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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:21:19 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Nunn, Perry, Owens, Goodpaster, Shalikashvili urge missile defense delay

>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:01:29 -0400
>Subject: Nunn, Perry, Owens, Goodpaster, Shalikashvili urge missile defense
delay
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>From Washington Post, June 16, 2000 story by Roberto Suro, Washington Post
>Staff Writer
>
>"A bipartisan group of 15 former diplomats, military officials and defense
>intellectuals has urged Clinton, in a letter made public yesterday, to
>defer the decision on national missile defense because of unresolved issues
>remaining concerning the 'costs, technology and security and foreign policy
>implications.' The group includes William J. Perry, who served Clinton as
>defense secretary, and retired Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, a former
>chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Clinton."
>
>Complete text of letter:
>
>June 7, 2000
>
>William J. Clinton
>The President of the United States
>Executive Office of the President
>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
>Washington, DC  20500
>
>Dear Mr. President:
>
>On May 22, 2000 Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and
>Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation convened us in Washington, DC for
>discussion of the possible consequences of deploying the limited national
>missile defense system under consideration by the administration.  We
>discussed questions of technology and costs; the range of threats, long-
>and short-term, to the United States and international security, including
>accidental launch of nuclear weapons; the diplomatic implications of a
>deployment decision; and alternative defense systems.
>
>It is gratifying to note that a range of influential individuals, both
>Republican and Democrat have written recently on national missile defense,
>and that their concerns reflect those raised at our May 22 meeting.
>Indeed, we are convinced that significant unresolved issues remain
>concerning the costs, technology, and especially the security and foreign
>policy implications of a national missile defense system.  Recognizing the
>complexity of the issues that will affect your analysis and ultimate
>decision, we respectfully urge you to defer a decision to deploy, and not
>to be forced by artificial deadlines, but to further the debate that has
>now begun in earnest.
>
>We support an approach that includes further research on a range of defense
>system concepts; discussions with a number of countries, especially with
>our NATO allies, Russia, China and Japan, and with other countries,
>including India and Pakistan; and vigorous diplomatic initiatives to reduce
>threats, in the manner of the current explorations with North Korea.
>
>A decision on national missile defense deployment has far-reaching
>implications.  We believe it merits transparent evaluation, open
>discussion, and full consultation with key countries and with the American
>people.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Dr. Gloria C. Duffy
>Susan Eisenhower
>Dr. Richard L. Garwin
>General Andrew J. Goodpaster (ret.)
>Dr. Lisbeth Gronlund
>John D. Isaacs
>Dr. Lawrence J. Korb
>Ambassador Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
>Dr. Jessica T. Mathews
>Senator Sam Nunn
>Dr. Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
>Admiral William A. Owens (ret.)
>Dr. William J. Perry
>Dr. Roald Z. Sagdeev
>General John M. Shalikashvili (ret.)
>
>Cc:     Secretary Albright
>        Secretary Cohen
>        National Security Advisor Berger
>
>
>John Isaacs
>Council for a Livable World
>110 Maryland Avenue, NE - Room 409
>Washington, D.C. 20002
>[phone] x.131
>www.clw.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]
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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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:57:48 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) PEACE ACTION NATIONAL RESOLUTION

The National Board of Peace Action unanimously adopted the following
Resolution on
June 11, 2000

Stopping Operations at Los Alamos and Redirecting its Budget to Cleaning Up
the Environment, Addressing Health Issues, and Paying Reparations to Affected
Communities, and Peoples.

