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abolition-usa-digest      Thursday, July 6 2000      Volume 01 : Number 335




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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:05:20 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) SUPPORT BMD PROTEST, FAX CLINTON, BUSH, GORE, COHEN

Dear People on Abolition 2000, Nuc News, Abolition USA, and Nukenet,

Sorry to be so insistent,

But its just four days now till the July 7 sceduled test of the NMD system
at Vandenburg and Kwajelien.

A number of US groups have held a vigil at the gates of the Vandenburg AFB,
and further protests are to be held on the day of the test.

At this stage, it is vital not only to demonstrate solidarity with the
protesters, which can best be done on

"Carah" <[e-mail]>,  "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
Power in Space" <[e-mail]>, (or better still, send a hard
copy on 1-805-568-0466, at NAPF),

BUT IT IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT

- -To let President Clinton and Secretary of defence Cohen as well as the
presidential candidates and your local congressperson know that you don't
want BMD.

Clintons fax number is 1-202-456-2461. Secy of Defence Cohen's is
1-703-695-1149.
Vice- President Gore 1-202-456-2461, Candidate George W Bush: 1-512-637-8800.

I have put up sample letters repeatedly on these lists, including just now.

You should also visit the 'Dont Blow it' website at
 http://DontBlowit.org.
from which you can send the president a free e-postcard.


(ORIGINAL APPEAL AND LETTER BELOW)

Please forward this message to anyone you know that might act on it.

JULY 7 TEST OF 'SON OF STAR WARS'
FAX CLINTON, COHEN, NOW - SAY NO TO NMD.
Clinton [phone], Cohen on [phone]. Gore 1-202-456-2461,
George W Bush: 1-512-637-8800.

CONTAINS:
Sample letter and Appeal to fax Cohen, Clinton
Press Releases from WSLF, Vandenburg Action Coalition.

Dear All,

Today in front of the Vandenberg Airforce base in the US, activists have
commenced a peaceful vigil against the planned 7 July test of the National
Missile Defence system.(NMD)

Non-violent civil disobediance is planned for the day of the test itself,
and it is hoped that as a result the test will be disrupted or delayed.

Ballistic Missile Defence, (BMD) or the specific proposal now under
consideration by Clinton known as National Missile Defence (NMD), is
essentially the continuation of 'Star Wars'.

The current NMD proposal will in all probability not work, is designed to
meet a nonexistent threat, and potentially may re-ignite the arms race,
setting at nought the obligations of both the US and Russia to the 'total
and unequivocal' elimination of their nuclear arsenals, embodied in the
final declaration of the NPT Review Conference.

The US secretary General, the European Union, Portugal, Sweden, Germany,
France, and a  coalition of nations known as the New Agenda Coalition (who
effectively have the support of of the overwhelming majority of countries
in the world), have all expressed grave concern over the NMD proposal.

Russia and China have expressed extreme opposition and say it will create a
new arms race. Russia has threatened to tear up nuclear arms control
agreements if the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty is broken to allow NMD to
proceed.

The Australian Senate voted a motion against NMD on Thursday Morning at
9.30 am (Canberra Time)

President Clinton and Defence Secy Cohen will be making a decision on NMD
within a few weeks.

If you think,  as most of the world does, that NMD is a dangerous delusion,
please fax President Clinton and US Defence Secretary William Cohen now,
and let them know that you don't want NMD or BMD.

If you are in the US, please also contact your congressperson and let them
know that you don't want NMD.

If, like me, you're not in the US, you can still fax president Clinton on
[phone], and ask that the US not deploy BMD.  You could also fax
Defence Secretary Cohen on [phone].

IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE US YOU SHOULD ALSO LET YOUR MINISTER OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS KNOW THAT YOU WANT YOUR GOVERNMENT TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST NMD.

IF YOU LIVE IN A G8 COUNTRY (Which includes not only US but Russia, UK,
France, Germany, Japan) ASK YOUR MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OR HEAD OF
STATE TO LET THE US KNOW YOUR COUNTRY IS CONCERNED AT US NMD PLANS AT THE
COMING G 8 SUMMIT IN OKINAWA.

