANTAGE5/VIPRE/WABA boundary layer stratification, cryogenic
superconducting NMR, ultasonic ultra-high vacuum detector chamber research,
and interfacial PRA, event & fault tree HAZOP-FMECA CRAY-YMP transport
phenomenae.  As Assistant III, Mr. Linker developed in marketably vital
Essential Service areas including:  CNC mill/lathe machining, flash x-ray,
Taylor instability, welding, hammer drill & impact wrench operation,
nuclearemedial concrete-corium severe accident debris bed action, pulsating
GE-EG&G tritium neutronics acceleration, alpha/beta/gamma densitometric
health physics; and various other appropriately elucidated Professional Safe
Engineering Practice(s).
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) CRUCIAL SENATE VOTE ON DE- ALERTING
Date: 29 May 2000 14:39:23 +1000

The following has been relayed to me from the De-alert campaign.

As the initiator of the Y2K global de-alert campaign, I urge you all to
take the reccommended action.

Contact your senator now and ask them to support this measure.

Note also that the letter being sent to Clinton and Putin that I am
cordinating also requests the removal of nuclear weapons from alert status.
In order for that to happen, this measure or one like it would have to pass.

John Hallam





Dear Back From the Brink Supporters,

A crucial Senate vote on reducing the threat of accidental nuclear war is
coming up the week of June 5th and we need your help!

Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE)is offering an amendment to the Defense
Authorization bill that would allow the President to take nuclear weapons
off
alert status and to significantly reduce U.S. nuclear forces -- so long as
Russia also takes these steps.

Passage of this amendment would allow the US to get rid of  Cold War weapons

we no longer need or want and save taxpayers billions of dollars currently
wasted on unnecessary weapons.

Please call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to
support the Kerrey amendment to allow the President to reduce U.S. strategic

nuclear forces below START I levels, and to take nuclear weapons off
hair-trigger alert.

Please forward this message on to friends and family and help spread the
word! With your help we can reduce the threat of accidental nuclear war and
reduce nuclear weapons world-wide. THANK YOU!

Ira Shorr
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Clinton leaving US Mon 30 - Can organisations sign Moscow Summit
Date: 29 May 2000 14:38:06 +1000

To sign this letter please just email <[e-mail]>, stating the
name of your organisation, your position AND A LOCATION (City/town AND
COUNTRY).

Dear All,
Sorry to hit you all again with this thing- see below for why it's urgent.

President Bill Clinton is leaving the US on Monday 30th itself (US time).
On June 4/5 he will be speaking with Russsian president Vladimir Putin, and
nuclear weapons reduction, START-III and the ABM treaty are high on the
agenda.  Definite decisions probably will not be made at this meeting, but
a negotiation process will be set in train.

Accordingly I will send a copy of this letter Monday 30th AUSTRALIAN TIME,
which is 18 hours ahead of US time.

Your organisation is accordingly urged to sign it before that.

Another updated final copy will be sent on 2 June.



PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
[phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
[phone], [phone]-205-4219

CC
=46OREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
[phone], [phone]

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
[phone]

MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
[phone], [phone],

DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
[phone]

Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,

We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of
your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification
of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD)
system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
weapons.

The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not
content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations
(or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of nuclear
weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations
for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention
is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.

Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis
for your Moscow discussions include:

(1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination
The 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
authority, reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,   unanimously stated:

"There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control."

In the final declaration of the NPT Review, the NWS made an 'unequivocal
undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear
arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.

The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of
your compliance with it.

(2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'.
We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.

The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning'
makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a
number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were
sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center
for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend
this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear
weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward
the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.


(3)Implementation of START-II

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US Senate
opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
Consequently, both sides should agree to  unilateral reciprocal measures to
reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1 levels in
accordance with START-1 verification procedures.

(4)START-III

The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as
soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to  agree
to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.

If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of
the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must
join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your
nuclear arsenals down to zero.

(5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty

The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.

We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
(NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow
such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment
merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.

The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed the
importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly system
of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may
never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories.

The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under
START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons under strict international control.

Signed:

Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
NY/Geneva.,
Merav Datan, International Coordinator, International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,

Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England,
=46rank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,
=46ranz Floss, Spokesperson, European Federation of Green Parties, Vienna,
Austria.,

Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother,
Secy., World Court Project UK,  Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, West Midland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK=
=2E,
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American
Bases, Otley, Yorks, UK.,
Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, UK.,
Margaret Turner, President, Womens International League for Peace and
=46reedom, UK.,
Rosy Bremer, South East Hants Peace Council, UK.,

Daniel Durand, National Secretary, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France.,
Dr Jean-Marie Matagne, President, Action des Citoyens pour le D=E9sarmement
Nucl=E9aire (ACDN),  France.,
Elizabeth Lavier, Les Verts, France.,

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
Brussels, Belgium.,
Senator Tom Pitstra, Green-Left Senator, Parliament, Netherlands.,
=46iona Dove, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Marjan Willemsen, For Mother Earth, Netherlands,

Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Germany.,
Eva Quistorp, MEP, Women for Peace, Germany.,

Dr. Arthur Muhl, President, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, (IPPNW) Switzerland.,
Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Austria,

Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Alba Circle Non-Violent Movement, Hungary,

Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland.,
Lea Launokari, Women for Peace, Helsinki, Finland.,
Gerd Soderholm, Women Against Nuclear Power, Helsinki Finland.,

Thor Magnusson, Peace 2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,

Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,

Victor Khazan MP,  Ukrainian Environmental Association 'Zelenyi Zvit'
(Friends of  the Earth Ukraine), Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev, Ukraine,
Nadia Sosovkina, Coordinator, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable
Development, Kiev, Ukraine.,
Alla Shevchuck, Odessa Social-Ecological Union, Odessa, Ukraine,
Vyacheslav Stepanov, Black Sea department of Ukrainian Ecological Academy
of Science, Ukraine.,

Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt.
Jean P. Patterson, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom,
Costa-Rica.,
Grace de Hara, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina.,
Richard Salvador, Abolition2000 Pacific, Pacific Island Association of
NGOs, Belau,
Ammu Abraham, Womens Centre, Bombay., India.,

MW Faruque, Youth Approach for Development and Cooperation, Dhaka, Banglades=
h.,
M. Shahidul Ahsan, Bangladesh Campaign to Ban Landmines., Dhaka,
Al Haj Safu Mia Sarker, Bangabandhu Srimte Sangsad, Bashurhat, Noakhali,
Berhampur, Bangladesh.,
Shara Jaker, Muktijoddah Jadhugar (Liberation War Museum), Dhaka., Banglades=
h.,
Abir Ahad, Bangabandhu Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
Hannan Chowdhury, Suganda Sanskritik Kendra, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
Babul Ahmed Pervez, Bangladesh Journalists Association.,

Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canad=
a,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance.,
Linda Murphy, President, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada,
Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture and Native
Exchange, Vancouver, Canada,
David Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defence
Information, Washington DC.,
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara,
Calif., USA.,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
Analyst, Tri-Valley CAREs, Calif.,
Alice Slater, Director, Global Resource and Action Centre for the
Environment, NY., USA.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,
John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy,
NY., USA.,
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland Calif, USA.,
Bishop Walter Sullivan, President, Pax Christi, USA.,
Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United
Church of Christ., Boulder Colorado, USA.,
Mia Adjali, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church,
N.Y., USA.,
Phyllis Yingling, President, Womens International League for Peace and
=46reedom, USA,
Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
Dana L. Richter, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Michigan, USA.,
Bob Kinsey, Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of War.,
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space, Gainesville, Fl, USA.,
George W. Albee, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
Washington DC., USA.,
John M Phelan, Chairman, Fordham Centre for Communication Policy and
Ethics, USA.,
Barbara Weidener, Director/Founder, Grandmothers for Peace International,
Elk Grove, Calif., USA.,
Kevin Martin, Director, Project Abolition, Goshen, Indiana, USA.,
Hari Scardo, Veterans for Peace, Washington, DC., USA.,
Randall Caroline Forsberg, Institute for Defence and Disarmament Studies, US=
A.,
Sue Ann Foster, Mandala Centre, Carmichael, CA, USA.,
Karen Talbott, Director, International Centre for Peace and Justice, USA.,
Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa, The Nuclear Resister, Tucson, Ariz., USA,
Rochelle Becker, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Calif., USA.,
Carol Vesecky, Director, Biointensive for Russia., Palo Alto Calif.,
Rob Wheeler, Millenium Assembly Peoples Network, USA.,

Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, National Secretary, Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom, Aotearoa/NZ.,
Barney Richards, National Secretary, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ.,
Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ,
Jim Holdom, CORSO., NZ.,
Theresa Ruth Scott, National Council of Women, Hamilton, NZ
Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition 2000 NZ., Wellington, NZ.,
Marie Leadbeater, Auckland City Councillor.,

Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP Member for Fremantle, Parliamentarians for a
Nuclear-Free Future,  Australia.
Jill Hall MP, Federal Member for Shortland, Australia,
Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Julia Gillard, Federal Member for Lalor, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Kelly Hoare MP, Federal Member for Charlton, (Newcastle) NSW, Aust.,
Daryl Melham, Federal Member for Banks., NSW., Aust.,
Senator Vicky Bourne, Democrat Senator for NSW.,
Senator Sue Mackay, ALP Senator for  Canberra,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW.,
Tom Helm, MLC mt. Newman, W.A.,
Helen Hodgson, MLC., W.A.,
Kerry Tucker MLC., Green Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
Geoff Holland, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Qld,
Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory,
Darwin, NT.,
David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation.,
=46itzroy, Vic.,
Angela Drury, People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) NSW.,
Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founding President, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Womens Action for Nuclear Disarmament.,
Jo Vallentine, Graham Daniell, People for Nuclear Disarmament,(PND) W.A.,
Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
Denis Doherty, Pax Christi NSW.,
Hannah Middleton, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Aust=
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Moscow Summit Letter Faxed to Clinton Today - Still time to Sign
Date: 30 May 2000 17:04:28 +1000

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd


STILL TIME FOR ORGANISATIONS, PARLIAMENTARIANS TO SIGN BEFORE JUNE 2
(To sign on, email me on <[e-mail]>, and give details of your
name, position, organisation, and location (town and country - eg, London,
UK, or NY, USA etc))

The following was faxed from Friends of the Earth Sydney to President
Clinton today, as he is sceduled to leave for Europe today US time.
(A preliminary version with fewer signatures was faxed yesterday.)

