From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #356 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Monday, August 14 2000 Volume 01 : Number 356 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:30:00 +0200 From: bernard blanc Subject: (abolition-usa) yes, please Howard wrote: Subject: (abolition-usa) Questions for congressional candidates Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:23:51 -0400 From: "Howard W.Hallman" Reply-To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com Dear Colleagues: In case anyone can make use of them, I am sending a set of questions on nuclear disarmament issues for candidates to the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. They were developed by members of the Interfaith Committee for Nuclear Disarmament. You can adapt them as you choose. I am transmitting the questions as an attachment, but I can send them as text upon request. Shalom, Howard Hallman Bernard Blanc replies: Dear Howard. Thank's for your work. Yes, I should be happy to have these questions as text in a mail. Best regards from France. Bernard Blanc. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:37:24 -0600 From: "bob kinsey" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Questions for congressional candidates These are good questions but I wonder if we don't need to focus a bit on teleology since the Bush Campaign is talking about Strength with a Purpose. This should lead to questions that reveal the general foreign/international policies as what they are in both parties' cases, programs for dominance. Iraq, Yugoslavia, Columbia; these cases are the recent uses of the military for various policies that are confusing at best. For instance: Why is NATO? Should the UN be strengthened? What is the purpose of Stockpile Stewardship beyond the boiler plate? Why is there Menwith Hills and Buckley Field? ************************************************* Bob Kinsey Peace and Justice Task Force Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ bkinsey@peacemission .org 6555 Ward Road, Arvada, Colorado, 80004 "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God" -- Jesus of Nazareth - ----- Original Message ----- From: Howard W.Hallman To: Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 7:23 AM Subject: (abolition-usa) Questions for congressional candidates > Dear Colleagues: > > In case anyone can make use of them, I am sending a set of questions on > nuclear disarmament issues for candidates to the U.S. Senate and U.S. House > of Representatives. They were developed by members of the Interfaith > Committee for Nuclear Disarmament. You can adapt them as you choose. > > I am transmitting the questions as an attachment, but I can send them as > text upon request. > > Shalom, > Howard Hallman > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- > > Howard W. Hallman, Chair > Methodists United for Peace with Justice > 1500 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 > Phone/fax: 301 896-0013; e-mail: mupj@igc.org > > Methodists United for Peace with Justice is a membership association of > laity and clergy. It has no affiliation with any Methodist denomination. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:40:14 +1000 From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) Stop Stars Wars - Join 200 organisations signed on to Star Wars/NMD letter PLEASE SIGN THIS LETTER BY EMAILING FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign with your organisations name and location (remember to state which COUNTRY you are from), and your title. Dear All who recieve this email, My apologies if you have seen this sign- on letter many times before - It now has just over 200 organisations signed on to it, and this is in fact just the third posting. You may have recieved it more times because of overlapping lists. If you have already signed many thanks for your signature. If your organisation has not yet signed on to this appeal, your signature will make a difference and you are urged to do so. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, 1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883, 1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201, PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, +7-095-205-4330, +7-095-206-5173, +7-095-205-4219, PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-171-925-0918, PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, +33-147-42-2465, PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN +33-142-34-2677 GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU, +49-030-20-00-19-99, CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER, +49-228-56-2357, +49-30-4000-2357, PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSHIRO MORI, [FAX NO?] JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA, +1-613-941-6900, KOSTAS SIMITIS, PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE, +301-671-6183 POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK, +45-33-11-1665 PRIME MINISTER DAVID ODDSSON, PRIME MINISTER OF ICELAND, +354-622373, PRIME MINISTER MASSIMO D'ALEMA, PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY, +39-6-678-3998 PRIME MINISTER KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK, PRIME MINISTER OF NORWAY, +47-2224-2796 PRIME MINISTER WILLHEM KOK, PRIME MINISTER OF THE NETHERLANDS, +31-70-356-4683, CC US SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT +1-202-647-6047, US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, WILLIAM S. 