Subject: NucNews 99/11/09 Briefs (by Guin) Story-Date: 12:18 a.m. PST Monday , November 15, 1999 Please address replies to articles to the original publisher. Please send NucNews copies? Refuting false information appreciated! ---------- Wall of Denial news conference and ceremony -- 11 a.m. -- Washington DaybookNovember 9 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/daybook/daybook.html Project Abolition holds a news conference and a "Wall of Denial" tear-down ceremony to conclude its weeklong series of protests against nuclear weapons and "runaway" militarism and to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Location: The Mall. Contact: 202/393-5201. --- Members of Congress to Help Tear Down Berlin Wall Replica at U.S. Capitol U.S. Newswire 8 Nov 11:33 http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1108-12.htm News Advisory: Capping off a week-long vigil for nuclear disarmament to raise public awareness about ongoing threats posed by thousands of cold war nuclear weapons members of congress and Project Abolition will tear down a 200-foot replica of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday Nov. 9 at 11 a.m. on the National Mall near 3rd Street on the West of the U.S. Capitol. Today (Nov. 8) at the "Wall of Denial" a candlelight vigil sponsored by local religious leaders will be held at 6 p.m. followed by an ll night dance party expected to attract a very large crowd. --- Brookhaven Finds High Levels of Radioactive Contamination November 9 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-brookhaven-radioa ctivity.html UPTON N.Y. -- In an unexpected finding officials at Brookhaven National Laboratory said on Monday that they had detected tritium a radioactive substance in a monitoring well at levels twice the federal standard for drinking water in a monitoring well. But they said the contamination found near a building housing a particle accelerator experiment posed no health threat. --- Suffolk Executive Plans Talks to Settle Bill for Shoreham By JOHN T. McQUISTON November 9 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-suffolk-shoreham. html HAUPPAUGE -- Less than a week after easily winning re-election to a third term County Executive Robert J. Gaffney has taken on a far more daunting task: negotiating a settlement in the bitter two-year battle between the Long Island Power Authority and the county Legislature over taxes on the Shoreham nuclear power plant. --- Sandia To Cover Not Clean Waste By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer November 10 1999 http://www.abqjournal.com/news/11news11-10-99.htm Sandia National Laboratories plans to put a permanent cover over a landfill containing its most radioactive waste rather than digging it up and potentially exposing workers and the public to it. --- House Panel Wants Nuke Document By Tom Raum Associated Press Writer Tuesday Nov. 9 1999; 3:24 a.m. EST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991109/aponline032433_000.htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Congress-China-Espionage.html WASHINGTON -- Averting a subpoena battle Energy Secretary Bill Richardson is promising a House Armed Services panel material it has been seeking for nearly eight months in an inquiry into alleged Chinese espionage at a U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory. --- HOLGER JENSEN: Priorities for U.S. foreign policy Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Scripps Howard News Service http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0 2107 500055303-500090952-500332127-0 00.html (November 9 1999 12:20 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - President Clinton celebrated the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday by pleading for a bipartisan foreign policy and more U.S. involvement abroad. He politely refrained from blasting congressional "isolationists as he did after the Senate refused to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty, and instead praised his Republican predecessors - among them, Ronald Reagan and George Bush - for having foreign policies that crossed party lines. --- DOE Uses WIPP for Warning Analysis by Barry Massey The Associated Press November 9, 1999 http://www.abqjournal.com/news/16news11-09-99.htm The federal government is sending a warning to other states by threatening to withhold a share of New Mexico's highway money because of a regulatory dispute involving the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. --- Blanding Worried About Contamination Tuesday, November 9, 1999, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE http://www.sltrib.com/1999/nov/11091999/utah/45531.htm Editors Note: Because of an editing error, Friday's story about White Mesa uranium processing plant and Atlas Tailings mill was seriously distorted. The following is a corrected version: BLANDING -- Gov. Mike Leavitt took on residents concerned about the White Mesa uranium processing plant during a town hall meeting Friday. --- Nuclear Power Plants' Y2K Readiness Questioned By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, November 9, 1999 http://ens.lycos.com/ens/nov99/1999L-11-09-06.html WASHINGTON, DC, November 9, 1999 (ENS) - Two federal agencies are at odds over how ready U.S. nuclear power plants are to handle the Year 2000 (Y2K) computer bug. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) says all 103 operating U.S. nuclear power plants are now ready for Y2K. But the U.S. General Accounting Office testified before Congress October 26 that the steps the nuclear industry has taken might not be enough to prevent problems at power plants. --- Troops to be given experimental drugs only rarely November 9, 1999 Web posted at: 7:54 PM EST (0054 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/09/military.vaccines.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Only in rare instances will U.S. forces be required to take drugs not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the Clinton administration told Congress Tuesday. A Pentagon official said these could include exposure to lethal biological-chemical weapons for which there are no approved vaccines. --- Peek at Black Hole By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer November 9, 1999 http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/1scitech11-09-99.htm Sandia National Laboratories scientists last month created a tiny piece of a black hole's maelstrom in their lab to help astronomers understand what they're seeing in the far reaches of space. Inside a heavy steel chamber, the researchers blasted a small piece of iron with enough energy to tear its atoms apart, flinging pieces in a way that mimics the fires of a black hole. --- Pentagon Cites Cyberwarfare Report By Robert Burns AP Military Writer Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1999; 2:29 a.m. EST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991109/aponline022905_000.htm WASHINGTON -- The United States and other nations capable of waging information warfare - the use of computer electronics to attack another state - are unlikely to be guided by a coherent body of international law anytime soon, the Defense Department's top lawyers argue in an internal report. --- Giant Hopes for Tiny Satellites By WARREN E. LEARY November 9, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/110999sci-small-satellites.html WASHINGTON -- The concept of less being more will take on new meaning in space next month when the Air Force launches a fleet of tiny experimental satellites made of miniature components -- diminutive machines that could one day work together in groups to replace or supplement larger spacecraft. --- Technology Falls Short in Clinton Chat, Viewers Say By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY November 9, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/cyber/articles/09chat.html [If you successfully tuned in to President Clinton's Townhall On-Line" we'd sure like to hear wheher nukes of any sort were mentioned.] For those who overcame technological obstacles Monday to view President Clinton's online chat the event with its jerky video and scratchy sound provoked some comical comparisons. --- China Plans for a Stronger Air Force Move Reflects Push to Expand Influence in Asia Serve Notice to United States By John Pomfret Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday November 9 1999; Page A17 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/09/053l-110999-idx.html BEIJING Nov. 8-The commander of China's air force said today Beijing would begin transforming the service from a territorial defense force into a more aggressive one with greater capabilities to attack beyond China's borders the New China News Agency reported. --- Senator Delays Vote to Confirm Admiral as Envoy to China By ELIZABETH BECKER November 9 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/senate-china-envoy.html WASHINGTON -- A Republican senator has blocked the confirmation of Adm. Joseph W. Prueher to be the next ambassador to China saying he is worried that the admiral is too friendly to China. --- World Briefings ASIA... INDIA: TALKS CANCELED November 9 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/world-briefing.html The Government has forced the postponement of a seven-nation summit meeting planned for Nov. 26-28 in Nepal. India the largest member of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation objected to taking part in the meeting because of the recent military takeover in neighboring Pakistan. No new date for the conference has been set. Barry Bearak (NYT) --- India U.S. To Discuss Nuclear Arms The Associated Press Tuesday Nov. 9 1999; 10:00 a.m. EST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991109/aponline100044_000.htm NEW DELHI India -- U.S. and Indian officials will meet in London next week to discuss nuclear disarmament - the first such meeting since the Senate rejected ratification of a global test ban treaty the United States has been pressing India to sign. -------- Clinton To Visit Greece and Turkey By Sonya Ross Associated Press Writer Tuesday Nov. 9 1999; 4:29 a.m. EST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991109/aponline042921_000.htm WASHINGTON -- Days away from his visit to Greece and Turkey President Clinton called "a true reconciliation" between the NATO allies one of the greatest challenges facing the world's leading democracies. "This is a problem that can be solved