A final faxing to Clinton, Putin, and their respective secretaries of
state/foreign ministers/defence ministers will be made on June 2, so it is
still possible for organisations and parliamentarians to sign this letter
before then.

The letter now has 137 organisations and parliamentarians signed on to it,
including 25 parliamentarians of which 15 are from Australia.

My thanks to all who already signed.

Hopefully by 2 June there will be more!


PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
[phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
[phone], [phone]-205-4219

CC
=46OREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
[phone], [phone]

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
[phone]

MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
[phone], [phone],

DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
[phone]

Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,

We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of
your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification
of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD)
system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
weapons.

The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not
content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations
(or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of nuclear
weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations
for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention
is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.

Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis
for your Moscow discussions include:

(1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination
The 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
authority, reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,   unanimously stated:

"There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control."

In the final declaration of the NPT Review, the NWS made an 'unequivocal
undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear
arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.

The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of
your compliance with it.

(2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'.
We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.

The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning'
makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a
number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were
sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center
for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend
this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear
weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward
the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.


(3)Implementation of START-II

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US Senate
opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
Consequently, both sides should agree to  unilateral reciprocal measures to
reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1 levels in
accordance with START-1 verification procedures.

(4)START-III

The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as
soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to  agree
to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.

If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of
the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must
join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your
nuclear arsenals down to zero.

(5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty

The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.

We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
(NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow
such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment
merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.

The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed the
importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly system
of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may
never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories.

The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under
START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons under strict international control.

Signed:

Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
NY/Geneva.,
Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau, Geneva., Switz.,
Merav Datan, International Coordinator, International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,

Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England, European Parliament,
Hiltrud Bryer, Md EP, Green MEP for Germany, European Parliament,
=46rank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,
=46ranz Floss, Spokesperson, European Federation of Green Parties, Vienna,
Austria.,

Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother,
Secy., World Court Project UK,  Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,
Janet Bloomfield, Former chair CND.,  Saffron-Walden Group Against Nuclear
Weapons, Saffron-Walden, Essex, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, West Midland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK=
=2E,
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American
Bases, Otley, Yorks, UK.,
Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, UK.,
Margaret Turner, President, Womens International League for Peace and
=46reedom, UK.,
Rosy Bremer, South East Hants Peace Council, UK.,

Daniel Durand, National Secretary, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France.,
Dr. Jean-Marie Matagne, President, Action des Citoyens pour le D=E9sarmement
Nucl=E9aire (ACDN),  France.,
Elizabeth Lavier, Les Verts, France.,

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
Brussels, Belgium.,
Senator Tom Pitstra, Green-Left Senator, Parliament, Netherlands.,
=46iona Dove, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Marjan Willemsen, For Mother Earth, Netherlands,
Hans Taselaar, INZET (Association for North/South Campaigns,) Amsterdam, Net=
h.,

Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Germany.,
Eva Quistorp, MEP, Women for Peace, Germany.,
Bernd Frieboese, Ole Von Uexkull (Swed), BARSEBACKSOFFENSIV, Berlin/Lund.
Roland Blach, Non-Violent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Germany.,

Dr. Arthur Muhl, President, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, (IPPNW) Switzerland.,
Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Austria,

Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Alba Circle Non-Violent Movement, Hungary,

Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland.,
Lea Launokari, Women for Peace, Helsinki, Finland.,
Gerd Soderholm, Women Against Nuclear Power, Helsinki Finland.,

Thor Magnusson, Peace 2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
Terje Stokstad, Chair, Nej Til Atomvapen, Oslo, Norway.,
Bjorn Hilt, IPPNW Norway (Norwegian Physicians Against Nuclear War,)
Trondhiem, Norway,

Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,

Victor Khazan MP,  Ukrainian Environmental Association 'Zelenyi Zvit'
(Friends of  the Earth Ukraine), Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev, Ukraine,
Nadia Sosovkina, Coordinator, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable
Development, Kiev, Ukraine.,
Alla Shevchuck, Odessa Social-Ecological Union, Odessa, Ukraine,
Vyacheslav Stepanov, Black Sea department of Ukrainian Ecological Academy
of Science, Ukraine.,

Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt.
Green Action for Social-Ecological Change, Tel Aviv, Israel.,
Jean P. Patterson, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom,
Costa-Rica.,
Grace de Hara, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina.,
Richard Salvador, Abolition2000 Pacific, Pacific Island Association of
NGOs, Belau,
Ammu Abraham, Womens Centre, Bombay., India.,
Marco Kapellberger, Global Peoples Assembly, Samoa.,
Aditi Chowdhury, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives., Hong-Kong.,

MW Faruque, Youth Approach for Development and Cooperation, Dhaka, Banglades=
h.,
M. Shahidul Ahsan, Bangladesh Campaign to Ban Landmines., Dhaka,
Al Haj Safu Mia Sarker, Bangabandhu Srimte Sangsad, Bashurhat, Noakhali,
Berhampur, Bangladesh.,
Shara Jaker, Muktijoddah Jadhugar (Liberation War Museum), Dhaka., Banglades=
h.,
Abir Ahad, Bangabandhu Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
Hannan Chowdhury, Suganda Sanskritik Kendra, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
Babul Ahmed Pervez, Bangladesh Journalists Association.,

Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canad=
a,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance.,
Linda Murphy, President, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada,
Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture and Native
Exchange, Vancouver, Canada,
David Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defence
Information, Washington DC.,
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara,
Calif., USA.,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
Analyst,
Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, Calif.,
Alice Slater, Director, Global Resource and Action Centre for the
Environment, NY., USA.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,
John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy,
NY., USA.,
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland Calif, USA.,
Chris Paine, Senior Researcher, Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC),
Washington, DC.,
Bishop Walter Sullivan, President, Pax Christi, USA.,
Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United
Church of Christ., Boulder Colorado, USA.,
Mia Adjali, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church,
N.Y., USA.,
Rev. Robert Moore, Coalition for Peace Action., Princeton, NJ., USA.,
Phyllis Yingling, President, Womens International League for Peace and
=46reedom, USA,
Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
Dana L. Richter, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Michigan, USA.,
Bob Kinsey, Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of War.,
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space, Gainesville, Fl, USA.,
George W. Albee, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
Washington DC., USA.,
John M Phelan, Chairman, Fordham Centre for Communication Policy and
Ethics, USA.,
Barbara Weidener, Director/Founder, Grandmothers for Peace International,
Elk Grove, Calif., USA.,
Kevin Martin, Director, Project Abolition, Goshen, Indiana, USA.,
Hari Scardo, Veterans for Peace, Washington, DC., USA.,
Randall Caroline Forsberg, Institute for Defence and Disarmament Studies, US=
A.,
Sue Ann Foster, Mandala Centre, Carmichael, CA, USA.,
Karen Talbott, Director, International Centre for Peace and Justice, USA.,
Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa, The Nuclear Resister, Tucson, Ariz., USA,
Rochelle Becker, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Calif., USA.,
Carol Vesecky, Director, Biointensive for Russia., Palo Alto Calif.,
Rob Wheeler, Millenium Assembly Peoples Network, USA.,
Donald C. Whitmore, President, Third Millenium Foundation,  Auburn,
Washington USA.,
Robert Randall, Trident-To-Life Campaign, Brunswick., GA, USA.,

Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, National Secretary, Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom, Aotearoa/NZ.,
Barney Richards, National Secretary, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ.,
Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ,
Jim Holdom, CORSO., NZ.,
Theresa Ruth Scott, National Council of Women, Hamilton, NZ
Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition 2000 NZ., Wellington, NZ.,
Marie Leadbeater, Auckland City Councillor.,
J.P. Morrison, Past President, Canterbury Workers Educational Association.,
Christchurch, NZ,
J. P. Morrison, Disarmament Officer, United Nations Association of New
Zealand, Christchurch, NZ.,

Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP Member for Fremantle, Parliamentarians for a
Nuclear-Free Future,  Australia.
Jill Hall MP, Federal Member for Shortland, Australia,
Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Julia Gillard, Federal Member for Lalor, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Kelly Hoare MP, Federal Member for Charlton, (Newcastle) NSW, Aust.,
Daryl Melham, Federal Member for Banks., NSW., Aust.,
Allan Morris MHR, Federal Member for Newcastle, NSW., Aust.,
Harry Jenkins MP., Federal Member for Scullin., Vic., Aust.,
Senator Lyn Allison, Democrat Senator for Victoria., Parliamentarians for a
Nuclear-free Future,
Senator Vicky Bourne, Democrat Senator for NSW.,
Senator Sue Mackay, ALP Senator for  Canberra,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW.,
Senator Kerry O'Brien, ALP Senator for Tasmania,
Tom Helm, MLC Mt. Newman, W.A.,
Helen Hodgson, MLC., W.A.,
Kerry Tucker MLC., Green Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
Geoff Holland, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Qld,
Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory,
Darwin, NT.,
David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation.,
=46itzroy, Vic.,
Angela Drury, Cameron Edwards,  People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) NSW.,
Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founding President, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Womens Action for Nuclear Disarmament.,
Jo Vallentine, Graham Daniell, People for Nuclear Disarmament,(PND) W.A.,
Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
Denis Doherty, Pax Christi NSW.,
Hannah Middleton, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Aust=
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) new report spotlighting the role of weapons contractors in selling Star Wars
Date: 30 May 2000 12:52:28 -0500

Dear Friends,

Be sure to check out this new report on Star Wars.  For a list of other
resources for anti-Star Wars organizing, please see
http://www.fourthfreedom.org/hottopic/GrassrootsOrganizing.html

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
###

WORLD POLICY INSTITUTE
AT THE NEW SCHOOL

Tel.: [phone], ext 112
E-mail: [e-mail]


TANGLED WEB: THE MARKETING OF MISSILE DEFENSE
1994-2000

by William D. Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/tangled.htm

Arms Trade Resource Center Special Report
May 2000

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS


Playing Politics with Defense:

Given the serious technical, cost, and arms control problems plaguing
the
Clinton administration's proposed National Missile Defense (NMD) system,
the
most convincing explanation for the undue haste with which
this issue is being decided is that both the Clinton administration and
its
conservative adversaries in Congress and the Bush campaign are playing
politics with the missile defense issue.