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Al Gore, Presidential Candidate, +1-202-456-2461 Dear Presidents and Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Defence Ministers, The undersigned NGO groups and Parliamentarians, representing millions of people, are writing: 1) To urge the US not to proceed with proposals for a National Missile Defence System (NMD), 2) To urge US allies to make the strongest representations in appropriate forums or bilaterally, to press the US government not to proceed with the deployment of NMD, and to maintain the integrity of the ABM Treaty. Proceeding with National Missile Defence threatens to undermine the basis of existing and future offensive nuclear arms reduction measures. We note the strong statements made on NMD by the Governments of France, Germany and Sweden, and the expressions of concern by other US allies including the UK, Canada, and the European Union. At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal. Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten that vital goal, to which the US is legally committed, together with all other NPT signatories. The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference expressly calls for: "the early implementation and entry into force of START-II and conclusion of START-III as soon as possible while preserving and strengthening the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons in accordance with its provisions." We do not believe it is possible for this to be interpreted in a way that will allow the deployment of an NMD system, nor should it be so interpreted. We therefore urge the US and Russia instead to proceed to the negotiation of START-III at the lowest possible force levels and to the immediate implementation of START-II. We note that the UN Secretary-General, and representatives of Russia, China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European Community, the New Agenda Coalition and the Non-Aligned movement have expressed the view that the ABM treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic stability. The recent meeting of G8 foreign ministers has also expressed strong concern over the possibility that the ABM treaty may be abrogated to allow NMD to proceed, and has stated that they are 'deeply concerned' over missile proliferation as a result of NMD. The Australian Senate on June 29th, passed a motion in which it called on the US not to proceed with the deployment of an NMD system and in which it called for the implementation of START-II as soon as possible, and the negotiation of START-III at the lowest possible force levels. We note also recent expressions of concern within the US, by Congresspeople, Nobel laureates, and other distinguished and influential people and organizations. America should not simply ignore the strongly repeated opinion of governments and NGOs of the whole world, that NMD should not proceed, and that the integrity of the ABM treaty should be maintained. Missile defence schemes respond to an exaggerated perception of the missile threat from so-called 'Rogue States', (now termed 'States of Concern') are not the solution to missile proliferation, sabotage nuclear disarmament efforts to which the US is legally committed along with the rest of the world, and decrease overall US and international security. There are serious doubts whether this system, or whether any missile defence system, can ever work. The problems posed even by relatively simple decoys are probably technically insoluble. The Welch Panel, an independent team of scientists, released a report outlining the probability of NMD systems failure due to time and schedule constraints. Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US focus on practical solutions to global strategic security. We therefore urge the US and Russia, as the highest priority, to proceed to the elimination of as many warheads as possible under any START-III agreement, the removal of obstacles to the implementation of START-II, and the removal of strategic missile forces from high alert status as advocated by the Canberra Commission, subsequent UN resolutions and the final NPT declaration. Yours Sincerely, (Signed) Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition 2000, Santa Barbara, Calif., USA., Ian Maddocks, Chair, Dr. Mary Wynne-Asford, Co-President, Dr. John Loretz, Program Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), BC Canada/Cambridge, USA., Kate Dewes, Vice-President, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva/NZ Bernice Boermans, Executive Director, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Neth., Dan Plesch, Director, British-American Security Information Council (BASIC), Washington/London, Bruna Nota, International President, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Geneva/NY., Dr. John Burroughs,Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP), NY/NZ., Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium, Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI), El Salvador/Amsterdam, Ricardo Navarro, Friends of the Earth El Salvador,(CESTA) El Salvador, Jarna Pasaren, Friends of the Earth Finland, Turku, Finland, Peep Mardiste, Friends of the Earth Estonia, Tartu, Estonia, Victor Khazan, MP, Friends of the Earth Ukraine, Member, Ukrainian Parliament. Kika Kapela, Friends of the Earth Cyprus, Lonnenga Ginting, Campaign Director, Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI), Jakarta, Indonesia, Fahmi Rizal, WALHI-Acheh, Daniel Sanchez, Amigos de la Tierra Espana, Madrid, Spain, Commander Robert D. Green, RN (Retd.) Chair, World Court Project UK., NZ/UK., Dave Knight, Chair, Rae Street, Vice-Chair, CND UK., Dave Webb, Yorkshire CND, Yorks, UK., Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands CND, Birmingham, UK., R. Ralph Say, Woking Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK., Jill Stallard, CND-Cymru, Wales, Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of US Bases, (CAAB), Yorkshire, UK., Dr. Chris Busby, Low-Level Radiation Campaign, UK., Liz Waterson, Gillian Reeve, Executive Director, MEDACT, UK., Jane Tallents, Trident-Ploughshares, UK. Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Vice-Chair, Defence and Security Committee, David Drew MP, Westminster., Stephen Mc Closkey, One World Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Dr Heinz-Peter Romberg, Xanthe Hall, IPPNW-Germany, Berlin, Regina Hagen, Darmstadter Friedensforum, Darmstadt, Germany, Claus Biegert, Nuclear Free Future Award, Munich, Germany, Eva Quistorp, Women for Peace, Berlin, Germany, Manfred Stenner, Director, Network of the German Peace Movement, Bonn, Germany, Wolfgang Schupp-Hauck, Friedens und Begegungsstaette Mutlangen, Mutlangen, Germany, Helene Connor, Director, HELIO International, Paris, France., Dr Josep Puig, Chair, Dr Joaquim Corominas, Vice-Chair, Scientists and Technologists Group for a Non-Nuclear Future, Barcelona, Spain, Grupo Autonomo di Volontariato Civile in Italia (GAVCI), Bolongna, Italy, Martin Schwander, Swiss Peace Movement, Basel, Switz., David Schmitter, Global Initiative for Immediate Disarmament, Switz, Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100 in Finland, Helsinki, Finland, Ulla Lehtinen, President, First Peoples, Turku, Finland., Kirsten Osen, Vice-Chair, Anne Grieg MD, IPPNW Norway, Horten, Norway., Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement, Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden, Agneta Norberg, 'Living Future', Sweden, Agneta Norberg, Swedish Peace Committee,Sweden, Agneta Norberg, Swedish Womens Left Association,Sweden, Agneta Norberg, Peace in Kurdistan,Sweden, Agneta Norberg, Peace in Iraq,Sweden, Poul-Eck Sorensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg, Denmark., Karel Koster, Project on European Nuclear Nonproliferation (PENN - -Netherlands), Neth., Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Antwerp, Belgium, Eloi Glorieux, MP, Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium, Biljana Stevanovska, Association for Sustainable Development, Skopje, Macedonia, Vladimir Sliviak, 'ECODEFENSE', Russia, Alisa Nikoulina, Social-Ecological Union Antinuclear Campaign, Moscow, Galina Ragouzhina, World Information Service on Energy(WISE) Russia, Alexandra Koroleva, Baltic Research and Action Centre, Kaliningrad, Professor A.V. Yablokov, President, Centre for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow, Russia, Andrei Laletin, Chair, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Russia, Nikolai Zubov, CEO, Krasnoyarsk Social-Ecological Union, Russia, Alla Shevchuck, Chairwoman, Odessa Branch Social-Ecological Union, Odessa, Ukraine, Paul Saoke, IPPNW, Kenya, Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGO's, Egypt, Boaz Fyler, Campaign Director, Green Action, Tel Aviv, Israel, Roy Cabonegro, Secy-General, YSDA Phillipines, Jean P. Patterson, Heredia Disarmament Committee, San Jose, Costa-Rica., Luis Guttierez Esparza, President, Latin American Circle for International Studies, Mexico City, Mexico, Grace De Haro, Suzanne Schultz, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina, Alfred Felix Perez Aruaza, Environmental Strategic Research Council, Uruguay, Alfredo Felix Perez Aruaza, Instituto de Estudios Estrategicos No Alineado para la Paz Mundial, Uruguay, Eusebio Garcia Varela, Mesa Ambientista de San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay, Blanca Nivia Peirano, Corporacion Nacional de Ecologia y Turismo del Uruguay, Gonzalo Ciganda, Instituto Naval de Arqueologica Subaciutica e Investigaciones Marinas del Uruguay, Psilink Uruguay, Mesa Social Coordinadora de NGO Independientes del Uruguay, Geovision Tercer Milenio, Grupo de Derechos Civiles del Uruguay, Comision Nacional de Solidaridad Uruguayo-Argentino, Felix Perez Aruaza, South American Peace Committee, Uruguay, S. P. Udayakumar, South Asian Community Centre for Education and Research, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India, Dr Kamrul, Bangladesh Medical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dr. Ronald Mc Coy, Chair, Malaysian Physicians Against Nuclear War (IPPNW), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Siti Maimunah, Kappala Indonesia, East Java, Indonesia., Syafryzaldi, Walhi Sumbar, Padang, Indonesia., Rally Syumanda, deputy Director, ULAYAT, Bengkulu, Indonesia., Tanty Thamrin, Yayasan Pendidikan Rakyat Bulukumbu, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Berry Nahdian Forquian, Executive Director, Yayasan Cakrawala Hijau Indonesia, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Youk Kyung Sook, Coordinator, Green Korea United, Seoul, S. Korea, Chauyen Lai Shrestha, President, Youth Alliance for Development, Kathmandhu, Nepal, Niel Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival,(PGS) Canada., Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada., Gordon Edwards, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility,(CCNR), Canada, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, International Institute of Concern for Public Health,(IICPH) Toronto, Canada., David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Canada., Dr. Joan Russow, National Leader, Green Party of Canada, Victoria, BC., Dave Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon Chapter, Dr. Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Linda Murphy, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Sask, Canada, Niel Sinclair, New Green Alliance, Sask, Canada, Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance, Toronto, Canada, Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons, President, Dr. Penelope Simons, Vice-President, The Simons Foundation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr, US Navy (Retd), Vice-President, Centre for Defence Information,(CDI) Washington, USA., Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Program Director, Federation of American Scientists, (FAS), NY, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program Analyst, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, Calif., USA., Alice Slater, President, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE) NY, USA, Michael Marriott, Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Washington, USA., Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York, NY, USA., Ellen Thomas, Executive Director, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., USA., Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Washington DC, USA., Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Gainesville, Florida., Randall Forsberg, Director, Institute for Defence and Disarmament Studies, Cambridge, Mass, Michael D. Intriligator, Vice-Chair, Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR), UCLA, USA., Jennifer Olaranna Viereck, Director, HOME, Tecopa, Calif.., Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountains Conference, United Church of Christ, Colorado, USA., Rev H.J. Grapes, Sanctuary of Light Healing and Spiritual Centre, NY., USA., Don Reeves, General Secretary, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA., Ruah Swennenfeldt/Stan Becker Clerk, Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, Burlington Vermont USA., Rev. William J. 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Yingling, Chair, Kay Camp, Former Chair, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) USA., Yoshiko Ikuta President, Women Speak out for Peace and Justice,(WILPF-Cleveland), Cleveland Ohio, Margo Schepart, Coordinator, NO ESCAPE, NY, USA., Lynn Sims, Don't Waste Oregon, Portland, Ore, USA., Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network, Shelburne, Mass, USA., Sherry Larsen-Beville, Livermore Conversion Project, Livermore, USA., Mary Byrd-Davis, Yggdrassil Institute, Georgetown, KY, USA., Paul Williams, Green Party of New Jersey, Atlantic City, NJ., Samara Dun, Just Act: Youth Action for Global Justice, San Francisco, Calif., USA., Corrinne Carey, Don't Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mich, USA., Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Monroe, Mich., Keith Gunter, Citizens Resistance at Fermi-Two, Monroe, Michigan, John M. Laforge, Nukewatch, Wisconsin, USA., Mary-Anne Zepettello, Peace Action Central New York., Susan Shaer, Womens Action for New Directions, (WAND), Arlington, MA, USA., Lt-Col WC Holmberg (Retd), President, Global Biorefineries, Wash, DC., Tracy Moavero, Peace Action Education Fund, USA., Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, Project EDNA, Brooklyn, NY., USA., Corbin Harney, Shundahai Network, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA., Richard L. Salvador, Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Honululu, Hawaii, USA., Marion Hancock, Coordinator, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ., Auckland, NZ, Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, (DSC), Christchurch, NZ., Dr. R. E. White, Deputy Director, Centre for Peace Studies, University of Auckland, NZ., Jim Holdom, CORSO, Hamilton, NZ., Leona Fay, Womens International League for Peace (WILPF), Christchurch, NZ, Carol-Anne Bradford, Coalition for Gun Control, Auckland, NZ., Richard Frizzell, Nelson Peace Group, Nelson, Aotearoa/NZ., Gerry Coates, Founder, Engineers for Social Responsibility, Wellington, NZ., Larry Ross, New Zealand Nuclear-Free Peacemaking Association, Christchurch, NZ., Ian Shearer, Sustainable Energy Forum, Wellington, New Zealand, Stewart Sontier, FAIR-NZ, Auckland, NZ., Kieth Locke, MP, Greens, Aotearoa/NZ Dr. Carmen Lawrence MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Fremantle, W.A., Anthony Albanese MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Grayndler, NSW., Tanya Plibersek, ALP Federal Member for Sydney, NSW., Allan Morris MP, ALP Federal Member for Newcastle, NSW., Daryl Melham MP, ALP Federal Member for Banks, NSW., Kelly Hoare MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Charlton, NSW, Jan Mc Farlane, (ALP) Federal Member for Stirling, W.A., Colin Hollis, (ALP) Federal Member for Throsby, NSW., Senator Vicky Bourne, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson for the Democrats, Democrat Senator for NSW., Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW, Senator Chris Schacht, ALP Senator for SA., Senator Brian Grieg, Democrat Senator for W.A., Cheryl Davenport, MLC, Member for South Metropolitan, W.A., Norm Kelly MLC, Member for North Metropolitan, W.A., Lee Rhiannon MLC (Greens) NSW., Richard Jones MLC, (Ind) NSW., Kerrie Tucker MLA, Greens Member for Molonglo ACT, Don Nardella MLA, ALP Member for Melton, Vic., Gis Watson MLC, Member for North Metropolitan, W.A., Gareth Smith, Nuclear Disarmament Party, Vic., Dr. Susan Wareham, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) Canberra, Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA, Babs Fuller-Quinn, Australian Peace Committee Sydney, Jack Forward, Central Coast Peace Forum, Doreen Burrows, South Coast Peace Committee, George Gotsis, Greek Peace Committee, (Sydney) Brian Miller, Hiroshima Day Committee Sydney Jo Vallentine, People For Nuclear Disarmament (PND) W.A., Scientists and Technologists Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND) W.A., Robin Chapple, Anti-Nuclear Alliance of W.A., Hannah Middleton, Anti-Bases Campaign, Denis Doherty, Pax Christi NSW Reverend Professor James Haire, President, Uniting Church in Australia, Rev. Greg Thompson, St Johns Anglican Church Darlinghurst, NSW., Pauline Mitchell, Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament, (CICD) Melb, Vic., Jacob Grech, Earthworker, Trades Hall, Melb., Cherie Hoyle, Urban Ecology Australia, Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory (ECNT), Darwin, NT, Rowena Skinner, Environment Centre of W.A.