In the meantime, whether you live in the US or elsewhere, you are urged to
fax Clinton and Cohen before July 7 to say you don't want NMD.  You should
also try to fax candidates Bush and Gore.

You should also visit the 'Dont Blow it' website at
 http://DontBlowit.org.
from which you can send the president a free e-postcard.


I am enclosing:

1)A sample letter to Clinton/Cohen.

2) Press Releases from the Vandenburg Action Coalition and WSLF.

Happy faxing!


1) Sample letter to Clinton and Cohen

1)SAMPLE LETTER FOR ESP US FOLKS,  TO SEND TO BILL CLINTON, WILLIAM S.
COHEN, MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, BUSH, GORE, AND RELEVANT CONGRESSIONAL
SUBCOMMITTEES.

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, 1-202-456-2461,

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT 1-202-647-6047

SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, WILLIAM S. COHEN 1-703-695-1149
cc
George Bush
Al Gore

Dear President Clinton, William Cohen, Madeleine Albright, and Presidential
candidates,

I am writing to urge you not to proceed with proposals for a national
ballistic missile defence system.  Missile defence schemes respond to a
nonexistent or exaggerated threat,  are not the solution to real threats,
make the rest of the US's security environment less safe, sabotage nuclear
disarmament efforts to which the US is legally committed along with the
rest of the world, and show contempt for the opinions of US allies and the
rest of the world.

At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other
countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an unequivocal
undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal.
Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten that vital goal, to which
the US is legally committed.

At the very same conference, the UN Secretary General, and representatives
of Russia, China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European community, the New
Agenda Coalition and the Non- aligned movement have all expressed strongly
that they believe the ABM treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic
stability. They do not think it should be modified to allow a missile
defence system,  still less abrogated unilaterally.  On your recent
European trip, leaders of Europe and Russia have made the same point.
America simply cannot ignore the strongly repeated opinion of the whole
world, that the ABM treaty should not be modified to permit BMD.

Furthermore:

1)The threat that the national missile defence system is supposed to
address, namely that of missile - equipped  so- called  'rogue states' is
in all likelihood, nonexistent.

2) A  state that really wished to inflict serious damage on the US would
probaby rather smuggle a nuclear explosive device into a US city by means
that are more reliable and more difficult to trace than missiles.

3)There are serious doubts as to whether this system can work at all, or as
to whether any missile defence system can ever work.  The problems posed
even by relatively simple decoys are probably technically insoluble.

4)National (and theatre) missile defence schemes are unsustainably costly,
and cost estimates are likely to rise without limit.

Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US  focus on real
solutions to global  strategic security.  The highest priorities have to be
the elimination of as many warheads as possible under any START-III
agreement with Russia, and  the removal of  strategic missile forces from
high alert status as advocated by the Canberra Commission, subsequent UN
resolutions and the final NPT declaration.

In this respect, the commitment of Candidate Bush to deep cuts in warhead
numbers and to reductions in alert status are worthy of support.
Commitments to costly and dangerous missile defence schemes are worthy only
of opposition.

Yours Sincerely,
Signed
....





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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:37:30 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) A home for the NPT Peace Crane!!

Dear Friends,
Thanks for all the great responses about a home for our NPT sculpture of a
Peace Crane for which nearly a thousand of you supplied names of
downwinders, Hibakusha, indigenous people, and other victims of the nuclear
age.  Thanks to Ellen Thomas in Washington, DC the bird is now safely
ensconced and on display at the Josephine Butler Arts Center in Washington
DC.  Below is a message from Ellen about the Center.  Regards, Alice Slater
>>
>>The Josephine Butler Arts Center is at 2437 15th Street NW, Washington,
DC -- a recently-renovated-by-activists mansion which was formerly an
embassy, vacant for a long time and run down, but now nearly back to its
original elegance (the first floor completed, other floors still in the
works).  It was obtained and named in memory of a wonderful woman, close
friend of Paul Robeson, human rights activist, co-founder of D.C. Home
Rule, and all-embracing networker who brought all sorts of people together
who never would have met otherwise.  She was a staunch advocate of
Proposition One (HR-2545), collecting signatures and making speeches during
the initiative campaign,
>>putting it on the platform of the D.C. Statehood Party.  Shortly before she
>>became terminally ill, she was pressing me to help arrange a BIG peace
>>convention in D.C. (you can see the outline at
>>http://prop1.org/gpond/gpond.htm.)
>>
>>Ellen
>>
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: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:38:41 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Australian Senate Passes Motion on BMD