The NMD Two-Step
Republicans Lead, Clinton Follows:

In its ongoing effort to "triangulate" by coopting Republican issues,
President Clinton has slowly but surely met conservative missile defense

boosters more than half way on the NMD issue, to the point where his
administration has little room to maneuver in putting the program on
hold in
pursuit of a new round of nuclear arms reductions with Russia.
In the mean time, Republicans in Congress and on the Bush campaign have
stepped up their calls for an elaborate, multi-tiered NMD system akin to

Ronald Reagan's ill-fated Star Wars scheme of the 1980s.


NMD is Unaffordable:

With cost projections for NMD ranging from a Congressional Budget Office

estimate of $60 billion for the Clinton administration's "limited" two
site
system to as much as $240 billion for a "robust,"
multi-tiered approach, missile defense is fast outpacing the willingness
of
the public or large parts of the national security establishment to pay
for
it, particulary compared to what these vast sums could do to
address other pressing national needs.


NMD is Lucrative:

The nation's Big 3 weapons contractors, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and
Raytheon, are looking to missile defense as a medium-to-long term source
of
revenues and profits to help them recover from recent management and
technical problems that have slashed their stock prices in half and
reduced
their profit margins.  In FY 1998-99, the four largest missile defense
contractors (the Big 3 plus TRW) have shared over $2.2 billion
in Pentagon research and development funding for NMD projects.  These
four
firms completely dominate the missile defense program at this point,
accounting for 60% of total missile defense contracts issued by
the Pentagon in FY 1998-99.


The Political Pace of the NMD Program is being Accelerated by an
Alliance of
Conservative True Believers and Right-Wing Foundations Centered Around
Frank
Gaffney's Center for Security Policy:

Far from being determined by objective national security
considerations, every major milestone in the NMD program, from its
inclusion
in Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey's "Contract With America" in 1994 to the

Rumsfeld Commission's extreme "worst case" assessment of the
"rogue state" missile threat in 1998 to the passage of pro-NMD
legislation
in both houses of Congress in the spring of 1999, has been propelled
forward
by a highly disciplined and effective coalition of
conservative organizations, including the Heritage Foundation and
Empower
America, and neo-Reaganite Republicans like Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) and
Sen.
Jon Kyl (R-AZ), all of whom are represented on the Board
of Advisors of the Center for Security Policy, which serves as the
defacto
nerve center of the missile defense lobby.


The Four Largest Missile Defense Contractors are Making a Major
Political
Investment in the Promotion
of an NMD System:

Since Republicans took control of the House in 1995, weapons industry
PAC
contributions have favored Republican congressional candidates by a
margin of 2 to 1.  In this election cycle alone, Lockheed Martin,
Boeing,
Raytheon and TRW have given over $2 million to the twenty-five hardcore
NMD
boosters in the Senate. These true believers signed onto a
recent letter from Jesse Helms to President Clinton threatening to kill
any
U.S.-Russian arms agreement that puts ANY limits on the scope of future
NMD
deployments.  These companies also spent $34 million on
lobbying during 1997/98, and they have helped finance a series of
pro-NMD
breakfasts on Capitol Hill in conjunction with the National Defense
University Foundation and the National Security Industrial
Association (the weapons industry's largest trade association).


For a copy of the full TANGLED WEB report:
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/tangled.htm

For a hardcopy of this hard hitting expose, call or email Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan
Research Associate
Arms Trade Resource Center
65 Fifth Avenue, Suite 413
New York, New York 10003
212-229-5808 ext. 112
fax: [phone]
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) info. on Kerrey Amendment on nuclear weapons reductions and de-alerting
Date: 30 May 2000 13:16:09 -0500

Dear Friends,

Please read and act upon the following alert on the Kerrey amendment.
It may very well turn out to be the most important vote on U.S. nuclear
weapons policy that Congress makes this year.  Thanks to Daryl Kimball
and Stephen Young of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, Alistair
Millar of Fourth Freedom Forum, and Jim Bridgman of Peace Action
Education Fund for this alert.

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
*********

Priority Alert - Call until end of Memorial Day Recess (June 5). Senate
vote on Kerrey (Neb.) amendment expected week of
June 5th!!

The following message is based on discussion from last week's Nuclear
Weapons Working Group meeting in Washington, DC
and a previous email from Daryl Kimball, Coalition to Reduce Nuclear
Dangers[mailto:[e-mail]]

As soon as  June 6th , the  Senate  may debate  Sen. Bob Kerrey's (NE)
amendment offered to the fiscal 2001 Defense
Authorization bill that would allow the President to reduce U.S.
strategic nuclear force levels below START I levels (approx.
6000) and take weapons off combat status (i.e. de-alert). Under current
law <http://www.clw.org/coalition/xcutfy99.htm>, such
actions are prohibited until and unless START II is implemented -- an
unlikely near-term prospect.  This restriction exists despite
the Russian Duma's ratification of START II because of several related
protocols that need to be approved (see CRND's Stuck at
First START factsheet at bottom for more info).

TARGET LIST: Bayh, Byrd, Graham (FL), Lincoln, Chafee, Jeffords, Snowe,
Collins, Hagel, Domenici, Warner, Fitzgerald, McCain, Specter, Santorum,
Gordon Smith, Thomas, Lugar (call Lugar at district office only please).
If your Senator is not on this list, please feel free to call anyway!!!

RAP for Republicans: With George W. Bush's speech last this week
supporting nuclear weapons reductions and de-alerting, you should tell
GOP Senators, "A vote against Kerrey's amendment is a vote against
George Bush!"

The House rules committee  ruled the counterpart amendment sponsored by
Allen (D-ME), McGovern (D-MA) and Gendjenson
(D-CT),  out of order, making the vote on the Senate amendment even more
crucial (so it can go on to conference committee).

This year's Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & Kerrey amendments are somewhat
different than the approach that Senator Kerrey
pursued last year on the floor and by Allen and Spratt in HASC this
year, which was simply striking the restriction on cuts below
START I before START II implementation. Kerrey's 1999 floor amendment
was defeated 56-44.  This vote is on the Peace
Action Education Fund 1999 Voting Record at
http://www.peace-action.org/99votingrecord.pdf. You can also see
<http://www.clw.org/coalition/kerreydebate052699.htm> for the floor
debate and roll call vote.

For further information see the following items, below:

* "Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal
While Russia's Declines," Coalition to Reduce Nuclear
Dangers ISSUE BRIEF, May 15, 2000
<http://www.clw.org/coalition/briefv4n6.htm>

* "Talking Points" on the Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & the Kerrey
amendments

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

"Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal While
Russia's Declines"

COALITION TO REDUCE NUCLEAR DANGERS -- ISSUE BRIEF

VOL. 4, NO. 6, May 15, 2000

CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION intended to encourage Russian ratification of
START II now locks in U.S. nuclear forces
at artificially high levels, despite the Russian Duma's approval of the
Treaty last month. The legislation mandates that the U.S.
maintain its nuclear arsenal at levels set in START I until START II
enters into force. The U.S. Senate, which approved START
II ratification in 1996, still must ratify new protocols to the Treaty
before entry into force can take place. Approval of the
protocols, however, has become entangled in the debate over national
missile defense and the ABM Treaty, and it is unclear when
the Senate will consider them. Unless this situation changes, the U.S.
will be forced to keep its START I arsenal of 6,000 strategic
nuclear weapons, while Russia's forces continue to decline due to aging
and funding shortfalls.

START I was signed in 1991 and entered into force in 1994. START II
calls for reductions to 3,000-3,500 strategic nuclear
warheads each and the elimination of land-based multi-warhead missiles.
The congressional legislation requires maintaining the
U.S. arsenal at START I levels of 76 B-52H bombers, 18 Trident ballistic
missile submarines, 500 Minuteman III inter-continental
ballistic missiles, and 50 MX missiles. Last year, at the request of the
U.S. Navy, Congress modified the legislation to allow four
Trident submarines to be retired if the President certified this would
not adversely impact the U.S. nuclear deterrent.

The START II protocols, which still require Senate approval, delay the
destruction of delivery vehicles (missiles or planes) from
2003 to 2007 to allow Russia more time to accomplish that goal. Delivery
vehicles that will be destroyed must still be de-activated
by 2003. While those protocols are non-controversial, they have been
linked to protocols to the ABM Treaty that were negotiated
at the same time, making START II implementation highly uncertain.

Military Support for Greater Flexibility

Even before Duma action on START II, General Henry Shelton, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear his opposition
to Congress mandating strategic nuclear force levels. In response to a
question for the record from Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI),
ranking minority member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen.
Shelton said "I would definitely oppose inclusion of any
language that mandates specific force levels. It is important for us to
retain the ability to deploy the maximum number of warheads
allowed by START I but the Services should also have the flexibility to
do so with a militarily sufficient, yet cost effective, force
structure."

There is broad support for further reductions in U.S. nuclear arsenals
both in the military and former officials. In an interview on
60 Minutes aired in February this year, former head of the U.S.
Strategic Command General Eugene Habiger said, "... the fact
that we have not been able to get down to lower and lower levels of
nuclear weapons is troubling to me, and it should be troubling
to you."

In addition, Richard Perle, the Pentagon's chief nuclear strategist
during the Reagan administration and advisor to candidate
George Bush, was quoted in the Washington Post on May 12 calling for
reductions in nuclear arsenals: "It is time for serious
rethinking of the whole nuclear question. We should no longer be
concerned about Cold War arithmetic. . . War plans using 1,000
[or more] warheads no longer make sense."

The High Cost of Cold War Relics

A new study by the Congressional Budget Office describes the dramatic
savings that can be obtained by reducing U.S. nuclear
forces to START II levels while making further cuts in delivery
vehicles: $670 million in fiscal 2001 and $11.6 billion over ten
years. (See table.) This approach would make additional reductions in
the Trident submarine forces, from 14 down to 10, and in
the Minuteman III force, from 500 to 300. START II warhead levels of
3,000-3,500 warheads would still be maintained by
increasing the number of warheads on each Trident missile from five to
seven.

