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Headlines 18-21 Sept. 1997

WASHINGTON
Sept. 18 1997 (UPI) -- "The Peacemaker" a new
Hollywood movie about lost nuclear warheads is to be released
on September 26. According the filmmaker is the thread real
that one of the 40 000 warheads gets lost.


TOKYO
Sept 19 1997 (AFP) 300 Japanese municipalities protest
against the second subcritical nuclear test carried out by the
US. According officials who write a letter to the Pentagon

these tests undermine a coming global ban on nuclear weapons.


MOSCOW
Sept 19 1997 (AFP) - 100 nuclear submarines are
waiting to be dismantled and pose a thread of radioactive
leaks
posing a potential hazard to the Kolsky Peninsula and
also to Norway and Sweden. Also the US-Russian agreement on
decomposing nuclear subs is under thread if the Russian
government does not take measures.


PALO ALTO
CALIFORNIA
U.S.A.
1997 SEP 19 (NB) - Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility said today that
software "glitches" could turn the Cassini project in a
disaster for Earth.


BEIJING
Sept 20 1997 (AFP) - Parts of a nuclear power station
in Pakistan are exported by China
Beijing authorities have
approved today.



TEHRAN
Sept 2O 1997 (AFP) - Saturday Iran criticized the US
for conducting underground subcritical nuclear bomb test. In
the same time the US prevents Iran from obtaining civilian
atomic technology.


GEESTHACHT
Germany
Sept 20 1997 (AFP) - 'Dance on the rails'
performed by about 200 anti-nuclear activists resulted in
minor incidents when the police removed the demonstrators from
the ripped-up tracks. By this about 500 people tried to
prevent nuclear waste is transported from the Kruemmel nuclear
power station to a reprocessing plant.


TAIPEI
Sept 21 1997 (AFP) - In 1967 the Chiang Kai-shek
government of Taiwan was intending to develop nuclear weapons
according Wu Ta-yu
the former director of Academia Sinica.
The nuclear bomb plans were dropped on the advice of Taiwan's
top physisists.


WASHINGTON 21 Sept. 1997 (Reuter) - US president Clinton will
discuss with Prime Ministers of Pakistan and India the nuclear
proliferation of both countries. Also the Russian foreign
Minister will be talked with in New York USA.


MOSCOW
21 Sept 1997 (Reuter) - Russia and the US are supposed
to jointly monitor the civilian nuclear plant which Russia is
building in Iran
according the Itar-Tass news agency.


MOSCOW
Sept 21 1997 (AFP) Suitcase-size atomic bombs do
really exist according Alexei Yablokov
the former Russian
presidential adviser on ecology. The bombs were made and under
control of the Soviet KGB secret police and according Yablokov
they are still under state control.


MOSCOW
Sept 21 1997 (AFP) - Al Gore
the US vice president

has arrived in Moscow Sunday. Gore will talk in Russia about
joint ventures in industry and space projects.


TAIPEI
Sept 21 1997 (AFP) - About 300 activists and local
residents protested in 110 fishing boats on Sunday against a
planned nuclear plant in the beautiful environment of Kungliao
The Taiwan Power Co.
General Electric Toshiba and Hitachi
will provide the two reactors.


TOKYO
Sept 21 1997 (AFP) -The Nimitz an US nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier visited Yukasuka US naval base. The ship was
surrounded by protest-boats with banners: "we don't need an
aircraft carrier". Visiters were allowed on the ship for the
first time.