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abolition-usa-digest     Monday, January 25 1999     Volume 01 : Number 062




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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:29:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) APOLOGY: HUMAN ERROR!!

Dear friends,  SORRY!!! the entire US list-serve was sent my long nuclear
hypocricy article, attached to a bizarre list of messages. My intention was
to individually send it to only those who had requested it, in their
preferred format.  Unfortunately, a well-intentioned volunteer, who was
filling the requests for me was unfamiliar with my e-mail program and did
not realize that she needed to delete the list-serve address
when replying to an individual.  I THINK that everyone who requested the
article in an enclosed file was sent it.  Please let me know if there were
any individual screw-ups.  Again, sorry for "clogging the airways!"  -- Jackie
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 22:36:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Freeing the CTBT from Jessie Helms

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


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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:32:57 -0500
From: ike <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Jessie Helms following John Cabot Lodge's path to war; Re: Freeing the CTBT from Jessie Helms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:52:10 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Peace in many languages

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

David McReynolds

<<
 Shalom all,
 I couldn't resist sending you this link which lists the word for "peace" in
 144 languages.


 <A HREF="http://www.universe.digex.net/~kkhan/peace_page.html">Peace in many
languages</A>
  >>

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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:24:03 -0500
From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Freeing the CTBT from Jessie Helms

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

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

Shalom,
Bob Tiller




Timothy Bruening wrote:
>
> Jesse Helms has bottled up the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty since Clinton
> sent it to the Senate in 1997.  Could Senators discharge it from the Foreign
> Relations Committee and onto the floor for a vote by collecting signatures
> on a discharge petition?
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:00:22 -0500
From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews (US): 1/23/99 - Plutonium; Helms; TMI Obit; Activist or Arsonist?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. Helms Sets Arms Treaty 'Deadline'

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

By The Associated Press, January 23, 1999

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[For nuclear history buffs]

3. Nuclear Power Expert Stello Dies

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

By The Associated Press, January 23, 1999

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

Stello, 64, had cancer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BUSH TO HIRE FRIEND OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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4. Woman Accused of Setting Fires on Calvert Cliffs Land