WHEREAS:  Article 6 of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty calls for total
nuclear disarmament and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is taking over
the role of Rocky Flats, escalating their production of plutonium 'pits' for
nuclear weapons; and

WHEREAS: Outer Space Treaty requires States not to place nuclear weapons or
other weapons of mass destruction in orbit and states that space is not
subject to national appropriation and that LANL researches, develops, and
produces the plutonium Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) components
and that its work contributes to fulfilling  the U.S. Space Command's "Vision
for 2020" for dominating space; and

WHEREAS:  The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM)  prohibits the development
of a national missile defense (NMD) system and LANL researches and develops
components for the NMD system; and

WHEREAS: LANL thus enables the United States to violate international
treaties; and additionally,

WHEREAS:  LANL has historically disposed of some of its plutonium, uranium,
depleted uranium, tritium, beryllium and heavy metals in a haphazard and
often unsafe manner, thus contaminating the soil, air, water, vegetation, and
irresponsibly endangering the health and lives of people living in Los Alamos
and the surrounding areas of New Mexico; and

WHEREAS: LANL has shown little regard for the health and safety of its
employees, accidents and releases on LANL property being a regular
occurrence; and

WHEREAS: LANL endangers the health, safety, environment, subsistence, and
sacred sites of the Pueblos and other Native American communities, and

WHEREAS: The Cerro Grande fire has shown that LANL took no precautions to
protect the firefighters or to monitor the effects of possible contamination
in communities downwind of the fire, including the farmers in this
agricultural area;

THEREFORE, PEACE ACTION DEMANDS, Los Alamos National Laboratory cease all but
necessary administrative operations and the Department of Energy and
Department of Defense budget allocated to Los Alamos National Laboratory be
redirected for cleaning up the environment and addressing health issues.

The U.S. government also must be required to make complete reparations to the
communities historically damaged by the operations of LANL.

Therefore, let it be further resolved that this Resolution be sent to Members
of Congress, the President, Secretaries of Defense, Energy and State, major
candidates for President, Secretary General of the U.N., Security Council
members and governments of the middle powers states. It is also to be sent to
Abolition 2000 for endorsement by supporting organizations.


PEACE ACTION, formerly SANE/FREEZE, is the nation's largest grassroots peace
and justice organization.  Working for peace since 1957.

CONTACT: Peace Action New Mexico - [e-mail]
        226 Fiesta St., Santa Fe, N.M. 87501   Phone: [phone]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:17:59 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) PEACE ACTION NATIONAL RESOLUTION

BRAVO!!!!!!!!  Sign me on for GRACE.
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

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nuclear weapons.

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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:11:50 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/06/17 - Vieques Fast "to death"?

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[NucNews archives have been posted through June 10, 2000 - see
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. Here are some weekend messages. et]

1) Drum for Vieques this weekend - Lafayette "Peace" Park; support the fasters.
Vieques activist Hector contines his fast and 24-hour vigil outside the White
House.  He's a lovely young man.  Please don't let him die. Start spreading the
word of his fast; come visit him if you can, bring drum or noisemakers, any
time.  See http://prop1.org/currevnt.htm

2) DC Coalition to Stop the US War Against Iraq
Date: Monday, 19 June
Time:7 p.m.
Place: Luna Books, 1633 P Streets, NW
On the agenda: building a Coalition forum on US policy toward Iraq, scheduled
for July 25. For more information, email <[e-mail]>.

3) Whistleblowers: Alert!
Reno Backs Penalties for Some Leaks
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Media-Leaks.html
Filed at 12:28 p.m. EDT New York Times
By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Janet Reno endorsed applying criminal
penalties to intentional leaks of truly classified information that discloses
intelligence sources and methods and puts lives in jeopardy.  But she balked at
criminalizing accidental leaks or leaks of improperly or overclassified
information. She also said prosecutors should continue to go after leakers and
not news reporters who get leaked information.

``I think prosecution can be a very great deterrent'' to leaks, Reno told her
weekly news conference Thursday. But she added, ``We have to address how you
walk the fine line between a free press able to publish and encourage public
debate and how we protect the national security of this country.''

``What we want to do is make sure that the information that is classified is
properly classified and ... that there's no ability of people to overclassify
information to limit what can be truly discussed in the public's domain,'' Reno
said.

A day earlier, Reno's strong objections during a closed-door hearing prompted
senators to agree to take a closer look at their proposed legislation to make
disclosing classified information to the news media a felony punishable by up
to three years in prison.

But Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee and principal sponsor of the measure, said he had no intentions of
weakening the proposed legislation, which the committee has approved and sent
to the full Senate. The Clinton administration opposes the legislation.

Reno said Thursday that criminal penalties should be used ``clearly where there
is information that is classified, that is appropriately classified, that if it
is leaked, would reveal sources and methods and expose people's lives to
danger.''

She said the proposed legislation could be clearer about what classified
information was covered. ``I think it is important to make sure that we do not
over-classify so as to withhold from the public information that they should
legitimately have,'' Reno said.

In the case of ``inadvertent disclosure to someone whom you mistakenly believe
has clearance,'' Reno said, ``I think we can craft language that can avoid
criminalizing that type of conduct.''

She added that legislation also should reflect Justice Department policy
``through one administration after another, Republican and Democrat, ... that
it would not go after the reporter because of the First Amendment
considerations.''  After Wednesday's hearing, Shelby told reporters, ``We
basically agree that we need a tougher criminal statute.'' Shelby's committee
met with Reno, CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Louis Freeh.

Neither Reno, Tenet nor Freeh spoke with reporters as they left the committee
room. Participants said Reno took the lead in criticizing the bill.

Shelby suggested that Reno had made several suggestions to the committee and
had agreed to work with it and its staff on possible modifications. But, Shelby
asserted, ``We're not interested in watering anything down.''

Disclosure of classified material ``hurts us with our allies.... It puts a lot
of our people, their lives, in jeopardy,'' Shelby said.

Sen. Richard Bryan of Nevada, vice chairman of the panel and its senior
Democrat, said later in an interview he said he was optimistic a common
approach could be reached that the administration could support. He said Reno
seemed genuinely interested in working with the panel, Tenet and Freeh to
``tighten up the language used.''

``There is some concern that the language is overly broad,'' Bryan said. ``The
last thing we want to do is get involved in a First Amendment fight.''  The
provision would give the Justice Department authority to protect all classified
information from unauthorized disclosure.

Currently, prosecutors must show they leaked on behalf of a foreign power or
divulged ``national defense'' information..

An unclassified report on the legislation by the intelligence panel said the
measure ``closes the gap in existing law.''

The fine would be up to $10,000 and three years imprisonment  First Amendment
groups oppose the bill, arguing that criminal prosecutions are not necessarily
the best way to stop leaks.

Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press, predicted the measure, if enacted, would probably result in ``an
increase in subpoenas against reporters'' as prosecutors sought to build cases
against accused leakers.

``I would envision more journalists in jail for not identifying sources than
leakers being sentenced for something,'' she said.

The House version of the legislation, passed in May, does not contain such a
provision. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation later this month.
The bill is S. 2507

4) Cartoons - Best of the Week? (send the URLs of your choices!)
[If you have problems with accessing, go to
http://www2.uclick.com/content/opinion.html]
Los Alamos, Pat Oliphant, June 13, 2000
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/13/po.gif
Los Alamos, Tom Toles, June 14, 2000
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/tt.gif
Nuclear Secrets, Glenn McCoy, June 16, 2000
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/gm.gif
Nuclear Secrets, Bill Deore, June 16, 2000
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/bd.gif
Non-nuclear insights:
Glenn McCoy, June 14, 2000 (Microsoft)
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/gm.gif
Tony Auth, June 11, 2000 (technology)
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/11/ta.gif

5) Presidential Candidates:

Bush News June 16, 2000
http://www.georgewbush.com
From: [e-mail]

Associated Press' Glen Johnson, 6/16/00:
"On other topics...beginning in South Portland, Maine, Bush:
* "Said that, if elected, he would not be deterred in his
efforts to build a national missile defense system. Defense Secretary William
Cohen faced opposition this week from Russian President Vladimir Putin during
discussions about a limited system..."

