-Caveat Lector- Well, there you have it Andrew! Just don't breathe (INhale anyway) and everything will be fine! <grimace!> Why in the world would they have to use this stuff for practice? It seems that using it in war would be illegal even but for practice??? I do not understand this Is it old and they want to use it up and get rid of it? Is this now standard operating procedure? I do not blame the Scottish people for being angry and think this should be stopped. But then, no one consulted me and our govt doesn't really care what we the tiny people think. They just work all this out among themselves. Amelia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Status of the United States Navy > -Caveat Lector- > > In a message dated 12/24/1999 4:58:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << Andrew, > Do you know why they are there? Is their presence routine or is this a > first? In any case, I cannot imagine why they should be "firing" anything! > Some of the large vessels are capable of generating huge amounts of > electricity, enough for a small city. Could their presence be related to > this with the date change approaching? That still does not address the DU > activity but might explain what they are doing there in the first place. Of > course with the huge popularity that this country enjoys (ha!) as evidenced > by the ever increasing terrorists threats, maybe it is "any port in a > storm." All clustered in a group, they make an inviting target for enemies, > a la Pearl Harbor. Maybe you could go to the press for some coverage and > get this DU activity stopped! > Amelia >> > > The odd habits of the US Navy came up on another listing. Someone came on as > very angry with the Puerto Ricans because they didn't want the Navy to > practice their shooting there, and even angrier because President Clinton had > awarded them a rather small cash settlement for the damage done. I posted > the following: > > > I am not an expert on Vieques either, but I remembered reading a column about > it, and I have found it. I won't try to give all the info, but this matrial > was written by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, formerly vice chairman of the NY > State Committee for the U>S> Commission on Civil Rights. He is professor of > Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College. > > In it he describes an incident on l8 April in which an F-l8 Navy jet from the > USS John F. Kennedy missed its target and launched a bomb that killed one > Puerto Rican civilian and seriously injured four others. Vieques is less > than 2l miles long and five miles wide. Its population is fewer than l0,000 > and the Navy occupies 75% of its 33,000 acres, pushing the natives into a > six-mile strip at one corner. > > Since l94l when it took the land, the US has engaged in shooting live > ammunition at targets on an inhabited island. Not only are the local people > at risk from mistakes, but the practice of warplane strafing destroys the > livelihood of the local fishermen. > > Vieques has experienced fatal accidents before, and the Navy has practiced > landings on its beaches. The Navy refuses to declare whether nuclear weapons > are stored on Viequest, but in a public statement issued May 27, the Navy > admitted it used radiation-dangerous bullets in maneuvers. It has now > acknowledged that on Feb l9, it fired 263 armor-piercing shells with depleted > uranium. The Navy claims there is no danger of radiation poisoning unless > the depleted uranium is inhaled. > > The Puerto Rico Health Department found that between l985 and l989, the > population of Vieques had an incidence of throat and pharynx cancer much > greater than the rest of Puerto Rico. Before the l980's, Vieques rsidents > suffered fewer cancer cases than the rest of Puerto Rico. > > One environmentalist said that a particle one-quarter the diameter of a human > hair--small enough to be lodged in a lung--emits 800 times the amount of > radiation that could be tolerated during an entire year. Each of the 25mm > shells fired by the Navy over Vieques contain a third of a pound of depleted > uranium--meaning almost 90 pounds of the material was used. End of material > taken from the article. > > In a 4 December article in the New York Times, it was announced that the Navy > would stop bombing practice on Vieques and move its operations to Scotland. > I wonder how the Scots feel about that. I'm sure Mr. Blair must have decided > it was just fine, but then he doesn't live in Scotland. > > Prudy > > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > ========== > CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic > screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters > and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright > frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects > spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL > gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; > be wary of what you read. 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