Subject: Hedlines 18-20 feb
 
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:21:58
 
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Feb 19, 1997 (Reuter) - The KEDO, founded to provide North
korea with two light water reactors, will ship seismology
machinery to the North in preparation for the construction,
despite the tensions caused by the nuclear waste deal between
taiwan and North Korea, but the visit of a 30-member survey
team was delayed.

Feb 19, 1997 (UPI) - The U.S. Committee on Nuclear Policy on a
Wednsday press conference called for the abolition of nuclear
weapons and urged to take all nuclear warheads out of the
"hair-trigger altert status" at once.

Feb 19, 1997 (Reuter) - 5.2 pounds of radioactive material was
seized by the Slovak police. Four people were arressted, but
neither source nor destination of the material is known yet.

Feb 18, 1997 (Reuter) - In reaction of Defense Minister Igor
Rodinow's remarks about the poor state of the Russian nuclear
forces, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin will visit the
centre of russia's strategic missels on Friday. Interfax
quoted a military expert as saying the forces were in "full
battle readiness", but confirmed communication infrastructure
to be a problem.

Feb 20, 1997 (Reuter) - Former director of the Institute of
Terrestrical Ecology, John jeffers, said the British
gouvernment made no systematic efforts to trace contamination
of food after the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

Feb 20, 1997 (UPI) - After a turkish official had said that
nuclear waste transferred from Germany in 1988/1989 was stored
partly near Isparta and partly near the central Anatolian city
of Konya, a survey team was sent to Isparta, where 1,150 tons
of nuclear waste could have been buried.

Feb 20, 1997 (Reuter) - All gatherings within 150 feet of the
route of the nuclear waste transport to Gorleben, Germany,
were banned from March 3 to 7.

Feb 20, 1997 (UPI) - State Senator John Hottinger and State
Representative Alice Hausman of Minnesota spoke out for a non-
political gouvernment agency to handle nuclear waste storages
and suggested to re-establish the "Nuclear Waste Council."

Feb 20 (?), 1997 (Reuter) - Minor computer hackers from
Zagreb, Croatia, stated they broke Pentagon protection code
and accessed top secret information. A Pentagon spokesperson
said there was no possibility to tap into classified files via
the Internat, but granted the hackers might have invades
personal E-mail or other sensitive files.