BUSH'S SCHEDULE: June 19, 2000 - Washington (a.m.), California (p.m.)
        11:05 a.m.- Visit to Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School (Tour portion
of visit is press pool only) 2921 Falk Road Vancouver, Washington 98668 -
360/737-7372
        5:40 p.m. - Bush for President Reception, Mediterranean Ballroom Crowne
Plaza Cabana Hotel 4290 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 650/857-0787



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<html>
[<b>NucNews archives</b> have been posted through <b>June 10, 2000</b> -
see
<a href="http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm" eudora="autourl">http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm</a>.
Here are some weekend messages. et]<br>
<br>
<b>1) Drum for Vieques this weekend - Lafayette "Peace" Park;
support the fasters.<br>
</b>Vieques activist Hector contines his fast and 24-hour vigil outside
the White House.  He's a lovely young man.  Please don't let
him die. Start spreading the word of his fast; come visit him if you can,
bring drum or noisemakers, any time.  See
<a href="http://prop1.org/currevnt.htm" eudora="autourl">http://prop1.org/currevnt.htm</a><br>
<br>
<b>2) DC Coalition to Stop the US War Against Iraq<br>
</b>Date: Monday, 19 June<br>
Time:7 p.m.<br>
Place: Luna Books, 1633 P Streets, NW<br>
On the agenda: building a Coalition forum on US policy toward Iraq,
scheduled for July 25. For more information, email
<[e-mail]>.<br>
<br>
<font size=2><b>3)</font></b> <i>Whistleblowers: Alert! <br>
</i>Reno Backs Penalties for Some Leaks<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Media-Leaks.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Media-Leaks.html</a><br>
</font></u><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2>Filed at 12:28 p.m.
EDT New York Times<br>
By The Associated Press<br>
<br>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Janet Reno endorsed applying criminal
penalties to intentional leaks of truly classified information that
discloses intelligence sources and methods and puts lives in
jeopardy.  But she balked at criminalizing accidental leaks or leaks
of improperly or overclassified information. She also said prosecutors
should continue to go after leakers and not news reporters who get leaked
information. <br>
<br>
``I think prosecution can be a very great deterrent'' to leaks, Reno told
her weekly news conference Thursday. But she added, ``We have to address
how you walk the fine line between a free press able to publish and
encourage public debate and how we protect the national security of this
country.'' <br>
<br>
``What we want to do is make sure that the information that is classified
is properly classified and ... that there's no ability of people to
overclassify information to limit what can be truly discussed in the
public's domain,'' Reno said. <br>
<br>
A day earlier, Reno's strong objections during a closed-door hearing
prompted senators to agree to take a closer look at their proposed
legislation to make disclosing classified information to the news media a
felony punishable by up to three years in prison. <br>
<br>
But Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee and principal sponsor of the measure, said he had no intentions
of weakening the proposed legislation, which the committee has approved
and sent to the full Senate. The Clinton administration opposes the
legislation. <br>
<br>
Reno said Thursday that criminal penalties should be used ``clearly where
there is information that is classified, that is appropriately
classified, that if it is leaked, would reveal sources and methods and
expose people's lives to danger.'' <br>
<br>
She said the proposed legislation could be clearer about what classified
information was covered. ``I think it is important to make sure that we
do not over-classify so as to withhold from the public information that
they should legitimately have,'' Reno said. <br>
<br>
In the case of ``inadvertent disclosure to someone whom you mistakenly
believe has clearance,'' Reno said, ``I think we can craft language that
can avoid criminalizing that type of conduct.'' <br>
<br>
She added that legislation also should reflect Justice Department policy
``through one administration after another, Republican and Democrat, ...
that it would not go after the reporter because of the First Amendment
considerations.''  After Wednesday's hearing, Shelby told reporters,
``We basically agree that we need a tougher criminal statute.'' Shelby's
committee met with Reno, CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Louis
Freeh. <br>
<br>
Neither Reno, Tenet nor Freeh spoke with reporters as they left the
committee room. Participants said Reno took the lead in criticizing the
bill. <br>
<br>
Shelby suggested that Reno had made several suggestions to the committee
