Date: Thu Sender: owner-nukenet@envirolink.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.07 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN Status: R NucNews-1-Int'l. 3/25/99 - Taiwan; Britain; Autralia; Canada NucNews-2-Int'l. 3/25/99 - India Czech; US Military Actions Since Vietnam NucNews-3-US. 3/25/99 - DC; WIPP-NM (3); PDD-60 NucNews-4-Int'l. 3/25/99 - Kosovo ---(1) [Remember yesterday's warning from China NOT to do this?] 1. Taiwan To Improve Missile Defense March 25 1999 Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Taiwan-Missile-Defense.html TAIPEI Taiwan -- Taiwan's military plans to spend about $9 billion in the next decade to develop a low-altitude missile defense shield against attacks from China the defense ministry said today. 2. Committee opts to bury nuclear waste (Britain) March 24 1999 UK ITN http://www.itn.co.uk/Britain/brit19990324/032402.htm Controversy has erupted once more over the issue of nuclear waste as a parliamentary committee recommends that Britain should bury waste deep underground. 3. Assurances uranium mine won't threaten Great Artesian Basin Thursday 25 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/sa/archive/metsa-25mar1999-2.htm The Great Artesian Basin Consultative Council has concluded that the Beverley uranium mine in South Australia's far north need pose no threat to the water resources of the Great Artesian Basin. 4. ACF to issue legal challenge over Beverley uranium mine Monday 22 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/sa/archive/metsa-22mar1999-5.htm The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) intends to determine whether Federal Government approval of the Beverley uranium mine in South Australia's far north breaches any international treaties or conventions. 5. Tuckey to face questioning over meeting with nuclear waste company (Australia) Thursday 25 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-25mar1999-17.htm The Federal Opposition has vowed to continue pursuing the Conservation Minister Wilson Tuckey for details about his meeting with a representative of a US nuclear waste company. 6. Canada Mulls Taking Russian Plutonium http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/1999032407.html OTTAWA Mar. 24 1999 -- (Reuters) Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien wading into a sensitive environmental debate said on Tuesday he had told U.S. President Bill Clinton Canada would consider importing plutonium from Russian nuclear warheads. 7. Montreal could be port for Russian plutonium Transport by ship safer than air: study March 23 1999 ANDREW DUFFY Southam News Montreal Gazette http://www.montrealgazette.com/PAGES/990323/2403588.html A study that examines the transport of Russian weapons-grade plutonium to Canada suggests the radioactive material should be sent here by cargo ship rather than airplane because of safety concerns. ---(2) 8. India May Test Again Because H-Bomb Failed U.S. Believes By Mark Hibbs Nucleonics Week November 26 1998 (reprinted with permission) http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/nucwatch.html One of India's May nuclear blasts which was described by the New Delhi government as a successful thermonuclear weapons test was in fact a failure senior U.S. nuclear intelligence analysts have concluded after months of study. 9. Stop TEMILIN NUCLEAR REACTOR Now March 25 1999 http://www.aai.at The Czech and Austrian anti-Nuclear groups are calling anti-Nuclear groups World-wide to Fax and Email their protest against the completion of the TEMELIN Nuclear Reactor in the Czech Republic. 10. U.S. Military Actions Since Vietnam March 25 1999 Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Other-Engagements.html Since the end of the Vietnam War the United States has engaged in military action in the Mideast Africa the Western Hemisphere and in Europe. The details.... ---(3) 11. Washington DC also under U.S. attack 03.24.99 -- Text photography audio/video recording by Mike Flugennock flugennock@sinkers.org http://www.sinkers.org/kosovo-demoMar2499/ ...meanwhile several hundred outraged citizens -- including a large contingent of DC's Serbian-American and Serbian immigrant community -- turned out at the White House at a demonstration 12. WIPP Foes To Pursue Emergency Stay Today Judge Doesn't Move To Block Shipments Wednesday March 24 1999 By Mike Taugher Albuquerque Journal Staff Writer http://www.abqjournal.com/news/2news03-24.htm Environmental groups failed to get a reprieve from a federal judge on Tuesday and planned to ask an appeals court today to stop the U.S. Department of Energy from shipping radioactive waste to southern New Mexico. 