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abolition-usa-digest     Sunday, October 29 2000     Volume 01 : Number 396




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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:39:51 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/26 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, October 26, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001026211333.htm

     Preventive defense briefing =97 8:30 a.m. =97 The Preventive Defense=
 Project
holds a news briefing on "Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the=
 Future."
William Perry, former defense secretary, participates. Location: Lisagor=
 Room,
National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 617/496-0964.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush -=20
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
GOVERNOR BUSH TO VISIT PITTSBURGH AND OHIO=20
General Colin Powell to join Governor Bush in Pennsylvania
        12:00 p.m. - Soldiers and Sailors Museum, 4141 5th Avenue,=
 Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, [phone]=20
        5:35 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Erie International Airport, North=
 Coast
Air, 4645 West 12th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania 16505, [phone]=20
        7:30 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Toledo Express Airport,=20
Grand Aire Inc., 11777 West Airport Service Road, Swanton, Ohio (419)=
 861-6773=20
        Friday: he visits several Michigan cities via bus.

- - Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
      Travels to Davenport, Iowa, and Madison, Wis.

- - Ralph Nader -=20
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
        Thursday, October 26 - Cleveland, OH Speech - Time:TBA
University Center Auditorium, Cleveland State University
        DC Rally November 5th - at 2PM. Doors open at Noon.=20
Ralph Nader will be wrapping up campaign 2000 right here in Washington, D.C.
with a super rally of 17,000 people at the MCI Center.=20

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - Intl. DU Conference, 4-5 November, Manchester Town Hall=20
There are only 30 places remaining on the International Conference Against
Depleted Uranium Weapons, 4-5 November, at Manchester Town Hall, Manchester,
England. The conference has been deluged with registrations in the past few
days, leading us up to our maximum number of 200 people. Gulf War veterans=
 and
certified members of the media are admitted without charge. A special media
suite will be available inside the conference venue, as we have had requests
for interviews from the media of several countries. If you have not yet
registered, and intend to do so, please send your name, organisation (if=
 any),
and your contact information to the CADU office on fax number 44-(0)-161 834
8301 before Friday 27 October. You may also email the information to:
[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>. After that date, registration
will
still be open for any available places starting Saturday 4 November at 9 am=
 at
Manchester Town Hall. The conference will start promptly at 9.45 am. We have
speakers from 13 countries, including activists, scientists, and=
 policy-makers.
There is plenty of time built into the schedule for audience input. The
conference should provide a way to develop a common strategy for anti-DU=
 groups
worldwide. We must convince the military and governmental decision-makers=
 that
these radioactive and chemically toxic weapons are not worth the risk to=
 their
own troops, to the workers who manufacture them, to non-combatant civilians,
nor to the environment as a whole. [From: "Cat"
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - Visit the Abolition 2000 website and see what's new!=20
Http://www.abolition2000.org

- - Free Air Time on PBS: Not for All Candidates
        PBS has announced its plan to offer free air time to presidential
candidates beginning October 25, and concluding on Friday, November 3. The
candidates will get 2 and a half minutes at the end of the "News Hour with=
 Jim
Lehrer" to address viewers directly, but the offer is not open to all the
candidates: The PBS proposal provides four nights for Al Gore, and four for
George W. Bush.
        This narrowing of the debate to the major parties continues the
exclusionary spirit of this year's presidential debates, organized by the
Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) and moderated by NewsHour host Jim
Lehrer. The CPD, a creation of the two major parties, devised debate rules=
 that
were intended to keep viable third-party candidates out of the process. For
whatever reason, PBS and its flagship newscast have decided to do the same.
        The air time proposal is essentially the same as the one being=
 offered
by the commercial networks. Ironically, eight nights would give PBS a chance=
 to
offer time to virtually all the major and viable minor party candidates.
        ACTION: Contact PBS and "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" and let them
know that free air time should be extended to all viable candidates. Point=
 out
that because of the exclusionary policies of the Commission on Presidential
Debates, Gore and Bush have already received plenty of free air time.=
 Encourage
PBS to re-consider its proposal while there is still time.
CONTACT:=20
Sandra Heberer, Director, News and Information Programming, PBS=20
mailto:[e-mail]=20
fax: [phone]
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer=20
3620 South 27th St., Arlington, VA 22206=20
Phone: [phone]=20
mailto:[e-mail]