and had agreed to work with it and its staff on possible modifications.
But, Shelby asserted, ``We're not interested in watering anything down.''
<br>
<br>
Disclosure of classified material ``hurts us with our allies.... It puts
a lot of our people, their lives, in jeopardy,'' Shelby said. <br>
<br>
Sen. Richard Bryan of Nevada, vice chairman of the panel and its senior
Democrat, said later in an interview he said he was optimistic a common
approach could be reached that the administration could support. He said
Reno seemed genuinely interested in working with the panel, Tenet and
Freeh to ``tighten up the language used.'' <br>
<br>
``There is some concern that the language is overly broad,'' Bryan said.
``The last thing we want to do is get involved in a First Amendment
fight.''  The provision would give the Justice Department authority
to protect all classified information from unauthorized disclosure.
<br>
<br>
Currently, prosecutors must show they leaked on behalf of a foreign power
or divulged ``national defense'' information.. <br>
<br>
An unclassified report on the legislation by the intelligence panel said
the measure ``closes the gap in existing law.'' <br>
<br>
The fine would be up to $10,000 and three years imprisonment  First
Amendment groups oppose the bill, arguing that criminal prosecutions are
not necessarily the best way to stop leaks. <br>
<br>
Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom
of the Press, predicted the measure, if enacted, would probably result in
``an increase in subpoenas against reporters'' as prosecutors sought to
build cases against accused leakers. <br>
<br>
``I would envision more journalists in jail for not identifying sources
than leakers being sentenced for something,'' she said. <br>
<br>
The House version of the legislation, passed in May, does not contain
such a provision. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation later
this month.  The bill is S. 2507 <br>
<br>
</font><b>4) Cartoons </b>- <b>Best of the Week?</b> (send the URLs of
your choices!)<br>
[If you have problems with accessing, go to
<a href="http://www2.uclick.com/content/opinion.html" eudora="autourl">http://www2.uclick.com/content/opinion.html</a>]<br>
Los Alamos, Pat Oliphant, June 13, 2000<br>
<a href="http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/13/po.gif" eudora="autourl">http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/13/po.gif</a><br>
Los Alamos, Tom Toles, June 14, 2000<br>
<a href="http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/tt.gif" eudora="autourl">http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/tt.gif</a><br>
Nuclear Secrets, Glenn McCoy, June 16, 2000<br>
<a href="http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/gm.gif" eudora="autourl">http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/gm.gif</a><br>
Nuclear Secrets, Bill Deore, June 16, 2000<br>
<a href="http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/bd.gif" eudora="autourl">http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/bd.gif</a><br>
Non-nuclear insights:<br>
Glenn McCoy, June 14, 2000 (Microsoft)<br>
<a href="http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/gm.gif" eudora="autourl">http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/gm.gif</a><br>
Tony Auth, June 11, 2000 (technology)<br>
<a href="http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/11/ta.gif" eudora="autourl">http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/11/ta.gif</a><br>
<br>
<b>5) Presidential Candidates:<br>
<br>
</b>Bush News June 16, 2000 <br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.georgewbush.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.georgewbush.com</a><br>
</font></u>From: [e-mail] <br>
<br>
Associated Press' Glen Johnson, 6/16/00: <br>
"On other topics...beginning in South Portland, Maine, Bush: <br>
* "Said that, if elected, he would not be deterred in his <br>
efforts to build a national missile defense system. Defense Secretary
William Cohen faced opposition this week from Russian President Vladimir
Putin during discussions about a limited system..."<br>
<br>
<b>BUSH'S SCHEDULE: June 19, 2000 - Washington (a.m.), California
(p.m.)<br>
</b><x-tab>        </x-tab>11:05
a.m.- Visit to Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School (Tour portion of visit
is press pool only) 2921 Falk Road Vancouver, Washington 98668 -
360/737-7372<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>5:40 p.m.
- - Bush for President Reception, Mediterranean Ballroom Crowne Plaza
Cabana Hotel 4290 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 650/857-0787<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>


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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:01:13 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Plutonium in the sewer