John--I was away and just read this.  Wonderful work!!  Go Australia!!
Love,
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: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:07:21 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Arms Trade Resource Center, Part 3

>Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:39:37 -0400
>Subject: Arms Trade Resource Center, Part 3
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>  June 26, 2000
>
>To: Friends and Colleagues of the Arms Trade Resource Center
>
>From: Frida Berrigan, Michelle Ciarrocca, and Bill Hartung
>
>Re: ATRC UPDATE, PART III
>
>
>IN THIS ISSUE . . .
>
>        This issue is devoted in its entirety to a profile of the
>Lockheed Martin Corporation.  This is the first in a series of profiles
>of major weapons makers that ATRC will be producing over the next six to
>eight months.  We decided to do this series of profiles after
>discussions with Steve Staples of the International Network on
>Globalization and Disarmament and Alice Slater of the Global Research
>and Action Center on the Environment (GRACE) about the best ways to
>inject the issues of disarmament and military spending into the growing
>movement against corporate-dominated trade arrangements like the World
>Trade Organization.  Other companies in the series will include
>Raytheon, Boeing, BAE Systems, Bechtel, and Alliant Tech Systems.  We
>also found there is a growing demand among grassroots activists,
>citizen's organizations, and journalists for detailed information on the
>operations of major weapons producing companies.  We hope this series
>will help fill part of that need, both by providing information and by
>sparking discussion on the best ways to deal with military
>mega-companies, in the realms of both research AND action.  Your
>suggestions are welcome, on what companies to profile, on the most
>useful formats in which to disseminate this information, and on any
>specifics with respect to the subject of our first profile, Lockheed
>Martin.
>
>LOCKHEED MARTIN: ALL-PURPOSE MERCHANT OF DEATH
>
>     LOCKHEED MARTIN IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST WEAPONS MAKER
>
>          Lockheed Martin is the nation's (and the world's) largest
>weapons manufacturer.  The company received over $18 billion in U.S.
>government contracts in F.Y. 1999, including $12.6 billion from the
>Pentagon and more than $2 billion from the Department of Energy for
>nuclear weapons-related activities.  To put this in some perspective, it
>should be noted that ONE COMPANY -- Lockheed Martin-- receives more
>federal funding each year than the ENTIRE BUDGET for the nation's
>largest welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which
>is meant to help tens of millions of Americans living in poverty.
>
>     LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS A BIG "POLITICAL FOOTPRINT"
>
>          Lockheed Martin is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, but
>the firm's promotional literature brags of its "facilities in all 50
>states." This is a bit of a stretch, since many of these "facilities"
>are nothing more than small administrative offices.  But the company
>does have impressive geographic reach, giving it what John Pike of the
>Federation of American Scientists describes as a big "political
>footprint."  Lockheed Martin has major military research and production
>operations in Moorestown, New Jersey; Marietta, Georgia; Oak Ridge,
>Tennessee; Orlando, Florida; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Fort Worth,
>Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Vandenberg Air Force Base, California;
>Sunnyvale, California and the Nevada Test Site.  Also, for its major
>production systems, like the F-22 "stealth" fighter plane, Lockheed
>Martin makes sure to spread its subcontracts around to as many
>Congressional Districts as possible, as a way to curry favor with key
>legislators.
>
>      LOCKHEED MARTIN WAS CREATED THROUGH A SERIES OF
>      GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED MERGERS
>
>          In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were 10 to 15 major
>weapons producing firms in the United States.  In the 1990s, that number
>has shrunk to just three major producers --Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and
>Raytheon-- plus a few smaller niche players like Northrop Grumman,
>United Defense, TRW, and Northrop Grumman.  The consolidation of the
>weapons industry was strongly pushed by Norman Augustine, then CEO of
>Martin Marietta, and was shepherded through the bureaucracy by William
>Perry and John Deutch, major policy makers in the Pentagon during the
>early years of the Clinton Administration who also happened to be paid
>consultants to Martin Marietta before joining the administration.
>
>          In the summer of 1993, Augustine appealed to Perry and Deutch
>to change the Pentagon's contracting rules so that weapons companies
>engaging in mergers could charge the costs of moving factories, paying
>executive bonuses, legal fees, and other costs generated as a result of
>there mergers to the U.S. government.  Since Perry and Deutch had recent
>business dealings with Augustine, they had to get waivers of the
>conflict of interest regulations to rule on Augustine's request.  They
>got the waivers and changed the rules, paving the way for Lockheed to
>merge with Martin Marietta and reap a windfall of over $1.2 billion in
>taxpayer funds for merger-related costs, including $2.9 million of the
>$8.2 million in special compensation that Norman Augustine received as a
>result of the merger, and roughly $250,000 in payments to former
>Tennessee Governor and two-time presidential contender Lamar Alexander
