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Refuting false information appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Nuclear Silo Preservation Examined By The Associated Press * Internet warfare concerns admiral * CIA Declassifies Cold War Soviet Nuclear Reports * Bush says he would share missile-defense technology with Russia * OPINION 'Faster better cheaper' shot at NASA misses mark * THE AD CAMPAIGN Bush Depicted as Safe on Foreign Policy * Sandia National Laboratories will lose 25 jobs because of last-minute $9.3 million budget cut * Aid for Nuclear Workers Sought Bill Eyes $100 000 Each for Cancers at Paducah Other Plants * Nuclear Workers Compensation Pressed * Legislators upset by exclusion of Piketon workers from bill Uranium-enrichment plant employees would not be offered compensation. * NRC Staff Says Calvert Cliffs Plant Is Safe MARYLAND * Quotes From Declassified CIA Files The Associated Press * Boeing wins $2 billion in orders * Army Changing Mission of a Training Academy By STEVEN LEE MYERS * British House of Commons urgedU.S. Senate to reconsider Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty * RAF Crew Eject from Jet Before Crash * Yeltsin Upstaging U.S. Endorses N-Test Ban (Reuters) * Yeltsin Backs A-Test Treaty (NYT) * Yeltsin Signs Test Ban Treaty Bill (WP) * Russian Arms Researcher Charged With Spying for U.S. * Russia tests 2 ballistic missiles * US-Russian Ties Tested by Disputes * Clinton Focuses on Russia Chechnya * For 3d Time in Month Russia Fires Missile * U.S. Thinks Iraq Is Rebuilding Ruined Military Sites * Pakistan's Boss: Realist Not Diplomat * US India Say Progress Needed on Disarmament * U.S. S. Korea Open Missile Talks * U.S. Opens Missile Talks With S.Korea A RAF plane crashed one half mile from a nuc plant in Britain. See under Britain -------- us nuc weapons Nuclear Silo Preservation Examined By The Associated Press Washington Post November 17 1999 Filed at 5:30 p.m. EST http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Missile-Silo.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House passed legislation Wednesday that would convert an old nuclear missile silo at the entrance to South Dakota's Badlands into a museum of Cold War confrontation. The bill which already passed the Senate and is expected to be signed by President Clinton authorizes $5 million to establish the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site near Ellsworth Air Force Base. -- Internet warfare concerns admiral By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Washington Times 5am November 18 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/news/news3.html#link The Pentagon's top intelligence official said yesterday that China's announced plans to conduct "Internet warfare" poses a future threat to U.S. military dominance on the battlefield. -- CIA Declassifies Cold War Soviet Nuclear Reports By Tabassum Zakaria Reuters Updated 12:23 PM ET November 18 1999 http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/991118/12/news-cia-leadall LANGLEY Va. (Reuters) - The Soviet Union had the capability of striking all U.S. missile silos with two warheads each near the end of the Cold War but was wary of escalating the arms race for economic reasons newly declassified U.S. intelligence documents.... -- Bush says he would share missile-defense technology with Russia Seattle Post-Intelligencer Wednesday November 17 1999 ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.seattlep-i.com/national/camp171.shtml WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush outlining his vision for American foreign policy said yesterday he would be willing to share technology to help Russia develop an anti-ballistic-missile system if Moscow pledged to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. -- [Letters to CS Monitor needed!*] Missile-defense common sense Christian Science Monitor THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18 1999 http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/11/18/fp8s2-csm.shtml ... The decision as to whether a national missile-defense system is needed basically comes down to a matter of where to place your trust: in the restraint of such regimes as North Korea and Iran or in your own defense system. An ounce of prevention after all is worth a pound of cure. Phillip Thompson Arlington Va. *(Mail letters to 'Readers Write ' and opinion articles to Opinion Page One Norway St. Boston MA 02115 or fax to 617-450-2317 or e-mail to oped@csps.com) -- THE AD CAMPAIGN Bush Depicted as Safe on Foreign Policy By FRANK BRUNI New York Times November 18 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/111899wh-gop-bush-ad.html Related Articles Campaigns: White House 2000 -- George W. Bush (R) http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/whouse/gop-bush.html This 30-second commercial Dangerous World, was unveiled this week by Gov. George W. Bush of Texas in South Carolina home to military bases and many veterans.... SCRIPT "Today we live in a world of terror and madmen and missiles. And our military is challenged by aging weapons and low morale. Because a dangerous world still requires a sharpened sword I will rebuild our military. I will move quickly to defend our country and allies against blackmail by building