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Refuting false information appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [The full text can be found at http://prop1.org/nucnews/9912nn/991205nn.htm} * PROTEST STUDIES Ways to Up the Revolution * Puerto Ricans Gain Ear of Washington but Seek Far More * China Jails Stanford Researcher for Leaks * U.S. Aide's Arrest on TV * Submariner solves a polar problem * Energy: Energy Policy Should Be Refocused in New Year * Energy: Nuclear Waste to Top Panel's Agenda * 'The day of reckoning' Nuke plants running out of space as they wait for Yucca decision * Senators gear for next round of Yucca battles * Plans for giant nuclear sculpture are stalled * Books: "Biohazard" by Ken Alibek * Books: "Plum Island" : A Novel by Nelson Demille * Books: NEW WORLD DISORDER Free Speech vs. Free Trade * White House Miscalculation Led to Talks Without a Focus ---------------- * PROTEST STUDIES Ways to Up the Revolution By JOE SHARKEY New York Times December 5 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/120599protest-tips-text-review.html ... The Ruckus Society founded in 1995 in Berkeley Calif. sponsors camps and seminars to train protesters for environmental and human rights groups. Neatness counts when it comes to dealing with the news media the Society says on its Web site (www.ruckus.org): This chapter includes a checklist of what you should do and when you should do it to have the best shot at getting your action's message out. But these steps can be for naught if not done with thorough professionalism. Journalists are professional cynics and if you're sloppy they will notice it and it will color their coverage. So go the extra mile; proofread the press release again; make the extra phone call. Never cut corners. Ruckus says it has trained hundreds of activists in nonviolent civil disobedience many at rugged camps at more than a dozen rural locations in North America. Our showcase venue is Action Camp. * Puerto Ricans Gain Ear of Washington but Seek Far More By FRANCIS X. CLINES New York Times December 5 1999http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/puertorico-navy.html VIEQUES Puerto Rico -- Again and again across the decades the U.S. Marines have stormed ashore here on Yellow Beach in a full rain of firepower and won the vital mock battleground that has been made of the eastern third of this small lush island. But not now and not ever again according to the resolve of Sen. Ruben Berrios Martinez the Puerto Rican lawmaker and Independence Party leader who holds the political high ground with a mere pamphleteer's firepower as he keeps the Marines at bay. * China Jails Stanford Researcher for Leaks New York Times December 5 1999By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/china-us-spy.html PALO ALTO Calif. -- A Stanford University researcher who had been an official in China's missile program has been sentenced to 15 years in a Chinese prison after being convicted of leaking state secrets Stanford officials said on Friday. The Stanford president Gerhard Casper said the school learned this week that Hua Di 63 a research associate at the school's Center for International Security and Cooperation was convicted by a Chinese court of leaking state secrets and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The researcher was arrested a year ago in Beijing while on his first to his homeland in many years. * U.S. Aide's Arrest on TV New York Times December 5 1999By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/russia-arrest.html MOSCOW -- Russia's domestic security agency took the unusual step Saturday of televising footage of an American diplomat's detention on spying charges. Foreign Minister Igor S. Ivanov denied that the diplomat's detention this week was retaliation after the United States detained an American naval officer on charges of spying for Russia since 1994. He said the diplomat identified by local media as Cheri Leberknight 33 had been caught "red handed." * Submariner solves a polar problem Daily Telegraph Sunday 5 December 1999By Macer Hall http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=02sxbNrq&atmo=02sxb Nrq&pg=/et/99/12/5/nsub05.html A ROYAL Navy rating has developed a mathematical formula which now bears his name that has revolutionised navigation for nuclear submarines beneath the polar ice caps. Paul Batten a leading operator mechanic has earned the admiration of the Service's commanders for his solution to the difficulties of negotiating a safe course through the vast jagged ice formations under arctic regions. He has had personal congratulations from Geoff Hoon the Defence Secretary and from the three most senior admirals in the Navy who were impressed with his initiative. His formula now officially named the Batten Method has become a standard operating procedure for the Navy's fleet of 12 attack nuclear submarines. It also won him first prize in a national competition to find the "idea of the year". * Energy: Energy Policy Should Be Refocused in New Year By Rep. Bruce Vento Roll Call December 5 1999 Policy Briefing: The Agenda for 2000 http://www.rollcall.com/policybr/pbstory9.html Today's national energy policy stands in stark contrast to the comprehensive policies enacted 20 years ago. During the late 1970s and early 1980s our national energy policy debate sparked the furor and passion of every American to the same extent as today's debate on health care reforms. However the days of waiting in long lines for gas shortages of heating oil and a darkened Washington Monument are gone. In their place are lower crude oil prices the popularity of gas guzzling sports utility vehicles and the explosion of polluting personal recreation vehicles from snowmobiles to jet skis. Today our energy policy is driven by