13. New Mexico Nuclear Waste Site Ready http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Nuclear-Waste.html March 25 1999 Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (AP) -- After 25 years hundreds of studies and countless hearings and protests the government's first nuclear waste depository was poised to open. 14. Nuclear waste facility to get shipment By Patrick O'Driscoll 3/25/99 - USA Today http://usatoday.com/news/ndswed04.htm http://usatoday.com/news/nlead.htm DENVER - Twenty years after Congress agreed to build it the world's first underground storage site for radioactive waste will receive its first shipment Thursday. [A conservative perspective with some interesting observations] 15. A Nuclear Knife Aimed at America's Heart Joel M. Skousen March 25 1999 http://38.201.154.103/articles/?a=1999/3/24/190515 In November 1997 President Clinton signed a top-secret Presidential Decision Directive (PDD-60) directing U.S. military commanders to abandon the time-honored nuclear deterrence of "launch on warning." Ironically this was done in the name of "increased deterrence." Every sensible American needs to understand why this reasoning is fraudulent at best and deadly at worst. First some background. ---(4) 16. What Kosovo Conflict Is About March 24 1999 Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Kosovo-Roots-Of-Conflict.html 17. Reuters March 25 1999 5 a.m. articles Re Airstrikes: Russia And China Slam NATO Allies Back Air Strikes http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990325/00/news-reaction Yugoslavia Denounces Attacks Says Damage Minimal http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990325/00/news-yugoresponse Clinton Says 'Moral Imperative' Forces Kosovo War http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990325/00/news-kosovousa NATO Lets Rip With Tomahawks From Warships http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990325/00/news-missiles Mrs Clinton Offers Prayers After NATO Attack http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990325/04/news-hillary NATO Air Power Pauses In Yugoslav Strikes http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990325/03/news-kosovo NATO General Says All Aircraft Returned Safely http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990325/03/news-aircraft Solana Says Yugoslavia Raids To Go On A Few Days http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990325/03/news-solana Serbs protests NATO strikes in NYC http://www.webcrawler.com/news/u/990324/23/news-protest Furious Yeltsin Ponders Next Move On Kosovo http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990324/22/news-russia Combat Debut For B-2 Stealth Bombers In U.S. Raids http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990324/19/news-b2 Russia Demands NATO End Bombing In Kosovo At Once http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990324/18/news-un U.S. NATO Jets Pound Range Of Targets - Cohen http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990324/18/news-targets [The upcoming NATO meeting in D.C. promises to be very interesting.] 18. Russia Quits NATO Partnership March 25 1999 Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Russia-Kosovo.html MOSCOW (AP) -- President Boris Yeltsin said today that Russia has decided not to use force to counter NATO attacks against Yugoslavia and will continue its efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Kosovo conflict. ALSO: Moscow Recalls NATO Delegate To Protest Raids Yeltsin 'Deeply Angered' by Assault By David Hoffman Washington Post March 25 1999 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/25/170l-032599-idx.html 19. USA Today's online discussion: Crisis in Kosovo March 25 1999 http://usatoday.com/news/comment/debate.htm http://usatoday.com/news/comment/ncguest1.htm Send e-mail for letters to the editor only to editor@usatoday.com. Please include address and daytime phone numbers so letters may be verified. 20. Congress reverses role in reaction to strikes 3/25/99 - USA Today http://usatoday.com/news/index/kosovo/koso041.htm WASHINGTON - Congress rallied Wednesday around U.S. troops sent to participate in NATO airstrikes in Serbia even as lawmakers raised questions about the national security interests involved and the long-term strategy. 21. Yugoslav Police Seize 30 Reporters Free 28 By Howard Kurtz Washington Post March 25 1999 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/25/011l-032599-idx.html 22. Kosovo: Information & Analysis (Quakers) http://www.kimopress.com/info.htm News from relatively independent sources: _____________________________ 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