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Refuting false information appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [The full text can be found at http://prop1.org/nucnews/9911nn/991128nn.htm} * Export fees charged to send waste to S.C. * Calvert Cliffs reversal * For U.S. Bradley Favors an Internationalist Path * Yeltsin Wants Test Ban Ratified As Priority * Trump Calls Yeltsin `A Disaster' * Russian General Says U.S. Aims To Destroy ABM * Russia Nonchalant on Y2K Threat * Jaswant's Japan visit highly successful: Japanese official * No alternative to talks Military rule elsewhere * India PM in Serious Nuclear Talks With U.S. -Report * Is This Your Rocket Launcher Mr Clinton? * The Military Coup in Pakistan: Implications for Nuclear Stability in South Asia * China Dismisses U.S. Missile Base Charge * Report: Syria tested chemical bomb * Barak Discusses Iran With Chinese By The Associated Press * Army DU training video * Depleted Uranium found as Coloring Matter in Enamel * Rockefeller Report -- Is Military Research Hazardous To Veterans' Health? (Findings) ---------- * Export fees charged to send waste to S.C. Boston Globe 11/28/99 12:43 By Associated Press http://www.boston.com/dailynews/332/region/Export_fees_charged_to_send_wa:.s html COLUMBIA S.C. (AP) The Southwestern Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission will start charging fees next year to let the region's waste producers ship nuclear refuse to South Carolina for disposal. South Carolina accepts waste from 38 states at its disposal site in Barnwell. Members of a task force studying ways to reduce the flow of waste said the export fees are just more proof that the state's open-door policy has got to change. * Calvert Cliffs reversal Washington Post Sunday November 28 1999; Page C02 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/28/163l-112899-idx.html The battle over the proposed relicensing of the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant has taken an unexpected twist. In a move that legal experts called highly unusual a federal appeals court tossed out its own judgment backing a watchdog group's efforts for a wider review of safety issues concerning the Southern Maryland facility. A new hearing will be scheduled. * For U.S. Bradley Favors an Internationalist Path New York Times November 28 1999 By JAMES DAO http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/112899wh-dem-bradley.html WASHINGTON -- In his first major campaign event on foreign policy former Senator Bill Bradley will use a meeting with students this Monday to cast himself as a committed internationalist who believes that America's vital interests abroad can best be advanced through the free flow of goods capital and ideas across national boundaries his aides said…. Like the Clinton administration Bradley supports modifying the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972 to allow development of a defense system to protect the United States from ballistic missile attacks. But Bradley has expressed skepticism about a national missile defense system calling it a "difficult and expensive proposition." He has suggested that he would prefer a more limited system that could protect American forces overseas such as in Japan or shoot down a few missiles launched at the United States either accidentally by a superpower or purposely by a nation like North Korea. Also like the Clinton administration Bradley supported bringing China into the World Trade Organization. And he supports a "one-China" policy that would peacefully and gradually unify Taiwan and China. But until unification he says he would be willing to use American military power to protect Taiwan provided it did not declare its independence from China. President Clinton: . . . I was honored to be the first of 146 leaders to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, our commitment to end all nuclear tests for all time -- the longest-sought, hardest-fought prize in the history of arms control. September 22 1997 President Kennedy: Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us . . . The logical place to begin is a treaty assuring the end of nuclear tests of all kinds . . . September 25 1961 President Eisenhower: . . . [not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration -- of any decade -- of any time and of any party. . . May 29 1961 * Yeltsin Wants Test Ban Ratified As Priority Russia Today Sunday Nov 28 at Prague 11:04 pm N.Y. 05:04 pm http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=111992 MOSCOW Nov 22 1999 -- (Reuters) President Boris Yeltsin announced on Monday he wanted parliament to ratify a nuclear test ban treaty as a priority but it seems unlikely deputies will feel the same urgency while ties with the United States are strained. The U.S. Senate dealt President Bill Clinton an embarrassing blow last month by rejecting the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty drawing widespread international condemnation. * Trump Calls Yeltsin `A Disaster' New York Times November 28 1999 Filed at 4:24 p.m. EDT Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/p/AP-Trump.