> ----------
> From:  Boyle, Francis
> Sent:  Sunday, October 12, 1997 11:39 PM
> To:  'romeril@...'
> Subject:  RE: Contact details for NZ Govt
> Importance:  High
>
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E.Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, Illinois 61820
> Phone: 217-333-7954
> Fax: 217-244-1478
> fboyle@...
> 12 October 1997
>
> URGENT!
>
> H.E. Ratu Tuicavuilati
> Ambassador from Fidji
> via fax no: 813-358-72563
>
> Your Excellency:
>
>  I am writing at the recommendation of H.E. Ahmed Ali at the
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Fidji about an urgent and important
> matter. In about six hours, the US NASA will send into space a rocket
> to Saturn that will contain 72 pounds of plutonium. If there is an
> accident, perhaps 20 million people could be killed. I have devised a
> strategy to stop this launch by filing a case at the International
> Court of Justice. I need the approval of One State that is a Party to
> the 1948 Genocide Convention in order to stop this launch. Therefore,
> I would most respectfully request that you make an appeal at the
> Pacific Forum Conference for a President, a Prime Minister or a
> Foreign Minister to give me the authority to stop this genocidal
> flight at the World Court immediately. Attached is the letter that I
> need signed by a President, a Prime Minister, or a Foreign Minister
> that must be faxed to the World Court, as indicated, with a copy to
> me, as indicated. I am standing by at the above number if you wish to
> speak with me personally. H.E. Ahmed Ali has recommended that you
> personally make this appeal for a President, a Prime Minister or a
> Foreign Minister at this Conference to give me the permission. We do
> not have much time. But it still can be done.
>  Attached for your information is a letter by Jeanette
> Fitzsimons, MP, Alliance Co-Deputy Leader and Green Party Co-Leader in
> New Zealand endorsing my proposal to her own Foreign Minister, the
> Honorable Don McKinnon. Please do all that you can in order to get me
> that permission from one President, Prime Minister or Foreign
> Minister.
>  Thank you. And may God be with you.
>
>  Yours very truly,
>  Francis A. Boyle
>  Professor of International Law
>
> cc: H.E. Ahmed Ali
> fax no: 679-301-741
> Kilali Alailima
> fax no: 808-988-4876
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, Ill. 61820
> Phone: 217-333-7954
> Fax: 217-244-1478
> fboyle@...
>
>
> ----------
> From:
> romeril@...[SMTP:romeril@...]
> Sent:  Sunday, October 12, 1997 11:08 PM
> To:  Boyle, Francis
> Subject:  RE: Contact details for NZ Govt
>
> Hi Francis,
> My email account is no longer working (what a day to crash!)
>
> If you would like to contact Jeanette Fitzsimons her mobile number is:
> 64 25 586 068
>
> I don't know her personally. I just found the details of the Alliance
> MPs
> on the web and lobbied the lot of them last week.
>
> Sounds like she thinks there's only a slim chance that NZ will act.
> Pity that they've had that change of govt - more conservative than
> ever,
> just like Oz.
>
> Can you email me your fax to the NZ govt rather than faxing it to me -
> don't want to put your costs up any higher. Anyway I would have to get
> off
> the net to receive the fax...
>
> Hope you can pull a rabbit out of the hat with this one.
>
> All the best,
> Marg Hutton
> (romeril@... kindly let me use her account)
>
> PS - Sorry about the confusion with the NZ contact details...
>
>

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, Ill. 61820
Phone: 217-333-7954
Fax: 217-244-1478
fboyle@...


> ----------
> From:  Boyle, Francis
> Sent:  Sunday, October 12, 1997 11:39 PM
> To:  'romeril@...'
> Subject:  RE: Contact details for NZ Govt
> Importance:  High
>
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E.Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, Illinois 61820
> Phone: 217-333-7954
> Fax: 217-244-1478
> fboyle@...
> 12 October 1997
>
> URGENT!
>
> H.E. Ratu Tuicavuilati
> Ambassador from Fidji
> via fax no: 813-358-72563
>
> Your Excellency:
>
>  I am writing at the recommendation of H.E. Ahmed Ali at the
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Fidji about an urgent and important
> matter. In about six hours, the US NASA will send into space a rocket
> to Saturn that will contain 72 pounds of plutonium. If there is an
> accident, perhaps 20 million people could be killed. I have devised a
> strategy to stop this launch by filing a case at the International
> Court of Justice. I need the approval of One State that is a Party to
> the 1948 Genocide Convention in order to stop this launch. Therefore,
> I would most respectfully request that you make an appeal at the
> Pacific Forum Conference for a President, a Prime Minister or a
> Foreign Minister to give me the authority to stop this genocidal
> flight at the World Court immediately. Attached is the letter that I
> need signed by a President, a Prime Minister, or a Foreign Minister
> that must be faxed to the World Court, as indicated, with a copy to
> me, as indicated. I am standing by at the above number if you wish to
> speak with me personally. H.E. Ahmed Ali has recommended that you
> personally make this appeal for a President, a Prime Minister or a
> Foreign Minister at this Conference to give me the permission. We do
> not have much time. But it still can be done.
>  Attached for your information is a letter by Jeanette
> Fitzsimons, MP, Alliance Co-Deputy Leader and Green Party Co-Leader in
> New Zealand endorsing my proposal to her own Foreign Minister, the
> Honorable Don McKinnon. Please do all that you can in order to get me
> that permission from one President, Prime Minister or Foreign
> Minister.
>  Thank you. And may God be with you.
>
>  Yours very truly,
>  Francis A. Boyle
>  Professor of International Law
>
> cc: H.E. Ahmed Ali
> fax no: 679-301-741
> Kilali Alailima
> fax no: 808-988-4876
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, Ill. 61820
> Phone: 217-333-7954
> Fax: 217-244-1478
> fboyle@...
>
>
> ----------
> From:
> romeril@...[SMTP:romeril@...]
> Sent:  Sunday, October 12, 1997 11:08 PM
> To:  Boyle, Francis
> Subject:  RE: Contact details for NZ Govt
>
> Hi Francis,
> My email account is no longer working (what a day to crash!)
>
> If you would like to contact Jeanette Fitzsimons her mobile number is:
> 64 25 586 068
>
> I don't know her personally. I just found the details of the Alliance
> MPs
> on the web and lobbied the lot of them last week.
>
> Sounds like she thinks there's only a slim chance that NZ will act.
> Pity that they've had that change of govt - more conservative than
> ever,
> just like Oz.
>
> Can you email me your fax to the NZ govt rather than faxing it to me -
> don't want to put your costs up any higher. Anyway I would have to get
> off
> the net to receive the fax...
>
> Hope you can pull a rabbit out of the hat with this one.
>
> All the best,
> Marg Hutton
> (romeril@... kindly let me use her account)
>
> PS - Sorry about the confusion with the NZ contact details...
>
>

>
> Cassini: What if it goes wrong?

  Hi,
       Not to worry. I saw the official NASA spokesperson on TV and
they said even if it goes very wrong there will not be ANY RISK TO
ANYONE AT ALL.
   This is the world we live in.

moonbeam

[EDITED]

---------------------------------------------------
Published in The Orlando Sentinel, October 12, 1997
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/

Cassini: What if it goes wrong?

By Seth Borenstein
of The Sentinel Staff

CAPE CANAVERAL -- If all goes well hours
before dawn Monday, a Titan IV-B rocket will
send NASA's Cassini space probe on a
seven-year trip to Saturn. Scientists will be a
step closer to finding out the truth about the
mysterious and chaotic ringed planet.

But if all goes absolutely and horribly wrong at
Cape Canaveral Air Station, the chaos could be
much closer to home.

Cassini carries 72 pounds of plutonium fuel,
the most ever launched into space, and that changes
everything. If an explosion reduces that plutonium
to dust, it becomes breathable and toxic.

NASA officials say the chance of a plutonium
release during launch is 1 in 476.

FULL TEXT:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/1012cass.htm
=================================================

The risks of this project far outweigh any possible
benefits. It also sets a very dangerous precedent
for the future.

Dear Friends:
	 According to a dispatch in my Sunday paper from the Orlando
Sentinel,"NASA plans for worst in launch of rocket," Florida is now
under alert for a disaster. The alert extends all the way down to
southern Florida. Clearly, NASA and the United States government are
contemplating a disaster of unprecedented dimensions. You must get me
that State in order to stop the launch.
	 Francis A. Boyle
	 Professor of International Law

Dear Friends:
	 I just heard on National Propaganda Radio (NPR) that a Federal
District Judge has denied the federal lawsuit to stop Cassini on the
grounds that it would cause economic and scientific harm to NASA. What a
sick joke.
	 Under these circumstances, I regret to report that the only
option we now have to stop Cassini is my proposed lawsuit at the World
Court. You must do all that you can during the next 24 hours to get me
that State with the authority to sue the United States to stop Cassini.
I have not heard from Papua New Guinea or Fiji. I have proposals in to
Cuba and South Africa. My proposal is before the Canadian government.
	 I will be standing by all day and all night at this number
217-333-7954. If and when you get me that State, just have them call me.
I will do the rest.
	 May God be with you!
	 Francis A. Boyle
	 Professor of International Law

Dear Friends:

The following is a sign-on letter for national, regional and local
organizations concerned about HR 1270--the Mobile Chernobyl Act--which we
anticipate will be voted on by the full House of Representatives during late
October/early November.

If your organization can sign on to this letter, please let NIRS know by
NOON, Wednesday, October 15, 1997. We intend to distribute this letter to
the full House on Thursday, October 16, so we cannot accept signatures later
than that time.

Also, we cannot accept individual signatures to this letter. If you are an
individual and want to weigh in on this issue, please contact your
Congressmember now: 202-225-3121.

Finally, please do not regard signing this letter as the only thing that
needs doing to defeat Mobile Chernobyl. We are told that our odds of getting
the 146 House votes necessary to sustain a Clinton veto on this issue are
slim, but growing.... We need further action to actually win this thing.
Specifically, if your are opposed to Mobile Chernobyl, you need to do: press
conferences (esp. along transportation routes); rallies, sit-ins at utility
offices, petition drives, alert your networks, and, according to every
Congressmember we have spoken to: get in LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TO YOUR LOCAL
NEWSPAPERS! Also, call your friends in other parts of the country, ask your
neighbors to call their friends, and let's try to get 10,000 calls to the
U.S. House over the next two weeks!

The sad fact is that most House members report to us that they simply have
not heard from constituents on this issue. Most of those who have heard, are
with us. So we really need to expand our outreach and expand our efforts
during this final stretch before the House vote.

THIS WEEK IS A CONGRESSIONAL RECESS, IF YOUR REP IS HOME, MEET WITH HIM OR HER!
Call the local office to find out, though you may have to call DC to set it up.

As always, call NIRS, 202-328-0002, fax: 202-462=2183 or e-mail us: either
nirsnet@... or maryo@... if you need any further info. And the NIRS
website (www.nirs.org in the Don't Waste America section) remains the best
single source of readily available information on these issues.

Again, if your organization can sign the letter below, please let us know by
NOON, October 15, 1997 at the addresses and numbers in the previous
paragraph. But don't stop there, instead, let's all pull out all our
organizing stops to end Mobile Chernobyl once and for all!

-------
Dear Representative:

STOP MOBILE CHERNOBYL -- VOTE NO on HR 1270

We will not accept a false solution to the problem of nuclear waste. The
"Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997" will make the nuclear waste problem
worse.  We are communities affected by nuclear power reactors, nuclear
weapons facilities, waste at these sites and at nuclear dump sites, and also
communities criss-crossed by what will be nuclear waste shipping routes. We
are your constituents, and we are united in opposing HR 1270, commonly known
as Mobile Chernobyl.

We urge you to reject the nuclear power industry's bid to give the taxpayers
their waste now, before there is a scientifically based long-term program in
place to isolate this material from the environment. That is what this
legislation is about, plain and simple: bailing the commercial nuclear power
industry out of their liability for high-level nuclear waste, or any further
role in its disposition. All HR 1270 accomplishes is to set up a "temporary"
parking lot in Nevada for the waste casks to sit, and thus relieving
utilities of liability for the waste they created.

Sending nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, before a full scientific analysis
and NEPA process,  would be in the face of data and evidence that the site
may not be able to perform as a geologic repository. This is completely
unacceptable. Current law -- Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 as amended --
insures that waste is not moved away from the reactors until a permanent
site is licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Lowering regulatory
requirements will further undercut our already eroded trust in the federal
government's ability to responsibly handle nuclear materials. It is
Congress's job to act to protect the health and safety of the American people.

The nuclear industry claims that HR 1270 will put all the nuclear waste in
one place. We know this isn't true. Waste removed from a reactor core must
be cooled on-site for many years, meaning that every reactor site remains a
waste site until well after closure. Instead of 109 waste sites, the
American people would be left with 110, plus thousands of mobile
waste sites in the interim.

Passage of Mobile Chernobyl would launch the largest nuclear waste shipping
campaign in history. There would be tens of thousands of waste shipments
moving through our cities for 30 years or more. Each year as much waste
would be transported as the previous 30 years combined. A single rail cask
can hold the equivalent of 200 times more persistent radiation than a single
Hiroshima bomb.

There are difficulties with casks that are being used for nuclear waste
storage, but the same general type of container would be used for transport.
The nuclear waste generators and regulators need to work out these technical
difficulties, which arbitrary deadlines in HR 1270 would preclude.

Nuclear waste transport routes criss-cross more than 300 congressional
districts. More than 50 million people, many of them our members, live
within a half-mile of the roads and the rails that the waste would travel
between sites where it is made, and the proposed Yucca Mountain dump. We
urge you to join us in saying "Not In My Front Yard!" unless and until we
know that the transport of the material is actually contributing to a waste
solution. Anything else is reckless endangerment of all for the benefit of
the nuclear power industry, not the American people. Vote NO on HR 1270.

Thank you on behalf of our members,

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, Ill. 61820
Phone: 217-333-7954
Fax: 217-244-1478
fboyle@...


