Date: Sun Sender: owner-nukenet@envirolink.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.07 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN Status: RO X-Status: NucNews-1-U.S. 3/20-21/99 - Peru Rod; NATO-DC; Iraq Bomb; Panama Ship NucNews-2-US. 3/20-21/99 - Nuc Power Poll (2); Clinton Speech; Piketon Workers Health NucNews-3 3/20-21/99 - Australia Uranium Mines (10 articles) NucNews-4 3/20-21/99 - Russia (3) NucNews-5 3/20-21/99 - Russia (3) (again) NucNews-6 3/20-21/99 - China (4) NucNews-7. 3/20-21/99 - Lab Security; Quayle; Missile Defense; Gore NucNews-8. 3/20-21/99 - China (3) NucNews-9. 3/20-21/99 - Kissinger --- (1) Int'l 1. Radioactive Rod Sickens Welder March 19 1999 Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Peru-Radioactive-Welder.html LIMA Peru (AP) -- A welder who found a radioactive rod on a construction site and carried it in his pocket for six hours before showing it to his family is seriously ill doctors said today. 2. D.C. Braces For NATO's 50-Year Summit Williams Is Eager To Showcase City By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday March 20 1999; Page B01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/20/041l-032099-idx.html It is not every day that the leaders of Britain Germany France and Russia descend all at once on Washington. Add another 40 countries including Iceland Estonia and Kyrgyzstan and the grand scale of next month's celebration of the NATO alliance begins to emerge. 3. Iraqi nuclear bomb close By BEN MACINTYRE Washington 20mar99 The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/4397840.htm IRAQ may be on the verge of producing a workable nuclear weapon according to a report citing previously unpublished evidence from an Iraqi nuclear scientist who worked for a decade on the secret nuclear weapons program before defecting. 4. ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: Nuclear Waste Travels Panama Canal http://www.econet.apc.org/igc/en/hl/99031911131/hl8.html PANAMA CITY Mar 15 1999 (IPS) by Silvio Hernandez - A British vessel carrying 30 tons of vitrified nuclear waste passed through the Panama canal Sunday en route to Japan despite protests by local environmental groups and Caribbean region political leaders. 5. Pentagon battles troops' fear of vaccine Washington Post March 20 1999 http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsfri02.htm Pentagon's anthrax vaccine Web site http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/Anthrax WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is struggling to overcome what officials call an Internet-driven proliferation of myths and misinformation about the health risks of getting inoculated against the deadly biological agent anthrax. --- (2) U.S. 6. Poll Shows Nuke Power Ambivalence March 20 1999 Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Nuclear-Poll.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fewer than half of Americans say they support using nuclear power to produce electricity and an increasing number of people admit they don't know what they think about it according to an Associated Press poll. 7. How Nuclear Poll Was Taken March 20 1999 Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Nuclear-Poll-Method.html The Associated Press poll on nuclear power is based on telephone interviews with 1 015 randomly selected adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The interviewing was conducted March 12-16 by ICR of Media Pa. 8. 'If We Don't Act the War Will Spread' [Re NATO/Kosovo; Stolen Nuclear Secrets] Following are excerpts of President Clinton's news conference yesterday: Federal Document Clearing House Saturday March 20 1999 Washington Post http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/20/124l-032099-idx.html 9. Health screenings offered to ex-Piketon workers By Bob Dreitzler Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch March 18 1999 http://www.dispatch.com/pan/localarchive/screennws.html Former workers who worry about whether they were unknowingly exposed to radiation or hazardous chemicals at the Piketon Ohio uranium enrichment plant are being offered free health screenings. --- (3) Australia 10. US uranium major gets go-ahead for mine in SA By Simon Evans Australia Financial Review March 19 1999 http://www.afr.com.au/content/990319/news/news2.html The Australian arm of the US nuclear giant General Atomic is set to become the country's third uranium miner by mid-2000 after gaining final environmental approval from the Federal Government for its Beverley uranium project in South Australia's north. 11. Row looms as uranium mine deemed 'safe' By NAOMI MAPSTONE - Canberra Times March 19 1999 http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/newsfri5.shtml Conservationists are planning a legal assault on the progress of the Beverley uranium mine after the Federal Government confirmed yesterday final approvals for the project were imminent. 