- - Reveal a secret, face prison: Leaking any classified data will be illegal=
 for
first time=20
By Michael Doyle, Sacramento Bee Washington Bureau=20
Published Oct. 24, 2000
WASHINGTON -- A sweeping new law about to be signed by President Clinton,
drafted without public hearings, for the first time makes it illegal to leak
any classified information.
        "Because of the seriousness of the leaks and the releasing of
classified
information, we needed to take some additional steps," said Rep. Gary=
 Condit, a
Ceres Democrat who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence. "We hope it helps."
        Condit said he and other Democrats attempted to modify the measure=
 to
account for some concerns. But the full implications of what critics are
calling America's first Official Secrets Act remain unclear -- for
whistle-blowers, for journalists, and for security officials themselves.
        Consider, for one, just how many secrets America keeps. The number=
 is
literally inestimable, Steven Garfinkle of the federal Information Security
Oversight Office said Friday.
        But among documents more than 25 years old, there are well over 1
billion classified pages -- enough, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York
said earlier this year, to fill 441 Washington Monuments. Some still-secret
documents date back decades, such as World War I-era documents concerning
secret ink.
        The old documents are being declassified, but new secrets also are
being
created. Last year, 169,735 new documents -- each potentially spanning many
pages -- were given their first classification. An additional 8 million
documents got a fresh classification stamp last year when they included a
previously classified secret. Release of any one of these, regardless of the
topic, would subject the leaker to imprisonment for up to three years under=
 the
new law.
        "This is like a sea change," said Kate Martin, director of the=
 Center
for National Security Studies. "Congress has never even gone half this far."
        Until now, criminal sanctions have targeted "information relating
to the
national defense" that the leaker "has reason to believe could be used to=
 the
injury of the United States."
        It is also already illegal to leak information about codes and=
 ciphers,
and to make public the names of U.S. spies.
        Prosecutions are rare. A Nixon administration effort to prosecute
leakers of the Pentagon Papers, historical documents describing origins of=
 the
Vietnam War, collapsed because of prosecutorial misconduct.
        A notable 1980s conviction involved U.S. naval analyst Samuel Loring
Morison, who leaked "top secret" photographs of a Soviet aircraft carrier to
Jane's Defense Weekly. Morison was not a spy; he wanted to impress a=
 potential
employer. But in upholding Morison's conviction, an appellate court in 1988
cited an argument equally relevant to the stricter new law.
        "We do not think the First Amendment offers asylum ... merely=
 because
the transmittal was to a representative of the press," the U.S. 4th Circuit
Court of Appeals wrote.
        The judges, as is common, studied the legislative history of the law
used to convict Morison. Such an examination, though, might prove difficult
with the new law. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing=
 on
the anti-leak proposal, but it was classified. The testimony of CIA Director
George Tenet and Attorney General Janet Reno remains ecret.
        "We think the CIA has been pushing this for years, but we don't=
 really
know," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press.
        Until now, civil penalties have applied for those leaking classified
documents outside the category that includes national defense concerns, spy
naming and code breaking. A leaker might be fired, or lose a security=20
clearance.
        Hugh DeWitt, for instance, is a theoretical physicist who's worked=
 at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley for 43 years. Now on
emeritus status at the nuclear weapons lab, he recalled Friday his periodic
run-ins with security officials who threatened to yank his top-rated Q
clearance. Once, he was slapped with a security infraction -- and potential
loss of his clearance -- for writing a story lab officials claimed relied on
classified information. In reality, it was based on newspaper rticles.
        "So often, the classification stamp is used to suppress information
about policy, and not technical things," DeWitt said.
        Once, in a separate court case, "they called classified some of my
citations to information that's in basic textbooks," he added.
        Under the new law, instead of losing clearances, such workers could=
 be
prosecuted.
        "I think the trend is alarming," said Marylia Kelley, executive
director
of the Livermore-based activist group Tri-Valley CAREs. "When you have=
 blanket
rules like this, it has a chilling effect on the information that people=
 need."
        In the 1980s, Kelley recalled, the Energy Department classified two
environmental assessments examining the consequences of building a
controversial Lawrence Livermore uranium-vaporizing facility. Energy=
 Department
accident records, too, have been regularly classified.
        Prosecutors would not have to show potential national security=
 damage
for leaks of such accident reports or environmental assessment, but only=
 that
they were "properly classified" according to criteria set by executive=
 order.
        "The executive branch," CIA Director Tenet testified two years ago,
"leaks like a sieve."
        Within the past week, for instance, the Washington Times ran a
front-page story based on a still-classified letter sent to Vice President=
 Al
Gore from Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. The Washington Post
offered a front-page story based on a CIA review of Chinese military=
 documents.
Earlier this year, Reuters used classified documents to report on an=
 American
hydrogen bomb lost off Greenland in 1968. The New York Times in April used a
still-classified CIA history to report on the agency's 1953 role in toppling
the Iranian government.
        As with Samuel Morison, the fact that these secrets ended up in the
press wouldn't be a strong defense against prosecution under the new law.=
 All
of this has reporters, among others, wondering what the new law will mean=
 for
them.
        "I'm not sure what impact it will have," Washington Times national
security reporter Bill Gertz said Friday, "but I don't think it's a good
thing."