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kohl was being held at the Calvert County Detention Center. Bond was set at
$100,000.
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<html><br>
<div>1. U.S. says plutonium stockpiles off-limits </div>
<div>[Excerpt from
<a href="http://detnews.com/1999/nation/9901/22/01220208.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://detnews.com/1999/nation/9901/22/01220208.htm</a>]</div>
<br>
<div>2. Helms Sets Arms Treaty 'Deadline'</div>
<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Helms-Foreign-Policy.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Helms-Foreign-Policy.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>3. Nuclear Power Expert Stello Dies</div>
<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Stello.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Stello.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>4. Woman Accused of Setting Fires on Calvert Cliffs Land</div>
<div><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/117l-012199-idx.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/117l-012199-idx.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>---------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>1. U.S. says plutonium stockpiles off-limits </div>
<br>
<div>[Excerpt from
<a href="http://detnews.com/1999/nation/9901/22/01220208.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://detnews.com/1999/nation/9901/22/01220208.htm</a>]</div>
<br>
<div>GENEVA -- The United States laid out its position for the world's
next major disarmament treaty Thursday, urging a ban on the material used
to make nuclear bombs but not on the huge amounts already stockpiled.
"We will not agree to any restrictions on existing stocks in a
'cutoff' treaty," John D. Holum, the top U.S. armament-control
official, told the 61-nation Conference on Disarmament. Efforts are under
way among key nations to eliminate their stockpiles of plutonium and
highly enriched uranium, and trying to add the issue to a new treaty
would only backfire, said Holum, acting undersecretary of state for arms
control. </div>
<br>
<div>-----------------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>[Impeach Helms!  He's a hazard to everyone's health.]</div>
<br>
<div>2. Helms Sets Arms Treaty 'Deadline'</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Helms-Foreign-Policy.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Helms-Foreign-Policy.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>By The Associated Press, January 23, 1999</div>
<br>
<div>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., says he will put a
freeze on treaties the administration wants unless the White House
submits proposed modifications in the nuclear arms treaty by June.
</div>
<br>
<div>``We will consider all of (the treaties) or we will consider none of
them,'' Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told a
conference of conservative activists on Friday. </div>
<br>
<div>Helms wants amendments to the 27-year-old Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty brought to the floor, predicting that the Republican Senate would
then vote to pull the United States out of the entire treaty. </div>
<br>
<div>Among treaties that could become stalled if a standoff develops
between Helms and the White House is the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty, a top administration priority. </div>
<br>
<div>The modifications in the ABM treaty were agreed to by President
Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin but have not been sent to the
Senate. </div>
<br>
<div>Helms and other conservatives consider the pact dead anyway, because
the Soviet Union with whom it was negotiated no longer exists. </div>
<br>
<div>Helms told the Conservative Political Action Conference that the
entire pact belongs ``in the dustbin of history.'' </div>
<br>
<div>The treaty is standing in the way of proceeding on a GOP plan to
establish a national missile defense system. </div>
<br>
<div>Such a system is prohibited by terms of the existing ABM treaty --
and the administration contends that Moscow would have to agree to any
move by the United States to set up such a system. </div>
<br>
<div>``I say baloney,'' Helms said to renegotiating the treaty with the
Russians. ``Not on my watch, Mr. President.'' </div>
<br>
<div>Helms also demanded the administration submit another treaty likely
to be rejected: a 1997 environmental pact signed by the United States and
37 other industrial nations in Kyoto, Japan, to limit gases that
contribute to global warming. </div>
<br>
<div>Helms, who is known for holding up measures and nominations, opposes
that treaty, as well. </div>
<br>
<div>In 1997, Helms single-handedly blocked the nomination of former
Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a fellow Republican, to be ambassador to
Mexico by refusing to hold hearings. </div>
<br>
<div>If that earned him the nickname ``Senator No,'' so be it, Helms told
the standing-room-only audience. </div>
<br>
<div>``Saying no is part of the job of being chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,'' he said, ``and I plan to say `no' to a few
more things this year.'' </div>
<br>
<div>But Helms said he would not criticize recent steps taken by the
administration to permit more humanitarian aid to reach Cuba, even though
he strongly supports a continuation of a trade embargo against Fidel
Castro's regime. </div>
<br>
<div>``I'll (also) go along with letting the Baltimore Orioles play
exhibition games against the Cuban national team -- but on one
condition,'' Helms said. ``I want the Cuban national team to come to
Baltimore to play the Orioles first and then the Orioles can go to
Havana. Because when the O's get to Cuba, there will be no one to play
them.'' </div>
<br>
<div>------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>[For nuclear history buffs]</div>
<br>
<div>3. Nuclear Power Expert Stello Dies</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Stello.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Stello.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>By The Associated Press, January 23, 1999</div>
<br>
<div>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Victor Stello Jr., a former civilian nuclear
power regulator who played a key role in the response to the accident on
Three Mile Island, died Friday at his home in Potomac, Md. </div>
<br>
<div>Stello, 64, had cancer. </div>
<br>
<div>Until recently, Stello had served as a principal deputy assistant
secretary at the Department of Energy, focusing on safety and quality in
defense programs. He came to the department in 1989, and worked in many
areas highlighting his expertise in nuclear operations safety. </div>
<br>
<div>``He instilled a serious safety culture in everything we do,'' said
Dr. Victor Ries, the department's assistant secretary for defense
programs. </div>
<br>
<div>Stello also spent nearly a quarter of a century with the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission and its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission.
</div>
<br>
<div>He was involved in the response to the nation's worst commercial
nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg,
Pa., in 1979. Stello later served as the NRC's chief of staff. </div>
<br>
<div>In 1989 Stello was nominated by President Bush to head the Energy
Department's nuclear weapons production program. Stello withdrew his name
following a lengthy fight in the Senate to block his confirmation after
nuclear critics accused him of improprieties during his tenure with the
NRC. </div>
<br>