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump said Sunday he would not rule out a U.S. military first strike to stem North Korea's missile production. The potential Reform Party presidential candidate also called Russian President Boris Yeltsin ``a disaster'' and ``one tough hombre'' who suffers from ``a major alcohol problem.'' * Russian General Says U.S. Aims To Destroy ABM Russia Today Sunday Nov 28 at Prague 11:04 pm N.Y. 05:04 pm http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=113655 http://news.excite.com/news/r/991127/08/politics-arms-russia MOSCOW Nov 28 1999 -- (Reuters) Russian Strategic Missile Forces' commander criticized on Saturday U.S. moves to change the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty saying any modification would destroy the landmark treaty. RIA news agency quoted Colonel-General Vladimir Yakovlev as saying relations between Russia and the United States would suffer if Washington succeeded in changing the treaty to allow deployment of a new anti-missile defense system. * Russia Nonchalant on Y2K Threat By NICK WADHAMS Associated Press Writer Newsday 11/28/99 11:37 AM Eastern http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpin1a.htm MOSCOW (AP) -- Western experts warn that Russia is among the countries that have done the least to prepare for the Y2K computer bug but many Russians are decidedly nonchalant about the potential implications: severe failures in vital services. ``We will pass quietly through 2000 just like we have every other year '' says Ilya Klebanov Russia's deputy prime minister in charge of defense. ``I think it's best not to scare the little children of Russia.'' * Jaswant's Japan visit highly successful: Japanese official India Express Sunday November 28 1999 http://www.expressindia.com/news/33221899.htm TOKYO: External affairs minister Jaswant Singh's four-day visit to Japan was highly successful with Tokyo acknowledging that its relationship with New Delhi was "too important" for it to be neglected Japanese government officials said today. Singh convinced Japanese policy makers that the "rot must be stopped" and the damage repaired in the Indo-Japanese ties which is soured after the Pokhran nuclear tests may last year they said reports PTI. * No alternative to talks Military rule elsewhere DAWN 28 November 1999 Sunday 19 Shaban 1420 By Afzal Mahmood http://dawn.com/daily/text/op.htm THE agreement between Indo-Pakistan border forces not to alter the status of working boundary and to put an immediate stop to firing across the border followed by Prime Minister Vajpayee's statement that India is prepared for talks with the new government in Pakistan are significant developments for the future of bilateral relations between the two estranged neighbours. * India PM in Serious Nuclear Talks With U.S. -Report Los Angeles Times Sunday November 28 1999 http://www.latimes.com/wires/wpolitics/19991128/tCB00a0894.html ALSO: http://www.ab.sympatico.ca/news/Fullstories-Reuters/ron5.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991128/pl/arms_india_1.html http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/national/1128/d_rt_1128_10 3.sml NEW DELHI India--India and the United States are holding their most serious dialogue on nuclear non-proliferation in half a century and it is starting to show results Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was quoted as saying. * Ashok Banker: Is This Your Rocket Launcher Mr Clinton? 11/23/99 The Rediff Special/ http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/nov/23ashok.htm Recently when the Lashkar-e-Toiba a self-admitted hardline terrorist faction organised a meeting of like-minded militant groups in Lahore Indian diplomacy protested to the US. Even setting aside the decades of armed activism terrorist acts and policy of ruthless Islamic jihad by these groups how could you ignore the recent upsurge in their activities in J&K….The US policy on Indian and Pakistan has always been skewed in Pakistan's favour. The reason for this is simple: Ever since the Cold War days of the 1950s the US always perceived its greatest enemy to be the USSR. It took elaborate precautions against any possible Soviet aggression by becoming the world's supercop financing regimes that resisted Communism providing arms training and funds to revolutionaries who sought to overthrow legitimate communist regimes in short doing anything under the sun to ensure that the erstwhile Soviet Union never outgrew its bounds. Its fiasco in Vietnam taught America that a direct engagement was far too expensive. Better to pursue a policy of proxy support…. * The Military Coup in Pakistan: Implications for Nuclear Stability in South Asia The Rediff Special/Gaurav Kampani 12/99 http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/nov/02pak.htm The ouster of a legitimately constituted civilian government by the army for the fourth time in Pakistan's 52-year old history has underscored the question of political stability and viability of democracy in the country. * China Dismisses U.S. Missile Base Charge Reuters Updated 12:55 AM ET November 26 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/r/991126/00/politics-arms-china BEIJING (Reuters) - China dismissed on Thursday a U.S. newspaper report that it was constructing a missile-related base near Taiwan saying the report had ulterior motives. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi said he had no information on the Washington Times report that U.S. spy satellites photographed the construction at the People's Liberation Army missile base in mid-October. But Sun said any nation with a strong military deployed weapons every day. The report had "ulterior motives he told reporters. * Report: Syria tested chemical bomb Jerusalem Post Sunday, November 28, 1999 19 Kislev 5760 By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/28.Nov.1999/News/Article-1.html TEL AVIV (November 28) - Syrian military forces late last month conducted a live chemical weapons bombing test, The Washington Times reported on Friday. The test was carried out by what the report said was a Syrian Air Force MiG-23 jet that dropped a chemical weapons-laden bomb on a practice range in Syria. The bombing was detected by US spy satellites…. The Syrian chemical weapons test bolstered fears by Pentagon officials that any future Middle East war will be dirty, the Washington Times said. Pentagon officials quoted by the newspaper said the chemical weapons test was a reminder of the Clinton administration's over-reliance on arms control