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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:23:16 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT: 60 Minutes II on Star Wars Oct 31!!

Dear Friends,

Thanks to from Jim Bridgman of Peace Action Education Fund for the
following alert on Star Wars.

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
****

Next Tuesday (Oct. 31) at 9pm EST (check local listings to confirm
time), 60
Minutes II on CBS will air a special two-part program on Star Wars,
focusing
on Nira Schwartz, the whistleblower at TRW, and Dr. Ted Postol, the MIT
physicist whose letter to the White House detailing inherent weaknesses
in
the Star Wars program was classified as secret.

This is an excellent opportunity to write a brief letter to the editor
of
your local paper denouncing the Star Wars coverup. Below is a sample
letter.
Feel free to modify or write your own letter.

To the Editor:

The recent 60 Minutes II show on Star Wars national missile defense
confirms
that the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the contractors
working
on Star Wars are more keen on protecting their own  jobs and profits
than
protecting the American people. Now it is plain for everyone to see,
that
for $70 billion the taxpayers get a system that cannot distinguish
between a
missile and a decoy, and an illegal attempt by the government to cover
up
that fact. It=92s time to put an end to this massive corporate welfare
program
and seek real security through the proven process of arms control.

Sincerely,
Your Name

A few tips before you submit your letter:

* Know your paper's policy about length requirements and deadlines,
* Include your name, address, and phone number to allow for newspaper
confirmation,
* Don't forget follow-up. If your leter is not printed immediately,
resubmit
an edited form with a slightly different angle.

If your letter is published, PLEASE send us an original (if possible) or

at least a good clean copy.

Good luck!!

James C. Bridgman
Research & Resource Coordinator
Peace Action Education Fund
mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.peace-action.org
202.862.9740x3041
fax: [phone]
1819 H St., NW, #425
Washington, DC 20006
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:19:40 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/27 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, October 27, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001027212145.htm
[No "nuclear" news today, but a variety of events listed FYI]

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush -=20
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Today:
       Bush-Cheney reception =97 6 p.m. =97 The Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign=
 hosts a
Victory 2000 reception in D.C. Location: Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley
Road NW. Contact: 512/637-7777.
Earlier Today:
        11:15 a.m. -  Remarks,: Kalamazoo Christian=20
School, 2121 Stadium Drive, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, [phone] x116
        1:20 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Lake Michigan College, Mendel Center=
=20
2775 East Napier Avenue, Benton Harbor, Michigan 49022, [phone]=20
        4:15 p.m. - Airport Departure, Corporate Wings=20
4302 Lathrop Street, Michiana Regional Airport, South Bend, Indiana 46628
        Victory 2000 Rally, Orchard Ridge Campus of the Oakland Community
College, H- Building, 27055 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, Michigan=
 48334
- - [phone]

- - Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
      10 a.m. =97 Travels to West Virginia presidential campaign rally,=
 south
side of Charleston Capitol Building, 1900 E. Kanawha Blvd., Charleston,=
 W.Va.