(ECWA), Perth, W.A., Glenn Marshall, Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), Alice Springs, NT., Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Melb., Alec Marr, Campaign Director, The Wilderness Society,(TWS), Canberra, Margaret Reynolds, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA), John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Australia, John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 06:57:50 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/08/14 - Daybook; Nuclear Bomb Lost Over Greenland - --=====================_40539717==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, August 14, 2000 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200081421272.htm Veterans health meeting =97 9 a.m. =97 Institute of Medicine holds a= public meeting, "Effective Health Treatments for Gulf War Veterans," to receive comments from veterans and a report on British Persian Gulf war vets.= Location: Foundry Building, 1055 Thomas Jefferson St. NW, Room 2004. Contact: 202/334-1318. Research council meeting =979:30 a.m. =97 National Research Council= hosts a Committee on Benefits of the Energy Department R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy. Location: Cecil and Ida Green Building, 2001 Wisconsin Ave.= NW. Contact: 202/334-2093. Environment protest =97 noon =97 World Sindhi Institute holds a rally to protest proposed construction of the Kalabagh Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan. Location: Pakistan Embassy, 2315 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/484-0134. Filegate evidentiary hearing =97 9:30 a.m. =97 White House and Northrop= Grumman officials testify about cover-up and obstruction of justice charges against= the Clinton-Gore administration in retrieving missing e-mails connected to= Judicial Watch's $90 million Filegate lawsuit. Location: Federal Courthouse,= Courtroom 21, Third Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Contact: 202/646-5172. 2) Key news yesterday: Cold War Bomb May Lie in Greenland=20 New York Times, Associated Press, August 13, 2000 Filed at 10:47 a.m. EDT http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Greenland-Cold-War-Bomb.html COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Documents obtained by former workers at the U.S. Air Force base in Greenland offer new evidence that an unarmed hydrogen bomb that sank in 1968 may still lie on the seabed, a newspaper reported Sunday. On Jan. 21, 1968, an American B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs with plutonium cores was on a mission near the Soviet border when a fire broke= out in its cabin. The plane crashed on the frozen Baffin Bay off the U.S. Air= Force base in Thule in northern Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory.Five= of the six crew members survived. Three of the bombs broke on impact, while the fourth reportedly sank to the seabed. About 1,200 Danish and Greenland workers cleaned up the wreckage and scooped tons of radioactive debris and ice into barrels that were shipped back to= the United States. That spring, Washington assured NATO member Denmark that= cleanup work had been completed, according to Sunday's report in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. However, classified documents obtained by a group of former civilian= employees at the air base suggest that the United States continued to search for the= lost bomb until August of 1968 without informing the Danes, according to the newspaper. The documents from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission reportedly show that= the U.S. search teams recovered the debris from the other three bombs but that= the fourth bomb -- with the serial number 78252 -- was never found. U.S. Embassy officials in Copenhagen could not be reached for comment. The Danish government, which has said previously that it was investigating= similar reports but considered them unlikely, had no immediate reaction. The former workers -- some of whom have filed for compensation, saying they have cases of cancer and other diseases related to the crash cleanup -- said they obtained the documents while researching their longtime claim. More details were not immediately available. Sunday's report offered new evidence of a possibility Danish officials have considered for years. In 1987, Denmark's foreign minister said the country= was looking into a report that the bomb still lay off the coast of Greenland. In 1995, Greenland's premier accused the United States of withholding= information about the B-52 crash. - -- Lost U.S. Nuclear Bomb Off Greenland Base Site?=20 By Peter Starck, Sunday August 13 10:23 AM ET http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000813/ts/greenland_nuclear_dc_2.html COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A U.S. nuclear bomb lost more than three decades ago probably lies on the seabed off Greenland's Thule airbase, which the United States aims to use for its controversial anti-missile shield, a Danish newspaper reported Sunday.