In response to another question Sen. Levin, Gen. Shelton gave support to
further cuts, indicating that no military requirement exists
for maintaining the current 50 MX ballistic missiles or more than 14
Trident nuclear-armed submarines. According to Gen. Shelton, Admiral
Richard Mies, Commander in Chief of US Strategic Command, conducted an
"extensive analysis" and concluded that, with no Peacekeeper [MX]
missiles and only 14 Tridents, the remaining US arsenal would "meet our
current and emerging war-fighting requirements."

Removing the Congressional restriction would allow the U.S. military and
the next President to explore alternate ways to reduce
the nuclear threat through parallel, reciprocal, and verifiable
reductions with Russia. For example, in exchange for U.S. reductions
to START II, or even START III (2,000-2,500
strategic warheads) levels, both sides could agree to use the
verification provisions of START I to monitor deeper
reductions.

________________________________

Reduce Nuclear Delivery Systems Within
Overall Limits of START II

Savings (Millions of Dollars)

Budget Authority Outlays

Annual:
2001 670 240
2002 420 340
2003 620 440
2004 690 540
2005 830 710

Cumulative:
2001-2005 3,230 2,270
2000-2010 8,330 7,880

Source: Congressional Budget Office, 3/00
________________________________

The Bush-Gorbachev Example

Some of the most dramatic reductions in nuclear arsenals took place
outside the formal treaty process. In September 1991,
President George Bush announced dramatic unilateral U.S. reductions in
tactical nuclear forces deployed in Europe and on ships.
The number of deployed tactical forces dropped significantly; in Europe
alone, they fell from over 7,000 to less than 1,000. Bush
also ordered off alert a thousand U.S. warheads deployed on strategic
bombers and ballistic missiles slated for dismantlement. In
response, Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev withdrew all tactical
weapons from outside Russian territory, removed most
categories of tactical nuclear weapons from service and designated
thousands of nuclear warheads to dismantlement.

# # #

The Coalition is a non-partisan alliance of 17 of the nation's leading
arms control and non-proliferation organizations working for a
practical, step-by-step program to reduce the dangers of nuclear and
other weapons of mass destruction.

*The views and analysis expressed in this paper do not necessarily
reflect those of every member of the Coalition. For more
information, contact Stephen Young at [phone], ext. 102, or email
<[e-mail]>

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

Talking Points on 2000 Kerrey & Allen/McGovern/Gendjenson Amendments on
Limitations on Nuclear Reductions
by Allistar Millar,
Fourth Freedom Forum, May 17, 2000

Approval of amendment to H.R. 4205 allows the President flexibility to
retire U.S. strategic nuclear force levels in
excess of military "requirements" so long as such reductions are pursued
with Russia in a verifiable, and reciprocal manner and do
not interfere with U.S. nuclear deterrent capbilities. Such measures
would not interfere with U.S. nuclear deterrent capabilities
and it would save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Improve Strategic Stability and Reduce Risks

* Approval of the amendment would increase national security by reducing
the possibility of unintended launch or other accident.
The United States and Russia are the only nations to maintain nuclear
weapons on hyper-alert, poised to launch at a moments
notice, increasing the chances of an accident especially in Russia where
early warning and nuclear weapons safety equipment is in
serious disrepair. A total of about 4000 U.S. and Russian nuclear
weapons are on "hair-trigger" alert, prone to an accidental
launch.

* Current law prohibits the U.S. from retiring or "de-alerting" nuclear
force levels below the nearly decade-old START I treaty
(6000 deployed strategic weapons), until and unless START II is
implemented (an uncertain prospect due to disputes over national
missile defense). The existing law forces the Pentagon to keep planes,
submarines, and missiles it no longer wants or needs. The
current U.S. nuclear war-fighting plan calls for 2000-2500 strategic
nuclear weapons.

General Eugene Habiger, U.S. Air Force (Retired), the former chief of
the U.S. Strategic Command testified before retiring:
"There is no need to stay at the START I level from a military
perspective" (Washington Post - January 7, 1999).

* Russia currently deploys a strategic nuclear force below START I level
(5900) and is likely to reduce that force further in the
coming years, while the U.S. deploys approximately 7200 strategic bombs.

* In the interest of strategic stability and nuclear risk reduction, the
next President should have the option of pursuing parallel,
reciprocal reductions of deployed strategic nuclear weapons as Russia
reduces the size of its deployed nuclear arsenal and taking
a substantial portion of the deployed arsenal off hair-trigger alert.
Such actions are consistent with President George Bush's 1991
nuclear reductions initiatives and would improve national security by
reducing the probability of an unintended launch or other
accident

* Supporting this amendment would allow the United States to better
comply with its stated goals and policies toward the
non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Removing restrictions would allow
the United States to demonstrate its commitment to the
other 186 signatories of the currently fragile Nuclear Non-proliferation
Treaty (NPT). The US delegation has repeatedly touted
the reductions achieved under former President George Bush as evidence
of progress towards its non-proliferation treaty
commitments. Nearly ten years later, the world is waiting for more
up-to-date evidence of further reductions in nuclear forces, in
large part hindered by the restrictions that this amendment will remove.

* Support for this amendment will further the achievement of the
Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR). CTR is bipartisan alliance
aimed at spurring prompt dismantlement and conversion of the post-Cold
War Soviet nuclear stockpile. Eliminating restriction on
further verifiable reductions of Cold War nuclear arsenals is a
necessary part of continuing pursuit of a credible arms control
agenda that Senators such as Lugar and Dominici support.

Cut Costs

* A new study by the Congressional Budget Office describes the dramatic
savings that can be obtained by reducing U.S. nuclear
forces to START II levels while making further cuts in delivery
vehicles: $670 million in fiscal 2001 and $11.6 billion over ten
years.

* The amendment would save money by allowing for additional reductions
in the Trident submarine forces, from 14 down to 10,
and in the Minuteman III force, from 500 to 300. START II warhead levels
of 3,000-3,500 warheads would still be maintained by
increasing the number of warheads on each Trident missile from five to
seven.









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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) De-Alerting Vote in US Senate - Fax your Senator Now
Date: 31 May 2000 16:52:16 +1000

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd


Dear All,
Last year I helped to coordinate a global campaign to have nuclear weapons
taken off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K rollover.

That involved a 520 -organisation sign on letter to Yeltsin and Clinton, a
global fax campaign and a resolution in the European parliament, as well as
resolutions in the Australian senate.

I think a lot of folk sent an awful lot of faxes to Clinton and Yeltsin's
numbers.

We survived the rolllover without major incident, but the danger posed by
having at present, roughly
 5,000 US and Russian nuclear weapons on 24 hour hairtrigger alert remains.

The Kerry Amendment, due to come before the US  Senate perhaps as early as
June 5, allows for nuclear weapons to be taken off hairtrigger alert and
allows for nuclear warhead numbers to be cut from START-1 levels.

George Bush has recently made statements that call for deep reductions in
warhead numbers and for nuclear weapons to be taken off alert.

A letter I am coordinating, which some of you may by now have signed, being
faxed to presidents Putin and Clinton on friday 2nd, asks for the US to
accept the lowest warhead numbers offered by Russia, in the upcoming
START-III negotiation. It also asks for de-alerting.  In order for this to
happen, the Kerrey Amendment or something like it must be enacted.

THE KERREY AMENDMENT DESERVES YOUR STRONG SUPPORT.

You senator/congressperson needs to know you support it.

Information fowarded from Kevin Martin of Project Abolition and from Daryl
Kimball is below.

I have attatched below that a previous alert on the same subject by Ira
schorr of 'Back from the Brink', and a list of senatorial faxes from Bill
Smirnow.

Do please fax or ring your senator NOW and support the amendment.

John Hallam.



Dear Friends,

Please read and act upon the following alert on the Kerrey amendment.
It may very well turn out to be the most important vote on U.S. nuclear
weapons policy that Congress makes this year.  Thanks to Daryl Kimball
and Stephen Young of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, Alistair
Millar of Fourth Freedom Forum, and Jim Bridgman of Peace Action
Education Fund for this alert.

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
*********

Priority Alert - Call until end of Memorial Day Recess (June 5). Senate
vote on Kerrey (Neb.) amendment expected week of
June 5th!!

The following message is based on discussion from last week's Nuclear
Weapons Working Group meeting in Washington, DC
and a previous email from Daryl Kimball, Coalition to Reduce Nuclear
Dangers[mailto:[e-mail]]

As soon as  June 6th , the  Senate  may debate  Sen. Bob Kerrey's (NE)
amendment offered to the fiscal 2001 Defense
Authorization bill that would allow the President to reduce U.S.
strategic nuclear force levels below START I levels (approx.
6000) and take weapons off combat status (i.e. de-alert). Under current
law <http://www.clw.org/coalition/xcutfy99.htm>, such
actions are prohibited until and unless START II is implemented -- an
unlikely near-term prospect.  This restriction exists despite
the Russian Duma's ratification of START II because of several related
protocols that need to be approved (see CRND's Stuck at
First START factsheet at bottom for more info).

TARGET LIST: Bayh, Byrd, Graham (FL), Lincoln, Chafee, Jeffords, Snowe,
Collins, Hagel, Domenici, Warner, Fitzgerald, McCain, Specter, Santorum,
Gordon Smith, Thomas, Lugar (call Lugar at district office only please).
If your Senator is not on this list, please feel free to call anyway!!!

RAP for Republicans: With George W. Bush's speech last this week
supporting nuclear weapons reductions and de-alerting, you should tell
GOP Senators, "A vote against Kerrey's amendment is a vote against
George Bush!"

The House rules committee  ruled the counterpart amendment sponsored by
Allen (D-ME), McGovern (D-MA) and Gendjenson
(D-CT),  out of order, making the vote on the Senate amendment even more
crucial (so it can go on to conference committee).