From: "Steve Wagner" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: !b_a_Act: America's radioactive waste problem? Eat it.
Date: Sunday, June 18, 2000 2:05 PM

http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/news2000/nn10676.htm

HOT WATER GETS COLD SHOULDER

By Adrienne Anderson
Denver, June 16, 2000

  A recent ruling by a Denver judge sets the stage
for EPA to begin to flush plutonium-contaminated
Superfund site wastes into the public sewer systems,
irrigate area parks with it, mix it with industrial
and domestic sewage sludge, bag and sell it to
unsuspecting home gardeners as "fertilizer", and
spread the rest on a 50,000 acre piece of farmland the
sewage district bought with public funds in Deer
Trail, Colorado (east of Denver) as "beneficial
biosolids", where wheat and other crops are grown
and sold through the nation's commercial food supply
for human consumption.

  A four year citizens' investigation reveals that
the site is loaded with staggering levels of nuclear
wastes, which EPA has simply axed off the books as
"contaminants of concern" at the
massively-contaminated Lowry Landfill, which such
notorious polluters as Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons
Plant (which made plutonium bomb triggers), Martin
Marietta (which builds Titan missiles), Coors (which
also made nuclear fuel rods for the Atomic Energy
Commission in the 60's) and a host of 200 other area
polluters and defense contractors used for years as
their liquid radioactive and hazardous waste dump.

  I filed a federal whistleblower case on this
outrageous plan in 1997 when I served on the board of
the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, which had
secretly entered into a deal with the Lowry Landfill's
owner (City and County of Denver) and Waste
Management, Inc. (operator of the site) to flush this
problem down the drain, unbeknownst then to the sewer
plant's workers which I'd been appointed to represent,
or the public at large. My whistleblower case
(Anderson v. MWRD Case No. 97-SDW-7) was won at the
initial stage, with a ruling that I was being
harassed, threatened and discriminated against by MWRD
for speaking out against this plan on behalf of the
workers, appealed, and then appealed to the
Administrative Review Board of the Department of
Labor, who ruled in my favor that the case be
reinstated and heard on the merits.

  With this recent ruling, Metro Wastewater has
stepped up its union-busting efforts at the sewage
plant, with a history of using extortion-type tactics
in efforts to force their own workers to back their
plan to receive plutonium-contaminated Lowry Landfill
Superfund site wastewater for several years, even
though the facility is not licensed to handle nuclear
waste, and its workers are not even protected by OSHA.

  Metro Wastewater and its partners to the plan,
including the EPA, then waged a campaign of defamation
against those of us who have spoken against this
outrageous plan, which has drawn 100% written
opposition from citizens in comments to both EPA and
the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District. All public
opposition was ignored to carry out this absurd,
precedent setting plan, using the EPA's controversial
Section 503 Clean Water Act loophole as a means to
dispose of the most dangerous wastes on the planet,
including radioactive wastes that remain deadly
with half-lives of tens of thousands of years.

  The Denver Judge, Steven Phillips, in response to
an appeal for an injunction sought by farmers, union
workers, students and other citizens here and
nationally opposed to EPA's outrageous plan, has, in
effect, tossed the matter to federal court for action,
should the plaintiffs continue to seek court aid to
block the plan. The federal court here, however, are
complicit in the cover-up of major components of this,
having already sealed from public view several major
court decisions on matters citizens have the right to
know, like which polluters have paid how much into the
clean-up fund. The two federal judges to seal key
rulings about Lowry Landfill -- Sherman Finesilver and
Zita Weinsheink -- are also at the heart of other
controversial pollution cases in Denver, where
polluters got off the hook. Finesilver handled the
Rocky Flats case, where a federal grand jury
reportedly attempted to indict DOE and Rockwell
officials as individuals and sought immunity to tell
of
their findings for the public good, with no success,
to
date. Weinsheink was the judge in a case over
contaminated drinking water and associated deaths of
children in the Friendly Hills neighborhood, where
Weinsheink refused the bereaved families a jury trial,
despite preliminary ruling confirming that the huge
defense contractor had indeed contaminated their
public water supply, and had even acted in a
conspiracy to cover up evidence. Both Rocky Flats and
the U.S. Air Force/ Martin missile factory are
Superfund sites themselves, as well as contributors of
highly toxic wastes to the Lowry Landfill Superfund
site, southeast of Denver.