>for the "hardship" he endured when he was asked to step down from the
>board of directors of the newly merged company.  In addition to Lockheed
>and Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin includes the former defense unit of
>the Loral Corporation, the aerospace unit of General Electric, and the
>space division of General Dynamics.  Each of these companies in turn had
>been built up by various mergers before they were absorbed by Lockheed
>Martin.
>
>
>       LOCKHEED MARTIN SPENDS MORE ON CAMPAIGN
>       CONTRIBUTIONS THAN ANY OTHER WEAPONS MAKER
>
>           Lockheed Martin has made over $1.6 million in Political
>Action Committee (PAC) contributions since 1997, plus another $500,000
>in soft money contributions to Democratic and Republican party
>committees.  Not surprisingly, the company's political spending has
>favored Republican candidates by almost a two-to-one margin, 66% to 34%.
> The company also spent $10.2 million on lobbying during 1997 and 1998,
>second only to Boeing among military/aerospace firms (Boeing spent $18.4
>million on lobbying in 1997/98).
>
>          Lockheed Martin has the additional advantage of having key
>company associates involved at the top levels of the Republican and
>Democratic presidential campaigns.  Company Vice President Bruce
>Jackson, whose most recent claim to fame was his role as the director of
>the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO during the battle over ratifying the
>inclusion of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic into the alliance
>during 1997 and 1998, served as a vice chair for fund-raising in the
>Dole for President Campaign in 1996, and is doing the same for the
>George W. Bush campaign in the run up to the November 2000 elections.
>At a conference in Europe last year, Jackson was overheard bragging to
>his colleagues from European weapons companies that if George W. Bush
>wins the election, the arms industry will be in great shape because he,
>Bruce Jackson, will essentially write the Republican platform on
>defense.  Meanwhile, Bernard Schwartz, a former Lockheed Martin board
>member who sold the defense unit of his company, Loral, to Lockheed
>Martin in 1996, was to top soft money donor to the Democratic Party
>during the 1996 election cycle, with $601,000 in donations, and he has
>already nearly doubled that amount in the year 2000 cycle, with more
>than $1.1 million in contributions to Democratic Party committees.
>That's one of the reasons that when Lockheed Martin talks, the President
>and the Congress listen.
>
>
>        LOCKHEED MARTIN IS THE WORLD LARGEST ARMS MERCHANT
>
>            Lockheed Martin exports $2 to $3 billion in arms per year,
>to customers that have included Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Greece,
>Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore.  The firm also has
>investments in place or under way in the arms/aerospace industries of
>Poland, Argentina, and the United Kingdom.  The company's most lucrative
>export is the F-16 combat aircraft, which has been used by the Turkish
>government to bomb and burn Kurdish villages in southeastern Turkey and
>to bomb alleged members of the Turkish-based Kurdish Worker's Party
>(PKK) in Northern Iraq.  The F-16 has also been a staple of Israel's
>decades-long air war against Lebanon, which may finally be coming to an
>end as part of ongoing peace talks between Israel and Syria.
>
>            Lockheed Martin has pushed aggressively for changes in U.S.
>arms export policies that make it easier to sell U.S. weaponry in all
>corners of the globe, including the Defense Export Loan Guarantee fund
>(DELG), a $15 billion taxpayer-backed fund designed to help foreign
>purchasers finance arms deals with U.S. companies; the lifting of the
>ban on sales of U.S. fighter aircraft to Latin America; and the
>expansion of NATO, which in theory will make Poland, Hungary, and the
>Czech Republic increases their weapons purchases from Western arms
>manufacturers as part of their drive to meet NATO standards for
>"interoperability."  Lockheed Martin has also been actively involved in
>efforts to defeat and/or water down the Code of Conduct on arms
>transfers, legislation that would make it much more difficult to supply
>U.S.-origin weapons to dictatorships and human rights abusers.  Former
>Lockheed Martin CEO and current Chairman of the Board Norman Augustine
>has been instrumental in pushing through a number of these changes
>through his position as chairman of the Defense Policy Advisory
>Committee on Trade (DPACT), a confidential panel which gives advice on
>U.S. arms export policy to the Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Trade
>Representative.
>
>
>      LOCKHEED MARTIN'S DOUBLE DIP:
>      DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND PROMOTING A NATIONAL MISSILE
>DEFENSE
>
>           Lockheed Martin is in the unique position of deriving a
>double benefit from the current push to deploy a National Missile
>Defense system.  For 1998/1999, Lockheed Martin ranks second to Boeing
>in total missile defense contracts with a total of $617 million in
>contracts.
>
>            Lockheed Martin's major missile defense contracts include
>the Payload Launch Vehicle for the National Missile Defense interceptor
>system; the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) "High" component, which
>is supposed to improve the tracking of incoming ballistic missiles; the
>Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, a medium range
>ballistic missile defense system which recently yielded Lockheed Martin
>a $4 billion long-term contract from the Pentagon; the Airborne Laser