This year's Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & Kerrey amendments are somewhat
different than the approach that Senator Kerrey
pursued last year on the floor and by Allen and Spratt in HASC this
year, which was simply striking the restriction on cuts below
START I before START II implementation. Kerrey's 1999 floor amendment
was defeated 56-44.  This vote is on the Peace
Action Education Fund 1999 Voting Record at
http://www.peace-action.org/99votingrecord.pdf. You can also see
<http://www.clw.org/coalition/kerreydebate052699.htm> for the floor
debate and roll call vote.

For further information see the following items, below:

* "Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal
While Russia's Declines," Coalition to Reduce Nuclear
Dangers ISSUE BRIEF, May 15, 2000
<http://www.clw.org/coalition/briefv4n6.htm>

* "Talking Points" on the Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & the Kerrey
amendments

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

"Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal While
Russia's Declines"

COALITION TO REDUCE NUCLEAR DANGERS -- ISSUE BRIEF

VOL. 4, NO. 6, May 15, 2000

CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION intended to encourage Russian ratification of
START II now locks in U.S. nuclear forces
at artificially high levels, despite the Russian Duma's approval of the
Treaty last month. The legislation mandates that the U.S.
maintain its nuclear arsenal at levels set in START I until START II
enters into force. The U.S. Senate, which approved START
II ratification in 1996, still must ratify new protocols to the Treaty
before entry into force can take place. Approval of the
protocols, however, has become entangled in the debate over national
missile defense and the ABM Treaty, and it is unclear when
the Senate will consider them. Unless this situation changes, the U.S.
will be forced to keep its START I arsenal of 6,000 strategic
nuclear weapons, while Russia's forces continue to decline due to aging
and funding shortfalls.

START I was signed in 1991 and entered into force in 1994. START II
calls for reductions to 3,000-3,500 strategic nuclear
warheads each and the elimination of land-based multi-warhead missiles.
The congressional legislation requires maintaining the
U.S. arsenal at START I levels of 76 B-52H bombers, 18 Trident ballistic
missile submarines, 500 Minuteman III inter-continental
ballistic missiles, and 50 MX missiles. Last year, at the request of the
U.S. Navy, Congress modified the legislation to allow four
Trident submarines to be retired if the President certified this would
not adversely impact the U.S. nuclear deterrent.

The START II protocols, which still require Senate approval, delay the
destruction of delivery vehicles (missiles or planes) from
2003 to 2007 to allow Russia more time to accomplish that goal. Delivery
vehicles that will be destroyed must still be de-activated
by 2003. While those protocols are non-controversial, they have been
linked to protocols to the ABM Treaty that were negotiated
at the same time, making START II implementation highly uncertain.

Military Support for Greater Flexibility

Even before Duma action on START II, General Henry Shelton, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear his opposition
to Congress mandating strategic nuclear force levels. In response to a
question for the record from Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI),
ranking minority member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen.
Shelton said "I would definitely oppose inclusion of any
language that mandates specific force levels. It is important for us to
retain the ability to deploy the maximum number of warheads
allowed by START I but the Services should also have the flexibility to
do so with a militarily sufficient, yet cost effective, force
structure."

There is broad support for further reductions in U.S. nuclear arsenals
both in the military and former officials. In an interview on
60 Minutes aired in February this year, former head of the U.S.
Strategic Command General Eugene Habiger said, "... the fact
that we have not been able to get down to lower and lower levels of
nuclear weapons is troubling to me, and it should be troubling
to you."

In addition, Richard Perle, the Pentagon's chief nuclear strategist
during the Reagan administration and advisor to candidate
George Bush, was quoted in the Washington Post on May 12 calling for
reductions in nuclear arsenals: "It is time for serious
rethinking of the whole nuclear question. We should no longer be
concerned about Cold War arithmetic. . . War plans using 1,000
[or more] warheads no longer make sense."

The High Cost of Cold War Relics

A new study by the Congressional Budget Office describes the dramatic
savings that can be obtained by reducing U.S. nuclear
forces to START II levels while making further cuts in delivery
vehicles: $670 million in fiscal 2001 and $11.6 billion over ten
years. (See table.) This approach would make additional reductions in
the Trident submarine forces, from 14 down to 10, and in
the Minuteman III force, from 500 to 300. START II warhead levels of
3,000-3,500 warheads would still be maintained by
increasing the number of warheads on each Trident missile from five to
seven.

In response to another question Sen. Levin, Gen. Shelton gave support to
further cuts, indicating that no military requirement exists
for maintaining the current 50 MX ballistic missiles or more than 14
Trident nuclear-armed submarines. According to Gen. Shelton, Admiral
Richard Mies, Commander in Chief of US Strategic Command, conducted an
"extensive analysis" and concluded that, with no Peacekeeper [MX]
missiles and only 14 Tridents, the remaining US arsenal would "meet our
current and emerging war-fighting requirements."

Removing the Congressional restriction would allow the U.S. military and
the next President to explore alternate ways to reduce
the nuclear threat through parallel, reciprocal, and verifiable
reductions with Russia. For example, in exchange for U.S. reductions
to START II, or even START III (2,000-2,500
strategic warheads) levels, both sides could agree to use the
verification provisions of START I to monitor deeper
reductions.

________________________________

Reduce Nuclear Delivery Systems Within
Overall Limits of START II

Savings (Millions of Dollars)

Budget Authority Outlays

Annual:
2001 670 240
2002 420 340
2003 620 440
2004 690 540
2005 830 710

Cumulative:
2001-2005 3,230 2,270
2000-2010 8,330 7,880

Source: Congressional Budget Office, 3/00
________________________________

The Bush-Gorbachev Example

Some of the most dramatic reductions in nuclear arsenals took place
outside the formal treaty process. In September 1991,
President George Bush announced dramatic unilateral U.S. reductions in
tactical nuclear forces deployed in Europe and on ships.
The number of deployed tactical forces dropped significantly; in Europe
alone, they fell from over 7,000 to less than 1,000. Bush
also ordered off alert a thousand U.S. warheads deployed on strategic
bombers and ballistic missiles slated for dismantlement. In
response, Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev withdrew all tactical
weapons from outside Russian territory, removed most
categories of tactical nuclear weapons from service and designated
thousands of nuclear warheads to dismantlement.

# # #

The Coalition is a non-partisan alliance of 17 of the nation's leading
arms control and non-proliferation organizations working for a
practical, step-by-step program to reduce the dangers of nuclear and
other weapons of mass destruction.

*The views and analysis expressed in this paper do not necessarily
reflect those of every member of the Coalition. For more
information, contact Stephen Young at [phone], ext. 102, or email
<[e-mail]>

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

Talking Points on 2000 Kerrey & Allen/McGovern/Gendjenson Amendments on
Limitations on Nuclear Reductions
by Allistar Millar,
Fourth Freedom Forum, May 17, 2000

Approval of amendment to H.R. 4205 allows the President flexibility to
retire U.S. strategic nuclear force levels in
excess of military "requirements" so long as such reductions are pursued
with Russia in a verifiable, and reciprocal manner and do
not interfere with U.S. nuclear deterrent capbilities. Such measures
would not interfere with U.S. nuclear deterrent capabilities
and it would save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Improve Strategic Stability and Reduce Risks

* Approval of the amendment would increase national security by reducing
the possibility of unintended launch or other accident.
The United States and Russia are the only nations to maintain nuclear
weapons on hyper-alert, poised to launch at a moments
notice, increasing the chances of an accident especially in Russia where
early warning and nuclear weapons safety equipment is in
serious disrepair. A total of about 4000 U.S. and Russian nuclear
weapons are on "hair-trigger" alert, prone to an accidental
launch.

* Current law prohibits the U.S. from retiring or "de-alerting" nuclear
force levels below the nearly decade-old START I treaty
(6000 deployed strategic weapons), until and unless START II is
implemented (an uncertain prospect due to disputes over national
missile defense). The existing law forces the Pentagon to keep planes,
submarines, and missiles it no longer wants or needs. The
current U.S. nuclear war-fighting plan calls for 2000-2500 strategic
nuclear weapons.

General Eugene Habiger, U.S. Air Force (Retired), the former chief of
the U.S. Strategic Command testified before retiring:
"There is no need to stay at the START I level from a military
perspective" (Washington Post - January 7, 1999).

* Russia currently deploys a strategic nuclear force below START I level
(5900) and is likely to reduce that force further in the
coming years, while the U.S. deploys approximately 7200 strategic bombs.

* In the interest of strategic stability and nuclear risk reduction, the
next President should have the option of pursuing parallel,
reciprocal reductions of deployed strategic nuclear weapons as Russia
reduces the size of its deployed nuclear arsenal and taking
a substantial portion of the deployed arsenal off hair-trigger alert.
Such actions are consistent with President George Bush's 1991
nuclear reductions initiatives and would improve national security by
reducing the probability of an unintended launch or other
accident

* Supporting this amendment would allow the United States to better
comply with its stated goals and policies toward the
non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Removing restrictions would allow
the United States to demonstrate its commitment to the
other 186 signatories of the currently fragile Nuclear Non-proliferation
Treaty (NPT). The US delegation has repeatedly touted
the reductions achieved under former President George Bush as evidence
of progress towards its non-proliferation treaty
commitments. Nearly ten years later, the world is waiting for more
up-to-date evidence of further reductions in nuclear forces, in
large part hindered by the restrictions that this amendment will remove.

* Support for this amendment will further the achievement of the
Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR). CTR is bipartisan alliance
aimed at spurring prompt dismantlement and conversion of the post-Cold
War Soviet nuclear stockpile. Eliminating restriction on
further verifiable reductions of Cold War nuclear arsenals is a
necessary part of continuing pursuit of a credible arms control
agenda that Senators such as Lugar and Dominici support.

Cut Costs

* A new study by the Congressional Budget Office describes the dramatic
savings that can be obtained by reducing U.S. nuclear
forces to START II levels while making further cuts in delivery
vehicles: $670 million in fiscal 2001 and $11.6 billion over ten
years.

* The amendment would save money by allowing for additional reductions
in the Trident submarine forces, from 14 down to 10,
and in the Minuteman III force, from 500 to 300. START II warhead levels
of 3,000-3,500 warheads would still be maintained by
increasing the number of warheads on each Trident missile from five to
seven.