> ----------
> From:  jrussow@...[SMTP:jrussow@...]
> Sent:  Friday, October 10, 1997 2:19 PM
> To:  rwilcock@...
> Cc:  FBOYLE@...
> Subject:  CASSINI MISSION TO SATURN:URGENT APPEAL TO ENABLE THE
> THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OFJUSTICE IN THE QUESTION OF THE CASSINI
> LAUNCH
>
> URGENT APPEAL TO ENABLE THE THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE IN THE
> QUESTION OF THE CASSINI LAUNCH
>
> Friday October 10, 1997
> To the Ambassador's attention:
>
>
> Your Excellency.
>
> We are  writing to you on an urgent matter. As you are undoubtedly
> aware
> the President of the United States has given  permission to NASA to
> proceed
> with the Cassini Mission-with 72 pounds of plutonium- on October 13.
> This
> matter is generating international concern among scientists and
> citizens.
>
> A specialist in International Law, Francis Boyle,  is willing to seek
> an
> Emergency Hearing of the International Court of Justice to "stay the
> Cassini test pending a hearing under the rules of the Court" . Clinton
> would be obliged to obey the terms of the stay. The Order would be
> transmitted to the United Nations Security Council for enforcement.
>
> We are appealing to you  as a party to the Convention  on the
> Prevention of
> Genocide to  be the country that will be willing to raise this concern
> with
> the international Court of Justice over a potential Cassini
> catastrophe.
>
>
> The major problem  in the Cassini mission is that it will carry 72 lbs
> of
> Plutonium 238. This isotope is one of the hottest known; and its heat
> can
> be captured to make  electrical power for the duration of the voyage.
> This
> isotope is 272 times hotter (more active) than the bomb type of
> Plutonium.
>
> Many people are deeply troubled about what will happen if something
> goes
> wrong. The biological effects of a Cassini accident could be most
> serious.
> There is now much public knowledge about the harmful effects of
> radiation
> pollution and many people are saying this must stop.
>
> The proposed Cassini Probe to Saturn is causing great international
> concern.
> If something goes wrong, it could cause the worst ever space accident.
> One expert has likened it to the biological equivalent of 17
> operational
> nuclear power stations being sent into space. This is because the 72
> lbs
> of Plutonium 238 it will be carrying is uniquely dangerous to life
> forms -
> not only to humans.
> There are concerns about the validity of the American Environmental
> Assessments done around this venture.
> There is now a solid body of evidence about the harm done to life
> including
> to people by the nuclear industry. A Cassini accident could double the
> quantity of Plutonium released into the environment since nuclear
> weapons testing began.
> Is this plausible - we have only the word of American based interests
> to
> oppose - the question has never been subject to international legal
> scrutiny.
> We believe that the opinions and interests of Non-Americans also
> matter.
> We want this matter to be settled in the proper way by the World
> Court.
> We need your help to sponsor an approach to the World Court - which
> has already been drafted - so that the Monday, October 13th launch
> will
> be put on hold pending review as the World Court recommends.
> This request is for the honorable purpose of enabling the World Court
> to
> act on this matter.
>
> Throughout the history of the United Nations, there have been General
> Assembly resolutions expressing resolve to prevent harm from
> radiation. For
> years, the precautionary principle has become a principle of
> international
> common law: this principle affirms that where there is the potential
> of
> harm, the lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a
> reason
> for postponing measures to prevent the harm. NASA has accidents before
> both
> on the launch pad and in space, and it is now the responsibility of
> the
> Global community to show the political will to act with caution.
>
> We have enclosed background information, as well as a resume of
> Francis Boyle.
>
> This matter is of the utmost urgency. Francis Boyle is currently
> drafting
> the court documents and will be prepared to seek the Emergency hearing
> prior to the proposed October 13 launching of Cassini as soon as he
> receives confirmation from a state government willing to proceed to
> the
> International Court of Justice court.
>
> Yours truly
>
> Francis Boyle
> Professor Of International Law
> Tel/FAX 217-333-7954/217-244-1478
> e-mail FBOYLE@...
>
> Joan Russow (PhD)
> President, Global Compliance Project
> Tel/FAX (250) 598-0071
>  e-mail: jrussow@...
>
> Ross Wilcock
> rwilcock@...
> Tel:  +1-519-537-8755
> Fax: +1-519-537-8816Dr
>
>
>
> BACKGROUND:
> For  additional information on the Cassini project please consult Web
> site
> information on the Cassini project URL:
> http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/index.htm
>
> The US agency NASA plans to send
> the Cassini satellite to Saturn. It will be the largest and most
> expensive
> ever attempted. It is scheduled to be launched on October 13th,
> intending
> that it will fly first to Venus, loop around it, and then return to
> Earth
> in 1999 at high speed obtaining gravitational boost from Earth by
> speeding
> at 42,000 miles per hour at around 300 miles above the Earth's
> surface.
> Perhaps this can be accomplished, but there is great international
> controversy about risk on launch and "fly-by".
> The major problem is that it will carry 72 lbs of Plutonium 238. This
> isotope is one of the hottest known; and its heat can be captured to
> make
> electrical power for the duration of the voyage. This isotope is 272
> times
> hotter (more active) than the bomb type of Plutonium. What would be
> the
> consequences of an accident or misadventure? Many people are deeply
> troubled about what will happen if something goes wrong. The
> biological
> effects of a Cassini accident could be most serious. There is now much
> public knowledge about the harmful effects of radiation pollution and
> many
> people are saying this must stop.
> The problem or radiation pollution through the eyes of Chernobyl has
> been
> reviewed by the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in April 1996 whose
> Judgement
> can be read on WWW at http://www.pgs.ca/pages/ppt96.htm  This is the
> last
> one fifth of a book published by the International Peace Bureau
> entitled
> "Chernobyl: Environmental, Health and Human Rights Implications".
> We know that the first plutonium bomb exploded in Japan resulted in
> the
> plutonium contamination of the whole Northern Hemisphere. It was even
> found
> in a representative sample layer of permanent ice in the Canadian
> Arctic. A
> 1964 launch accident released just 1 kilogram of Plutonium 238, which
> can
> still be detected around the Southern Hemisphere. Cassini carries 30
> times
> this quantity. The Department of Energy of the USA claims that
> contamination won't happen again but there is a degree of uncertainty.
> Since President Clinton has approved the Cassini launch for October
> 13th -
> the only way to stop it now is by an emergency request to the World
> Court.
> International Lawyer Professor Francis Boyle who you may know of, is
> prepared to take the necessary action under the Genocide Convention.
> He
> says that this launch - if it goes wrong implies genocidal
> consequences in
> International Law. The health and longevity of large numbers of people
> is
> being put at risk. How much is the subject of heated argument. The
> health
> and fertility of fish in the sea may be damaged.
> It requires the support of at least one President or Prime Minister to
> refer this problem as an emergency question to the World Court who we
> believe will call a halt for proper investigation as to the necessity
> and
> wisdom of the Cassini project. International Lawyer Professor Francis
> Boyle
> needs your sponsorship to make this appeal:
>
>
> RESUME OF FRANCIS A. BOYLE
>
>
>                                   EDUCATION
>
>  University of Chicago, A.B. (1971) in Political Science.  One of
> seven
>  students elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior; winner as a Junior of
>  the Sigma Xi Certificate of Merit and Prize in Biology for The
>  Differential Effects of Three Simulated Systems of Inbreeding on the
>  Frequency of the t(w) Allelle in Wild Populations of Mus Musculus on
>  nomination of Richard C. Lewontin; graduated in three years.
>
>  Harvard Law School, J.D. Magna Cum Laude (l976).   Third year paper
>  designated "Honor Paper" by Richard R. Baxter, and deposited in
> H.L.S.
>  Library.  A+'s in Federal Income Taxation (Surrey), Soviet Economic
>  Law
>  and Law of Foreign Trade (Berman), United Nations Law (Sohn),
>  Sociology
>  of Law (Fuller), and Jurisprudence (Unger).
>
>  Associate, Harvard University Center for International Affairs (1976-
>  78) (elected to the Executive Committee for 1977-78).
>
>  Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of
>  Government,
>  A.M. (l978) and Ph.D. (1983) in Political Science.  Awarded full
>  Harvard Fellowship for all four years of residence.  Offered Russian
>  History (Keenan), Soviet Politics (Ulam), Modern Political Philosophy
>  (Shklar), and International Relations (Hoffmann) on Ph.D. General
>  Examination.  Dissertation entitled Realism, Positivism,
> Functionalism
>  and International Law under the supervision of Stanley Hoffmann.
>
>
>                                   TEACHING
>
>  Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Department of Government
>  (1976-78).
>
>  Assistant Professor (1978-81), Associate Professor with tenure
>  (1981-84), full Professor (from 1984), University of Illinois College
>  of Law in Champaign.
>
>  Professor, U.S.S.R. Summer University for Jurists, People's
> Friendship
>  University, Moscow (August 1989) (only non-Soviet Professor).
>
>
>                                   PRACTICE
>
>  Attorney, Bingham, Dana, & Gould, in Boston (l977-78) (tax and
>  international tax).  See Hart v. U.S., 585 F.2d l025 (Ct. Cl. l978)
>  (en
>  banc); Globe v. U.S., 620 F.2d 841 (Ct. Cl. 1980).
>
>  Attorney for Plaintiffs, Ali Aidi v. Yaron, 672 F. Supp. 516 (D.D.C.
>  1987) (Sabra-Shatilla Massacre).
>
>  Legal Adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization on the
> Creation
>  of the State of Palestine (1987-89).
>
>  Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace
>  Negotiations (1991-93).
>
>  Legal Adviser to the Republic of Lithuania (1991-93).
>  Counsel to Libya, in Cases Concerning Questions of Interpretation And
>  Application Of The 1971 Montreal Convention Arising From The Aerial
>  Incident At Lockerbie (Libya v. United Kingdom) (Libya v. United
>  States).  See Orders of 14 April 1992, 1992 I.C.J. Rep. at 3 and 114;
>  31 Int'l L. Mats. 662 (1992).
>
>  General Agent for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina with
>  Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Powers Before the International
>  Court
>  of Justice by Appointment of President Alija Izetbegovic (March 19,
>  1993 to January 12, 1994).  See Application of the Convention on the
>  Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and
>  Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)), Order of
>  Provisional Measures of 8 April 1993, 1993 I.C.J. Rep. at 3; and
> Order
>  of Provisional Measures of 13 September 1993, 1993 I.C.J. Rep. at
> 325.
>  See also Statement of Intention by the Republic of Bosnia and
>  Herzegovina to Institute Legal Proceedings Against the United Kingdom
>  before the International Court of Justice, 15 November 1993.
>
>  Legal Adviser to President Alija Izetbegovic, Foreign Minister Haris
>  Silajdzik, and the Members of the Bosnian Presidency during the Owen-
>  Stoltenberg Negotiations in Geneva (1993).
>
>
>                                 PUBLICATIONS
>
>  World Politics and International Law (Duke University Press: 1985; 2d
>  prtg. 1987).  Designated "An Outstanding Academic Book of 1985-86" in
>  the field of Political Science by Choice Magazine, published by the
>  Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library
>  Association.
>
>  Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law (Transnational
>  Publishers: 1987).  The Center for Energy Research published a
> special
>  paperback edition in 1988.
>
>  The Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy
>  (Transnational Publishers: 1989).  The Islamic World Studies Center
> in
>  Malta published an Arabic language edition in 1993.  Progress
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>  book
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>
>  THE BOSNIAN PEOPLE CHARGE GENOCIDE!  (Aletheia Press: forthcoming in
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>
>  The Foundations of World Order (for Duke University Press in 1996).
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
>  International Law as a Basis for Conducting American Foreign Policy,
> 8
>  Yale J. World Pub. Ord. 103 (1981), republished as U.S. Department of
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>
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> 21
>  U.S.M.A. West Point Senior Conference Proceedings: The Nuclear Debate
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>  also 76 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 322 (1982).
>
>  American Foreign Policy Toward International Law and Organizations:
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> Am.
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>
>  International Law and Organizations as an Approach to Conflict
>
> Resolution in the Middle East, in Contemporary Issues in International
>  Law: Essays in Honor of Louis B. Sohn 515 (T. Buergenthal ed. 1984).
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> Stud.
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>  Int'l L. Proc. 217 (1985); Mideast Monitor, July, 1985.
>
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>  Social
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> Organization
>  (IPO), The Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy 89 (H. Kochler ed.
>  1985).  See also Australia Int'l L. News, Sept., 1984; 78 Am. Soc'y
>  Int'l L. Proc. 144 (1984); 78 Am. J. Int'l L. 172 (1984).
>
>  Conclusions and Judgment of Brussels Tribunal, N.Y. Times, Oct. 7,
>  1984, at 77; and in IPO, The Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy
>  459
>  (H. Kochler ed. 1985).
>
>  The Iranian Hostages Crisis, 63 Revue De Droit International 1
>  (Geneva:
>  1985).
>
>  Memorandum in Opposition to the Ratification of the Proposed
> U.S.-U.K.
>  Supplementary Extradition Treaty (Aug. 30, 1985), in United States
> and
>  United Kingdom Supplementary Extradition Treaty: Hearings on Treaty
>  Doc. 99-8 Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, S.HRG.
> 99-
>  703, 99th Cong., 1st Sess. 511 (1985).
>
>  Statement on Behalf of U.S.A., in On Trial: Reagan's War Against
>  Nicaragua 153 (1985).
>
>  Defending Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against the Reagan
>  Administration Under International Law, Crime and Social Justice, No.
>  24, at 110.  See also 81 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 452 (1987).
>
>  The Relevance of International Law to the "Paradox" of Nuclear
>  Deterrence, 80 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1407 (1986); and in 11 Recht En
> Kritiek,
>  No. 3 (Dutch trans. 1985).  See also 1 Swords and Ploughshares, No. 3
>  (May 1987) (U.I. ACDIS Bull.).
>
>  The Legal Distortions Behind the Reagan Administration's Chemical and
>  Biological Warfare Buildup, 30 St. Louis Univ. L.J. 1175 (1986),
>  reprinted in U.S. Department of Defense, Current News: Special
>  Edition:
>  CHEMICAL WEAPONS, No. 1586 (28 May 1987).
>
>  Preserving the Rule of Law in the War Against International
> Terrorism,
>  8 Whittier L. Rev. 735 (1986).
>
>  New Directions for International Legal Studies Toward the End of the
>  Twentieth Century, 80 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 457 (1986).
>
>  Determining U.S. Responsibility for Contra Operations Under
>  International Law, 81 Am. J. Int'l L. 86 (1987).  See also Nicaragua
>  Must Survive, 6 U.I. ACDIS Bull., No. 3 (Winter 1985-86).
>
>  Military Responses to Terrorism, 81 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 288
>  (1987).
>
>  The Geneva Declaration on Terrorism, Am. Branch, Int'l L. Ass., Int'l
>  Prac. Notebook, July 1987.
>
>  International Crisis and Neutrality:  U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the
>  Iraq-Iran War, in Neutrality: Changing Concepts and Practices 59 (A.
>  Leonhard ed. 1988); and in 43 Mercer L. Rev. 523 (1992).
>
>  Create the State of Palestine!, American-Arab Affairs, No. 25, at 86
>  (Summer 1988); 7 Scandinavian J. Development Alternatives, No. 2 & 3,
>  at 25 (June-Sept. 1988); 4 Palestine Y.B. Int'l L. 15 (1987-88).
>
>  The Hypocrisy and Racism Behind the Formulation of U.S. Human Rights
>  Foreign Policy, 1989 Social Justice, No. 35, at 71.
>
>  International Law, Citizen Resistance and Crimes by the State -- The
>  Defense Speaks, 11 Houston Int'l L.J. 345 (1989).
>
>  Memoranda of Law on the U.S.-Israel Land-Lease and Purchase Agreement
>  of 1989 (Ex. Comm. 89-57), American-Arab Affairs, No. 30, at 125
> (Fall
>  1989).
>
>  Testimony in Support of S. 993, 101st Cong., 1st Sess., The
> Biological
>  Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 (July 26, 1989), in Hearing Before
>  the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, S. HRG. 101-416, Serial No. J-
>  101-32, at 100 (1989).
>
>  Memorandum on the Yaron Case, 5 Palestine Y.B. Int'l L. 254, 257
>  (1989).
>
>  Afterword to D. Forsythe, The Politics of International Law: U.S.
>  Foreign Policy Reconsidered 157 (1990).
>
>  The Creation of the State of Palestine, 1 European J. Int'l L. 301
>  (1990); and in 1991 Australian Int'l L. News 46.  See also
>  International Law and Solutions to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 83 Am.
>  Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 122 (1989); 84 Am. J. Int'l L. 879 (1990);
> Soviet
>  Immigration to Palestine Violates International Law, 7 Mideast
>  Monitor,
>  No. 2, (Summer 1990); George Bush on Jerusalem, American-Arab
> Affairs,
>  No. 32, at 121 (Spring 1990).
>
>  The Criminality of Nuclear Weapons, Waging Peace Series Booklet No.
> 27
>  (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: 1991); and in Waging Peace II 103-20
>  (D.
>  Krieger & F. Kelly eds. 1992).  See also Separate Opinion By Judge
>  Francis A. Boyle, in IN RE: More Than 50,000 Nuclear Weapons, at 23
>  (Aletheia Press: 1991) (Provisional District World Court Opinion); 8
>  Scandinavian J. Development Alternatives, No. 2, at 37 (June 1989);
> 82
>  Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 555 (1988).
>
>  Memorandum of Law on the Dispute Between Libya and the United States
>  and the United Kingdom over the Lockerbie Bombing Allegations, in
>  Nord-
>  Sud XXI, No. 1, at 55 (Geneva: 1992).
>
>  United States War Crimes During the Persian Gulf War, in Nord-Sud
> XXI,
>  No. 1, at 97 (Geneva: 1992).
>
>  The Definitional Context of the Iranian Hostages Crisis, 6 Journal of
>  Foreign Policy, Nos. 2 & 3 (1992), Institute for Political and
>  International Studies (IPIS), Tehran, Iran (Farsi translation of
>  Chapters 13 & 14 of World Politics and International Law).
>
>  The International Legal Right of the Palestinian People to Self-
>  Determination and an Independent State of Their Own, 12 Scandinavian
>  J.
>  Development Alternatives, No. 2 & 3, at 29 (June-Sept. 1993).  See
>  also
>  Transcript of a Mock Arbitration of Israeli-Palestinian Disputes
>  Before
>  the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Chicago (Aug. 7,
> 1990),
>  in 6 A.B.A. International Litigation Quarterly, No. 4, at 101, 112
>  (Dec. 1990); and in 2 Arbitration Materials 5 (Dec. 1990).
>
>  The Right of Citizen Resistance to State Crimes, in Human Rights in
>  the
>  Twenty-First Century: A Global Challenge 377-92 (K. Mahoney & P.
>  Mahoney eds. 1993).
>
>  The U.S. Invasion of Panama: Implications for International Law and
>  Politics, 1 East African J. Peace & Human Rights 80 (Uganda: 1993).
>
>  International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond Regime Theory, in
> Ideas
>  and Ideals: Essays on Politics in Honor of Stanley Hoffmann 376 (L.
>  Miller & M.J. Smith eds. 1993).
>
>  The Nuremberg Defence in Courts, in International Peace Bureau, The
>  Right to Refuse Military Orders 73 (1994).
>
>  The Decolonization of Northern Ireland, forthcoming in 4 Asian Y.B.
>  Int'l L. (1995).
>
>  The Restoration of the Independent Nation State of Hawaii under
>  International Law, forthcoming in St. Thomas L. Rev. (Spring 1995).
>
>  See also 1973 Harv. L. Sch. Y.B. 14; 75 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 227
>  (1981) (Morgenthau); 97 Harv. L. Rev. 1259 (1984) (Ferguson); AAUG
>  Newsletter, Jan.-Feb.-Mar. 1985 (Sharon); PHRC Newsletter, Jan.-Mar.
>  1987 (L.A. 8 case), Oct.-Nov. 1987 (PLO); Palestine Perspectives,
>  Mar./Apr. 1988, at 4 (Landau Report); Am. Branch, Int'l L. Ass.,
> Int'l
>  Prac. Notebook, Jan. 1981 (SALT 2), Jan. & July 1984 (Grenada), Jan.
>  1985 (South Africa), April 1985 (Sanctuary Movement), Oct. 1985 (Star
>  Wars), Dec. 1986 (Libya); 11 COPRED Peace Chron., No. 5 (1986)
> (George
>  Ball); 20 Social Justice 162 (1993) (U.S. execution of Mexicans); 33
>  I.L.M. 838 (1994) (Gacy execution).
>
>   Book Reviews 75 Am. J. Int'l L. 402 (1981); 76 id. at 872 (1982); 77
>  at
>  961, 980 & 981 (1983); 79 at 1093 & 1141 (1985); 82 at 650 (1988); 83
>  at 403, 643 (1989); 16 I.J.L.I. 134 (1988); 9 Pol. & Life Sci., No. 1
>  (Aug. 1990).
>
>                                  ACTIVITIES
>
>  Ad Hoc Guidelines Committee, American Society of International Law
>  (1978-80).  See ASIL Newsletter, Aug.-Oct. 1978.
>  U.S. State Department, Scholar-Diplomat Program, Bureau of Politico-
>  Military Affairs (1981).
>  Council and Board of Directors, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
>  (from 1981).
>  American Friends Service Committee, Advisory Committee on Human
> Rights
>  in Lebanon (1982-83).  See Lebanon: Toward Legal Order and Respect
> for
>  Human Rights (1983), in 1 Palestine Y.B. Int'l L. 218 (1984).
>  Lecturer, Nuclear Weapons and International Law, 21st Senior
>  Conference
>  on Nuclear Deterrence, U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1983).
>  Board of Directors, International Third World Legal Studies
>  Association
>  (1983-87).
>  Judge, Provisional District World Court, World Federalist
> Association,
>  Nuclear Weapons Tribunal (1984-88).
>  Chairman, International Panel of Jurists, IPO Brussels Conference on
>  Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy (1984).
>  Attorney for U.S.A., before the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, in
>  Nicaragua v. U.S.A. (Brussels: 1984).
>  Counsel, Concerned Academics for Peace and Justice in the Middle East
>  (1984-86).
>  Lecture Tour of Libya (1985).
>  Advisory Board, The Council for Responsible Genetics (from 1985).
>  Certificate of Recognition, Association of Arab-American University
>  Graduates (1986).
>  Lecture Tour of Soviet Union on Nuclear Weapons and International Law
>  for Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy and Association of Soviet
>  Lawyers (1986).
>  Vice-President and Board of Directors, Human Rights Research
>  Foundation
>  (from 1986).
>  Rapporteur, IPO Geneva Declaration on Terrorism (1987).
>  Board of Directors, Palestine Human Rights Campaign (1987-91).
>  Consultant, United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the
>  Inalienable
>  Rights of the Palestinian People (from 1987).
>  Executive Committee, American Federation of Teachers Local 2287 and
>  Delegate to AFL-CIO Board of Champaign County (1988-91).
>  Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA (1988-92).
>  Counsel, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, Pub. L. No.
>  101-298 (1990).
>  Counsel, H. Res. 86, 102d Cong., 1st Sess. (1991) (impeaching George
>  Bush).
>  Special Prosecutor, International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and
>  Oppressed Nations in the U.S.A., San Francisco (1992).
>  Author, Chicago MacBride Principles Ordinance (adopted unanimously by
>  Chicago City Council on Feb. 10, 1993).
>  Judge, International Tribunal on War Crimes in the Former Soviet
> Union
>  (Moscow: 1993).
>  Consultant, Hawaiian Sovereignty Advisory Commission, State of Hawaii
>  (1993).
>
>
>