=20 Classified documents obtained by a group of former workers at Thule, an= Arctic air and radar base built by the United States in 1951-52, suggest that one= of four hydrogen bombs on a B-52 bomber that crashed there in 1968 was never found, the daily Jyllands-Posten said.=20 ``Detective work by a group of former Thule workers indicates that an unexploded nuclear bomb probably still lies on the seabed off Thule,'' the right-leaning mass-circulation daily said.=20 The crash on January 21, 1968 led to a crisis in relations between the= United States and NATO ally Denmark, which is responsible for Greenland's foreign, security and defense policy and at the time prohibited nuclear weapons on= its territory, including Greenland.=20 Denmark was never informed about the lost bomb, which has serial number= 78252, the paper said.=20 Film Shows ``Bomb-Like Object''=20 Footage filmed at the site by a U.S. submarine searching for remains of the B-52 wreckage in April 1968 contained images of a bomb-like object, the= Danish Ritzau news agency reported.=20 A U.S. state department document dated August 31, 1968 said all weapons= onboard the crashed aircraft had been accounted for but did not spell out whether= they had been recovered, Ritzau said.=20 The United States assured the Danish government in spring 1968 that clean-up work after the B-52 crash had been completed and gave up searching for the= lost bomb in August that year, Jyllands-Posten said.=20 ``We are not able to comment at this stage,'' Lawrence Butler, Deputy Chief= of Mission at the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen, told Reuters by telephone. Danish government officials were not available for comment.=20 Niels-Joergen Nehring, head of the state-sponsored Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI), which published a report named ``Greenland= During the Cold War'' in 1997, including a chapter on the B-52 crash, said Jyllands-Posten's claim that a lost bomb remained off Thule was not= surprising. ``It is not new information that there might be some stuff left there,'' Nehring told Reuters, adding the crash had occurred ``some kilometers off= the coast'' where the water depth beneath the ice was 250-300 meters.=20 The U.S. investigation of the crash site had ended once it had been= confirmed that no radiation danger existed, he said.=20 Senior State Department officials are scheduled to visit Greenland on August= 21 to 24 for talks with Danish and Greenland officials on Thule's role in the planned National Missile Defense (NMD) initiative.=20 According to Senate testimony by Defense Secretary William Cohen in July, Washington needs a decision on upgrading the Thule radar next year if the= White House gives the political go-ahead to deploy NMD by 2005.=20 Home to a ballistic missile early-warning radar station, Thule sits at the midpoint of a chain of similar sites between Alaska and the British Isles --= a line along which the United States may build a shield against missiles from what it calls states of concern such as North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Libya.= =20 Greenland Politicians Oppose Plan=20 Leading politicians in Greenland, which has enjoyed limited= self-determination under the Danish crown since 1979, do not want Thule to play any role in the NMD.=20 Denmark has declined to speak out on the issue apart from saying that the= NMD should not go ahead if it breaches the strategic missile treaty between the United States and Russia. Moscow opposes the U.S. missile shield plan, and= says it does breach the treaty.=20 Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Denmark and other U.S. NATO= allies that their participation in the NMD could upset global strategic stability.= =20 DUPI's Nehring said the fresh nuclear bomb report would probably raise an uproar in the domestic media but was unlikely to seriously affect Denmark's position on the NMD.=20 ``It will of course give rise to questions and debates...but I don't think= it will have any long-term impact,'' he said.=20 The Danish government has said it will make a decision if and when= Washington submits a request to upgrade the Thule radar.=20 - ---- Iraq says allied planes bomb train station=20 Washington Times World Scene, August 14, 2000 http://www.washtimes.com/world/worldscene-2000814215410.htm BAGHDAD =97 Iraq said yesterday U.S. and British planes bombed a train station in the south overnight, wounding a number of civilians in the second straight night of raids on the area. Lt. Gen. Chahin Yassin Ahmed, commander of the Iraqi air defense= force, said planes hit the station in the southern town of Samawa on Saturday, wounding three civilians and damaging several houses. A raid on Friday= struck a Samawa warehouse, killing two civilians and wounding 19 others. Samawa is= 175 miles south of Baghdad. In Washington, the Pentagon said U.S. warplanes hit two anti-aircraft sites on Saturday night in response to multiple attacks by Iraqi= anti-aircraft artillery on U.S. and British planes in southern Iraq. ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z): George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com -= http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html (Please send other sites of qualified candidates.) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - --=====================_40539717==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, August 14, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200081421272.h= tm