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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 24 hours still to sign Putin/Clinton Moscow Summit Letter
Date: 31 May 2000 16:51:56 +1000

To sign this letter please just email <[e-mail]>, stating the
name of your organisation, your position AND A LOCATION (City/town AND
COUNTRY).

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd


Dear All,

As Presidents Putin and Clinton will be meeting on June 4 and 5th with
START-III and the ABM treaty high on their list of items to discuss (though
no agreement is felt to be likely), the letter below is to be faxed finally
on June 2 to them end their ministers/secretaries for Defence and Foreign
Affairs.

There is still time for your organisation to sign it if you can do so
within 24 hours.

I urge you to sign it if you agree that nuclear warhead numbers should be
reduced to the lowest possible numers (and then to zero), that nuclear
weapons should be taken off alert, and that the ABM treaty should not be
weakened.

Note that the measures asked for by this letter will be helped by the Kerry
Amendment which will be before Congress on June 5, which therefore also
deserves your support.


PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
[phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
[phone], [phone]-205-4219

CC
=46OREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
[phone], [phone]

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
[phone]

MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
[phone], [phone],

DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
[phone]

Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,

We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of
your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification
of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD)
system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
weapons.

The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not
content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations
(or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of nuclear
weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations
for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention
is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.

Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis
for your Moscow discussions include:

(1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination
The 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
authority, reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,   unanimously stated:

"There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control."

In the final declaration of the NPT Review, the NWS made an 'unequivocal
undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear
arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.

The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of
your compliance with it.

(2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'.
We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.

The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning'
makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a
number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were
sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center
for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend
this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear
weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward
the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.


(3)Implementation of START-II

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US Senate
opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
Consequently, both sides should agree to  unilateral reciprocal measures to
reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1 levels in
accordance with START-1 verification procedures.

(4)START-III

The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as
soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to  agree
to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.

If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of
the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must
join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your
nuclear arsenals down to zero.

(5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty

The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.

We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
(NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow
such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment
merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.

The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed the
importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly system
of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may
never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories.

The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under
START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons under strict international control.

Signed:

Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
NY/Geneva.,
Merav Datan, International Coordinator, International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,

Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England,
=46rank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,
=46ranz Floss, Spokesperson, European Federation of Green Parties, Vienna,
Austria.,

Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother,
Secy., World Court Project UK,  Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, West Midland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK=
=2E,
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American
Bases, Otley, Yorks, UK.,
Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, UK.,
Margaret Turner, President, Womens International League for Peace and
=46reedom, UK.,
Rosy Bremer, South East Hants Peace Council, UK.,

Daniel Durand, National Secretary, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France.,
Dr Jean-Marie Matagne, President, Action des Citoyens pour le D=E9sarmement
Nucl=E9aire (ACDN),  France.,
Elizabeth Lavier, Les Verts, France.,

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
Brussels, Belgium.,
Senator Tom Pitstra, Green-Left Senator, Parliament, Netherlands.,
=46iona Dove, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Marjan Willemsen, For Mother Earth, Netherlands,

Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Germany.,
Eva Quistorp, MEP, Women for Peace, Germany.,

Dr. Arthur Muhl, President, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, (IPPNW) Switzerland.,
Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Austria,

Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Alba Circle Non-Violent Movement, Hungary,

Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland.,
Lea Launokari, Women for Peace, Helsinki, Finland.,
Gerd Soderholm, Women Against Nuclear Power, Helsinki Finland.,

Thor Magnusson, Peace 2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,

Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,

Victor Khazan MP,  Ukrainian Environmental Association 'Zelenyi Zvit'
(Friends of  the Earth Ukraine), Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev, Ukraine,
Nadia Sosovkina, Coordinator, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable
Development, Kiev, Ukraine.,
Alla Shevchuck, Odessa Social-Ecological Union, Odessa, Ukraine,
Vyacheslav Stepanov, Black Sea department of Ukrainian Ecological Academy
of Science, Ukraine.,

Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt.
Jean P. Patterson, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom,
Costa-Rica.,
Grace de Hara, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina.,
Richard Salvador, Abolition2000 Pacific, Pacific Island Association of
NGOs, Belau,
Ammu Abraham, Womens Centre, Bombay., India.,

MW Faruque, Youth Approach for Development and Cooperation, Dhaka, Banglades=
h.,
M. Shahidul Ahsan, Bangladesh Campaign to Ban Landmines., Dhaka,
Al Haj Safu Mia Sarker, Bangabandhu Srimte Sangsad, Bashurhat, Noakhali,
Berhampur, Bangladesh.,
Shara Jaker, Muktijoddah Jadhugar (Liberation War Museum), Dhaka., Banglades=
h.,
Abir Ahad, Bangabandhu Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
Hannan Chowdhury, Suganda Sanskritik Kendra, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
Babul Ahmed Pervez, Bangladesh Journalists Association.,

Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canad=
a,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance.,
Linda Murphy, President, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada,
Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture and Native
Exchange, Vancouver, Canada,
David Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defence
Information, Washington DC.,
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara,
Calif., USA.,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
Analyst, Tri-Valley CAREs, Calif.,
Alice Slater, Director, Global Resource and Action Centre for the
Environment, NY., USA.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,
John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy,
NY., USA.,
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland Calif, USA.,
Bishop Walter Sullivan, President, Pax Christi, USA.,
Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United
Church of Christ., Boulder Colorado, USA.,
Mia Adjali, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church,
N.Y., USA.,
Phyllis Yingling, President, Womens International League for Peace and
=46reedom, USA,
Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
Dana L. Richter, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Michigan, USA.,
Bob Kinsey, Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of War.,
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space, Gainesville, Fl, USA.,
George W. Albee, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
Washington DC., USA.,
John M Phelan, Chairman, Fordham Centre for Communication Policy and
Ethics, USA.,
Barbara Weidener, Director/Founder, Grandmothers for Peace International,
Elk Grove, Calif., USA.,
Kevin Martin, Director, Project Abolition, Goshen, Indiana, USA.,
Hari Scardo, Veterans for Peace, Washington, DC., USA.,
Randall Caroline Forsberg, Institute for Defence and Disarmament Studies, US=
A.,
Sue Ann Foster, Mandala Centre, Carmichael, CA, USA.,
Karen Talbott, Director, International Centre for Peace and Justice, USA.,
Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa, The Nuclear Resister, Tucson, Ariz., USA,
Rochelle Becker, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Calif., USA.,
Carol Vesecky, Director, Biointensive for Russia., Palo Alto Calif.,
Rob Wheeler, Millenium Assembly Peoples Network, USA.,

Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, National Secretary, Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom, Aotearoa/NZ.,
Barney Richards, National Secretary, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ.,
Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ,
Jim Holdom, CORSO., NZ.,
Theresa Ruth Scott, National Council of Women, Hamilton, NZ
Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition 2000 NZ., Wellington, NZ.,
Marie Leadbeater, Auckland City Councillor.,

Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP Member for Fremantle, Parliamentarians for a
Nuclear-Free Future,  Australia.
Jill Hall MP, Federal Member for Shortland, Australia,
Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Julia Gillard, Federal Member for Lalor, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Kelly Hoare MP, Federal Member for Charlton, (Newcastle) NSW, Aust.,
Daryl Melham, Federal Member for Banks., NSW., Aust.,
Senator Vicky Bourne, Democrat Senator for NSW.,
Senator Sue Mackay, ALP Senator for  Canberra,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW.,
Tom Helm, MLC mt. Newman, W.A.,
Helen Hodgson, MLC., W.A.,
Kerry Tucker MLC., Green Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
Geoff Holland, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Qld,
Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory,
Darwin, NT.,
David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation.,
=46itzroy, Vic.,
Angela Drury, People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) NSW.,
Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founding President, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Womens Action for Nuclear Disarmament.,
Jo Vallentine, Graham Daniell, People for Nuclear Disarmament,(PND) W.A.,
Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
Denis Doherty, Pax Christi NSW.,
Hannah Middleton, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Aust=
=2E,



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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/31 - Live Chat; Nonproliferation Briefing; Gore
Date: 31 May 2000 07:24:24 -0400

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Don't forget, Live Chat May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m.
http://chat.enn.com/=20
Join a live chat on the environmental benefits of nuclear energy with=
 Maureen
Koetz, director of environmental policy for the Nuclear Energy Institute.=
 This
chat is scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET. Join a live chat on=
 June
2 at 8 p.m. ET with Mike Pelly, a proponent of green fuel oils and energy
independence. Currently he is promoting a biodiesel that people can refine=
 on
their own. Join a live chat with Dr. Luis Baptista, chairman and curator at=
 the
Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences. The
chat is June 15 from 9-10 p.m. ET. Baptista is an authority on birds,
particularly about how their singing traditions are learned and what the=
 songs
mean. For more information about these chats, please contact David Skillman=
 at
mailto:[e-mail].=20

----

Daybook - Washington Times and Agence France Presse
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000531215836.htm

   Nonproliferation briefing =973:30 p.m. =97 American University's=
 Coalition for a
Nuclear Free World, the Nuclear Studies Institute and the Center for Asian
Studies hold a news briefing and conversation on nonproliferation and
disarmament with survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Location:
Sixth Floor Butler Board Room, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave.=
 NW.
Contact: 202/885-5950.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES:

Vice President Gore - Maryland and Georgia=20

      10:45 a.m. =97 Holds a forum with Mrs. Gore to discuss mental health,
Community Room, Friendship Heights Community Center, 4433 South Park Ave.,
Chevy Chase.

      6:30 p.m. =97 Holds an open meeting with undecided voters, Douglass
Theater, Boulevard, Macon, Ga.