12. Pro-nuclear group attacks Democrats and ACF over mine opposition Friday 19 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-19mar1999-15.htm A nuclear energy lobby group has criticised the Australian Democrats and the Australian Conservation Foundation for their opposition to Australia's third uranium mine at Beverley in South Australia. 13. Labor accuses Coalition of rushing uranium mine Thursday 18 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-18mar1999-69.htm The Federal Opposition has accused the Federal Government of rushing the approval process for the proposed Beverley uranium mine in South Australia's far north. 14. ACF considers court action to stop uranium mine Friday 19 March 1999 (9:35am AEDT) http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-19mar1999-33.htm The Australian Conservation Foundation is considering legal action in a bid to block the Beverley uranium mine in South Australia's far north 15. Council heads wants all facts on uranium mine Friday 19 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-19mar1999-42.htm The chairman of the Great Artesian Basin Consultative Council wants to study all facts before taking a stance on the decision to allow work to begin at the Beverley uranium mine in South Australia. 16. 'Acid' uranium mine gets the green light 19/03/99 Sydney Morning Herald By MURRAY HOGARTH Environment Editor http://www.smh.com.au/news/9903/19/text/national12.html Environment approval was granted yesterday to the second new uranium mine since the Federal Coalition took office three years ago adding momentum to Australia's drive to more than double its share of the world uranium market. 17. PM dismisses mine concerns Friday 19 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-19mar1999-82.htm Prime Minister John Howard has rejected conservationists' claims that a new uranium mine in South Australia will make it more likely Australia will have to accept a nuclear waste dump. 18. Australian Govt aggressively pro-nuclear: ACF Friday 19 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-19mar1999-90.htm The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) says the Australian Government is the most aggressive pro-nuclear government in the world. 19. Uranium mine part of $500m in exports 19/03/99 By ANTHONY HOY Rural Editor http://www.smh.com.au/news/9903/19/text/business14.html South Australia's Beverley uranium mine will be but a small player in the Australian uranium market. --- (4) Russia 20. Hit-and-Missile Tactics By Mary McGrory March 21 1999 Washington Post http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/21/036l-032199-idx.html .... In our preoccupation with China we overlook Russia. 21. 2 Nuclear Accords Expected U.S.-Russia Pact Involves Uranium Buy By Thomas W. Lippman Washington Post March 21 1999 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/21/044l-032199-idx.html Russia and the United States expect to finalize two nuclear security agreements this week that will pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the Russian treasury and ease tensions over Russia's nuclear cooperation with Iran according to officials of both countries. 22. A Soviet Bureaucrat in a Capitalist World Primakov Uses Cautious Pragmatism in Climb to the Top By David Hoffman Washington Post Foreign Service Friday March 19 1999; Page A01 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/19/047l-031999-idx.html MOSCOW-The end was near for the Soviet Union as President Mikhail Gorbachev wavered in 1991 on whether to liberalize the economy further. Yevgeny Primakov met with Gorbachev at his Black Sea retreat and bluntly urged him to move toward market reform. --- (5) Russia 23. Russian Lawmakers Set Debate on START II WORLD In Brief Washington Post March 20 1999; Page A14 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/20/163l-032099-idx.html MOSCOW -- Russia's lower house of parliament agreed to debate ratification of the START II nuclear arms reduction treaty on April 2. 24. Missile Defenses Leave Fantasy Behind By ERIC SCHMITT March 21 1999 New York Times Editorial http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/032199missile-defense-review.html WASHINGTON -- It's a far cry from the space-based rocket-zapping shield that President Ronald Reagan envisioned 16 years ago in the depths of the Cold War. But the country is suddenly jettisoning its qualms about forging a national missile defense and is moving fast toward building one. 25. Russia: Delay Makes Commission Meeting More Important By Robert Lyle March 19 1999 Radio Free Europe http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/1999/03/F.RU.990319131931.html Washington 19 March 1999 (RFE/RL) -- It's been more than a year since the U.S.-Russian Binational Commission had a full-scale meeting -- postponed by Russia's financial crisis and a change of prime ministers and governments. --- (6) China 26. Clinton Says Unaware Of China Spying On His Watch By Tabassum Zakaria Reuters March 20 1999 http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990320/00/news-china WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton Friday said if China stole U.S. nuclear secrets it did not happen on his watch as official Washington searches for who to blame in the spying scandal. 