pacts, such as the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the production and stockpiling of the deadly arms. Syria is not a signatory to the treaty and has developed the weapons as a counter to Israel's arsenal of nuclear missiles, the newspaper said. * Barak Discusses Iran With Chinese By The Associated Press New York Times November 28, 1999 Filed at 4:35 p.m. EDT http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Israel-China.html JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday told Li Peng, the No. 2 official in China's Communist Party, that Israel is concerned that China is selling arms to Iran. Israel is worried about Iran's development of the Shahab-4 missile, which has a range of 800 miles, and its attempts to build nuclear weapons. Israel has accused China, Russia and North Korea of selling Iran the technology and know-how for its arms programs, but Chinese leaders have denied it, Israeli officials have said in the past. * Army DU training video http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/sf/du.html The Army has produced a new depleted uranium training video. It was released in October 1999. Only the first five minutes downloaded for me, but perhaps you will have better luck. The Army's first DU video, completed in 1995, has been shelved supposedly because the Army did not like images of soldiers wearing full protective suits when climbing on DU-contaminated tanks. For a copy of the original Army video, contact me at mtpd-@dclink.com. Dan Fahey * Depleted Uranium found as Coloring Matter in Enamel http://www.egroups.com/group/du-list/1851.html? See also CRII-RAD release of Oct. 27, 1999 (in French): http://www.criirad.com/criirad/actualites/uranium.appauvri.html Depleted uranium was found in yellow enamel powder sold by a French company, and in pieces of enamel jewelry. By gamma spectrometic monitoring done at the independent laboratory of CRII-RAD, a uranium concentration of 10% was found in the powder jaune no.17"; the uranium was depleted to 0.23% uranium-235. The dose rate at the surface of the powder was 8 micro-Sv/h. Jewelry pieces identified as made with this enamel powder were enamel plates pendants and rings. The dose rate at the surface of the jewelry pieces was 6.7 micro-Sv/h…. * Rockefeller Report -- Is Military Research Hazardous To Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half A Century A Staff Report Prepared For The Committee On Veterans' Affairs United States Senate December 8 1994 http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/rockrep.cfm 103d Congress 2d Session - COMMITTEE PRINT - S. Prt. 103-97 John D. Rockefeller Iv West Virginia Chairman III. Findings and conclusions A. For at least 50 years DOD has intentionally exposed military personnel to potentially dangerous substances often in secret B. DOD has repeatedly failed to comply with required ethical standards when using human subjects in military research during war or threat of war C. DOD incorrectly claims that since their goal was treatment the use of investigational drugs in the Persian Gulf War was not research D. DOD used investigational drugs in the Persian Gulf War in ways that were not effective E. DOD did not know whether pyridostigmine bromide would be safe for use by U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf War F. When U.S. troops were sent to the Persian Gulf in 1994 DOD still did not have proof that pyridostigmine bromide was safe for use as an antidote enhancer G. Pyridostigmine may be more dangerous in combination with pesticides and other exposures H. The safety of the botulism vaccine was not established prior to the Persian Gulf War I. Records of anthrax vaccinations are not suitable to evaluate safety J. Army regulations exempt informed consent for volunteers in some types of military research K. DOD and DVA have repeatedly failed to provide information and medical followup to those who participate in military research or are ordered to take investigational drugs L. The Federal Government has failed to support scientific studies that provide information about the reproductive problems experienced by veterans who were intentionally exposed to potentially dangerous substances M. The Federal Government has failed to support scientific studies that provide timely information for compensation decisions regarding military personnel who were harmed by various exposures N. Participation in military research is rarely included in military medical records making it impossible to support a veteran's claim for service-connected disabilities from military research O. DOD has demonstrated a pattern of misrepresenting the danger of various military exposures that continues today IV. Recommendations A. Congress should deny the DOD request for a blanket waiver to use investigational drugs in case of war or threat of war B. FDA should reject any applications from DOD that do not include data on women and long-term followup data C. Congress should authorize a centralized database for all federally funded experiments that utilize human subjects D. Congress should mandate all Federal agencies to declassify most documents on research involving human subjects E. Congress should reestablish a National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects F. VA and DOD should implement regular site visits to review Institutional Review Boards G. The Feres Doctrine should not be applied for military personnel who are harmed by inappropriate human experimentation when informed consent has not been given Appendix -- Survey of 150 Persian Gulf War Veterans http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/rockrep.cfm#appendix … ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Subscribe NucNews: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Submit URL/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.