- - Ralph Nader -=20
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
Friday, October 27
Nader on Good Morning America and Imus
        12:30pm - 1:30pm - Press Conference, House Speaker's Conference=
 Room,
State Capitol Building, Des Moines, IA
        6:30pm - 8:00pm - Rally,  Main Lounge,  Iowa Memorial Union,=
 University
of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Sunday, October 29
 Nader,  Exclusive on This Week, Live at 9:00am
 Winona LaDuke, =20
      2:00pm - Rally, Duluth, MN, Romano Gym, University of Minnesota -=
 Duluth
Campus, Contact mailto:[e-mail]

Wednesday, November 1
 Nader/LaDuke -=20
        7:00pm - Milwaukee, WI, Super Rally with guest John Anderson   Doors
open at 5:00pm, Milwaukee Auditorium, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave. (corner of=
 Kilbourn
and 6th St.), Ticket & Volunteer Information
http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#WI

Friday, November 3 - Los Angeles, CA
        8:00pm - 10:30pm - Nader Super Rally with guest Phil Donahue, Doors
open at 6:00pm,  Long Beach Arena, 300 E. Ocean Blvd.; Ticket & Volunteer
Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#LA

Sunday, November 5 -=20
        9:00am - Nader Exclusive on Meet the Press
        1:00 PM - DC Super Rally -  Doors open at Noon.=20
Ralph Nader will be wrapping up campaign 2000 right here in Washington, D.C.
with a super rally of 17,000 people at the MCI Center. [Please note, the
time is
different from yesterday's announcement; thanks for the correction, RMF!]

Tuesday, November 7 - Election Day

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - Peace Links is sending out an excellent card, developed with 20/20 Vision=
 and
others, entitled "Turning the heat on: time to make national missile defense=
 an
election issue." Iit provides a clear argument to help in lobbying. "If you
would like copies for local distribution, call 1-800-669-1782.  For=
 information
on the U.S. House and Senate candidates, visit the League of Women Voters at
www.lwv.org.  You can also go to www.2020vision.org for sample letters,=
 further
links on NMD or to find out who your Member of Congress is."


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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:22:17 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will not buy irradiated food!

>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:13:49 -0400
>Subject: Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will not buy
irradiated food!
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will not buy
>irradiated food!
>
>http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax.htm
>
>While the sale of irradiated beef was in February 2000, other irradiated
>foods have been legally sold in the U.S. since 1983. The sale of
>irradiated spices and seasons were legalized in that year. Irradiated pork
>followed in 1985 and the irradiation of fruits, vegetables and fungus
>(mushrooms) became legal in 1986. A significant portion of our diet can
>now be irradiated, even though the studies that FDA relied upon to allow
>this process did not even meet the agency's own scientific standards.
>
>These foods, when sold individually must be labeled "treated with [or by]
>irradiation" and accompanied by the radura.  Conversely, when these foods
>are mixed in to a fruit cup, for example, the fruit cup does not need to
>bear the label. Unfortunately, we may never know what foods we're eating
>contains irradiated items.
>
>But we can stop the sale of irradiated foods with your help.
>
>Please use our website to fax the CEOs of Philip Morris (which owns Kraft
>Foods, Boca Burger, and Miller Brewing Company), Kraft, Del Monte,
>Wal-Mart, Tysons Foods.
>
>Tell the CEOs of these companies you are concerned about irradiation and
>request that they refrain from selling irradiated foods.
>
>http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax.htm
>

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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 06:56:28 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/28  -  Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush -
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Saturday, October 28 - WISCONSIN AND MISSOURI
Texas Governor George W. Bush and Secretary Cheney will participate in a
rally in Appleton, Wisconsin, at Fox Cities Stadium, on Saturday morning,
October 28. Saturday afternoon Governor Bush will participate in a Victory
2000 rally at the Columbia Regional Airport in Columbia, Missouri.
        9:40 a.m. -  Fox Cities Stadium, 2400 North Casaloma, Appleton,
Wisconsin
        12:40 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Ozark Airlines Hanger, Columbia
Regional Airport, 11500 South Airport Drive, Columbia, Missouri [phone]

- - Al Gore -
http://www.algore2000.com/

- - Ralph Nader -
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
Sunday, October 29
 Nader,  Exclusive on This Week, Live at 9:00am
 Winona LaDuke,
      2:00pm - Rally, Duluth, MN, Romano Gym, University of Minnesota - Duluth
Campus, Contact mailto:[e-mail]