>(ABL) --in a partnership with Raytheon and Boeing--   an aircraft-based
>laser system that is designed to achieve the capability for destroying
>medium-range missiles as they leave their silos; the Navy Theater Wide
>system, which is based in part on Lockheed Martin's Aegis anti-tactical
>missile system, which is produced at the company's Moorestown, New
>Jersey facility; and the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), the
>major U.S.-European missile defense system which is being produced by
>Lockheed Martin in partnership with Alenia of Italy and Daimler Chrysler
>Aerospace of Germany.
>
>            On the nuclear weapons front, Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale,
>California missiles and space unit is responsible for the production of
>the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile, the last major
>nuclear weapons delivery vehicle still being purchased by the Pentagon.
>Lockheed Martin receives roughly $2 billion per year to run the
>Department of Energy's Sandia Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in New Mexico,
>which is involved in the costly "Stockpile Stewardship program," an
>effort to gauge the "reliability" of U.S. nuclear stockpiles AND design
>new nuclear weapons.  Lockheed Martin also has a subcontract to Becthel
>to help develop the capability to conduct simulated nuclear tests at the
>Nevada Test Site.
>
>     REVOLVING DOOR, ONGOING SCANDALS, AND MORE . . .
>
>           As you can see, Lockheed Martin is involved in so many
>different aspects of the military industrial complex that it is
>difficult to provide a short summary of their activities.
>
>           Other aspects of the company's behavior to bear in mind are
>its hiring of former members of Congress (like former Democratic Senator
>Mack Mattingly of Georgia, former Rep. Sonny Montgomery of Mississippi,
>and former Georgia Rep. Buddy Darden) and former Pentagon officials to
>lobby on its behalf on issues like fate of the F-22 fighter aircraft;
>it's involvement in ongoing scandals like its supply of information that
>could have been used to improve the accuracy of China's ballistic
>missiles, for which it received the largest fine in the history of the
>Arms Export Control Act; its faulty launch vehicles which have
>contributed to the loss of billions of dollars worth of intelligence
>satellites; its involvement in bribery and bid-rigging in overseas arms
>sales; and its role in rigging missile defense tests in the 1980s and
>(possibly) the 1990s and beyond.
>
>     ACTION, NOT DEPRESSION:
>     WHAT'S THE USE OF ALL THIS HEAVY INFORMATION?
>
>           Taken in one dose, all of this information on Lockheed
>Martin's far ranging and nefarious activities is liable to make a person
>feel like giving up.  They're big, they're powerful, they're connected,
>and they usually get what they want, or so it appears. BUT DON'T GIVE UP
>YET.  Despite its $18 billion per year in government contracts and its
>impressive lobbying operation, Lockheed Martin can be beaten.
>
>            Its shares have plummeted to half their prior value within
>the past few years, and even its former close allies on Capitol Hill,
>like Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) have taken on
>the firm on key issues like the ballooning costs of its F-22 fighter
>plane, which at $160 million per copy is the most expensive fighter
>plane ever built.  The company depends on U.S. government contracts and
>foreign military sales for the vast majority of its revenues, and its
>presence in a number of controversial issues simultaneously --from
>nuclear weapons and Star Wars to weapons trafficking-- make it an
>inviting target for an international anti-corporate campaign on the
>issues of de-militarization and disarmament.
>
>            The Brandywine Peace Community in the Philadelphia area has
>long undertaken a campaign of public education and civil disobedience
>against the company's nuclear weapons work, dating back to when the
>relevant facilities were controlled by General Electric, and then Martin
>Marietta, and then Lockheed Martin.  A number of religious shareholder
>organizations have also taken up the issue of nuclear weapons and arms
>sales with Lockheed Martin in recent years.  In effect, these groups
>inherited Lockheed Martin as a result of the merger craze in the weapons
>industry.  The question now is whether other groups in the international
>peace and social justice movements want to make Lockheed Martin a part
>of their work, either as a concrete example of militarism at work or as
>the focus of some kind of coordinated campaign involving organizations
>around the United States and around the world.  We'd be interested in
>your thoughts on this point, both with respect to Lockheed Martin and
>with regard to the other companies we will be profiling in the months
>ahead.
>
>QUICK SOURCE NOTE ON LOCKHEED MARTIN: In addition to looking at the
>various reports and articles on our web site,  you can get good,
>up-to-date information on contributions by Lockheed Martin and other
>weapons makers to your representative on the web site of the Center for
>Responsive Politics, at www.opensecrets.org. Lockheed Martin itself
>gives an enormous amount of detail on its military work on its web page,
>at www.lmco.com.  And for the best single guide to how to research a
>military company, see Lora Lumpe and Jeff Donarski, THE ARMS TRADE
>REVEALED, available on the web site of the Arms Sales Monitoring Project
>of the Federation of American Scientists, at www.fas.org/asmp.
>
>William D. Hartung
>World Policy Institute
>65 Fifth Ave.  Suite 413
>New York, NY  10003
>(212)-229-5808, ext. 106
>(212)-229-5579 (fax)
>[e-mail]
>