<div>The Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board recently gave Stello an
award for his work as a proponent of nuclear safety. The safety board
will administer the award -- which is named for Stello -- annually.
</div>
<br>
<div>[Note:  Here's an article from 1989 about Stello's
improprieties from our archives.]</div>
<br>
<div>BUSH TO HIRE FRIEND OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY </div>
<br>
<div>By JACK ANDERSON and DALE VAN ATTA  Column: JACK ANDERSON
Wednesday, June 28, 1989 ; Page E21 Washington Post</div>
<br>
<div>President Bush is about to drop a bomb on Americans who live near
nuclear weapons plants. Bush plans to nominate Victor Stello, the best
friend that the nuclear business has ever had, to clean up those
environmental disasters.</div>
<br>
<div>Stello is a meltdown waiting to happen. In his rise to the top
bureaucratic job at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Stello left
his fingerprints on almost every major nuclear power scandal, beginning
with the Three Mile Island accident.</div>
<br>
<div>Now, FBI agents are quietly doing a background check in preparation
for Bush to nominate Stello as assistant energy secretary in charge of
defense programs. He would move from nuclear power plants to nuclear bomb
plants.</div>
<br>
<div>In the new job, Stello would command the Energy Department's
discredited weapons plants now under criminal investigation for alleged
illegal dumping of radioactive waste and deliberate coverups.</div>
<br>
<div>Into this mess will step Stello, with a reputation for thumbing his
nose at any federal investigation that crimps the nuclear energy
business's style.</div>
<br>
<div>Our associate Stewart Harris has documented Stello's disdain for
criminal inquiries. It started in 1980 during a probe of Three Mile
Island. Federal attorneys were looking into the possibility that leak
tests at the plant had been falsified. Properly handled, the tests could
have prevented the accident at Three Mile Island.</div>
<br>
<div>A former federal prosecutor told a Senate committee looking into the
NRC in 1987 that Stello and some of his underlings "actively
misled" the investigators. The company that operated the plant
eventually pleaded guilty to falsifying the tests. The prosecutor, Julian
Greenspun, told the Senate that Stello said he did not approve of the
investigation because it was "bad for the operators' morale" at
Three Mile Island.</div>
<br>
<div>In his response to the Senate, Stello explained that an FBI
investigation had cleared him of wrongdoing. Stello was vacationing and
could not be reached for comment.</div>
<br>
<div>Last year, NRC investigators looked into the possibility that the
top nuclear official at the Tennessee Valley Authority had lied about the
safety of a TVA nuclear plant. Stello's top aide put together a panel of
eight NRC officials who concluded that the TVA official did not mean to
lie.</div>
<br>
<div>The NRC, under Stello, did virtually the same thing in 1986 in an
investigation into the Fermi nuclear power plant in Michigan. The plant
accidentally started its own nuclear reaction before it was licensed, and
the owners neglected to tell the NRC about the mishap until the day after
they got their license. An NRC panel under Stello decided that there was
no harm done because the incident was not significant enough to stop the
license. A House subcommittee later concluded that Stello and others had
"undermined" the investigation.</div>
<br>
<div>In one of the rare times Stello sanctioned a probe, he botched it.
Stello's office last fall arranged to pay an informant $6,000 in
"consulting fees." But the NRC is not supposed to pay
informants. And the allegations about a top NRC investigator have not
panned out. A report on the incident, expected to be released by the
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, could come out just in time to
spoil Stello's confirmation hearings.</div>
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<br>
<div>4. Woman Accused of Setting Fires on Calvert Cliffs Land</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/117l-012199-idx.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/117l-012199-idx.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>"Investigators said this week they do not believe the fires
were motivated by politics or anti-nuclear sentiment."</div>
<br>
<div>[I sure would like to know whether this is true, if anyone in
Calvert County wants to check on it by visiting her -- I recall being
arrested outside the White House next to a huge sign which showed a
nuclear explosion and the words "Strike for Peace, or Have a Nice
Doomsday" in 1984.  The newspaper called us "campers"
and said, "It was not certain whether any of those arrested were
protesting at the time."  It would be too bad if she gets lost
in the shuffle. et in dc]</div>
<br>
<div>By Annie Gowen Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 21,
1999; Page M02 </div>
<br>
<div>A Calvert County woman has been charged with setting a series of
brush fires on wooded land at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, the
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service said this
week.</div>
<br>
<div>Rosemary R. Kohl, 39, of Lusby, turned herself in to the Calvert
County sheriff's office last Thursday after she refused to accept a
warrant served upon her at her home on Rye Court earlier that same day.
</div>
<br>
<div>Kohl is accused of starting fires, possibly with an accelerant, on
Dec. 7, 15 and 18 and on Jan. 12 and 13, the largest of which burned
about a quarter-acre. </div>
<br>
<div>Calvert Cliffs public information representative Angela Walters said
that investigators are still trying to determine how Kohl got onto the
Calvert Cliffs property to start the fires. On several occasions, Walters
said, Kohl apparently drove through the main gate, but it is not known
how she managed to get past security.</div>
<br>
<div>DNR investigators were led to Kohl by the wife of a nuclear plant
employee, who allegedly saw her next to some burning grass and jotted
down her license plate number.</div>
<br>
<div>Investigators said this week they do not believe the fires were
motivated by politics or anti-nuclear sentiment.</div>
<br>
<div>Kohl has been charged with five counts of malicious fire-setting and
two counts of trespassing. If convicted, she would face a maximum penalty
of five years in jail and a $2,000 fine on each of the fire-setting
charges and 90 days in jail and a $500 fine for trespassing.</div>
<br>
Kohl was being held at the Calvert County Detention Center. Bond was set
at $100,000.
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:12:36 -0500
From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: US Conditions for the CTB

Yes, I would like to receive a copy.  You could bring it to Salt Lake
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Shalom,
Bob Tiller




Jackie Cabasso wrote:
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> for a medium length (5 pages), up-to-date, fact-filled summary of current US
> nuclear weapons programs and policies, I've recently updated my November
> INESAP Bulletin article, NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:06:45 -0500
From: "David Culp" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: Freeing the CTBT from Jessie Helms

Earlier Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]> wrote:


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


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

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

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


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