    Veterans health meeting =97 9 a.m. =97 Institute of Medicine holds a public meeting, "Effective Health Treatments for Gulf War Veterans," to receive comments from veterans and a report on British Persian Gulf war vets. Location: Foundry Building, 1055 Thomas Jefferson St. NW, Room 2004. Contact: 202/334-1318.

    Research council meeting =979:30 a.m. =97 National Research Council hosts a Committee on Benefits of the Energy Department R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy. Location: Cecil and Ida Green Building, 2001 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Contact: 202/334-2093.

    Environment protest =97 noon =97 World Sindhi Institute holds a rally to protest proposed construction of the Kalabagh Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan. Location: Pakistan Embassy, 2315 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/484-0134.

    Filegate evidentiary hearing =97 9:30 a.m. =97 White Hous= e and Northrop Grumman officials testify about cover-up and obstruction of justice charges against the Clinton-Gore administration in retrieving missing e-mails connected to Judicial Watch's $90 million Filegate lawsuit. Location: Federal Courthouse, Courtroom 21, Third Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Contact: 202/646-5172.

2) Key news yesterday:

Cold War Bomb May Lie in Greenland

New York Times, Associated Press, August 13, 2000 Filed at 10:47 a.m. EDT
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Greenland-Cold-War-= Bomb.html

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Documents obtained by former workers at the U.S. Air Force base in Greenland offer new evidence that an unarmed hydrogen bomb that sank in 1968 may still lie on the seabed, a newspaper reported Sunday.

On Jan. 21, 1968, an American B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs with plutonium cores was on a mission near the Soviet border when a fire broke out in its cabin. The plane crashed on the frozen Baffin Bay off the U.S. Air Force base in Thule in northern Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory.Five of the six crew members survived. Three of the bombs broke on impact, while the fourth reportedly sank to the seabed.

About 1,200 Danish and Greenland workers cleaned up the wreckage and scooped tons of radioactive debris and ice into barrels that were shipped back to the United States. That spring, Washington assured NATO member Denmark that cleanup work had been completed, according to Sunday's report in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

However, classified documents obtained by a group of former civilian employees at the air base suggest that the United States continued to search for the lost bomb until August of 1968 without informing the Danes, according to the newspaper.

The documents from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission reportedly show that the U.S. search teams recovered the debris from the other three bombs but that the fourth bomb -- with the serial number 78252 -- was never found.

U.S. Embassy officials in Copenhagen could not be reached for comment. The Danish government, which has said previously that it was investigating similar reports but considered them unlikely, had no immediate reaction.

The former workers -- some of whom have filed for compensation, saying they have cases of cancer and other diseases related to the crash cleanup - -- said they obtained the documents while researching their longtime claim. More details were not immediately available.

Sunday's report offered new evidence of a possibility Danish officials have considered for years. In 1987, Denmark's foreign minister said the country was looking into a report that the bomb still lay off the coast of Greenland. In 1995, Greenland's premier accused the United States of withholding information about the B-52 crash.

--

Lost U.S. Nuclear Bomb Off Greenland Base Site?