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Governor Bush - New Mexico and Arizona

        Event:  9 a.m. - New Mexico Veterans Memorial Park, 801 Odelia Rd.=
 SE,
Albuquerque, NM 505/857-8669

        Event: 4:10 p.m. - Arizona Biltmore Resort Hotel Gold Room, 24th
St. and
East Missouri Ave., Phoenix, AZ, 602/955-6600

        Event:  7:00 p.m. Arizona State Party Reception, Arizona Biltmore
Resort
Hotel Grand Ballroom, 24th St. and East Missouri Ave., Phoenix, AZ,
602/955-6600


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 a live chat on June 2 at 8 p.m. ET with Mike Pelly, a proponent of green=
 fuel oils and energy independence. Currently he is promoting a biodiesel=
 that people can refine on their own. Join a live chat with Dr. Luis=
 Baptista, chairman and curator at the Department of Ornithology and=
 Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences. The chat is June 15 from 9-10=
 p.m. ET. Baptista is an authority on birds, particularly about how their=
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Daybook - Washington Times and Agence France Presse<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000531215836.htm"=
 eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000531215836.=
htm</a><br>
<br>
   Nonproliferation briefing =973:30 p.m. =97 American=
 University's Coalition for a Nuclear Free World, the Nuclear Studies=
 Institute and the Center for Asian Studies hold a news briefing and=
 conversation on nonproliferation and disarmament with survivors of the=
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Location: Sixth Floor Butler Board Room,=
 American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/885-5950.<br>
<br>
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES:<br>
<br>
Vice President Gore - Maryland and Georgia <br>
<br>
      10:45 a.m. =97 Holds a forum with Mrs. Gore=
 to discuss mental health, Community Room, Friendship Heights Community=
 Center, 4433 South Park Ave., Chevy Chase.<br>
<br>
      6:30 p.m. =97 Holds an open meeting with=
 undecided voters, Douglass Theater, Boulevard, Macon, Ga.<br>
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Governor Bush - New Mexico and Arizona<br>
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From: "lau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: R: (abolition-usa) Moscow Summit Letter Faxed to Clinton Today - Still time to Signbefore June 2
Date: 31 May 2000 14:08:49 +0200



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> Da: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
> A: [e-mail]; [e-mail];
[e-mail]; URG Active List
<[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> Cc: Daryl Kimball <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]; Felicity Hill
<[e-mail]>; Rebecca Johnson <[e-mail]>;
[e-mail]; Rob Green <[e-mail]>; Merav
Datan <[e-mail]>; Alyn Ware <[e-mail]>; Alan F. Phillips
<[e-mail]>; Kate Dewes <[e-mail]>; Ak Malten
<[e-mail]>; Alla Shevchuk <[e-mail]>; Ellen Thomas
<[e-mail]>; Alisa Nikoulina <[e-mail]>; ASlater
<[e-mail]>; Carah <[e-mail]>; Jackie Cabasso
<[e-mail]>; [e-mail]; [e-mail]; Sally
light <[e-mail]>; Eugene Carroll <[e-mail]>; Ron Gr=
ay
<[e-mail]>; Jo Vallentine <[e-mail]>; Jodie
Green <[e-mail]>; Marsh, Samantha (A. Morris, MP)
<[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> Oggetto: (abolition-usa) Moscow Summit Letter Faxed to Clinton Today -
Still time to Signbefore June 2
> Data: marted=EC 30 maggio 2000 9.04
>=20
> John Hallam
> Friends of the Earth Sydney,
> 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
> Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
> [e-mail]
> http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
>=20
>=20
> STILL TIME FOR ORGANISATIONS, PARLIAMENTARIANS TO SIGN BEFORE JUNE 2
> (To sign on, email me on <[e-mail]>, and give details of
your
> name, position, organisation, and location (town and country - eg,
London,
> UK, or NY, USA etc))
>=20
> The following was faxed from Friends of the Earth Sydney to President
> Clinton today, as he is sceduled to leave for Europe today US time.
> (A preliminary version with fewer signatures was faxed yesterday.)
>=20
> A final faxing to Clinton, Putin, and their respective secretaries of
> state/foreign ministers/defence ministers will be made on June 2, so it
is
> still possible for organisations and parliamentarians to sign this lett=
er
> before then.
>=20
> The letter now has 137 organisations and parliamentarians signed on to
it,
> including 25 parliamentarians of which 15 are from Australia.
>=20
> My thanks to all who already signed.
>=20
> Hopefully by 2 June there will be more!
>=20
>=20
> PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
> [phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201
>=20
> PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
> [phone], [phone]-205-4219
>=20
> CC
> FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
> [phone], [phone]
>=20
> SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
> [phone]
>=20
> MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
> [phone], [phone],
>=20
> DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
> [phone]
>=20
> Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,
>=20
> We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
> Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view o=
f
> your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the
ratification
> of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
> agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence
(NMD)
> system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
> Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
>=20
> Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
> world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
> weapons.
>=20
> The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are no=
t
> content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nation=
s
> (or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
> shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of
nuclear
> weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiatio=
ns
> for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons
convention
> is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.
>=20
> Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a bas=
is
> for your Moscow discussions include:
>=20
> (1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination
> The 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
> judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
> authority, reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
> interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,   unanimously stated:
>=20
> "There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
> conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspec=
ts
> under strict and effective international control."
>=20
> In the final declaration of the NPT Review, the NWS made an 'unequivoca=
l
> undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear
> arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.
>=20
> The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
> action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
> discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence
of
> your compliance with it.
>=20
> (2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.
>=20
> The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitmen=
t
to
> take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear
weapons'.
> We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
> nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.
>=20
> The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warnin=
g'
> makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred =
on
a
> number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military
were
> sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Cente=
r
> for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
> warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to
extend
> this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclea=
r
> weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
> responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow towar=
d
> the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
>=20
>=20
> (3)Implementation of START-II
>=20
> The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitmen=
t
to
> the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US
Senate
> opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
> Consequently, both sides should agree to  unilateral reciprocal measure=
s
to
> reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1 levels i=
n
> accordance with START-1 verification procedures.
>=20
> (4)START-III
>=20
> The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III a=
s
> soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to=20
agree
> to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
> deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
> deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.
>=20
> If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI =
of
> the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you
must
> join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take
your
> nuclear arsenals down to zero.
>=20
> (5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty
>=20
> The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
> 'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
> statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
> strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
> treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.
>=20
> We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
> (NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to all=
ow
> such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployme=
nt
> merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.
>=20
> The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
> European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed
the
> importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly
system
> of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and
may
> never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
> elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatorie=
s.
>=20
> The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
> immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
> Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible und=
er
> START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete eliminatio=
n
of
> nuclear weapons under strict international control.
>=20
> Signed:
>=20
> Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom,
> NY/Geneva.,
> Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau, Geneva., Switz.,
> Merav Datan, International Coordinator, International Physicians for th=
e
> Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,
>=20
> Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England, European
Parliament,
> Hiltrud Bryer, Md EP, Green MEP for Germany, European Parliament,
> Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,
> Franz Floss, Spokesperson, European Federation of Green Parties, Vienna=
,
> Austria.,
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> Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George
Farebrother,
> Secy., World Court Project UK,  Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
> Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,
> Janet Bloomfield, Former chair CND.,  Saffron-Walden Group Against
Nuclear
> Weapons, Saffron-Walden, Essex, UK.,
> Jenny Maxwell, West Midland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingha=
m,
UK.,
> Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of
American
> Bases, Otley, Yorks, UK.,
> Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, UK.,
> Margaret Turner, President, Womens International League for Peace and
> Freedom, UK.,
> Rosy Bremer, South East Hants Peace Council, UK.,
>=20
> Daniel Durand, National Secretary, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen,
France.,
> Dr. Jean-Marie Matagne, President, Action des Citoyens pour le
D=E9sarmement
> Nucl=E9aire (ACDN),  France.,
> Elizabeth Lavier, Les Verts, France.,
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> Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
> Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
> Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
> Brussels, Belgium.,
> Senator Tom Pitstra, Green-Left Senator, Parliament, Netherlands.,
> Fiona Dove, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
> Marjan Willemsen, For Mother Earth, Netherlands,
> Hans Taselaar, INZET (Association for North/South Campaigns,) Amsterdam=
,
Neth.,
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> Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Germany.,
> Eva Quistorp, MEP, Women for Peace, Germany.,
> Bernd Frieboese, Ole Von Uexkull (Swed), BARSEBACKSOFFENSIV, Berlin/Lun=
d.
> Roland Blach, Non-Violent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Germany.,
>=20
> Dr. Arthur Muhl, President, International Physicians for the Prevention
of
> Nuclear War, (IPPNW) Switzerland.,
> Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Austria=
,
>=20
> Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
> Alba Circle Non-Violent Movement, Hungary,
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> Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland.,
> Lea Launokari, Women for Peace, Helsinki, Finland.,
> Gerd Soderholm, Women Against Nuclear Power, Helsinki Finland.,
>=20
> Thor Magnusson, Peace 2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
> Terje Stokstad, Chair, Nej Til Atomvapen, Oslo, Norway.,
> Bjorn Hilt, IPPNW Norway (Norwegian Physicians Against Nuclear War,)
> Trondhiem, Norway,
>=20
> Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
> Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
> Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,
>=20
> Victor Khazan MP,  Ukrainian Environmental Association 'Zelenyi Zvit'
> (Friends of  the Earth Ukraine), Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev, Ukraine,
> Nadia Sosovkina, Coordinator, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable
> Development, Kiev, Ukraine.,
> Alla Shevchuck, Odessa Social-Ecological Union, Odessa, Ukraine,
> Vyacheslav Stepanov, Black Sea department of Ukrainian Ecological Acade=
my
> of Science, Ukraine.,
>=20
> Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt.
> Green Action for Social-Ecological Change, Tel Aviv, Israel.,
> Jean P. Patterson, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom,
> Costa-Rica.,
> Grace de Hara, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina.,
> Richard Salvador, Abolition2000 Pacific, Pacific Island Association of
> NGOs, Belau,
> Ammu Abraham, Womens Centre, Bombay., India.,
> Marco Kapellberger, Global Peoples Assembly, Samoa.,
> Aditi Chowdhury, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives.,
Hong-Kong.,
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> MW Faruque, Youth Approach for Development and Cooperation, Dhaka,
Bangladesh.,
> M. Shahidul Ahsan, Bangladesh Campaign to Ban Landmines., Dhaka,
> Al Haj Safu Mia Sarker, Bangabandhu Srimte Sangsad, Bashurhat, Noakhali=
,
> Berhampur, Bangladesh.,
> Shara Jaker, Muktijoddah Jadhugar (Liberation War Museum), Dhaka.,
Bangladesh.,
> Abir Ahad, Bangabandhu Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
> Hannan Chowdhury, Suganda Sanskritik Kendra, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
> Babul Ahmed Pervez, Bangladesh Journalists Association.,
>=20
> Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
> Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
> David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC,
Canada,
> Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,
> Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada,
> Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance.,
> Linda Murphy, President, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Saskatoon,
> Saskatchewan, Canada,
> Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture and Native
> Exchange, Vancouver, Canada,
> David Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada,
>=20
> Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defen=
ce
> Information, Washington DC.,
> Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
> David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara,
> Calif., USA.,
> Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
> Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
> Analyst,
> Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, Calif.,
> Alice Slater, Director, Global Resource and Action Centre for the
> Environment, NY., USA.,
> Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
> Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,
> John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy=
,
> NY., USA.,
> Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland Calif, USA.,
> Chris Paine, Senior Researcher, Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC=
),
> Washington, DC.,
> Bishop Walter Sullivan, President, Pax Christi, USA.,
> Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference,
United
> Church of Christ., Boulder Colorado, USA.,
> Mia Adjali, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church=
,
> N.Y., USA.,
> Rev. Robert Moore, Coalition for Peace Action., Princeton, NJ., USA.,
> Phyllis Yingling, President, Womens International League for Peace and
> Freedom, USA,
> Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
> Dana L. Richter, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Michigan, USA=
.,
> Bob Kinsey, Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of War.,
> Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclea=
r
> Power in Space, Gainesville, Fl, USA.,
> George W. Albee, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
> Washington DC., USA.,
> John M Phelan, Chairman, Fordham Centre for Communication Policy and
> Ethics, USA.,
> Barbara Weidener, Director/Founder, Grandmothers for Peace Internationa=
l,
> Elk Grove, Calif., USA.,
> Kevin Martin, Director, Project Abolition, Goshen, Indiana, USA.,
> Hari Scardo, Veterans for Peace, Washington, DC., USA.,
> Randall Caroline Forsberg, Institute for Defence and Disarmament Studie=
s,
USA.,
> Sue Ann Foster, Mandala Centre, Carmichael, CA, USA.,
> Karen Talbott, Director, International Centre for Peace and Justice,
USA.,
> Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa, The Nuclear Resister, Tucson, Ariz., USA,
> Rochelle Becker, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Calif., USA.,
> Carol Vesecky, Director, Biointensive for Russia., Palo Alto Calif.,
> Rob Wheeler, Millenium Assembly Peoples Network, USA.,
> Donald C. Whitmore, President, Third Millenium Foundation,  Auburn,
> Washington USA.,
> Robert Randall, Trident-To-Life Campaign, Brunswick., GA, USA.,
>=20
> Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,
> Megan Hutching, National Secretary, Womens International League for Pea=
ce
> and Freedom, Aotearoa/NZ.,
> Barney Richards, National Secretary, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ.,
> Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ,
> Jim Holdom, CORSO., NZ.,
> Theresa Ruth Scott, National Council of Women, Hamilton, NZ
> Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition 2000 NZ., Wellington, NZ.,
> Marie Leadbeater, Auckland City Councillor.,
> J.P. Morrison, Past President, Canterbury Workers Educational
Association.,
> Christchurch, NZ,
> J. P. Morrison, Disarmament Officer, United Nations Association of New
> Zealand, Christchurch, NZ.,
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> Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP Member for Fremantle, Parliamentarians for a
> Nuclear-Free Future,  Australia.
> Jill Hall MP, Federal Member for Shortland, Australia,
> Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust=
.,
> Julia Gillard, Federal Member for Lalor, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
> Kelly Hoare MP, Federal Member for Charlton, (Newcastle) NSW, Aust.,
> Daryl Melham, Federal Member for Banks., NSW., Aust.,
> Allan Morris MHR, Federal Member for Newcastle, NSW., Aust.,
> Harry Jenkins MP., Federal Member for Scullin., Vic., Aust.,
> Senator Lyn Allison, Democrat Senator for Victoria., Parliamentarians f=
or
a
> Nuclear-free Future,
> Senator Vicky Bourne, Democrat Senator for NSW.,
> Senator Sue Mackay, ALP Senator for  Canberra,
> Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW.,
> Senator Kerry O'Brien, ALP Senator for Tasmania,
> Tom Helm, MLC Mt. Newman, W.A.,
> Helen Hodgson, MLC., W.A.,
> Kerry Tucker MLC., Green Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
> Geoff Holland, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Qld,
> Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territor=
y,
> Darwin, NT.,
> David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation.,
> Fitzroy, Vic.,
> Angela Drury, Cameron Edwards,  People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND)
NSW.,
> Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founding President, Physicians for Social
> Responsibility, Womens Action for Nuclear Disarmament.,
> Jo Vallentine, Graham Daniell, People for Nuclear Disarmament,(PND) W.A=
.,
> Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
> Denis Doherty, Pax Christi NSW.,
> Hannah Middleton, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign,
> John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney,
Aust.,
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Follow-up on Los Alamos Fire
Date: 31 May 2000 13:43:49 -0400