missile defense systems. As president I will have a foreign policy with a touch of iron driven by American interests and American values." ACCURACY Bush's use of imagery associated with the Persian Gulf war -- the night sky pictured here is over Baghdad -- evokes what was considered a high point of his father's presidency but ignores the fact that military cutbacks began under President Bush.... -------- us nuc weapons plants New Mexico USA Today November 18 1999 http://www.usatoday.com/news/states/nmmain.htm Thursday November18 Albuquerque - The nuclear waste research program at Sandia National Laboratories will lose 25 jobs because of a last-minute $9.3 million budget cut related to a feud between the state and the federal government over a radioactive waste dump. Sandia officials are trying to find other jobs for the scientists and support staff. -- Aid for Nuclear Workers Sought Bill Eyes $100 000 Each for Cancers at Paducah Other Plants By Joe Stephens and Joby Warrick Washington Post November 18 1999; Page A18 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/18/166l-111899-idx.html The Clinton administration yesterday sent Congress legislation that would give $100 000 to each person who became ill after working at nuclear weapons facilities in Paducah Ky. and elsewhere. Under the bill each Paducah worker who developed cancer after being unwittingly exposed to plutonium and other highly radioactive materials would be eligible for a lump-sum payment of $100 000. Family members could collect for dead workers. -- Nuclear Workers Compensation Pressed The Associated Press New York Times November 18 1999 Filed at 3:56 a.m. EST http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Nuclear-Compensation.html KNOXVILLE Tenn. (AP) -- A Clinton administration plan to compensate potentially hundreds of current and former workers sickened in federal nuclear weapons plants isn't enough some workers say. ``What is a human life worth?'' asked Ann Orick who became sick while working at the shuttered K-25 uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge. -- Legislators upset by exclusion of Piketon workers from bill Uranium-enrichment plant employees would not be offered compensation. By Jonathan Riskind Dispatch Washington Bureau Columbus Dispatch Thursday November 18 1999 http://www.dispatch.com/pan/news/pbuxnws.html WASHINGTON -- Ohio legislators were angered yesterday when they learned that a bill to compensate workers exposed to radiation at a Kentucky power plant does not include employees who worked with uranium at a southern Ohio plant. -- NRC Staff Says Calvert Cliffs Plant Is Safe Washington Post Thursday November 18 1999; Page B03 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/18/219l-111899-idx.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/states/mdmain.htm A report issued yesterday by Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff members concludes that there are no safety concerns that would preclude renewal of the operating licenses for the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant. -------- us other Quotes From Declassified CIA Files Associated Press Thursday Nov. 18 1999; 2:28 p.m. EST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991118/aponline142842_000.htm -- Boeing wins $2 billion in orders USA Today 11/18/99- Updated 10:13 AM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/digest/nd1.htm#f990 NEW YORK - Boeing Co. has won at least 30 orders valued at more than $2 billion for its new line of Delta IV satellite-launch rockets The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. -- Army Changing Mission of a Training Academy By STEVEN LEE MYERS New York Times November 18 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/army-school.html WASHINGTON -- The Army school that taught generations of Latin American soldiers to fight leftist insurgencies during the Cold War -- and along the way trained officers who went on to commit human-rights abuses -- is changing its name and its mission in hopes of improving its reputation. -- Embassy Row: Under advisement By James Morrison THE WASHINGTON TIMES 5am -- November 18 1999 www.washtimes.com http://www.washtimes.com/internatl/embassy.html The British House of Commons yesterday urged the U.S. Senate to reconsider its rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty prompting Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's office to dismiss the British resolution with a touch of sarcasm.... "The former Colonies will take the House of Commons resolution under advisement he said. -- RAF Crew Eject from Jet Before Crash By The Associated Press New York Times November 17, 1999 Filed at 6:25 p.m. EST http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Britain-Jet-Crash.html LONDON (AP) -- Two Royal Air Force pilots ejected from their Tornado jet during a training exercise Wednesday, minutes before their plane crashed in the sea near a nuclear power station. -------- russia Yeltsin, Upstaging U.S., Endorses N-Test Ban By Reuters New York Times November 17, 1999 Filed at 4:34 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-arms-ru.html ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin, seeking the moral high ground over the United States, said Wednesday he had signed a draft law