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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:29:06 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) SUPPORT BMD PROTEST, FAX CLINTON, BUSH, GORE, COHEN

PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE ON TO ANYONE THAT MIGHT ACT ON IT

BMD TEST JULY 7

Dear Everyone,

If you have not yet sent a fax in to President Clinton, Bush, Gore, and
Defence Secy Cohen opposing BMD/NMD, the time is now.

Clintons fax number is 1-202-456-2461. Secy of Defence Cohen's is
1-703-695-1149.
Vice- President Gore 1-202-456-2461, Candidate George W Bush: 1-512-637-8800.

I have put up sample letters repeatedly on these lists, including just now.

You should also visit the 'Dont Blow it' website at
 http://DontBlowit.org.
from which you can send the president a free e-postcard.

It's also important to demonstate solidarity with the protesters at the
Vandenburg Airforce Base.
This can best be done on:

"Carah" <[e-mail]>,  "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
Power in Space" <[e-mail]>, (or better still, send a hard
copy on 1-805-568-0466, at NAPF),

BUT IT IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT

- -To let President Clinton and Secretary of defence Cohen as well as the
presidential candidates and your local congressperson know that you don't
want BMD.


(ORIGINAL APPEAL AND LETTER BELOW)

Please forward this message to anyone you know that might act on it.