** Display tables available at the Nader Super Rally in DC, November 5. If this
interests you and your organization, call Scott at 202-265-1160. (If not there,
someone else can help you.) [From: Scott McLarty
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - URGENT Action Alert: Close Radioactive Waste Loophole
[From: "michael mariotte" <mailto:[e-mail]]
MAKE CONTACT ASAP- Senate goes out of session Monday! (probably)
CALL SENATE MAJORITY LEADER TRENT LOTT (R-MS), SENATE MINORITY LEADER TOM
DASCHLE (D-SD), & SENATOR BLANCHE LINCOLN (D-AR)
URGE THEM TO CLOSE LOOPHOLE THAT ALLOWS RADIOACTIVE WASTE RECYLERS AND
GENERATORS TO ESCAPE LIABILITY FOR RELEASING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL TO CONSUMERS
UPDATE:
Last year, Congress passed the Superfund Recycling Equity Act (SREA) that
exempted certain recyclers from Superfund liability. Generators and recyclers
of radioactive material could use this exemption to escape liability derived
from "recycling" of radioactive waste into consumer products, our cars and
homes.
        On November 19, 1999, Senate Majority Leader Lott (R-Miss.), Senate
Minority Leader Daschle (R-SD), and Senator Lincoln (D-AR) agreed, in a
colloquy published in the Congressional Record, to close this radioactive
loophole "at the earliest possible opportunity." Now, in the final hours of
this Congressional session, these Senators have the ability to correct this
error, but are failing to do.
CALL OR FAX SENATOR LOTT, ask him to submit a technical correction to
the omnibus appropriations bill that will be considered by the Senate as early
as this Monday (October 30, 2000)! We must close this loophole, otherwise
radioactive materials may be recycled into baby carriages and steel used to
build our cars and homes.
SENATOR TRENT LOTT (R-MS)
E-mail: [e-mail]
202-224-6253
fax: [phone]
SENATOR TOM DASCHLE
E-mail: [e-mail]
202-224-7895
fax: [phone]
SENATOR BLANCHE LINCOLN
E-mail: [e-mail]
202-224-4843
fax: [phone]

- - School of Americas pilgrimage from Atlanta to Fort Benning (Nov 9-19) at
http://www.stormpages.com/geronimo33/soa.html

- - Trident Ploughshares Women skip court to do an action
25th October 2000, 9am
Zoe Weir (28) and Marjan Willemsen (23) made their way into the Garelochhead
Oil Depot, part of the Faslane submarine base complex, by cutting the perimeter
fence and proceeding to one of the jetties. Once there, the two climbed to the
top of the 15 meter high mast and dropped two banners with the message "Trident
Subs Threaten The World."  The action was to express concerns about the safety
of Britains entire nuclear powered submarine fleet. The Hunter killer
nuclear-powered submarines have been recalled to check for serious defects in
the nuclear reactor cooling system. Although the Trident submarines are newer
they have the same basic design as the submarines that have been withdrawn.

