And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: received from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NucNews) [Please address replies to the original publisher (with a copy to us). Your help in refuting false information appreciated!] ------------------------- NucNews-1-Int'l 4/08/99 - Japan Military; Depleted Uranium Balkans NucNews-2-Int'l 4/08/99 - China NucNews-3-US 4/08/99 - Amarillo; Satellite; MD Calvert Cliffs; MN Utility; Hanford; OR-Trojan; PA toxic site ---1) 1. Japan Is Flexing Its Military Muscle By STEPHANIE STROM, April 8, 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/040899japan-defense.html TOKYO -- When Japan fired warning shots at suspicious boats that ventured into its territorial waters last month, it was the clearest signal to date that this staunchly pacifist country is taking its gloves off. [Note the buzz word "tank-killing aircraft" -- rumor has it that A-10 use armor-piercing (i.e. depleted uranium) ammunition.Question: Why don't NATO countries (ANY of them) think about the aftermath?] 2 Warthogs, more jets join Yugoslav fray By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY April 7, 1999 http://usatoday.com/news/index/kosovo/koso230.htm WASHINGTON - Beefed-up NATO forces, fresh from their largest assault yet against Yugoslav targets, sharpened their focus Wednesday with additional airstrikes directed at Serb troops on the ground in southwest Kosovo. 3. Description on A-10 Aircraft Associated Press, April 8, 1999 New York Times Online http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Kosovo-A-10-Description.html 4. DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONRY: BACKGROUND by Roger Smith and Brice Friedman, NGO Committee on Disarmament, 6 April 1999 *See the Depleted Uranium Case Narrative written by Dan Fahey, available on the website of the Military Toxics Project at http://www.miltoxproj.org. ---(2) 5. Secrets and Science in a Critical Mass Los Alamos Clamps Down in Wake of Allegations of Chinese Espionage By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 8, 1999 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-04/08/252l-040899-idx.html LOS ALAMOS, N.M.Down a long corridor inside the physics building at Los Alamos National Laboratory, past an open workshop crawling with robotic insects and a "clean room" for assembling unclassified satellite instruments, the free flow of science stops at a black metal grate. 6. Clinton Defends China Policies Associated Press, April 8, 1999 New York Times Online http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-China.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- As he prepares for a meeting with Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, President Clinton says U.S. ties with China have yielded security benefits for Americans on a range of foreign policy hotspots from northeast Asia to the Middle East. 7. Other China Articles: US Seeks China Help for Korea MIA's Associated Press, April 8, 1999 New York Times Online http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-China-Korean-War.html Clinton Urges China Foes Not to Stoke a New Cold War By Paul Blustein and Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, April 8, 1999; Page A02 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-04/08/101l-040899-idx.html Clinton dismisses China as a threat By Bill Sammon THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 8, 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/internatl/internatl1.html Intelligence Report Points to Second China Nuclear Leak By JEFF GERTH and JAMES RISEN, April 8, 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/040899china-nuke.html Report Suggests 2nd China Nuclear Lab Security Leak April 8, 1999, Reuters http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990408/03/news-china-security U.S. may benefit if China's in WTO By Timothy Burn THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 8, 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/business/business2.html 8. China, too, fears scientists spilling secrets By Paul Wiseman and Antoaneta Bezlova, USA Today, April 1, 1999 http://search2.usatoday.com:80/plweb-cgi/fastweb?state_id=923564848&view=def ault&docrank=4&numhitsfound=23&query=nuclear%20OR%20plutonium%20OR%20uranium %20OR%20radioactiv%3F%3F%3F&query_rule=%28$query%29&docid=60&docdb=news&dbna me=news&TemplateName=predoc.tmpl&setCookie=1 The United States isn't the only country that worries about loose-lipped scientists spilling secrets from its top research laboratories. China does, too. China complains that it has lost secrets to foreign competitors in everything from artificial intelligence to anti-jamming communications techniques to theoretical physics, largely because so many of its scientists and students are traveling abroad to study and attend conferences. Related Articles, USA Today, March 19, 1999: Possible Espionage Other Labs Probed http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsfri07.htm Tight budgets mean looser nuke security http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsthu15.htm Nuke security reports withheld from Clinton http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsthu14.htm Clinton orders security threat probe http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsthu10.htm ---(3) 9. NATION IN BRIEF - Amarillo TX April 8, 1999 Washington Post http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-04/08/065l-040899-idx.html ... AMARILLO, Tex. -- Three technicians at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant were reassigned.... 10. Satellite 'Big Brother' eyes parolees By Gary Fields, USA TODAY, April 8, 1999 http://usatoday.com/news/ndswed11.htm Military satellites designed to guide nuclear missiles are being used to monitor prison parolees and probationers in a technological advance designed to reduce the nation's skyrocketing prison population. But critics say it also raises the specter of an Orwellian future. 11. Study Finds Little Harm In N-Plant No Cause Seen to Deny Calvert Cliffs Extension By Lyndsey Layton, April 8, 1999 Washington Post http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-04/08/120l-040899-idx.html If the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant operates an additional 20 years, it will have a small impact on some aspects of the Southern Maryland environment but not enough to justify a refusal of its request for a license renewal, according to an initial study by the federal government. 12. Judge Delays Utility's Suit Against U.S., Ordering Settlement Effort By MATTHEW L. WALD, April 8, 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/utility-settlement.html ALSO: Utility Barred From Seeking Damages Associated Press, April 8, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Nuclear-Waste.html WASHINGTON -- A Federal judge has ruled that a Minnesota utility that is seeking $1 billion in damages from the Federal Government because of a delay in establishing a nuclear waste repository must try to reach a settlement with the Energy Department before it can sue. 13. Contractors sued for overcharging U.S. USA Today, April 8, 1999 Nation http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm SPOKANE, Wash. - Two contractors overcharged the Energy Department by at least $85 million for cleanup work at the Hanford nuclear weapons installation, a former accountant for the contractors says in a whistle-blower lawsuit. 14. OREGON - Trojan Plant Wednesday, April 7, 1999, USA Today / Gannett http://search2.usatoday.com:80/plweb-cgi/fastweb?state_id=923564848&view=def ault&docrank=9&numhitsfound=23&query=nuclear%20OR%20plutonium%20OR%20uranium %20OR%20radioactiv%3F%3F%3F&query_rule=%28$query%29&docid=101&docdb=news&dbn ame=news&TemplateName=predoc.tmpl&setCookie=1 Portland - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to OK a temporary storage system for radioactive spent fuel from the Trojan Nuclear Plant. 15. Toxic Site Wrongly Declared Safe Associated Press, April 8, 1999 New York Times Online http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Wrong-Dump.html QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Federal investigators are examining a toxic dump that was mistakenly declared safe 18 years ago after inspectors went to the wrong site. Neighbors fear they were poisoned rather than protected. _____________________________ A fast way to keep up to date: Subscribe to NucNews !! 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