personal convenience not conservation. Profit cheap gas and the bottom line are the major factors that are considered. The drive to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels has dissipated and been replaced by a drive to get the government out of energy policy.... Develop alternative energy sources. The stranglehold of foreign oil can only be broken through conservation and the development of alternative sources. Green power including biomass solar and wind increasingly offer a cost-efficient clean and viable alternative to fossil fuels. The solar silicon cells manufactured from one ton of sand could produce as much electricity as burning 500 000 tons of coal.... * Energy: Nuclear Waste to Top Panel's Agenda By Sen. Frank Murkowski chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Roll Call December 5 1999 Policy Briefing: The Agenda for 2000 http://www.rollcall.com/ From burying nuclear waste to un-burying Meriwether Lewis of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition team the agenda for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee promises to be interesting in the year 2000.... High-level nuclear waste is stored at 80 sites in 40 states. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act promised to take that waste and store it at a single facility by 1998. Because the government has defaulted on that obligation the liability to the taxpayer for nonperformance is estimated at between $40 billion and $80 billion. My bill S. 1287 would allow the Department of Energy to take title to the waste produced by power-generation facilities in the nation at the site of the facilities - if the plant owners agree. Eventually after a facility is licensed for construction the waste would be removed to a single facility. Billions of dollars have been spent to try to license the facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert where hundreds of nuclear blasts took place. * 'The day of reckoning' Nuke plants running out of space as they wait for Yucca decision By Benjamin Grove - grove@lasvegassun.com - Las Vegas Sun December 05 1999 http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/1999/dec/05/509553588.html CALVERT CLIFFS COUNTY Md. -- Fishing boats bob on the steel-blue Chesapeake Bay near this picturesque shore. Surrounding fields are a fading summer green. Forests are awash in red gold and rust. White-tailed deer dart into the woods. A bald eagle soars. Sea breezes blow. This beautiful setting seems a strange place to find one of the nastiest substances on Earth. But nestled on this former Maryland tobacco farm is the state's only nuclear power plant where two 850-megawatt nuclear reactors generate electricity for 450 000 households -- and 35 to 40 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste a year. The waste at Calvert Cliffs is like any other produced by 103 reactors at 72 plants nationwide: spent uranium fuel rods stored in pools of water inside the plants. * Senators gear for next round of Yucca battles By Benjamin Grove - grove@lasvegassun.com - Las Vegas Sun December 05 http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/1999/dec/05/509553587.html WASHINGTON -- The Senate's two leading supporters of storing nuclear waste in Nevada are preparing for fierce battle with Nevada Sens. Richard Bryan and Harry Reid. Sens. Larry Craig R-Idaho and Frank Murkowski R-Alaska want to send the nation's nuclear waste -- eventually 77 000 tons -- to Nevada for permanent storage. Waste now stored at nuclear power plants across the nation would be shipped to Yucca Mountain 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas as early as 2007 according to the latest nuclear waste storage bill. * Plans for giant nuclear sculpture are stalled The Oregonian 12/05/99 3:04 PM Eastern The Associated Press http://flash.oregonlive.com/cgi-bin/or_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed /OREGON_NEWS/o1871_AM_WA--NuclearSculpture RICHLAND Wash. (AP) -- Artist Jim Acord's grand plans for a giant monument of the nuclear age at the Hanford nuclear reservation have stalled. Acord left the Tri-Cities nearly two years ago after he failed to generate enough support for his vision and has recently been working in England. The studio he abandoned is still filled with faded radiation warning signs sketches nuclear manuals and random junk. * Books: "Biohazard" by Ken Alibek Rating: ... "Outstanding." Reviewed by: David Smillie http://www.bookideas.com/reviews/science/biohazard.htm Full Title: Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World. Chilling. Disturbing. Creepy. Those are just a few of the words that came to mind while I was reading Biohazard by Ken Alibeck.... You see until recently Alibeck was known as Kanatjan Alibekov ... the deputy director of the Soviet Union's germ warfare projects. To read him casually discussing the procedures they used to grow up tonnes of anthrax spores or how they tested various lethal brews on monkeys staked to a deserted island is truly chilling. * Books: "Plum Island" : A Novel by Nelson Demille Takes you to top secret biological research facility in Long Island. Effective analysis of the dangers makes you wonder how much of the fiction is truth. * Books: NEW WORLD DISORDER Free Speech vs. Free Trade By TIMOTHY EGAN New York Times December 5 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/120599wto-seattle-review.html * White House Miscalculation Led to Talks Without a Focus NEWS ANALYSIS / THE SHIPWRECK IN SEATTLE By DAVID E. SANGER New York Times December 4 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120599wto-assess.html ___________________________________________________ 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. [Please copy and forward NucNews. Help keep the information flowing!]