- - Nuclear sub was hours from meltdown
[From: "Janet Bloomfield" <[e-mail]>]
HMS Tireless: How a 'minor defect' could have caused disaster
        Only now, more than five months after the Ministry of Defence assured
Gibraltarians that it was only a "minor defect", are the full extent and
dramatic consequences coming to light. HMS Tireless, which has been moored off
the Rock since May, was close to a disaster, its nuclear reactor "at the very
point of failure", sources have told the Guardian.
        The crack, far more serious than first thought, is understood to be
at a
critical junction of pipes in the pressurised water reactor's cooling system
which cannot be isolated. The navy now recognises it is not simply a question
of wear and tear: it is a potentially catastrophic design fault. Asked whether
it could have foreseen what it is now suspected is a "generic" problem, navy
sources sidestep the question. They respond by repeating the mantra that safety
is of "first importance".
        There is no doubt the navy treats the safety issue extremely seriously.
What worries defence and nuclear sources is not what action was taken after the
leak on the Tireless was eventually diagnosed - the recall of Britain's entire
fleet of strike submarines - but why the initial leak, a symptom of what has
turned out to be a much more devastating problem, was not discovered earlier.
        "The cracks could not be in a worse position. It is critical to
safety,"
the Guardian has been told. Sources say the Tireless reactor was "at the very
point of failure" - in other words a meltdown.
        The critical junction of pipes where the welding fault was finally
discovered had not been inspected since the first Swiftsure class submarines
with this reactor design were built in the early 1970s, sources have revealed.
They added: "It is a very serious failure of the navy's inspection monitoring
system. It's quite remarkable".
        The problem is compounded because the Ministry of Defence, not the
manufacturers, Rolls-Royce, is the submarines' "design authority". That is to
say, the MoD monitors the submarines; the makers are not liable for any faults.
        Naval engineers are said to have been astonished to discover the
problem
on the Tireless turned out to be so serious. Equally alarmingly, navy sources
say the splits in the pipes of the reactor's cooling system were discovered
only because of new technology of which they had no previous experience.
        Yet the navy is not short of experience of problems with its
submarines'
nuclear reactors. Polaris nuclear missile submarines were afflicted by reactor
problems which turned out to be the same that crippled the navy's older fleet
of hunter-killer submarines: cracked pipework in the primary cooling system.
        As far back as 1991, Reg Farmer, a member of the MoD's nuclear-powered
warships safety committee, revealed that cracks had been found at the base of
steam generators in the nuclear reactors. He spoke to Thames Television after
the MoD had persistently refused to answer questions from MPs on the grounds
that they covered "sensitive military areas".
        This week, the MoD said it could not disclose what is wrong with the
Tireless reactor "without consulting the Americans first" - the reactor is
based on an American design. In July, John Spellar, armed forces minister, told
MPs: "The repair work on HMS Tireless is a standard repair following a
contained leak of coolant water in her reactor compartment." The work, he
added, would be completed "in the autumn."
        Given the sensitivity of Gibraltarian opinion, it is likely that
repairs
on Tireless will not begin until work is completed on one of its sister boats
in Britain. Gibraltarians face the prospect of an immobile Tireless sitting off
the Rock for a year.
        "The mood in Spain, in the towns near Gibraltar, is that it should be
towed back to Britain," Michael Castiel, the lawyer representing opposition
groups in Gibraltar, said yesterday.
        For the MoD that may be a little local problem compared with the navy
being deprived of its entire submarine strike force for at least five months.
It would be crass not to admit the "pain and grief" involved, a navy source
said.
        The recall coincides with the sale of Britain's remaining
conventionally
powered submarines to Canada, a decision taken by the Tory government.
        [Richard Norton-Taylor, Saturday October 28, 2000
The Guardian]

- - October 2000 CONTRACTS - NAVY
        Lockheed Martin Missile and Space, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being
awarded a
$521,783,935 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide
funding for fiscal year 2001 Trident II (D5) missile production and deployed
system support. Work will be performed in Sunnyvale, Calif. (57.1%); Salt Lake
City, Utah (13.4%); Kings Bay, Ga. (9.5%); Clearwater, Fla. (4.4%); Bangor,
Wash. (4.8%); Gainsville, Va. (2.9%); Baltimore, Md. (1%); N.Y (.7%); Ill.
(.7%); Ariz. (.5%); Colo. (.1%); Mo. (.1%); other (4.8%), and is expected to be
completed by September 2005. This contract was not competitively procured.
Contract funds in the amount of $216,330,001 will expire at the end of the
current fiscal year. The Navy's Strategic Systems Programs, Washington, D.C.,
is the contracting activity (N00030-00-C-0100).
        TRIDENT II funding is going forward in spite of a House amendment
offered to end production. The House amendment failed and no similar amendment
was offered in the Senate.
        WEB links for some issues relevant to Trident:
START III
Moscow Pushes For Start-III Talks To Begin, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 203,
Part I, 19 October 2000
http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/start3/news/treaty-start3-001019.htm
At the latest round of arms control talks between the U.S. and Russia,
which concluded in Moscow on 18 October, Russia insisted that talks on the
START-III treaty begin as soon as possible, Russian Foreign Ministry
sources told Interfax.