>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:19:38 -0400
>Subject: Follow-up on Los Alamos Fire
>Priority: non-urgent
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>   Beatrice Brailsford of the Snake River Alliance asked me to post
>this:
>
>         TOXIC RUNOFF FEARED AFTER BLAZE AT LOS ALAMOS
> DISASTER: EROSION ON LAND CLEARED BY FIRE MAY RELEASE LOW-LEVEL
>            NUCLEAR AND CHEMICAL WASTE INTO WATERWAYS
>   DAMAGE AT NATION'S CHIEF ATOMIC WEAPONS FACILITY
>                WORSE THAN INITIALLY ACKNOWLEDGED
>                        Los Angeles Times
>                     Saturday, May 27, 2000
>                          by Bob Drogin
>
>     WASHINGTON--More than two weeks after a hellish New Mexico wildfire
>burned 400 homes and closed the Los Alamos National Laboratory, concern
>is mounting over whether erosion caused by the fire will unleash toxic
>and radiological contaminants into the Rio Grande.
>     Jim Danneskiold, a lab spokesman, said Friday that emergency teams
>of hydrologists, soil scientists and other experts this week began
>assessing the threat from dozens of the lab's 626 known "potential
>release" sites, many dating back to World War II and the early Cold War.
>     So far, he said, they have identified about a half-dozen former
>dumps that might release low-level nuclear and chemical waste into
>streams and rivers once the region's annual "monsoon" rains begin in
>July. The fire burned off the grasses and brush that has held the
>contaminated soil in check.
>     "There definitely will be movement of contaminated sediments off
>lab property," Danneskiold said. "It's a question of when, not if, the
>flood waters come through."
>     Overall, the Cerro Grande fire inflicted considerably more damage
>at the nation's chief nuclear weapons design and development facility
>than officials initially acknowledged.
>     The blaze devoured about 40 trailers, sheds, warehouses and other
>nonpermanent buildings, caused millions of dollars in smoke and heat
>damage to lasers and other sensitive equipment, and delayed an array of
>secret, defense-related research and other work, officials said.
>     One scientist developing polymers lost his computer hard drive and
>all his backup data disks--eight years of work--when his office-trailer
>was destroyed. Also destroyed were several wooden buildings from the
>Manhattan Project, including one containing blackboards still covered
>with chalk notes used to construct the first atom bomb.
>     Energy Department and lab officials said that the fire did not
>jeopardize the lab's main mission: guaranteeing the safety and
>reliability of the nation's nuclear stockpile. Federal and state
>agencies have not detected any release of radiation from the lab,
>although local background radiation readings have increased because of
>the fire.
>     Thousands of physicists, engineers and other lab workers began
>returning to the battered facility this week for the first time since
>the lab closed on May 8. But several research and testing sites, where
>the fire was most intense, will remain closed for an indefinite period.
>     In addition, about 270 lab workers who lost their homes or other
>property have been given liberal leave to arrange their personal
>affairs. In all, 400 Los Alamos families were made homeless by the
>blaze.
>     In Washington, President Clinton said that his administration is
>"committed to ensuring that all those who have been affected by the fire
>. . . are fully compensated for their losses."
>     Clinton said in a statement that the White House is working with
>the congressional delegation from New Mexico to write legislation to
>provide for federal compensation. "We are  committed to working with the
>Congress to ensure that this matter is addressed as promptly as
>possible," he added.
>     Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt separately released a report from
>an independent review board that sharply criticized National Park
>Service personnel for igniting the blaze that accidentally led to
>disaster.
>     Park Service crews at Bandelier National Monument set a "prescribed
>burn" on May 4 in an attempt to clear underbrush and prevent a wider
>fire. Instead, the blaze roared out of control.
>     Babbitt said that he would extend a moratorium on prescribed burns
>by the Park Service indefinitely. Other federal agencies may resume the
>fire-control tactic when the monthlong ban expires on June 12.
>     The New Mexico fire has devoured 47,650 acres so far, including
>parts of the Los Alamos lab, the Santa Fe National Forest, the San
>Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Clara Pueblo. Although the inferno is now
>mostly under control, high winds continue to bedevil firefighters and
>the blaze flared up again Thursday night near the lab.
>     The fire's long-term danger is only now coming into focus. An
>interagency task force called the Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation
>team this week began assessing the threat from erosion on the now-bare
>hills and canyons surrounding the town of Los Alamos, which adjoins the
>lab.
>     Ken Palmrose, a spokesman for the group, said that computer models
>project erosion "that could be 100 times normal" this summer from heavy
>rains and lack of ground cover.
>     He said that 85 crew members already have begun raking charred
>topsoil, planting trees and contouring slopes to reduce runoff. He said
>the challenge was so immense that "we're considering things larger than
>anything in our manual," including damming canyons or building large
>sediment pools.
>     Indeed, three helicopters and a plane are on standby to begin
>aerial reseeding of severely burned areas with native species of grass.
>About 18 truckloads of seed--720,000 pounds in all--were expected to
>arrive Friday.
>     But Greg Mello, who heads an independent watchdog organization
>called the Los Alamos Study Group in Santa Fe, said that officials are
>moving far too slowly to clear up the witches' brew of toxic
>contaminants in the lab's disused dumps.
>     "Huge flood flows are expected from the burned watersheds this
>year," he warned. "Contaminated sediment will move downstream."
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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