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Refuting false information appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * President Intervenes On Vieques Clinton Urges Puerto Rico And Navy to Compromise * Schroder ready to close all nuclear plants * China Denies It Bought Israeli Radar * Russia Tests Sub-Based Missiles on Eve of OSCE (R) * Russia Tests 2 Ballistic Missiles (AP) * Russia tests two ballistic missiles From Time to Time: Nando's in-depth look at the 20th century * UN Seeks To Inspect Iraq Again * Japan Rocket May Have Leaked Fuel * Experts question missile defense * Clinton Yeltsin to Discuss Strategic Cooperation * Bush on missiles * Closing of Brookhaven Reactor Dismays Scientists Pleases Environmentalists ------- du President Intervenes On Vieques Clinton Urges Puerto Rico And Navy to Compromise By Roberto Suro Washington Post Staff Writer November 17 1999; Page A29 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/17/125l-111799-idx.html Caught between the Pentagon and a large group of Democratic voters President Clinton has intervened in a dispute over the Navy's use of a firing range in Puerto Rico telephoning the island's governor three times in the past five days while also pressing the Navy to compromise. Because of the timetable for aircraft carriers rotating through the Persian Gulf by the end of this week Clinton may have to choose between sending Navy ships into a potential combat zone without full training or risking an armed confrontation between federal officers and anti-Navy protesters on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. -------- germany Schroder ready to close all nuclear plants By Imre Karacs in Berlin Independent 17 November 1999 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Environment/nuclear171199.shtml Email to the German Federal Press Office http://www.bundesregierung.de/english/mail.html Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was close to a deal last night with his Green coalition partners on the timetable to close all of Germany's 19 nuclear power plants. -------- china China Denies It Bought Israeli Radar By ERIK ECKHOLM New York Times November 17 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/china-israel-arms.html Related Article U.S. Seeks to Curb Israeli Arms Sales to China (Nov. 11 1999) http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/111199israel-china.html BEIJING -- A government spokesman denied on Tuesday that China's military had bought an advanced airborne radar system from Israel even though Israeli officials have privately acknowledged to the United States that the sale took place. -------- russia Russia Tests Sub-Based Missiles on Eve of OSCE New York Times November 17 1999 Filed at 7:53 a.m. EDT By Reuters http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-arms-ru.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Russia-Missiles.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991117/aponline095726_000.htm http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0 2107 500058611-500096572-500382588-0 00.html MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia test-fired two nuclear-capable ballistic missiles from a submarine in the Barents Sea in the Arctic north on Wednesday the navy said. -------- iraq UN Seeks To Inspect Iraq Again New York Times November 16 1999 Filed at 10:51 p.m. EST http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-UN-Iraq.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991116/aponline225155_000.htm UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- In a bid to break a nearly year-old deadlock on Iraq the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council are meeting every day to draft a resolution that would restart U.N. weapons inspections. Diplomats reported slow progress on Tuesday. --------japan Japan Rocket May Have Leaked Fuel Wednesday Nov. 17 1999; 1:22 p.m. EST By Ginny Parker Associated Press Writer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991117/aponline132215_000.htm TOKYO -- This week's loss of a $94 million satellite just minutes after launch may have been caused by fuel leaking from a rocket booster Japanese space officials said Wednesday. -------- us nuc weapons Experts question missile defense By John Omicinski GANNETT NEWS SERVICE USA Today 11/16/99 http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncstue02.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm#miss WASHINGTON - The $10 billion national missile defense system has a ''high risk'' of failure missile experts told the Pentagon's ''Star Wars'' agency Tuesday warning it not to move too quickly. Moreover huge technical problems in the National Missile Defense system - NMD - were made worse by ''confusion about authority and responsibility '' said a panel headed by retired Air Force Gen. Larry Welch. Clinton Yeltsin to Discuss Strategic Cooperation Reuters Updated 1:51 PM ET November 15 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/r/991115/13/politics-arms-usa MOSCOW (Reuters) - The presidents of Russia and the United States will discuss arms issues and a nuclear test ban treaty at talks in Istanbul this week a spokesman for Russian President Boris Yeltsin said Monday. Bush on missiles Washington Times 5am -- November 17 1999 www.washtimes.com http://www.washtimes.com/politics/inside.html George W. Bush the front-runner for the Republican Party presidential nomination said yesterday he favored going ahead with a national missile defense system even if it means pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty over Russian objections. ----------- nuc weapons plants Closing of Brookhaven Reactor Dismays Scientists Pleases Environmentalists New York Times November 17 1999 GREAT NECK N.Y. -- Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory were dismayed Tuesday at the Department of Energy's decision to permanently close an aging nuclear reactor that has been shut since 1996 but environmentalists praised the move. ___________________________________________________ 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.