JULY 7 TEST OF 'SON OF STAR WARS'
FAX CLINTON, COHEN, NOW - SAY NO TO NMD.
Clinton [phone], Cohen on [phone]. Gore 1-202-456-2461,
George W Bush: 1-512-637-8800.

CONTAINS:
Sample letter and Appeal to fax Cohen, Clinton
Press Releases from WSLF, Vandenburg Action Coalition.

Dear All,

Today in front of the Vandenberg Airforce base in the US, activists have
commenced a peaceful vigil against the planned 7 July test of the National
Missile Defence system.(NMD)

Non-violent civil disobediance is planned for the day of the test itself,
and it is hoped that as a result the test will be disrupted or delayed.

Ballistic Missile Defence, (BMD) or the specific proposal now under
consideration by Clinton known as National Missile Defence (NMD), is
essentially the continuation of 'Star Wars'.

The current NMD proposal will in all probability not work, is designed to
meet a nonexistent threat, and potentially may re-ignite the arms race,
setting at nought the obligations of both the US and Russia to the 'total
and unequivocal' elimination of their nuclear arsenals, embodied in the
final declaration of the NPT Review Conference.

The US secretary General, the European Union, Portugal, Sweden, Germany,
France, and a  coalition of nations known as the New Agenda Coalition (who
effectively have the support of of the overwhelming majority of countries
in the world), have all expressed grave concern over the NMD proposal.

Russia and China have expressed extreme opposition and say it will create a
new arms race. Russia has threatened to tear up nuclear arms control
agreements if the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty is broken to allow NMD to
proceed.

The Australian Senate voted a motion against NMD on Thursday Morning at
9.30 am (Canberra Time)

President Clinton and Defence Secy Cohen will be making a decision on NMD
within a few weeks.

If you think,  as most of the world does, that NMD is a dangerous delusion,
please fax President Clinton and US Defence Secretary William Cohen now,
and let them know that you don't want NMD or BMD.

If you are in the US, please also contact your congressperson and let them
know that you don't want NMD.

If, like me, you're not in the US, you can still fax president Clinton on
[phone], and ask that the US not deploy BMD.  You could also fax
Defence Secretary Cohen on [phone].

IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE US YOU SHOULD ALSO LET YOUR MINISTER OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS KNOW THAT YOU WANT YOUR GOVERNMENT TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST NMD.

IF YOU LIVE IN A G8 COUNTRY (Which includes not only US but Russia, UK,
France, Germany, Japan) ASK YOUR MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OR HEAD OF
STATE TO LET THE US KNOW YOUR COUNTRY IS CONCERNED AT US NMD PLANS AT THE
COMING G 8 SUMMIT IN OKINAWA.

In the meantime, whether you live in the US or elsewhere, you are urged to
fax Clinton and Cohen before July 7 to say you don't want NMD.  You should
also try to fax candidates Bush and Gore.

You should also visit the 'Dont Blow it' website at
 http://DontBlowit.org.
from which you can send the president a free e-postcard.


I am enclosing:

1)A sample letter to Clinton/Cohen.

2) Press Releases from the Vandenburg Action Coalition and WSLF.

Happy faxing!


1) Sample letter to Clinton and Cohen

1)SAMPLE LETTER FOR ESP US FOLKS,  TO SEND TO BILL CLINTON, WILLIAM S.
COHEN, MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, BUSH, GORE, AND RELEVANT CONGRESSIONAL
SUBCOMMITTEES.

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, 1-202-456-2461,

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT 1-202-647-6047

SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, WILLIAM S. COHEN 1-703-695-1149
cc
George Bush
Al Gore

Dear President Clinton, William Cohen, Madeleine Albright, and Presidential
candidates,

I am writing to urge you not to proceed with proposals for a national
ballistic missile defence system.  Missile defence schemes respond to a
nonexistent or exaggerated threat,  are not the solution to real threats,
make the rest of the US's security environment less safe, sabotage nuclear
disarmament efforts to which the US is legally committed along with the
rest of the world, and show contempt for the opinions of US allies and the
rest of the world.

At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other
countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an unequivocal
undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal.
Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten that vital goal, to which
the US is legally committed.