Dear nuke-net,
howdy,

The following is a newspaper article by a local Livermore, California area
paper called the Valley Times. It is a good story about the tour of
Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons lab by about two dozen folks from Pax
Christi leadership, including Catholic Bishops. The tour was organized by
Dave Robinson of Pax Christi. Local hosts and tourees included Marylia
Kelley of Tri-Valley CAREs and Jackie Cabasso and John Burroughs of Western
States Legal Foundation. I recommend that we consider how to publicize and
stimulate discussion on this. Here it is... (Photo deleted due to technical
limitations)

October 8, 1997

Bishops question lab morality

Policy of nuclear weapons as deterrent to war is bankrupt ethically, two
clerics say after visit

BY PETER WEISS
TIMES STAFF WRITER

LIVERMORE -- The moral fiber of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is being
stretched to the breaking point by the weight of its billion-dollar
superlaser and other nuclear weapons projects, two Catholic bishops said
Tuesday after visiting the lab.

Bishops Thomas Gumbleton and Walter Sullivan are longtime foes of U.S.
nuclear weapons policies who have played key roles in shaping national
Catholic views on nuclear arms.

They decided to tour the lab and chat with weapons scientists to help
figure out if weapons labs are really ushering the nation toward
disarmament, as the labs claim -- or if they are instead creating a new and
more sophisticated arsenal, as the bishops suspected.

"One of the last remarks of the scientists was, 'Get real We can't have a
world without nuclear weapons,' " Gumbleton said after five hours behind
the lab fences.

To him and his delegation, that symbolized the lab's undying commitment to
nuclear might. A new $4 billion-per-year program of nuclear weapons
research for which the lab is building the $1.2 billion National Ignition
Facility superlaser is just the latest incarnation of the old ways, they
said.

"I would reaffirm very strongly that it is wrong to do what we're doing
here," Gumbleton said.

Lab officials challenged the bishops' conclusions and Gumbleton's rendition
of that particular scientist's words.

The problem with reaching total disarmament is that nuclear warhead
know-how is already in human minds, but, "He said we should try to get as
far as we can" toward disarmament, said Paul Brown, the head of arms
control issues for the lab's weapons programs.

As for the superlaser and other new programs to replace nuclear testing,
they are the way to assure that the arsenal stays in good shape as long as
U.S. policy dictates that we have one, Brown said.

In 1983, Gumbleton played a key role in persuading American bishops to
issue a historic "pastoral letter" that condemned the arms race and found
the policy of nuclear deterrence to be morally acceptable only if it was
linked to disarmament.

His visit to Livermore lab Tuesday convinced him that the link, if it ever
existed, is gone, he said. So, it is time for American bishops to remove
that moral prop to the lab's work, he said.

"The policy of nuclear deterrence is morally bankrupt," he said.

It's too late to win widespread support for a new Catholic position in time
for the National Council of Catholic Bishops meeting next month, Gumbleton
said. But he and Sullivan are hoping that, by spring, they might persuade
their roughly 350 colleagues to come aboard. The drive will get a boost if
their efforts now under way to get a strong condemnation of deterrence from
the Pope succeeds, they said.

Gumbleton and Sullivan are leaders of the national Catholic peace movement
known as Pax Christi. They said there are 147 U.S. bishops affiliated with
their group.

Although there has been a shift in the church as a whole toward pacifism
since the 1950s, Pax Christi still represents a minority, said the Rev.
Richard McCafferty, S.J., pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in
Livermore.

But the pacifists' influence could be tremendous if bishops nationally go
along with it, he said.

Edition: VT, Section: A, Page: 3

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs * 5720 East Ave. #116 * Livermore, CA  94550
Ph: (510) 443-7148 * Fx: (510) 443-0177