By Peter Starck, Sunday August 13 10:23 AM ET
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000813/ts/greenland_nu= clear_dc_2.html

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A U.S. nuclear bomb lost more than three decades ago probably lies on the seabed off Greenland's Thule airbase, which the United States aims to use for its controversial anti-missile shield, a Danish newspaper reported Sunday.

Classified documents obtained by a group of former workers at Thule, an Arctic air and radar base built by the United States in 1951-52, suggest that one of four hydrogen bombs on a B-52 bomber that crashed there in 1968 was never found, the daily Jyllands-Posten said.

``Detective work by a group of former Thule workers indicates that an unexploded nuclear bomb probably still lies on the seabed off Thule,'' the right-leaning mass-circulation daily said.

The crash on January 21, 1968 led to a crisis in relations between the United States and NATO ally Denmark, which is responsible for Greenland's foreign, security and defense policy and at the time prohibited nuclear weapons on its territory, including Greenland.

Denmark was never informed about the lost bomb, which has serial number 78252, the paper said.

Film Shows ``Bomb-Like Object''

Footage filmed at the site by a U.S. submarine searching for remains of the B-52 wreckage in April 1968 contained images of a bomb-like object, the Danish Ritzau news agency reported.

A U.S. state department document dated August 31, 1968 said all weapons onboard the crashed aircraft had been accounted for but did not spell out whether they had been recovered, Ritzau said.

The United States assured the Danish government in spring 1968 that clean-up work after the B-52 crash had been completed and gave up searching for the lost bomb in August that year, Jyllands-Posten said.

``We are not able to comment at this stage,'' Lawrence Butler, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen, told Reuters by telephone. Danish government officials were not available for comment.

Niels-Joergen Nehring, head of the state-sponsored Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI), which published a report named ``Greenland During the Cold War'' in 1997, including a chapter on the B-52 crash, said Jyllands-Posten's claim that a lost bomb remained off Thule was not surprising.

``It is not new information that there might be some stuff left there,'' Nehring told Reuters, adding the crash had occurred ``some kilometers off the coast'' where the water depth beneath the ice was 250-300 meters.

The U.S. investigation of the crash site had ended once it had been confirmed that no radiation danger existed, he said.

Senior State Department officials are scheduled to visit Greenland on August 21 to 24 for talks with Danish and Greenland officials on Thule's role in the planned National Missile Defense (NMD) initiative.

According to Senate testimony by Defense Secretary William Cohen in July, Washington needs a decision on upgrading the Thule radar next year if the White House gives the political go-ahead to deploy NMD by 2005.

Home to a ballistic missile early-warning radar station, Thule sits at the midpoint of a chain of similar sites between Alaska and the British Isles -- a line along which the United States may build a shield against missiles from what it calls states of concern such as North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Libya.

Greenland Politicians Oppose Plan

Leading politicians in Greenland, which has enjoyed limited self-determination under the Danish crown since 1979, do not want Thule to play any role in the NMD.
Denmark has declined to speak out on the issue apart from saying that the NMD should not go ahead if it breaches the strategic missile treaty between the United States and Russia. Moscow opposes the U.S. missile shield plan, and says it does breach the treaty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Denmark and other U.S. NATO allies that their participation in the NMD could upset global strategic stability.
DUPI's Nehring said the fresh nuclear bomb report would probably raise an uproar in the domestic media but was unlikely to seriously affect Denmark's position on the NMD.

``It will of course give rise to questions and debates...but I don't think it will have any long-term impact,'' he said.

The Danish government has said it will make a decision if and when Washington submits a request to upgrade the Thule radar.

- ----

Iraq says allied planes bomb train station

Washington Times World Scene, August 14, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/world/worldscene-2000814215410.= htm

      BAGHDAD =97 Iraq said yesterday U.S. and British planes bombed a train station in the south overnight, wounding a number of civilians in the second straight night of raids on the area.

      Lt. Gen. Chahin Yassin Ahmed, commander of the Iraqi air defense force, said planes hit the station in the southern town of Samawa on Saturday, wounding three civilians and damaging several houses. A raid on Friday struck a Samawa warehouse, killing two civilians and wounding 19 others. Samawa is 175 miles south of Baghdad.

      In Washington, the Pentagon said U.S. warplanes hit two anti-aircraft sites on Saturday night in response to multiple attacks by Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery on U.S. and British planes in southern Iraq.

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