approving a global nuclear test ban and sent it to parliament for ratification. -- Yeltsin Backs A-Test Treaty New York Times 11/18/99 http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/111899europe-meeting.html#1 ISTANBUL -- President Boris N. Yeltsin said Wednesday that he is pressing the Russian parliament to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty. The United States Senate rejected the treaty last month in a defeat for President Clinton. -- Yeltsin Signs Test Ban Treaty Bill Washington Post, November 18, 1999; P A36 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/18/171l-111899-idx.html ISTANBUL--Russian President Boris Yeltsin, seeking the moral high ground over the United States, said yesterday he had signed a bill approving a global nuclear test ban and sent it to parliament for ratification. -- Russian Arms Researcher Charged With Spying for U.S. By David Hoffman Washington Post Foreign Service, November 18, 1999; Page A35 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/18/177l-111899-idx.html MOSCOW, Nov. 17-Russian security services have charged an arms control researcher with spying for the United States, sources said today. Igor Sutyagin, chief of the section on military technological research at the Institute for the Study of the United States and Canada, was detained Oct. 27 by the Federal Security Service in Kaluga, south of Moscow, where he lives. -- Russia tests 2 ballistic missiles Florida Today Nov. 18, 1999 http://www.flatoday.com/space/today/111899g.htm MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia fired its third set of test missiles in a month on Wednesday, sending a message of combat-readiness as the country wrangles with the United States over a proposed missile defense system. -- US-Russian Ties Tested by Disputes By Robert Burns AP Military Writer Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 18, 1999; 3:32 a.m. EST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991118/aponline033247_000.htm ISTANBUL, Turkey -- In the five months since President Clinton last met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the diplomatic irritant of Russian objections to NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia has been replaced by increasingly strong American protests over Russia's military offensive in the breakaway region of Chechnya. -- Clinton Focuses on Russia, Chechnya By The Associated Press, New York Times November 17, http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Clinton.html ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- President Clinton, on the eve of a summit of 54 world leaders, staked out ground Wednesday for a showdown with Boris Yeltsin over Russia's military crackdown in Chechnya and the growing toll of civilian casualties. -- For 3d Time in Month, Russia Fires Missile By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNew York Times November 18, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/russia-missile.html MOSCOW -- Russia fired its third set of test missiles in a month Wednesday, sending a message of combat-readiness as the country wrangles with the United States over a proposed missile defense system. -------- iraq U.S. Thinks Iraq Is Rebuilding Ruined Military Sites By STEVEN LEE MYERS New York Times November 18, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/111899iraq-weapons.html Related Article U.N. Hits Snag in Renewing 'Oil for Food' Program for Iraq http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/111899iraq-un.html WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's senior intelligence officer said Wednesday that Iraq had begun to rebuild military installations the United States and Britain destroyed last December and that he could not rule out the possibility that President Saddam Hussein had resumed building chemical or biological weapons. -------- india/pakistan Pakistan's Boss: Realist, Not Diplomat New Yok Times November 18, 1999 By BARRY BEARAK http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/111899pakistan-musharraf.html RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- Gen. Pervez Musharraf was running behind schedule again Wednesday, with top posts still to fill, hundreds of the corrupt yet to arrest, back taxes to collect and policies to reconsider. His post-coup government is only five weeks old. -- US, India Say Progress Needed on Disarmament Reuters Updated 12:11 PM ET November 17, 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/r/991117/12/politics-india-usa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - India and the United States said on Wednesday they agreed on the need for tangible progress" on disarmament and non-proliferation. -------- korea U.S. S. Korea Open Missile Talks New York Times November 18 1999 By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-SKorea-US-Missile.html Washington Post November 18 1999 Filed at 4:12 a.m. ET By Reuters http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-korea-m.html SEOUL South Korea (AP) -- A U.S. diplomat indicated today that South Korea should refrain from developing a new missile that could travel farther and reach all of communist North Korea. ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefs.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.