> ----------
> From:  jrussow@...[SMTP:jrussow@...]
> Sent:  Friday, October 10, 1997 1:41 PM
> To:  FBOYLE@...
> Cc:  rwilcock@...
> Subject:  Cassini mission to Saturn URGENT APPEAL TO ENABLE THE
> THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OFJUSTICE IN THE QUESTION OF THE CASSINI
> LAUNCH
>
> URGENT APPEAL TO ENABLE THE THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE IN THE
> QUESTION OF THE CASSINI LAUNCH
>
> Friday October 10, 1997
> To the Ambassador's attention:
>
>
> Your Excellency.
>
> We are  writing to you on an urgent matter. As you are undoubtedly
> aware
> the President of the United States has given  permission to NASA to
> proceed
> with the Cassini Mission-with 72 pounds of plutonium- on October 13.
> This
> matter is generating international concern among scientists and
> citizens.
>
> A specialist in International Law, Francis Boyle,  is willing to seek
> an
> Emergency Hearing of the International Court of Justice to "stay the
> Cassini test pending a hearing under the rules of the Court" . Clinton
> would be obliged to obey the terms of the stay. The Order would
> be transmitted to the United Nations Security Council for enforcement.
>
> We are appealing to you  as a party to the Convention  on the
> Prevention of
> Genocide to  be the country that will be willing to take the United
> States
> to the International Court of Justice over the potential Cassini
> catastrophe.
>
> The major problem  in the Cassini mission is that it will carry 72 lbs
> of
> Plutonium 238. This isotope is one of the hottest known; and its heat
> can
> be captured to make  electrical power for the duration of the voyage.
> This
> isotope is 272 times hotter (more active) than the bomb type of
> Plutonium.
>
> Many people are deeply troubled about what will happen if something
> goes
> wrong. The biological effects of a Cassini accident could be most
> serious.
> There is now much public knowledge about the harmful effects of
> radiation
> pollution and many people are saying this must stop.
>
> The proposed Cassini Probe to Saturn is causing great international
> concern.
> If something goes wrong, it could cause the worst ever space accident.
> One expert has likened it to the biological equivalent of 17
> operational
> nuclear power stations being sent into space. This is because the 72
> lbs
> of Plutonium 238 it will be carrying is uniquely dangerous to life
> forms -
> not only to humans.
> There are concerns about the validity of the American Environmental
> Assessments done around this venture.
> There is now a solid body of evidence about the harm done to life
> including
> to people by the nuclear industry. A Cassini accident could double the
> quantity of Plutonium released into the environment since nuclear
> weapons testing began.
> Is this plausible - we have only the word of American based interests
> to
> oppose - the question has never been subject to international legal
> scrutiny.
> We believe that the opinions and interests of Non-Americans also
> matter.
> We want this matter to be settled in the proper way by the World
> Court.
> We need your help to sponsor an approach to the World Court - which
> has already been drafted - so that the Monday, October 13th launch
> will
> be put on hold pending review as the World Court recommends.
> This request is for the honorable purpose of enabling the World Court
> to
> act on this matter.
>
> Throughout the history of the United Nations, there have been General
> Assembly resolutions expressing resolve to prevent harm from
> radiation. For
> years, the precautionary principle has become a principle of
> international
> common law: this principle affirms that where there is the potential
> of
> harm, the lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a
> reason
> for postponing measures to prevent the harm. NASA has accidents before
> both
> on the launch pad and in space, and it is now the responsibility of
> the
> Global community to show the political will to act with caution.
>
> We have enclosed background information, as well as a resume of
> Francis Boyle.
>
> This matter is of the utmost urgency. Francis Boyle is currently
> drafting
> the court documents and will be prepared to seek the Emergency hearing
> prior to the proposed October 13 launching of Cassini as soon as he
> receives confirmation from a state government willing to proceed to
> the
> International Court of Justice court.
>
> Yours truly
>
> Francis Boyle
> Professor Of International Law
> Tel/FAX 217-333-7954/217-244-1478
> e-mail FBOYLE@...
>
> Joan Russow (PhD)
> President, Global Compliance Project
> Tel/FAX (250) 598-0071
>  e-mail: jrussow@...
>
> Ross Wilcock
> rwilcock@...
> Tel:  +1-519-537-8755
> Fax: +1-519-537-8816Dr
>
>
>
> BACKGROUND:
> For  additional information on the Cassini project please consult Web
> site
> information on the Cassini project URL:
> http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/index.htm
>
> The US agency NASA plans to send
> the Cassini satellite to Saturn. It will be the largest and most
> expensive
> ever attempted. It is scheduled to be launched on October 13th,
> intending
> that it will fly first to Venus, loop around it, and then return to
> Earth
> in 1999 at high speed obtaining gravitational boost from Earth by
> speeding
> at 42,000 miles per hour at around 300 miles above the Earth's
> surface.
> Perhaps this can be accomplished, but there is great international
> controversy about risk on launch and "fly-by".
> The major problem is that it will carry 72 lbs of Plutonium 238. This
> isotope is one of the hottest known; and its heat can be captured to
> make
> electrical power for the duration of the voyage. This isotope is 272
> times
> hotter (more active) than the bomb type of Plutonium. What would be
> the
> consequences of an accident or misadventure? Many people are deeply
> troubled about what will happen if something goes wrong. The
> biological
> effects of a Cassini accident could be most serious. There is now much
> public knowledge about the harmful effects of radiation pollution and
> many
> people are saying this must stop.
> The problem or radiation pollution through the eyes of Chernobyl has
> been
> reviewed by the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in April 1996 whose
> Judgement
> can be read on WWW at http://www.pgs.ca/pages/ppt96.htm  This is the
> last
> one fifth of a book published by the International Peace Bureau
> entitled
> "Chernobyl: Environmental, Health and Human Rights Implications".
> We know that the first plutonium bomb exploded in Japan resulted in
> the
> plutonium contamination of the whole Northern Hemisphere. It was even
> found
> in a representative sample layer of permanent ice in the Canadian
> Arctic. A
> 1964 launch accident released just 1 kilogram of Plutonium 238, which
> can
> still be detected around the Southern Hemisphere. Cassini carries 30
> times
> this quantity. The Department of Energy of the USA claims that
> contamination won't happen again but there is a degree of uncertainty.
> Since President Clinton has approved the Cassini launch for October
> 13th -
> the only way to stop it now is by an emergency request to the World
> Court.
> International Lawyer Professor Francis Boyle who you may know of, is
> prepared to take the necessary action under the Genocide Convention.
> He
> says that this launch - if it goes wrong implies genocidal
> consequences in
> International Law. The health and longevity of large numbers of people
> is
> being put at risk. How much is the subject of heated argument. The
> health
> and fertility of fish in the sea may be damaged.
> It requires the support of at least one President or Prime Minister to
> refer this problem as an emergency question to the World Court who we
> believe will call a halt for proper investigation as to the necessity
> and
> wisdom of the Cassini project. International Lawyer Professor Francis
> Boyle
> needs your sponsorship to make this appeal:
>
>
> RESUME OF FRANCIS A. BOYLE
>
>
>                                   EDUCATION
>
>  University of Chicago, A.B. (1971) in Political Science.  One of
> seven
>  students elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior; winner as a Junior of
>  the Sigma Xi Certificate of Merit and Prize in Biology for The
>  Differential Effects of Three Simulated Systems of Inbreeding on the
>  Frequency of the t(w) Allelle in Wild Populations of Mus Musculus on
>  nomination of Richard C. Lewontin; graduated in three years.
>
>  Harvard Law School, J.D. Magna Cum Laude (l976).   Third year paper
>  designated "Honor Paper" by Richard R. Baxter, and deposited in
> H.L.S.
>  Library.  A+'s in Federal Income Taxation (Surrey), Soviet Economic
>  Law
>  and Law of Foreign Trade (Berman), United Nations Law (Sohn),
>  Sociology
>  of Law (Fuller), and Jurisprudence (Unger).
>
>  Associate, Harvard University Center for International Affairs (1976-
>  78) (elected to the Executive Committee for 1977-78).
>
>  Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of
>  Government,
>  A.M. (l978) and Ph.D. (1983) in Political Science.  Awarded full
>  Harvard Fellowship for all four years of residence.  Offered Russian
>  History (Keenan), Soviet Politics (Ulam), Modern Political Philosophy
>  (Shklar), and International Relations (Hoffmann) on Ph.D. General
>  Examination.  Dissertation entitled Realism, Positivism,
> Functionalism
>  and International Law under the supervision of Stanley Hoffmann.
>
>
>                                   TEACHING
>
>  Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Department of Government
>  (1976-78).
>
>  Assistant Professor (1978-81), Associate Professor with tenure
>  (1981-84), full Professor (from 1984), University of Illinois College
>  of Law in Champaign.
>
>  Professor, U.S.S.R. Summer University for Jurists, People's
> Friendship
>  University, Moscow (August 1989) (only non-Soviet Professor).
>
>
>                                   PRACTICE
>
>  Attorney, Bingham, Dana, & Gould, in Boston (l977-78) (tax and
>  international tax).  See Hart v. U.S., 585 F.2d l025 (Ct. Cl. l978)
>  (en
>  banc); Globe v. U.S., 620 F.2d 841 (Ct. Cl. 1980).
>
>  Attorney for Plaintiffs, Ali Aidi v. Yaron, 672 F. Supp. 516 (D.D.C.
>  1987) (Sabra-Shatilla Massacre).
>
>  Legal Adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization on the
> Creation
>  of the State of Palestine (1987-89).
>
>  Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace
>  Negotiations (1991-93).
>
>  Legal Adviser to the Republic of Lithuania (1991-93).
>  Counsel to Libya, in Cases Concerning Questions of Interpretation And
>  Application Of The 1971 Montreal Convention Arising From The Aerial
>  Incident At Lockerbie (Libya v. United Kingdom) (Libya v. United
>  States).  See Orders of 14 April 1992, 1992 I.C.J. Rep. at 3 and 114;
>  31 Int'l L. Mats. 662 (1992).
>
>  General Agent for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina with
>  Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Powers Before the International
>  Court
>  of Justice by Appointment of President Alija Izetbegovic (March 19,
>  1993 to January 12, 1994).  See Application of the Convention on the
>  Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and
>  Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)), Order of
>  Provisional Measures of 8 April 1993, 1993 I.C.J. Rep. at 3; and
> Order
>  of Provisional Measures of 13 September 1993, 1993 I.C.J. Rep. at
> 325.
>  See also Statement of Intention by the Republic of Bosnia and
>  Herzegovina to Institute Legal Proceedings Against the United Kingdom
>  before the International Court of Justice, 15 November 1993.
>
>  Legal Adviser to President Alija Izetbegovic, Foreign Minister Haris
>  Silajdzik, and the Members of the Bosnian Presidency during the Owen-
>  Stoltenberg Negotiations in Geneva (1993).
>
>
>                                 PUBLICATIONS
>
>  World Politics and International Law (Duke University Press: 1985; 2d
>  prtg. 1987).  Designated "An Outstanding Academic Book of 1985-86" in
>  the field of Political Science by Choice Magazine, published by the
>  Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library
>  Association.
>
>  Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law (Transnational
>  Publishers: 1987).  The Center for Energy Research published a
> special
>  paperback edition in 1988.
>
>  The Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy
>  (Transnational Publishers: 1989).  The Islamic World Studies Center
> in
>  Malta published an Arabic language edition in 1993.  Progress
>  Publishers, Institute of State and Law, Moscow has translated this
>  book
>  into Russian for publication.
>
>  THE BOSNIAN PEOPLE CHARGE GENOCIDE!  (Aletheia Press: forthcoming in
>  1995).
>
>  The Foundations of World Order (for Duke University Press in 1996).
>
>  The Irrelevance of International Law, l0 Cal. West. Int'l L.J. l93
>  (l980).
>
>  International Law in Time of Crisis, 75 Nw. U.L. Rev. 769 (l980),
>  republished in 2 Nat'l L. Rev. Rep. 537 (l98l).
>
>  The Entebbe Hostages Crisis, 29 Nether. Int'l L. Rev. 32 (1982); 22
>  Indian J. Int'l L. 199 (1982); and in Terrorism, Political Violence
>  and
>  World Order 559 (H. Han ed. 1984; 2d rev. ed. 1993).
>
>  The Law of Power Politics, l980 Univ. Ill. L. F. 90l.
>
>  International Law as a Basis for Conducting American Foreign Policy,
> 8
>  Yale J. World Pub. Ord. 103 (1981), republished as U.S. Department of
>  Defense, Current News: Special Edition, No. 979 (Mar. 23, l983). See
>  also 75 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 270 (1981).
>
>  Nuclear Weapons and International Law:  The Arms Control Dimension,
> 21
>  U.S.M.A. West Point Senior Conference Proceedings: The Nuclear Debate
>  147 (1983); and in 4 N.Y.L.Sch. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 257 (1983).  See
>  also 76 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 322 (1982).
>
>  American Foreign Policy Toward International Law and Organizations:
>  l898-l9l7, 6 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L.J. 185 (1983).  See also 76
> Am.
>  Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 130, 135, 144 (1982).
>
>  International Law and Organizations as an Approach to Conflict
>
> Resolution in the Middle East, in Contemporary Issues in International
>  Law: Essays in Honor of Louis B. Sohn 515 (T. Buergenthal ed. 1984).
>  See also Middle East International, Sept. 3, 1982, at 11; 4 Arab
> Stud.
>  Q. 336 (1982); Terrorism, Political Violence and World Order 511 (H.
>  Han ed. 1984); 77 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 223 (1983); 79 Am. Soc'y
>  Int'l L. Proc. 217 (1985); Mideast Monitor, July, 1985.
>
>  International Lawlessness in the Caribbean Basin, 1984 Crime and
>  Social
>  Justice, Nos. 21-22, at 37; and in International Progress
> Organization
>  (IPO), The Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy 89 (H. Kochler ed.
>  1985).  See also Australia Int'l L. News, Sept., 1984; 78 Am. Soc'y
>  Int'l L. Proc. 144 (1984); 78 Am. J. Int'l L. 172 (1984).
>
>  Conclusions and Judgment of Brussels Tribunal, N.Y. Times, Oct. 7,
>  1984, at 77; and in IPO, The Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy
>  459
>  (H. Kochler ed. 1985).
>
>  The Iranian Hostages Crisis, 63 Revue De Droit International 1
>  (Geneva:
>  1985).
>
>  Memorandum in Opposition to the Ratification of the Proposed
> U.S.-U.K.
>  Supplementary Extradition Treaty (Aug. 30, 1985), in United States
> and
>  United Kingdom Supplementary Extradition Treaty: Hearings on Treaty
>  Doc. 99-8 Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, S.HRG.
> 99-
>  703, 99th Cong., 1st Sess. 511 (1985).
>
>  Statement on Behalf of U.S.A., in On Trial: Reagan's War Against
>  Nicaragua 153 (1985).
>
>  Defending Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against the Reagan
>  Administration Under International Law, Crime and Social Justice, No.
>  24, at 110.  See also 81 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 452 (1987).
>
>  The Relevance of International Law to the "Paradox" of Nuclear
>  Deterrence, 80 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1407 (1986); and in 11 Recht En
> Kritiek,
>  No. 3 (Dutch trans. 1985).  See also 1 Swords and Ploughshares, No. 3
>  (May 1987) (U.I. ACDIS Bull.).
>
>  The Legal Distortions Behind the Reagan Administration's Chemical and
>  Biological Warfare Buildup, 30 St. Louis Univ. L.J. 1175 (1986),
>  reprinted in U.S. Department of Defense, Current News: Special
>  Edition:
>  CHEMICAL WEAPONS, No. 1586 (28 May 1987).
>
>  Preserving the Rule of Law in the War Against International
> Terrorism,
>  8 Whittier L. Rev. 735 (1986).
>
>  New Directions for International Legal Studies Toward the End of the
>  Twentieth Century, 80 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 457 (1986).
>
>  Determining U.S. Responsibility for Contra Operations Under
>  International Law, 81 Am. J. Int'l L. 86 (1987).  See also Nicaragua
>  Must Survive, 6 U.I. ACDIS Bull., No. 3 (Winter 1985-86).
>
>  Military Responses to Terrorism, 81 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 288
>  (1987).
>
>  The Geneva Declaration on Terrorism, Am. Branch, Int'l L. Ass., Int'l
>  Prac. Notebook, July 1987.
>
>  International Crisis and Neutrality:  U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the
>  Iraq-Iran War, in Neutrality: Changing Concepts and Practices 59 (A.
>  Leonhard ed. 1988); and in 43 Mercer L. Rev. 523 (1992).
>
>  Create the State of Palestine!, American-Arab Affairs, No. 25, at 86
>  (Summer 1988); 7 Scandinavian J. Development Alternatives, No. 2 & 3,
>  at 25 (June-Sept. 1988); 4 Palestine Y.B. Int'l L. 15 (1987-88).
>
>  The Hypocrisy and Racism Behind the Formulation of U.S. Human Rights
>  Foreign Policy, 1989 Social Justice, No. 35, at 71.
>
>  International Law, Citizen Resistance and Crimes by the State -- The
>  Defense Speaks, 11 Houston Int'l L.J. 345 (1989).
>
>  Memoranda of Law on the U.S.-Israel Land-Lease and Purchase Agreement
>  of 1989 (Ex. Comm. 89-57), American-Arab Affairs, No. 30, at 125
> (Fall
>  1989).
>
>  Testimony in Support of S. 993, 101st Cong., 1st Sess., The
> Biological
>  Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 (July 26, 1989), in Hearing Before
>  the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, S. HRG. 101-416, Serial No. J-
>  101-32, at 100 (1989).
>
>  Memorandum on the Yaron Case, 5 Palestine Y.B. Int'l L. 254, 257
>  (1989).
>
>  Afterword to D. Forsythe, The Politics of International Law: U.S.
>  Foreign Policy Reconsidered 157 (1990).
>
>  The Creation of the State of Palestine, 1 European J. Int'l L. 301
>  (1990); and in 1991 Australian Int'l L. News 46.  See also
>  International Law and Solutions to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 83 Am.
>  Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 122 (1989); 84 Am. J. Int'l L. 879 (1990);
> Soviet
>  Immigration to Palestine Violates International Law, 7 Mideast
>  Monitor,
>  No. 2, (Summer 1990); George Bush on Jerusalem, American-Arab
> Affairs,
>  No. 32, at 121 (Spring 1990).
>
>  The Criminality of Nuclear Weapons, Waging Peace Series Booklet No.
> 27
>  (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: 1991); and in Waging Peace II 103-20
>  (D.
>  Krieger & F. Kelly eds. 1992).  See also Separate Opinion By Judge
>  Francis A. Boyle, in IN RE: More Than 50,000 Nuclear Weapons, at 23
>  (Aletheia Press: 1991) (Provisional District World Court Opinion); 8
>  Scandinavian J. Development Alternatives, No. 2, at 37 (June 1989);
> 82
>  Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 555 (1988).
>
>  Memorandum of Law on the Dispute Between Libya and the United States
>  and the United Kingdom over the Lockerbie Bombing Allegations, in
>  Nord-
>  Sud XXI, No. 1, at 55 (Geneva: 1992).
>
>  United States War Crimes During the Persian Gulf War, in Nord-Sud
> XXI,
>  No. 1, at 97 (Geneva: 1992).
>
>  The Definitional Context of the Iranian Hostages Crisis, 6 Journal of
>  Foreign Policy, Nos. 2 & 3 (1992), Institute for Political and
>  International Studies (IPIS), Tehran, Iran (Farsi translation of
>  Chapters 13 & 14 of World Politics and International Law).
>
>  The International Legal Right of the Palestinian People to Self-
>  Determination and an Independent State of Their Own, 12 Scandinavian
>  J.
>  Development Alternatives, No. 2 & 3, at 29 (June-Sept. 1993).  See
>  also
>  Transcript of a Mock Arbitration of Israeli-Palestinian Disputes
>  Before
>  the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Chicago (Aug. 7,
> 1990),
>  in 6 A.B.A. International Litigation Quarterly, No. 4, at 101, 112
>  (Dec. 1990); and in 2 Arbitration Materials 5 (Dec. 1990).
>
>  The Right of Citizen Resistance to State Crimes, in Human Rights in
>  the
>  Twenty-First Century: A Global Challenge 377-92 (K. Mahoney & P.
>  Mahoney eds. 1993).
>
>  The U.S. Invasion of Panama: Implications for International Law and
>  Politics, 1 East African J. Peace & Human Rights 80 (Uganda: 1993).
>
>  International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond Regime Theory, in
> Ideas
>  and Ideals: Essays on Politics in Honor of Stanley Hoffmann 376 (L.
>  Miller & M.J. Smith eds. 1993).
>
>  The Nuremberg Defence in Courts, in International Peace Bureau, The
>  Right to Refuse Military Orders 73 (1994).
>
>  The Decolonization of Northern Ireland, forthcoming in 4 Asian Y.B.
>  Int'l L. (1995).
>
>  The Restoration of the Independent Nation State of Hawaii under
>  International Law, forthcoming in St. Thomas L. Rev. (Spring 1995).
>
>  See also 1973 Harv. L. Sch. Y.B. 14; 75 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 227
>  (1981) (Morgenthau); 97 Harv. L. Rev. 1259 (1984) (Ferguson); AAUG
>  Newsletter, Jan.-Feb.-Mar. 1985 (Sharon); PHRC Newsletter, Jan.-Mar.
>  1987 (L.A. 8 case), Oct.-Nov. 1987 (PLO); Palestine Perspectives,
>  Mar./Apr. 1988, at 4 (Landau Report); Am. Branch, Int'l L. Ass.,
> Int'l
>  Prac. Notebook, Jan. 1981 (SALT 2), Jan. & July 1984 (Grenada), Jan.
>  1985 (South Africa), April 1985 (Sanctuary Movement), Oct. 1985 (Star
>  Wars), Dec. 1986 (Libya); 11 COPRED Peace Chron., No. 5 (1986)
> (George
>  Ball); 20 Social Justice 162 (1993) (U.S. execution of Mexicans); 33
>  I.L.M. 838 (1994) (Gacy execution).
>
>   Book Reviews 75 Am. J. Int'l L. 402 (1981); 76 id. at 872 (1982); 77
>  at
>  961, 980 & 981 (1983); 79 at 1093 & 1141 (1985); 82 at 650 (1988); 83
>  at 403, 643 (1989); 16 I.J.L.I. 134 (1988); 9 Pol. & Life Sci., No. 1
>  (Aug. 1990).
>
>                                  ACTIVITIES
>
>  Ad Hoc Guidelines Committee, American Society of International Law
>  (1978-80).  See ASIL Newsletter, Aug.-Oct. 1978.
>  U.S. State Department, Scholar-Diplomat Program, Bureau of Politico-
>  Military Affairs (1981).
>  Council and Board of Directors, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
>  (from 1981).
>  American Friends Service Committee, Advisory Committee on Human
> Rights
>  in Lebanon (1982-83).  See Lebanon: Toward Legal Order and Respect
> for
>  Human Rights (1983), in 1 Palestine Y.B. Int'l L. 218 (1984).
>  Lecturer, Nuclear Weapons and International Law, 21st Senior
>  Conference
>  on Nuclear Deterrence, U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1983).
>  Board of Directors, International Third World Legal Studies
>  Association
>  (1983-87).
>  Judge, Provisional District World Court, World Federalist
> Association,
>  Nuclear Weapons Tribunal (1984-88).
>  Chairman, International Panel of Jurists, IPO Brussels Conference on
>  Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy (1984).
>  Attorney for U.S.A., before the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, in
>  Nicaragua v. U.S.A. (Brussels: 1984).
>  Counsel, Concerned Academics for Peace and Justice in the Middle East
>  (1984-86).
>  Lecture Tour of Libya (1985).
>  Advisory Board, The Council for Responsible Genetics (from 1985).
>  Certificate of Recognition, Association of Arab-American University
>  Graduates (1986).
>  Lecture Tour of Soviet Union on Nuclear Weapons and International Law
>  for Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy and Association of Soviet
>  Lawyers (1986).
>  Vice-President and Board of Directors, Human Rights Research
>  Foundation
>  (from 1986).
>  Rapporteur, IPO Geneva Declaration on Terrorism (1987).
>  Board of Directors, Palestine Human Rights Campaign (1987-91).
>  Consultant, United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the
>  Inalienable
>  Rights of the Palestinian People (from 1987).
>  Executive Committee, American Federation of Teachers Local 2287 and
>  Delegate to AFL-CIO Board of Champaign County (1988-91).
>  Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA (1988-92).
>  Counsel, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, Pub. L. No.
>  101-298 (1990).
>  Counsel, H. Res. 86, 102d Cong., 1st Sess. (1991) (impeaching George
>  Bush).
>  Special Prosecutor, International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and
>  Oppressed Nations in the U.S.A., San Francisco (1992).
>  Author, Chicago MacBride Principles Ordinance (adopted unanimously by
>  Chicago City Council on Feb. 10, 1993).
>  Judge, International Tribunal on War Crimes in the Former Soviet
> Union
>  (Moscow: 1993).
>  Consultant, Hawaiian Sovereignty Advisory Commission, State of Hawaii
>  (1993).
>
>
>