  Today, developers and their political pawns in
municipal and county government plan to turn the
radioactive wasteland around Lowry Landfill into
subdivisions and shopping centers. The Mayor of
Denver, Wellington Webb - whose administration
concocted this plan to simply flush a hot
environmental problem down the drain - is reportedly
eying a cabinet post in a future Gore Administration,
who used the White House to violate the Hatch Act and
solicit funds from Lowry's top polluters and
contractor while looking the other way as his EPA
lies left and right to the public that there is no
nuclear waste contamination anywhere to be found
at Lowry. And plutonium at Lowry? It didn't come from
Rocky Flats, whose contractor gave thousands to the
Clinton/Gore campaign and then won the biggest federal
contract in U.S. history; it's "cosmic dust" that fell
from the sky.

  The Clinton/Gore EPA has lied to the public
repeatedly, records show, more than willing to cover
up a major radioactive waste dump in the U.S. for
apparent political gain and the corporate dollars from
the polluters who put it there, for apparent political
gain.

  Ralph Nader is being nominated for President at
the Greens' convention in Denver this month, June 24th
and 25th. I'm going to be there to see what he says
about all of this, since we know where Al Gore stands.

  America's radioactive waste problem?

  Eat it.

- -- Adrienne Anderson Instructor, Environmental Studies
and INVST Programs University of Colorado at Boulder,
CB 339 Boulder, Colorado 80309-0339 [phone]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:42:35 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Buchanan v. Hagelin for Reform Party Nomination

I am forwarding with intro/comments below post urging a simple action to
further potential effectiveness of presidential campaigning to more
effectively utilize Reform Party position by your entering nomination of
third-party coalition builder and physicist Dr. John Hagelin for Reform
Party Presidential nomination -- as explained below a opportunity available
for the next few days.

It certainly would be a more interesting national election if Nader and
Hagelin were included in the national debates, etc., along with the
presumptive leaders Gore and Bush.  Hagelin's Natural Law Party is also
active in his presidential campaign but if he can secure the Reform Party
nomination instead of Pat Buchanan it would, I think, mean a much better
choice for the voters in November and also mean a better chance of inputing
critical issues into the public debate, issues that are now being largely
ignored.

- ------begin forwarded post--------

From: "gayatri lee" <[e-mail]>
To: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: URGENT, Time Sensitive & Wonderful!
Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:06 PM

Thanks for asking - and so quickly!

Hagelin has been bringing together a large coalition of the 3rd parties - he
very much desires their nomination!  He's been to most of the Reform Party
State Conventions looking to win their delegates nomination, and mostly he
is succeeding. I spoke with him personally last Saturday at the North
Carolina State Reform Party Convention and he strongly urged his supporters
to get out the word that anyone in the country, regardless of party
affiliation, can nominate him for the Reform Partys presidential candidacy.
When he gets this, not only do we all get a wonderful candidate and the
Reform Party gets stabilized again, but Hagelin will get nearly $13 million
in federal campaign funds. Thus he finally can buy some media time (the tv
networks, as you may know, are bought-and-paid-for, just like congress.
That's why you haven't heard more about Hagelin.  Where ever he goes,
however, he is igniting hope and passion in people's hearts. This is the
first time in 20 years that I have been involved in anything political, and
I too am excited, as you probably can tell.

Thanks so much for your thoughtfulness,
Sincerely,
Gayatri Lee, PhD, editor
Spirit in the Smokies
Asheville, NC
828-274-5665
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:26:03 -0700
To: "Gayatri" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: URGENT, Time Sensitive & Wonderful!


Hagelin is already running under banner of Natural Law Party.  How he feels
about this nomination of his name to Reform Party would be useful to include
in any forwarding of your message below.