At the very same conference, the UN Secretary General, and representatives
of Russia, China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European community, the New
Agenda Coalition and the Non- aligned movement have all expressed strongly
that they believe the ABM treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic
stability. They do not think it should be modified to allow a missile
defence system,  still less abrogated unilaterally.  On your recent
European trip, leaders of Europe and Russia have made the same point.
America simply cannot ignore the strongly repeated opinion of the whole
world, that the ABM treaty should not be modified to permit BMD.

Furthermore:

1)The threat that the national missile defence system is supposed to
address, namely that of missile - equipped  so- called  'rogue states' is
in all likelihood, nonexistent.

2) A  state that really wished to inflict serious damage on the US would
probaby rather smuggle a nuclear explosive device into a US city by means
that are more reliable and more difficult to trace than missiles.

3)There are serious doubts as to whether this system can work at all, or as
to whether any missile defence system can ever work.  The problems posed
even by relatively simple decoys are probably technically insoluble.

4)National (and theatre) missile defence schemes are unsustainably costly,
and cost estimates are likely to rise without limit.

Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US  focus on real
solutions to global  strategic security.  The highest priorities have to be
the elimination of as many warheads as possible under any START-III
agreement with Russia, and  the removal of  strategic missile forces from
high alert status as advocated by the Canberra Commission, subsequent UN
resolutions and the final NPT declaration.

In this respect, the commitment of Candidate Bush to deep cuts in warhead
numbers and to reductions in alert status are worthy of support.
Commitments to costly and dangerous missile defence schemes are worthy only
of opposition.

Yours Sincerely,
Signed
....





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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 08:07:51 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/07/06 - Daybook

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Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200076212812.htm

Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers briefing =97 9:30 a.m. =97 The Coalition=
 to
Reduce Nuclear Dangers holds a news briefing on the third of 19 planned=
 tests
on the administration's proposed national missile defense. Location: Murrow
Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/546-0795,=
 ext.
136.

Convention protests news conference =97 noon =97 The National Press Club=
 hosts a
news conference on plans for large protests at the Republican and Democratic
national conventions this summer by the R2D2 Coalition, which staged
demonstrations at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle and World
Bank/International Monetary Fund meetings in the District. Location: First
Amendment Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact:
202/662-7593.

Taxes conference =97 all day =97 The Peace Tax Foundation holds the eighth
International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns.=20
Highlights =97
        10 a.m. =97 Conscience and Peace Tax International board meeting.
        1 p.m. =97 Visits to State Department and the Pentagon.
        7:30 p.m. =97 Marjorie Kornhauser, "U.S. Supreme Court Rejection of
Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation," and Peter Goldberger,=
 "Taxation:
The Role of Peace Tax Fund Legislation."
        Location: Catholic University, 620 Michigan Ave. NW. Contact:
202/483-3751.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES:

AL GORE - Chicago=20
        11:30 a.m. =97 Addresses the National Education Association national
convention, McCormick Center, Chicago.


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Radbull (Radiation Bulletin) mailto:[e-mail]=20

Quick Route to U.S. Congress:

http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites)
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites)
http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search)

Presidential Candidates' Websites:

George W. Bush - http://www.georgewbush.com/
Pat Buchanan - http://www.buchananreform.com/index.asp
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html

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Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers briefing =97 9:30 a.m. =97 The Coalition
to Reduce Nuclear Dangers holds a news briefing on the third of 19
planned tests on the administration's proposed national missile defense.
Location: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW.
Contact: 202/546-0795, ext. 136.<br>
<br>
Convention protests news conference =97 noon =97 The National Press Club
hosts a news conference on plans for large protests at the Republican and
Democratic national conventions this summer by the R2D2 Coalition, which
staged demonstrations at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle
and World Bank/International Monetary Fund meetings in the District.
Location: First Amendment Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets
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<a href=3D"http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm"=
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 Websites)<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html"=
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Pat Buchanan - <a href=3D"http://www.buchananreform.com/index.asp"=
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Al Gore - <a href=3D"http://www.algore2000.com/"=
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Ralph Nader - <a href=3D"http://www.votenader.org/press.html"=
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<br>
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