> ----------
> From:
> romeril@...[SMTP:romeril@...]
> Sent:  Friday, October 10, 1997 9:22 AM
> To:  fboyle@...
> Cc:  jrussow@...
> Subject:  Fax numbers for permanent missions
>
> It may be useful to also send some faxes to selected Permanent
> Missions -
> eg: New Zealand, South Africa, India, Cuba, Fiji, Papua New Guinea,
> Australia, all States in Southern Africa, all States in the Caribbean,
> etc. Faxes seem to elicit a better
> response than email.
>
> There are two free fax services that can be used:
> http://www.tpc.int (all free)
> http://www.faxaway.com (first ten pages free)
>
> Below is the URL for details of individual Permanent Missions,
> each of which includes fax details:
>
>    Linkname: Permanent Missions to the United Nations - New York
>         URL: http://www.un.org/Overview/missions.htm#perm
>
> PLEASE FORWARD
> Dear Friends:
>         Enclosed is a list of e-mail addresses for all Missions to the
> United Nations. Please contact as many of them as you can in order to
> get me the permission of one State to sue the United States government
> over the weekend in order to stop the threatened Cassini Disaster on
> Monday.
>         Thank you.
>         Francis A. Boyle
>         Professor of International Law
> PLEASE FORWARD!
>
> > DRAFT
> > MEDIA RELEASE-
> > Wednesday October 8, 1997
> >
> > Re: URGENT STOPPING CASSINI THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
> >
> > * SEARCH FOR COUNTRY TO GO TO THE COURT
> > * OCTOBER 13 LAUNCHING OF CASSINI
> > * URGENT ACTION NECESSARY
> >
> > As you are undoubtedly aware the President of the United States has
> > given
> > permission to NASA to proceed with the Cassini Mission-with 72
> pounds
> > of
> > plutonium 238 on board- on October 13.
> > There is a specialist in International Law, Francis Boyle,   who is
> > willing
> > to seek an Emergency Hearing of the International Court of justice
> to
> > "stay
> > the Cassini test pending a hearing under the rules of the Court"
> >
> > There has been an urgent appeal circulated around the world for a
> > member
> > state of the United Nations that would be willing to take the United
> > States
> > to the International Court of Justice.
> > Presidents and Prime Ministers are being contacted from around the
> > world.
> > For further information, Please Contact,
> > Francis Boyle
> > Professor of International Law
> > Tel/FAX 217-333-7954/217-244-1478
> > e-mail FBOYLE@...
> >
> > Joan Russow (PhD)
> > The National leader of the Green Party of Canada
> > Tel/FAX (250) 598-0071
> > e-mail: jrussow@...
> >
> > Ross Wilcock
> > Tel     1-519-537-8755
> > FAX:  1-519-537-8816
> > rwilcock@...
> > http://www.pgs.ca/
> >
> >
>
>
> >Mailinglist Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days 1997
> _______________________________________________
> Dear Friends:
>  I am writing to the world anti-nuclear community with a proposal
> to stop the threatened Cassini catastrophe. I need you to get me one
> State party to the Genocide Convention with the guts to give me the
> authority to sue the United States of America at the International
> Court
> of Justice over the threatened Cassini catastrophe. I can file the
> lawsuit and request an Emergency Hearing of the World Court to stop
> this
> threatened catastrophe. We do not have much time! You will need to get
> me  permission from that State's President, Prime Minister or Foreign
> Minister. I will not discuss my strategy here on line. But I will be
> happy to discuss the strategy with a President, Prime Minister or
> Foreign Minister of an interested state.
>  I am the only "government" in the seventy five year history of
> the International Court of Justice  to have single-handledly  won two
> World Court Orders overwhelmingly in favor of my client (i.e., Bosnia)
> and  in under six months. I can stop the Cassini catastrophe. But I
> need
> a government with the guts to let me do it. I ask you all to find me
> that Government!
>  Please circulate this message as widely as possible among the
> anti-nuclear news lists.
>  Yours very truly,
>  Francis A. Boyle
>  Professor of International Law
>  University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign
>
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, Ill. 61820
> Phone: 217-333-7954
> Fax: 217-244-1478
> fboyle@...
>