United Nations
Draft Resolution On Steps To Prevent Accidental Use of Nuclear Weapons Among 13
Texts Introduced In Disarmament Committee, UN Press Release, 19 October 2000
http://www.fas.org/news/un/other/un-001019.htm
        The General Assembly would call for a review of nuclear doctrines and,
in that ontext, immediate and urgent steps to reduce the risks of unintentional
and accidental se of nuclear weapons, according to one of 13 draft resolutions
introduced this orning in the First Committee (Disarmament and International
Security).

Disarmament Committee Hears Introduction of Five Draft Resolutions, Including
Text On Assurances For Non-Nuclear-Weapon States, UN Press Release, 20 October
2000  http://www.fas.org/news/un/other/un-001020zur.htm
        The General Assembly would reaffirm the urgent need to reach an early
agreement on effective assurances to non-nuclear-weapon States against the use
or threat of use of nuclear weapons, while acknowledging the difficulties in
evolving a common approach, according to one of five draft resolutions
introduced this morning in the First Committee (Disarmament and International
Security).

Four Draft Resolutions Introduced In Disarmament Committtee, Including Text
Calling For Expert Report On Missiles, UN Press Release, 20 October 2000
http://www.fas.org/news/un/other/un-001020zur1.htm
        One of four draft resolutions introduced this afternoon in the First
Committee (Disarmament and International Security) would have the General
Assembly ask the Secretary-General to prepare a report, with the assistance of
a panel of governmental experts, on the issue of missiles in all its aspects
for consideration at the next Assembly session. The draft resolution was
introduced by the representative of Iran.

- - http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/cgi-bin/printify.pl
Tunnel Vision
China is drawing up plans to use nuclear explosions, in violation of the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, to blast a 10-mile tunnel through the Himalayas
in order to build the world's largest hydroelectric plant. Work on the project,
which is expected to produce more than twice as much power as the controversial
Three Gorges Dam now being built, would begin after 2009. Meanwhile, Chinese
officials defended the Three Gorges project yesterday, insisting that
construction and the necessary resettlement of more than 1.1 million people are
proceeding smoothly, despite stolen and misused funds. China, determined to
divert water from its wet south and west to its drought-stricken north, is on a
dam-building spree; the nation has constructed more dams in the past 30 years
than the rest of the world's countries combined and it has many more on the
drawing board.
straight to the source: London Telegraph, Damien McElroy, 10.22.00
straight to the source: CNN.com, Associated Press, 10.26.00
straight to the source: China People's Daily, 10.26.00
[From: "Viviane Lerner" <[e-mail]>]
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:48:14 +0000
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Dear Friends,

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Subject: Alert not a joke


PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS
IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL TITLED "LET'S WATCH TV" DO NOT OPEN IT.

IT WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE. THIS INFORMATION WAS
ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT "KALI" IS A VERY
DANGEROUS VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN "MELISSA," AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY
FOR IT AT THIS TIME. SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE
REFORMAT FUNCTION FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE
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INTERNET EXPLORER. ITDESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS.

THIS IS A NEW, VERY MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.

PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE SHARE
IT WITH ALL YOUR ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED.

FORWARD THIS WARNING TO EVERYONE THAT MIGHT ACCESS THE INTERNET.


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This virus alert is a hoax.  Go to:
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Sally Light wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Wanted you to have this info., just in case.
>
> Sally
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: VIRUS ALERT
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:24:56 EST
> From: Jeoflin D Roh <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
>
> Subject: Alert not a joke
>
> PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS
> IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL TITLED "LET'S WATCH TV" DO NOT OPEN IT.
>
> IT WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE. THIS INFORMATION WAS
> ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT "KALI" IS A VERY
> DANGEROUS VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN "MELISSA," AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY
> FOR IT AT THIS TIME. SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE
> REFORMAT FUNCTION FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE
> ALL DOCUMENTS ON THE HARD DRIVE.
>
> IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO WORK WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND MICROSOFT
> INTERNET EXPLORER. ITDESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS.
>
> THIS IS A NEW, VERY MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.
>
> PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE SHARE
> IT WITH ALL YOUR ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED.
>
> FORWARD THIS WARNING TO EVERYONE THAT MIGHT ACCESS THE INTERNET.
>
> be good to self&others,
> Jeoflin
>
> ________________________________________________________________
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