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Gayatri <mailto:[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:43 AM
Subject: URGENT, Time Sensitive & Wonderful!

Greetings to you,          (Please forgive duplicates)     June 19, 2000

          This is Gayatri Lee, a psychologist and publisher of a holistic
magazine in Asheville, NC. I urgently request that you read and act on this
information. As you will see, the message I bring to you is wonderful news
and will take you just moments. It╣s also very time-sensitive.

      Because you are a networker and have access to many people and email
addresses, your supporting Dr. Hagelin╣s candidacy for US president in the
Reform Party over the next few days - LITERALLY BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT MONDAY,
JUNE 26, MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU DO THIS MILLENNIAL YEAR,
especially if you send this on to many others around the country.

              I request that you read and act on, and forward this message,
even if you, and those you network with, haven╣t been much interested in
politics - in fact, especially if you have been turned off by past political
corruption. I urge you to take the simple action indicated below. We all
know that we must shift our politics to save the planet. What is exciting is
that it is now extremely do-able. A window of opportunity exists right now
that is unprecedented, to change our political history with very little
effort.
              First briefly, know that what will break the 2-party
stranglehold on our democratic system is a 3rd party. The Reform Party has
the infrastructure, the organization and I believe the destiny to be this
history-making 3rd party in this millennial election. What must happen is
for Dr. John Hagelin to be nominated as the Reform Party╣s presidential
candidate. Because there are some members of the Reform Party who support
the fundamentalist, right-wing, conservative Pat Buchanan - and they are
active voters, all of us must help the Reform Party nominate Dr. John
Hagelin as their presidential candidate. Dr. Hagelin is awesome - a quantum
physicist who is forward-looking and solutions-oriented. He also appeals to
a broad base of Americans - people of all races, walks of life and
persuasions, unlike Buchanan. It is this broad-base appeal, united with the
strength of the Reform Party, that can win the presidential election and
help us all win our country back.

   What to do?  Immediately request a ballot from the chairperson of your
state╣s Reform Party via email;  [e-mail],  (In North
Carolina, for example, the email address is:
[e-mail].)
<mailto:[e-mail].)>   Give your name and street
address and state: │I hereby petition to be included in the Reform Party
Presidential Primary. Please send me a ballot so that I can nominate the
Reform Party's US presidential candidate of my choice. [I also hereby
declare that I am a registered voter in this state.]* If anything else is
required of me to request this ballot, please advise.▓
          Do this no later than 11:59 PM (by midnight) Monday night, June
26.  Each person must send in their own name and request. If you would like
the phone number, address and Reform Party state website (if any), you can
go to www.reformparty.org/states/index.html
<http://www.reformparty.org/states/index.html> .  (* Don╣t include this
statement if not already registered to vote and register as soon as
possible. Know that you can be registered with any, or no, party
affiliation. It doesn╣t matter) If you mail your ballot request via the
post, it must get there by Monday also.

         Your ballot will arrive in early July for you to fill out
(nominating Hagelin) and return as directed.When you help nominate Dr.
Hagelin for the Reform Party╣s presidential candidate, it does not obligate
you to vote for him or anyone in particular in November. What it does is put
a powerful candidate and third party together and gives the people of
American another choice. In so doing, the Reform Party can restabilize and
continue it╣s strength and positive impact in US politics, and Dr. Hagelin
finally gets the federal funds and media coverage previously denied to win
the presidency. The two must unite, and we must unite to make this happen.
         For further information, see website: www.hagelin.org
<http://www.hagelin.org>   or call Tom Carlisle at 828-232-1311. You are
also welcome to request further information from me. In the interest of
time, I urge you to take action and send in your ballot request immediately.
Please forward this to everyone you know, editing or adding your own notes
as you wish. These are the times to unite and as we do, the world is forever
changed, for the highest good of all.
Sincerely,
Gayatri Lee
828-274-5665
PS Please send me a copy of what you forward to others, and let me know how
many you sent it to. Thank you!

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


- -dcw

David Crockett Williams  [e-mail]
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