> PLEASE FORWARD
> Dear Friends:
>         Enclosed is a list of e-mail addresses for all Missions to the
> United Nations. Please contact as many of them as you can in order to
> get me the permission of one State to sue the United States government
> over the weekend in order to stop the threatened Cassini Disaster on
> Monday.
>         Thank you.
>         Francis A. Boyle
>         Professor of International Law
> PLEASE FORWARD!
>
> > DRAFT
> > MEDIA RELEASE-
> > Wednesday October 8, 1997
> >
> > Re: URGENT STOPPING CASSINI THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
> >
> > * SEARCH FOR COUNTRY TO GO TO THE COURT
> > * OCTOBER 13 LAUNCHING OF CASSINI
> > * URGENT ACTION NECESSARY
> >
> > As you are undoubtedly aware the President of the United States has
> > given
> > permission to NASA to proceed with the Cassini Mission-with 72
> pounds
> > of
> > plutonium 238 on board- on October 13.
> > There is a specialist in International Law, Francis Boyle,   who is
> > willing
> > to seek an Emergency Hearing of the International Court of justice
> to
> > "stay
> > the Cassini test pending a hearing under the rules of the Court"
> >
> > There has been an urgent appeal circulated around the world for a
> > member
> > state of the United Nations that would be willing to take the United
> > States
> > to the International Court of Justice.
> > Presidents and Prime Ministers are being contacted from around the
> > world.
> > For further information, Please Contact,
> > Francis Boyle
> > Professor of International Law
> > Tel/FAX 217-333-7954/217-244-1478
> > e-mail FBOYLE@...
> >
> > Joan Russow (PhD)
> > The National leader of the Green Party of Canada
> > Tel/FAX (250) 598-0071
> > e-mail: jrussow@...
> >
> > Ross Wilcock
> > Tel     1-519-537-8755
> > FAX:  1-519-537-8816
> > rwilcock@...
> > http://www.pgs.ca/
> >
> >
>
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Melissa Phillips[SMTP:Melissa_Phillips@...]
> > Sent:         Thursday, October 09, 1997 9:47 AM
> > To:   Multiple recipients of list ACUNS-IO
> > Subject:      Permanent Missions to the UN -- email addresses (fwd)
> >
> > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 05:38:22 -0300 (ADT)
> > From: Michael Gurstein <mgurst@...>
> > Subject: United Nations (fwd)
> > To: UN Reform <UNReform@...>
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Precedence: Bulk
> > Reply-To: unreform@...
> > Sender: unreform@...
> >
> > Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 20:59:23 -0700
> > Subject: UNDP - Permanent Missions to the United Nations - New York
> -
> > Email
> > addresses
> > http://www.undp.org/missions/em.html
> >
> >                          Permanent Missions to the United Nations -
> >
> >                             New York - Email addresses
> >
> >
> >
> > Permanent Mission of Afghanistan:     afgun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Albania:      albun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Algeria:      dzaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Andorra:      andun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Angola:      agoun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda:      atgun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Argentina:      argun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Armenia:      armun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Australia:      ausun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Austria:      autun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan:      azeun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Bahamas:      bhsun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Bahrain:      bhrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Bangladesh:      bgdun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Barbados:      brbun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Belarus:      blrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Belgium:      belun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Belize:      blzun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Benin:      benun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Bhutan:      btnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Bolivia:      bolun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina:      bihun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Botswana:      bwaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Brazil:      braun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Brunei Darussalam:      brnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Bulgaria:      bgrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Burkina Faso:      bfaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Burundi:      bdiun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Cambodia:      khmun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Cameroon:      cmrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Canada:      canun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Cape Verde:      cpvun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Central African Republic:
> cafun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Chad :     tcdun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Chile:      chiun@...
> > Permanent Mission of China:      chnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Colombia:      colun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Comoros:      comun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Congo:      cogun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Costa Rica:      cosun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Cote d'Ivoire:      civun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Croatia:      hrvun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Cuba:      cubun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Cyprus:      cypun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic:      czeun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Denmark:      dnkun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Djibouti:      djiun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Dominica:      dmaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic:      domun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Ecuador:      ecuun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Egypt:      egyun@...
> > Permanent Mission of El Salvador:      salun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Equatorial Guinea:      gnqun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Eritrea:      eriun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Estonia:      estun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Ethiopia :     ethun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Fiji:      fjiun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Finland:      finun@...
> > Permanent Mission of France:      fraun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Gabon:      gabun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Gambia:      gmbun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Georgia:      geoun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Germany:      deuun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Ghana:      ghaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Great Britain:      gbrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Greece:      grcun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Grenada:      grdun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Guatemala:      gtmun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Guinea:      ginun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Guinea-Bissau:      gnbun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Guyana:      guyun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Haiti:      htiun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Honduras:      hndun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Hungary:      hunun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Iceland:      islun@...
> > Permanent Mission of India:      indun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Indonesia:      idnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Iran:      irnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Iraq:      irqun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Ireland:      irlun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Israel:      isrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Italy:      itaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Jamaica:      jamun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Japan:      jpnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Jordan:      jorun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Kazakstan:      kazun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Kenya:      kenun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Dem. People's Republic of Korea:
> > prkun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea:      korun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Kuwait:      kwtun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Kyrgyzstan:      kgzun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Lao P. Dem. Republic:      laoun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Latvia:      lvaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Lebanon:      lbnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Lesotho:      lsoun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Liberia:      lbrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Libya:      lbyun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein:      lieun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Lithuania:      ltuun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Luxembourg:      luxun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
> > @undp.org
> > Permanent Mission of Madagascar:      mdgun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Malawi:      mwiun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Malaysia:      mysun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Maldives:      mdvun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Mali:      mliun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Malta:      mltun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Marshall Islands:      mhlun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Mauritania:      mrtun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Mauritius:      musun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Mexico:      mexun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Federated States of Micronesia:
> > fsmun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Moldova:      mdaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Monaco:      mcoun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Mongolia:      mngun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Morocco:      marun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Mozambique:      mozun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Myanmar:      mmrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Namibia:      namun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Nepal:      nplun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Netherlands:      nldun@...
> > Permanent Mission of New Zealand:      nzlun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Nicaragua:      nicun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Niger:      nerun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Nigeria:      ngaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Norway:      norun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Oman:      omnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Pakistan:      pakun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Palau:      plwun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Panama:      panun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Papua New Guinea:      pngun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Paraguay:     pryun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Peru:      perun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Philippines:      phlun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Poland:      polun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Portugal:      prtun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Qatar:      qatun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Romania:      romun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Rwanda:      rwaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation:      rusun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Samoa:      wsmun@...
> > Permanent Mission of San Marino:      smrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Sao Tome and Principe:      stpun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia:      sauun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Senegal:      senun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Seychelles:      sycun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone :     sleun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Singapore:      sgpun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Slovakia:      svkun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Slovenia:      svnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Solomon Islands:      slbun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Somalia:      somun@...
> > Permanent Mission of South Africa:      zafun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Spain:      espun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka:      lkaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of St. Kitts and Nevis:      knaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of St. Lucia:      lcaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of St. Vincent & the Grenadines:
> vctun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Sudan:      sdnun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Suriname:      surun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Swaziland:      swzun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Sweden:      sweun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic:      syrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Tajikistan:      tjkun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Thailand:      thaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Togo:      tgoun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Trinidad and Tobago:      ttoun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Tunisia:      tunun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Turkey:      turun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan:      tkmun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Uganda:      ugaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Ukraine:      ukrun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates:      areun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the United Republic of Tanzania:
> > tzaun@...
> > Permanent Mission of the United States of America:
> > usaun1@...
> > Permanent Mission of Uruguay:      uruun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Uzbekistan:      uzbun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Vanuatu:      vutun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Venezuela:      venun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Viet Nam:      vnmun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Yemen:      yemun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia:      yugun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Zaire:      zarun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Zambia:      zmbun@...
> > Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe:      zweun@...
> > Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See:      vatun@...
> > Permanent Observer Mission of Switzerland:      cheun@...
> > Permanent Observer Mission of the Palestinian National Authority:
> > palun@...
> >
>

PLEASE FORWARD
Dear Friends:
	 Enclosed is a list of e-mail addresses for all Missions to the
United Nations. Please contact as many of them as you can in order to
get me the permission of one State to sue the United States government
over the weekend in order to stop the threatened Cassini Disaster on
Monday.
	 Thank you.
	 Francis A. Boyle
	 Professor of International Law
PLEASE FORWARD!

> DRAFT
> MEDIA RELEASE-
> Wednesday October 8, 1997
>
> Re: URGENT STOPPING CASSINI THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
>
> * SEARCH FOR COUNTRY TO GO TO THE COURT
> * OCTOBER 13 LAUNCHING OF CASSINI
> * URGENT ACTION NECESSARY
>
> As you are undoubtedly aware the President of the United States has
> given
> permission to NASA to proceed with the Cassini Mission-with 72 pounds
> of
> plutonium 238 on board- on October 13.
> There is a specialist in International Law, Francis Boyle,   who is
> willing
> to seek an Emergency Hearing of the International Court of justice to
> "stay
> the Cassini test pending a hearing under the rules of the Court"
>
> There has been an urgent appeal circulated around the world for a
> member
> state of the United Nations that would be willing to take the United
> States
> to the International Court of Justice.
> Presidents and Prime Ministers are being contacted from around the
> world.
> For further information, Please Contact,
> Francis Boyle
> Professor of International Law
> Tel/FAX 217-333-7954/217-244-1478
> e-mail FBOYLE@...
>
> Joan Russow (PhD)
> The National leader of the Green Party of Canada
> Tel/FAX (250) 598-0071
> e-mail: jrussow@...
>
> Ross Wilcock
> Tel     1-519-537-8755
> FAX:  1-519-537-8816
> rwilcock@...
> http://www.pgs.ca/
>
>


> ----------
> From:  Melissa Phillips[SMTP:Melissa_Phillips@...]
> Sent:  Thursday, October 09, 1997 9:47 AM
> To:  Multiple recipients of list ACUNS-IO
> Subject:  Permanent Missions to the UN -- email addresses (fwd)
>
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 05:38:22 -0300 (ADT)
> From: Michael Gurstein <mgurst@...>
> Subject: United Nations (fwd)
> To: UN Reform <UNReform@...>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Precedence: Bulk
> Reply-To: unreform@...
> Sender: unreform@...
>
> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 20:59:23 -0700
> Subject: UNDP - Permanent Missions to the United Nations - New York -
> Email
> addresses
> http://www.undp.org/missions/em.html
>
>                          Permanent Missions to the United Nations -
>
>                             New York - Email addresses
>
>
>
> Permanent Mission of Afghanistan:     afgun@...
> Permanent Mission of Albania:      albun@...
> Permanent Mission of Algeria:      dzaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Andorra:      andun@...
> Permanent Mission of Angola:      agoun@...
> Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda:      atgun@...
> Permanent Mission of Argentina:      argun@...
> Permanent Mission of Armenia:      armun@...
> Permanent Mission of Australia:      ausun@...
> Permanent Mission of Austria:      autun@...
> Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan:      azeun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Bahamas:      bhsun@...
> Permanent Mission of Bahrain:      bhrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Bangladesh:      bgdun@...
> Permanent Mission of Barbados:      brbun@...
> Permanent Mission of Belarus:      blrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Belgium:      belun@...
> Permanent Mission of Belize:      blzun@...
> Permanent Mission of Benin:      benun@...
> Permanent Mission of Bhutan:      btnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Bolivia:      bolun@...
> Permanent Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina:      bihun@...
> Permanent Mission of Botswana:      bwaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Brazil:      braun@...
> Permanent Mission of Brunei Darussalam:      brnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Bulgaria:      bgrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Burkina Faso:      bfaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Burundi:      bdiun@...
> Permanent Mission of Cambodia:      khmun@...
> Permanent Mission of Cameroon:      cmrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Canada:      canun@...
> Permanent Mission of Cape Verde:      cpvun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Central African Republic:      cafun@...
> Permanent Mission of Chad :     tcdun@...
> Permanent Mission of Chile:      chiun@...
> Permanent Mission of China:      chnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Colombia:      colun@...
> Permanent Mission of Comoros:      comun@...
> Permanent Mission of Congo:      cogun@...
> Permanent Mission of Costa Rica:      cosun@...
> Permanent Mission of Cote d'Ivoire:      civun@...
> Permanent Mission of Croatia:      hrvun@...
> Permanent Mission of Cuba:      cubun@...
> Permanent Mission of Cyprus:      cypun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic:      czeun@...
> Permanent Mission of Denmark:      dnkun@...
> Permanent Mission of Djibouti:      djiun@...
> Permanent Mission of Dominica:      dmaun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic:      domun@...
> Permanent Mission of Ecuador:      ecuun@...
> Permanent Mission of Egypt:      egyun@...
> Permanent Mission of El Salvador:      salun@...
> Permanent Mission of Equatorial Guinea:      gnqun@...
> Permanent Mission of Eritrea:      eriun@...
> Permanent Mission of Estonia:      estun@...
> Permanent Mission of Ethiopia :     ethun@...
> Permanent Mission of Fiji:      fjiun@...
> Permanent Mission of Finland:      finun@...
> Permanent Mission of France:      fraun@...
> Permanent Mission of Gabon:      gabun@...
> Permanent Mission of Gambia:      gmbun@...
> Permanent Mission of Georgia:      geoun@...
> Permanent Mission of Germany:      deuun@...
> Permanent Mission of Ghana:      ghaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Great Britain:      gbrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Greece:      grcun@...
> Permanent Mission of Grenada:      grdun@...
> Permanent Mission of Guatemala:      gtmun@...
> Permanent Mission of Guinea:      ginun@...
> Permanent Mission of Guinea-Bissau:      gnbun@...
> Permanent Mission of Guyana:      guyun@...
> Permanent Mission of Haiti:      htiun@...
> Permanent Mission of Honduras:      hndun@...
> Permanent Mission of Hungary:      hunun@...
> Permanent Mission of Iceland:      islun@...
> Permanent Mission of India:      indun@...
> Permanent Mission of Indonesia:      idnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Iran:      irnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Iraq:      irqun@...
> Permanent Mission of Ireland:      irlun@...
> Permanent Mission of Israel:      isrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Italy:      itaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Jamaica:      jamun@...
> Permanent Mission of Japan:      jpnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Jordan:      jorun@...
> Permanent Mission of Kazakstan:      kazun@...
> Permanent Mission of Kenya:      kenun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Dem. People's Republic of Korea:
> prkun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea:      korun@...
> Permanent Mission of Kuwait:      kwtun@...
> Permanent Mission of Kyrgyzstan:      kgzun@...
> Permanent Mission of Lao P. Dem. Republic:      laoun@...
> Permanent Mission of Latvia:      lvaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Lebanon:      lbnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Lesotho:      lsoun@...
> Permanent Mission of Liberia:      lbrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Libya:      lbyun@...
> Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein:      lieun@...
> Permanent Mission of Lithuania:      ltuun@...
> Permanent Mission of Luxembourg:      luxun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
> @undp.org
> Permanent Mission of Madagascar:      mdgun@...
> Permanent Mission of Malawi:      mwiun@...
> Permanent Mission of Malaysia:      mysun@...
> Permanent Mission of Maldives:      mdvun@...
> Permanent Mission of Mali:      mliun@...
> Permanent Mission of Malta:      mltun@...
> Permanent Mission of Marshall Islands:      mhlun@...
> Permanent Mission of Mauritania:      mrtun@...
> Permanent Mission of Mauritius:      musun@...
> Permanent Mission of Mexico:      mexun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Federated States of Micronesia:
> fsmun@...
> Permanent Mission of Moldova:      mdaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Monaco:      mcoun@...
> Permanent Mission of Mongolia:      mngun@...
> Permanent Mission of Morocco:      marun@...
> Permanent Mission of Mozambique:      mozun@...
> Permanent Mission of Myanmar:      mmrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Namibia:      namun@...
> Permanent Mission of Nepal:      nplun@...
> Permanent Mission of Netherlands:      nldun@...
> Permanent Mission of New Zealand:      nzlun@...
> Permanent Mission of Nicaragua:      nicun@...
> Permanent Mission of Niger:      nerun@...
> Permanent Mission of Nigeria:      ngaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Norway:      norun@...
> Permanent Mission of Oman:      omnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Pakistan:      pakun@...
> Permanent Mission of Palau:      plwun@...
> Permanent Mission of Panama:      panun@...
> Permanent Mission of Papua New Guinea:      pngun@...
> Permanent Mission of Paraguay:     pryun@...
> Permanent Mission of Peru:      perun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Philippines:      phlun@...
> Permanent Mission of Poland:      polun@...
> Permanent Mission of Portugal:      prtun@...
> Permanent Mission of Qatar:      qatun@...
> Permanent Mission of Romania:      romun@...
> Permanent Mission of Rwanda:      rwaun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation:      rusun@...
> Permanent Mission of Samoa:      wsmun@...
> Permanent Mission of San Marino:      smrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Sao Tome and Principe:      stpun@...
> Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia:      sauun@...
> Permanent Mission of Senegal:      senun@...
> Permanent Mission of Seychelles:      sycun@...
> Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone :     sleun@...
> Permanent Mission of Singapore:      sgpun@...
> Permanent Mission of Slovakia:      svkun@...
> Permanent Mission of Slovenia:      svnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Solomon Islands:      slbun@...
> Permanent Mission of Somalia:      somun@...
> Permanent Mission of South Africa:      zafun@...
> Permanent Mission of Spain:      espun@...
> Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka:      lkaun@...
> Permanent Mission of St. Kitts and Nevis:      knaun@...
> Permanent Mission of St. Lucia:      lcaun@...
> Permanent Mission of St. Vincent & the Grenadines:      vctun@...
> Permanent Mission of Sudan:      sdnun@...
> Permanent Mission of Suriname:      surun@...
> Permanent Mission of Swaziland:      swzun@...
> Permanent Mission of Sweden:      sweun@...
> Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic:      syrun@...
> Permanent Mission of Tajikistan:      tjkun@...
> Permanent Mission of Thailand:      thaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Togo:      tgoun@...
> Permanent Mission of Trinidad and Tobago:      ttoun@...
> Permanent Mission of Tunisia:      tunun@...
> Permanent Mission of Turkey:      turun@...
> Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan:      tkmun@...
> Permanent Mission of Uganda:      ugaun@...
> Permanent Mission of Ukraine:      ukrun@...
> Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates:      areun@...
> Permanent Mission of the United Republic of Tanzania:
> tzaun@...
> Permanent Mission of the United States of America:
> usaun1@...
> Permanent Mission of Uruguay:      uruun@...
> Permanent Mission of Uzbekistan:      uzbun@...
> Permanent Mission of Vanuatu:      vutun@...
> Permanent Mission of Venezuela:      venun@...
> Permanent Mission of Viet Nam:      vnmun@...
> Permanent Mission of Yemen:      yemun@...
> Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia:      yugun@...
> Permanent Mission of Zaire:      zarun@...
> Permanent Mission of Zambia:      zmbun@...
> Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe:      zweun@...
> Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See:      vatun@...
> Permanent Observer Mission of Switzerland:      cheun@...
> Permanent Observer Mission of the Palestinian National Authority:
> palun@...
>