27. Clinton Says He Is Unaware of Nuclear Spying During His Presidency March 20 1999 By ERIC SCHMITT New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/clinton-spying.html 28. Chinese Spy Methods Limit Bid to Find Truth Officials Say By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday March 21 1999; Page A24 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/21/107l-032199-idx.html 29. Experts: Nuke Tests Can't Confirm Theft Scientist calls claims that China's under-ground blasts used U.S. technology "a con-spiracy of suspicions" March 18 1999 By Ian Hoffman Albuquerque Journal Northern Bureau http://www.abqjournal.com/news/5news03-18.htm SANTA FE -- In the 1950s and early '60s U.S. scientists could "sniff" the radioactive debris created in other nations' nuclear blasts and with other data make educated guesses about foreign nuclear arsenals. That's a tougher job today. A 1963 ban on atmospheric testing took most of the world's nuclear weaponeers and their bombs underground more hidden from prying eyes and sensors. --- (7) Lab Security 30. BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SECURITY At Los Alamos Risk Comes With the Territory By Siegfried S. Hecker Sunday March 21 1999; Page B01 Washington Post http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/21/090l-032199-idx.html 31. Quayle Shifts China Stance In Attacking Clinton Policy Likely GOP Candidate Alleges 'Appeasement' By David S. Broder Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday March 20 1999; Page A05 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/20/070l-032099-idx.html 32. House Approves Missile Measure WASHINGTON IN BRIEF Compiled from reports by staff writers George Hager and Helen Dewar and the Associated Press Friday March 19 1999; Page A08 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/19/143l-031999-idx.html ... After a rare closed-door national security briefing by members of a commission that studied the missile threat former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld chairman of the panel said 25 to 30 nations have or are trying to obtain ballistic weapons capability. 33. Reinventing Al Gore March 21 1999 New York Times Editorial http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/editorial/21sun1.html ... As luck would have it Mr. Gore finds himself in a position to punch up the lagging Administration effort to cut the number of Russian and American nuclear weapons left over from the era of mutually assured destruction. It is a subject Mr. Gore knows well since as Vice President he chairs twice-a-year meetings with the Russian prime minister. One of those meetings is scheduled to take place this week.... --- (8) 34. China espionage probe expanded By Jerry Seper and Bill Gertz WASHINGTON TIMES Exclusive March 22-28 1999 http://www.washtimes-weekly.com/stories/exclusive.html An FBI investigation of Chinese nuclear espionage has widened to include additional targets and a review of new information law enforcement sources said on March 17. 35. Possible espionage at other labs probed March 20 1999 USA Today http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsfri07.htm WASHINGTON - Beyond the case at Los Alamos the Energy Department is examining if scientists at other U.S nuclear weapons labs may have disclosed sensitive neutron bomb and electromagnetic pulse technology to China several government officials said Friday. 36. China Engagement Friday March 19 1999; Page A28 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/19/108l-031999-idx.html --- (9) Kissinger 37. Audio Special: Henry Kissinger An interview by Bernard Gwertzman Editor of The New York Times on the Web March 17 1999. http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/21/specials/kissinger.html Click here to listen to the entire interview (28 minutes). http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/21/ra/kissinger.ram On Nuclear Espionage and American's Relations With China http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/21/ra/kissinger.6.ram 38. A Master of the Great Game THE KISSINGER TRANSCRIPTS The Top Secret Talks With Beijing and Moscow Edited by William Burr New Press. 515 pp. $30 Reviewed by Robert G. Kaiser Sunday March 21 1999; Page X05 Washington Post http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/21/272l-032199-idx.html 39. The Old World Order Using archives unavailable to historians Henry Kissinger takes aim at past and future critics. March 21 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/21/reviews/990321.21gaddist.html _____________________________ A fast way to keep up to date: Subscribe to NucNews !! To subscribe: prop1@prop1.org Say "Subscribe NucNews" NucNews Archive: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm The Conversion Project at http://prop1.org A-Z Antinuclear Weblinks at http://prop1.org/prop1/azantink.htm