PLEASE FORWARD!

> DRAFT
> MEDIA RELEASE-
> Wednesday October 8, 1997
>
> Re: URGENT STOPPING CASSINI THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
>
> * SEARCH FOR COUNTRY TO GO TO THE COURT
> * OCTOBER 13 LAUNCHING OF CASSINI
> * URGENT ACTION NECESSARY
>
> As you are undoubtedly aware the President of the United States has
> given
> permission to NASA to proceed with the Cassini Mission-with 72 pounds
> of
> plutonium 238 on board- on October 13.
> There is a specialist in International Law, Francis Boyle,   who is
> willing
> to seek an Emergency Hearing of the International Court of justice to
> "stay
> the Cassini test pending a hearing under the rules of the Court"
>
> There has been an urgent appeal circulated around the world for a
> member
> state of the United Nations that would be willing to take the United
> States
> to the International Court of Justice.
> Presidents and Prime Ministers are being contacted from around the
> world.
> For further information, Please Contact,
> Francis Boyle
> Professor of International Law
> Tel/FAX 217-333-7954/217-244-1478
> e-mail FBOYLE@...
>
> Joan Russow (PhD)
> The National leader of the Green Party of Canada
> Tel/FAX (250) 598-0071
> e-mail: jrussow@...
>
> Ross Wilcock
> Tel     1-519-537-8755
> FAX:  1-519-537-8816
> rwilcock@...
> http://www.pgs.ca/
>
>

New From NIRS
Nuclear Information & Resource Service
1424 16th St NW Suite 404 Washington, DC 20036
202-328-0002   fax 202-462-2183  e-mail nirsnet@...
Website:  http://www.nirs.org

October 8, 1997
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Mary Olson (202)328-0002

HOUSE RESOURCES COMMITTEE WASTES MOBILE CHERNOBYL BILL

Nuclear Waste Bill Gets Caution Light as Boosters Press HR 1270 to the House
Floor

In a stunning rebuke to the House Commerce Committee, the House Resources
Committee today
issued an unfavorable report on the Mobile Chernobyl bill, HR 1270
(officially the Nuclear Waste
Policy Act of 1997). This legislation would repeal existing high-level
nuclear waste laws and
replace them with an ill-advised industry sponsored mandate to start
shipping high-level nuclear
waste to a parking-lot-type "temporary" dump in Nevada.

The bill would trigger the largest nuclear waste shipping campaign in
history, affecting 43 states.
Representatives Ensign and Gibbons, both Nevada Republicans, challenge
the idea that the site is temporary but point out that if it is temporary,
the transportation hazards
are not warranted. HR 1270 also exempts the nuclear waste program from most
environmental
laws, which was the basis for many members' opposition to the bill today.

In a radical departure from business as usual, Republican Committee Chair
Don Young of
Alaska, ranking Democrat George Miller of California, and Ed Markey of
Massachusetts--an
outspoken HR 1270 opponent--joined forces to amend the bill and then vote it
down.

The action will not prevent the bill from going to the House floor, as the
bill earlier was approved by the House Commerce Committee, but it does send
a strong
message to the full spectrum of House members that there is no consensus on
this bill. The Clinton
administration continues its vow to veto the measure. A floor vote
is expected before the November recess.

National environmental organizations and communities nationwide have a
consensus that HR 1270
presents a clear and present danger. New deadlines in the bill would force
the transportation of
deadly waste on a schedule that does not allow for preparation or
development of the barest
minimum of readiness at the local level. The shipping campaign would extend
for 30 years or
more, affecting hundreds of communities en route to Yucca Mountain, on
Western Shoshone lands
in Nevada. The Shoshone Nation opposes the dump which would violate an
existing U.S. treaty.

"It is encouraging that a Committee of Congress opposes this legislation. If
HR 1270 were
implemented, the waste from an estimated 31 nuclear power reactors and the
Savannah River
nuclear weapons facility would pass through St. Louis. That could mean at
least one cask of
nuclear waste passing through St. Louis every 8 hours for the next 28
years!" Said Kay Drey of
the Missouri Coalition for the Environment.

Drey added: "The Three Mile Island waste came through this community and
there were a number of
incidents in those relatively few shipments. Moving these wastes from one
place to another is not a
solution, and certainly not a safe solution. It increases the risks for
residents in 43 states."

"The Resources Committee has served the interests of 50 million people who
live within a half-mile of
the projected nuclear waste transportation routes, and we applaud their
work," said Mary Olson of Nuclear
Information and Resource Service. "We work with communities nationwide
affected by nuclear
reactors and nuclear waste sites who oppose this legislation because it is
bad public policy, and
takes us farther away from a real answer for the nuclear waste problem. The
Mobile Chernobyl bill
just increases the number of people who will be affected, without giving us
a real solution."

The Resources Committee made a number of amendments to HR 1270. It is not
clear that these
changes will make it to the House Floor since the House Rules Committee--the
last hurdle before
floor action-- has jurisdiction to choose between today's Resources
Committee version and the
earlier Commerce Committee version which is more favorable to the nuclear
industry.

Resources Committee amendments included two offered by Republicans Ensign
and Gibbons that
address concerns promoted by the Republican majority in the 105th Congress.
Dimensions of State
authority were preserved by asserting that the Clean Water Act, National
Environmental Policy
Act, Endangered Species Act and Federal Land Management Act would apply to
the program; all are
laws which rely on functions of State oversight.

HR 1270 has some of the most sweeping preemption language seen in proposed
legislation, giving
the Secretary of Energy even more authority than the War Powers Act provides
the President.

Government "taking" of private property was addressed in an amendment that
would require
compensation or purchase of property which suffered loss of value due to any
aspect of
implementation of the law. This is highly significant in the light of
precedent already set in New
Mexico where a property owner was compensated for loss of land value along a
nuclear waste
route to the WIPP facility. There are tens of thousands of route miles to
Yucca Mountain.

"It tells us something when the far right and the environmental community
agree on something. The
local authority issues and the value of our homes and communities should be
the first concern for
Congress. A Mobile Chernobyl is easier to stop on The Hill, but I have no
doubt it will stop even if
Congress tries to implement this," commented Dave Kraft of Nuclear Energy
Information Service.

Kraft continued, "More than 6,000 shipments are projected to come through
Metropolitan Chicago--most of it from out of state. When it comes to nuclear
waste transportation, we all live in
Nevada. It is refreshing that the Resources Committee took a stand with us
in opposing HR 1270."


-NIRS-

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headlines 7_10 1997


    KIEV, Oct 7 `97 (AFP)-As the Ukrainian environmental
minister Yuri Kostenko was quoted the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) has agreed to establish a fund to collect
the missing 350 million dollars for the reinforcement of the
sarcophagus around the Chernobyl reactor.  Total 750 dollars
are needed from which the G7 will pay 300-and the Ukraine 50
mil. dollars.
Further the problems of Chernobyl within the agreement between
the G7 and the Ukraine to close the plant in 2000 will be
discussed at a conference of the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development in New York at the end of
November.



  BEIJING, Oct 7 `97(Reuter)- China which will probably build
on average one new nuclear power plant per year in the coming
future  is regarded by the Swedish-Swiss ABB as the world`s
biggest potential market for nuclear technology.
Robert Newman, president of ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear
Systems Inc makes proposes that ABB exports to China which are
now at about $1.0 billion will rise enormously if the U.S.
restrictions on exports of American-made nuclear technology
will be abolished. This can be decided at the Sino-U.S
presidential summit at the end of this month.



  WASHINGTON, Oct 7 `97 (Reuter)-On October 28 there`ll be the
Sino-American summit where President Clinton can make the
decision to implete the 1985 Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation
(PNC) which was negotiated under the Reagan administraton. It
allows the U.S. to export nuclear technology to China under
the condition that Beijing  stops its nuclear weapons,
chemical and missile exports and its assistance to the Iranian
and Pakistanian nuclear weapons program.
By his decision Clinton must also keep in mind that potential
exports to China can be about $15 billion and create lots of
new jobs.

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Headlines 8 Oktober 1997


      TOKYO, Oct 8 1997 (AFP)  A worker of the Japanese state-
run Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. (Donen)
and a controller of another company have been exposed to a
radiation dose while unpermitted entering an underground waste
tank.


       CANBERRA, Oct 8 1997(AFP) A uranium mine is allowed to
be built yesterday by the Australian government within the
World  Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park despite legal
action of Aboriginal traditional owners. Conservationists
thread to put up a blockade against the mine which is supposed
to have a profit of 12 billion Australian dollars without
calculation the environmental damage. According the Wilderness
Society the mine will hinterleave 60 million tonnes of
radioactive and toxic waste.


	 WASHINGTON, Oct 8 1997 (Reuter)  A voice vote of the U.S.
House Resources Committee Wednesday shrugged off a bill for a
temporary nuclear storage dump in Nevada. The Rules Committee
has to decide if this bill goes to the House.


	 BEIJING, Oct 7 1997 (Reuter)  Nuclear exports to China is the
subject of talks of a senior U.S. official, visiting China
today in charge of nuclear technology issues. This in advance
of the China-USA presidential summit.


	 WASHINGTON, Oct 8 1997 (Reuter) Irradiation of red meat will
be approved in the next few months bij the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration. There is not very much public acceptance for
food irradiation for concerns of changes in the foodstuffs.
Also a bill has passed to remove the radura-signs and make the
labels smaller which announce the food is irradiated.


	 TOKYO, Oct. 8 1997 (UPI) Seven unprepared Japanese nuclear
plants are situated along two active seismic faults. 670 years
ago these faults triggered a massive earthquake on the Sea of
Japan coast. Japanese government seismologists warn the
move of two faults could generate an earthquake of more than
7.2 on the Richter's scale.

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>Subject: Re: No Safe Dose of Radiation
>
>Reuter
>
>LONDON (Oct. 8) - Radiation, even in very small doses, is far more damaging
>to health than previously thought, a leading science magazine said Thursday.
>
>Most scientists now believe radiation below the internationally-accepted
>level of one millisievert per year can damage DNA in a new way that could
>harm the gene pool, wreck future generations and kill, the New Scientist
>said.
>
>''It's a horrifying concept. But we now have early indications that it may be
>happening,'' Eric Wright of Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) told the
>magazine.
>
>The deadly effects of the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of
>Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl
>in Ukraine in 1996, are well documented.
>
>But Wright says radiation can also damage cells in a way that cannot be
>detected until they have divided several times, in what he calls
>radiation-induced genomic instability.
>
>''I regard the phenomenon as established,'' he said. ''There is no doubt that
>genomic instability is a real consequence of radiation exposure.''
>
>The magazine said Wright's studies on mice and in humans, and at least six
>other projects around the world, showed the progeny of cells exposed to
>low-dose radiation had more chromosome aberrations than normal cells.
>
>The research also revealed that some people are more vulnerable to genetic
>instability than others.
>
>Although not yet proven, Wright believes induced genomic instability causes
>cancers like leukemia and may result in small increases in many other
>diseases.
>
>It could also aid the development of brain disorders such as Alzheimer's and
>Parkinson's diseases and increase developmental defects in fetuses.
>
>Dudley Goodhead, also of the MRC, supports the theory and says just a tiny
>particle can damage a cell and boost the risk of disease.
>
>But David Cox of Britain's National Radiological Protection Board, citing the
>medical surveillance of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, told the New
>Scientist there was no evidence to support the theory that genomic
>instability can increase the risk of diseases or kill.
>
>But although irrefutable proof is still lacking, the magazine said the
>genomic instability theory was already causing other scientists working in
>radiation protection to question the existing safeguards.
>
>Reuter 19:54 10-08-97
>
>
Jacqueline O. Kittrell
General Counsel
American Environmental Health Studies Project, Inc.
6328 Strawberry Plains Pike
Knoxville, Tennessee  37914
jackieo@...

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>From: Vladimir Slivyak <ed@...>

Russian minister of atomic power V.Mihailov gave
a press-conference on october 6 in Rostov. Here some
quotes from his speech:

"Rostov 1 will be finished in 1998, Rostov 2 in 1999",
"Moscow is already decided everything, now Rostov have to
give the last approval"

the governor of Rostov region V.Chub came to press-conference
and said:
"We'll put Rostov 1 into operation even faster then
you think it will happen"

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
Vladimir Sliviak
International Nuclear Campaigner
Socio-Ecological Union, PO Box 211, 121019 Moscow, Russia
tel/fax 7-095-2983087  e-mail: anc@...
http://cci.glasnet.ru/antinuclear.html

Two workers exposed to radiation at Japan reactor

Two workers were exposed to radiation Tuesday during equipment checks
at a thermal reactor on the Sea of Japan coast, Japan's nuclear plant
operator said Wednesday. The two workers were exposed to radiation
when they entered a room at the prototype nuclear reactor Fugen in
Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, for checks on fire extinguishers. The
workers entered a room storing radioactive liquid without permission
and were exposed to slightly more than one millisievert of radiation.
An official said the level of radiation was within legal limits, and
posed no threat to health.

For story:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5322585-4ca
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>From the Las Vegas Sun
October 07, 1997

New acting director named for Yucca
Mountain nuclear waste site

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A new acting director has been
named for the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca
Mountain.

Russ Dyer, who had previously been deputy project
manager, replaces retiring project manager Wesley
Barnes.

The House Commerce Committee recently cleared for
full House consideration a bill calling for a temporary
storage facility at the Nevada Test Site while work
continues on a permanent facility at Yucca Mountain.

President Clinton has promised to veto the bill.

FULL TEXT:
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Depleted Uranium Education Project
      International Action Center
      39 West 14th St. NY 10011
      October 2, 1997


      Dear interested folks and organizations::

       On Wednesday, October 15 at 6:30 PM at the UN Church Center, at
44th St. and 1st Ave NYC there will be a special forum on the
Pentagon's dangerous nuclear escalation policies.

      For over fifty years, hundreds of thousands of people were used
as guinea pigs for the pentagons nuclear madness. This was done
with the same callous indifference as the criminal Tuskeegee
experiments. The human toll of the government's radiation
experimentation is still not known Now with the Cassini Space probe
the entire earth is a testing ground for Star Wars This military
insanity, the expanding military budget, and environmental
devastation is being paid for by cutting healthcare, education,
jobs and social programs.

            Hear about the history of past human radiation
experiments as well as  the pentagon's plans to
unleash new weapons of mass destruction such as First Strike
`bunker  busters', depleted uranium weapons, the new `star wars'
plans, what's happening with the Cassini Space probe with 72.3
lbs. of plutonium on  board,  and the new nuclear and laser
weapons in space.

       Speakers will include  Carol Picou, former US Army nurse who
     was a victim of radiation poisoning by Depleted Uranium weapons
     in the Gulf War who will show  videos, slides and photos of her
     recent trip to Iraq, meeting with Iraqi DU victims.

      Jay Gould Ph.D. Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project
      who exposed the connection between radiation released from Brookhaven
      National Lab and the high rate of breast cancer and underweight births
      on Long Island

      Gwendon Plair Ph.D National Committee on Radiation Victims and found
      of National Minorities Against Radiation Abuse. Son of Beatrice Plair,
      case #044, radiation victim died from secret total-body radiation
      experiments at Cincinnati General Hospital

      Sara Flounders, International Action Center and coordinator of the
      Depleted Uranium Education Project which recently produced the book
      and video,' Metal of Dishonor,: How the Pentagon radiated Soldiers and
      Civilians with DU Weapons'

      PLEASE  ATTEND THIS EVENT AND TELL OTHER PEOPLE
     ABOUT IT. WE MUST  ORGANIZE TO TURN THIS INSANITY
     AROUND.  MONEY FOR PEOPLE'S NEEDS NOT PENTAGON GREED.

      DEPLETED URANIUM EDUCATION PROJECT

headlines 6 oct 1997

  SEOUL, Oct 6 `97 (AFP)  About 100 South Korean workers are
working on a North Korean nuclear reactor site (Sinpo) which
started on August 19 with support from the USA.
Sept. 30 there happend an incident, because of the two different
cultures. The South Koreans mishandled in the eyes of the North
Koreans a newspaper picture of their leader Kim Jong-II by
throwing it away. The North is now demanding for apologize what
is refused by the South.
But in spite of the refuse the North made sure again the safety
of the South Korean workers. This is a  positive message as the
South `s Yonhap News Agency explained.




  BEIRUT, Oct 6 `97 (AFP) As reaction on the US` accuse to try to
develope atomic weapons the Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Kharazi assured that they`ll use their atomic technology only as
an energy source for to be prepared when the gas and oil reserves
will be finished.
On the Iranian territory there are 10 percent of the world`s oil
and nearly 20 percent of the world`s gas reserves.



  MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct 6 `97 (AFP)
Already a small number of the missing russian plutonium will be
able to destroy a city like Melbourne.
General Lee Butler who has been the head of the United States`
Strategic Arms Command from 1990 till 1992 feares the enormous
amount of missing plutonium which probably will be selled on the
black market even to countries like North Korea, Libya and Syria.
For to prevent this he` ll meet Australian`s Joint Committee on
Defence in Canberra, Opposition Foreign Affairs spokesman Gareth
Evans and key members of the Opposition this week.











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Headlines 26 - 29 september 1997 and 3 - 5 october 1997

      MOSCOW, Sept 26 (AFP)  A battery nuclear missiles of
France targettet on Russia were dismantled in October 1996
according president Chirac. The air- and seaborne missiles
stay intact and are programmable at once.


      UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (AFP) On Friday Russia and the
USA have signed nuclear disarmament accords which reduce the
strategic arsenals significantly and pave the way for Russian
ratification of the Start II treaty which restricts each
superpower to 3500 ballistic missiles.


      MOSCOW, Sept 27 1997 (AFP) Friday on the meeting of the
Russian Defence Ministry Chiefs it was stated that the nuclear
arsenal is safe and under control. There is no risk of
incidents like the missing suitcase-bombs which was suggested
by Genaral Alexander Lebed, the former head of the National
Security Council.


      MOSCOW, Sept 27 1997 (AFP) Ukraine owed 450 million
dollars from selling fission material out of dismantled
tactical nuclear weapons. This money will be written off
against debts on oil towards Russia and repayments for
government credits.


      VIENNA, Sept 28 1997 (AFP) The 1998 budget of the IAEA is
supposed to be $ 222 an increase towards 1997. The conference
on Monday should impelent an agreement with North Korea on
dismantling its nucler weapons programme.


      PARIS, Sept 28 1997 (AFP) Greenpeace has measured
substantial amounts of plutonium and strontium near the
outlet-pipe of the Hague reprocessing plant.


      NEW YORK, Sept. 26 1997 (UPI) Several arms control
agreements are signed in New York between the USA, Russia,
Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Russia gets time till 2007
for implementation of the Start-II treaty.


      ANKARA, Sept. 26 1997 (UPI) Turkey does not believe the
Russian affirmation the missiles delevered to the Greek
Cypriot sector of Cyprus are not able to target Turkey nor any
other ground or sea target.


      MOSCOW, Russia, September 24, 1997 (ENS) Al Gore has
promised Russia to provide some funding for the conversion to
civilian use of 3 plutonium-producing-reactors in the year
2000. The plutonium produced after 2000 in these three
reactors shall not be used in nuclear weapons.

      CMS 29 September 1997 - Due to a greater competition in
the USA electricity world the danger exists the cost-cutting
measures in the nuclear power plants can also have their
impact on health and safety. This is said today by a NRC
spokesman. Especially older npp's get trouble because of the
steep rising safety costs.


      MOSCOW, Sept 29 1997 (AFP) - 500 tonnes of enriched
uranium and 50 tonnes of plutonium will be withdrawed from the
Russian stockpile because of the Start II treaty writes the
Russian President Yeltsin to the opening session of the IAEA
meeting in Vienna.


      VIENNA, Sept 29 1997 (AFP) - "There is no reason to
celebrate" is said by a Greenpeace protest Monday at the 41
IAEA meeting. According Greenpeace the nuclear industry's days
are numbered. The protest was also against the IAEA-expansion
towards the East.


      VIENNA, Sept 28 1997 (AFP) December 1 Hans Blix will be
succeeded by Mohamed El-Baradei after 16 years in the
International Atomic Energy Agency - office. The IAEA still
promotes nuclear energy and tries to prevent the spreading of
nuclear weapons.


JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas USA 29 Sept 1997 (Reuter) - At
7:58 a.m. EDT (1158 GMT) and 17 000 miles an hour the Lewis
earth satellite faultly burnt up in the atmosphere along the
coast of Antarctica after being launched in August 1997.

headlines 3 - 5 Oktober 1997

      LONDON, Oct 3 1997 (AFP) Tony Blair, the British Prime
Minister wants to develop an 'ethical' export policy on arms
sales to coutries with poor human rigts records, f.i.,
Indonesia where last week the export licences of a 1 million
pound arms deal has been blocked.


       TOKYO, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  The Japanese fast-breeder
programme has officially been put in the mothballs after
several serious accidents with the Monju fast breeder reactor.


       MAJURO, Oct 3 (AFP) After 23 nuclear explosions the US
government wants to clean-up the Bikini Atol to enable the
former residents to return home. The budget comes from the US
department of interior, $ 9,4 million and a US stock-market-
fattened compensation trust fund ($120 million?). They try to
prevent the uptake of caesium in fruit (a.o.) crops by using a
potassium containing fertilizer.


       TEHRAN, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  The head of Iran's Atomic
Energy Organisation said that atomic energy is necessary for
Iran for limited gas and oil reserves. Iran seeks help from
China and Russia to finish the the Bushehr plant under IAEA
cooperation.


       VIENNA, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  On Friday the IAEA demanded to
Iraq to immediately give up all the information about
suspected nuclear arms sites.


        VIENNA, Oct 3 1997 (AFP) On Friday the IAEA urges North
Korea to allow the IAEA to inspect the nuclear installations.


        WASHINGTON, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  US president Clinton
wants to sell nuclear power equipment to China. Clinton wants
to certify the US congress that China does not spread nuclear
weapons so Westinghouse Electric Corp can sell atomic reactors
to China.


        VIENNA, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  The IAEA wants to inflict a
nuclear free zone in the Middle East without mentioning
Israel's more than 200 nuclear warheads. Israel did not sign
the NPT.


      MOSCOW, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  According to the Russian
counter-intelligence service the story about the suitcase
nuclear bombs is absolutely absurt just like the story about
the Russian exports of nuclear missiles to Iran. The Israel
media play a role in bringing the last issue according the
counter-intelligence service.



      GENEVA, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  The Ecumenical Council of
Churches has surveyed the age of the 10 - 15 000 nuclear
workers on the French nuclear testsites in the Paific.
10 percent of the workers was under 18 and 6 percent were
under 16. 0,3 percent was under 10. Almost no medical
screening has been performed by the French.



       PAPEETE, Oct 4 1997 (AFP)  There have no children been
enployed on the Frenc nuclear test sites in the Pacific
according the French Nuclear Research Center in Papeete and:
"All civilian and military workers are under medical
supervision". But the vast majority of the workers have no
confidence in the French medical system and talk about cases
of severe irradiation as well as a rise in toxic poisoning,
miscarriages, cancer and other illnesses.


       MOSCOW, Oct 4 1997 (AFP)  15 capsules, emitting a lot of
radiation were found in a unit of Georgian soldiers. Ten
soldiers are admitted in a Moscow hospital with severe
radiation sickness.


      LONDON, Oct 5 1997 (AFP) The spareparts of the Trident
nuclear missiles, ordered in the USA are not arriving in GB.
Thousants of non-nuclear parts are missing over recent years.


      SEOUL, Oct 5 1997 (AFP) - A torn up paper found in a
dormitory with the photograph of the North Korean leader was
the reason for suspension the work on the construction site of
the USA - South/North Korean Korea Peninsula Energy
Development Organization (KEDO) nuclear reactors in North
Korea. South Korea has in reaction prosponed the departure of
a North Korean reactor survey team.


      CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla,. Oct. 5 1997 Continuing
demonstrations are vowed against the on October 13 scheduled
Cassini launch with 72 pounds of plutonium on board. 27 people
are arrested for thresspassing the fence. Thousants of
protesters rallied at a field near the launch site  Saturday,
about 800 walked to a locked gate outside the facility -- with
hundreds of military and law enforcement officers looking on.


PHILADELPHIA 5 October 1997 (Reuter)  Three Mile Island
together with



Sunday October 5 1997 8:39 AM EDT  Three Mile Island Could be
First Nuclear Sale By David Morgan

PHILADELPHIA 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Three Mile Island, the
site of the worst commercial U.S. nuclear accident, could
become the first nuclear power plant in history to be sold,
industry officials say.  With the U.S. electric utility
industry moving quickly toward deregulation, the owners of the
crippled facility have entered talks with a potential buyer.
Parsippany, N.J.-based GPU Inc.said it hopes to sell Three
Mile Island along with the Oyster Creek nuclear plant at
Forked River, N.J., as a package deal.  Industry speculation
has centered on Philadelphia-based PECO Energy Co.and Duke
Power Co. of Charlotte, N.C., as potential buyers. They are
two of the nation's largest power plant operators.
      But a GPU spokesman declined to identify his company's
negotiating partner.  "Because of a confidentiality agreement,
I can't say more than that," the spokesman, John Fidler, said.
When asked how advanced the talks were, he responded: "Let's
put it this way. We're at the point where we've signed a
confidentiality agreement. I think that speaks for itself."
      GPU announced plans to sell its older Oyster Creek
facility in April, and weeks later began talking about the
possible sale of both plants, which generate 1,400 megawatts
combined and account for $1.3 billion in net investments.
Fidler said a package sale would end GPU's presence in nuclear
power and help set the stage for a possible shift out of the
energy generation business altogether.  GPU also could get top
dollar for the two facilities, which analysts see as the first
in a series of nuclear plant sales expected to take shape as a
highly regulated industry moves to embrace the spirit of
market competition.  "It's only a matter of time before
somebody buys it," remarked Ed Tirello, an energy industry
analyst at NatWest Securities in New York.
      Three Mile Island, located in the Susquehanna River south
of Harrisburg, came close to a complete meltdown and a
catastrophic release of radioactive gases in March 1979. The
nuclear power industry never fully recovered from the accident
and, to this day, only one of the facility's two reactors
still operates.  Officials at the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission said the sale of the Three Mile Island plant would
be a first for the U.S. industry, adding that the site's
checkered past would not present any extra regulatory hurdles
for a potential buyer.
      "There would be a regulatory review and the license would
have to be amended, and the NRC would have to make the finding
that the new company had the capability to operate the plant,"
NRC spokesman Joe Gilliand said. "But there wouldn't be
anything special (done) because it was Three Mile Island."
PECO Energy, which operates four nuclear reactors in
Pennsylvania and has ownership interests in two others, formed
a joint venture with British Energy Plc last month, with the
express purpose of buying and operating U.S. nuclear plants.
The joint venture is called AmerGen Energy Co.  "It is a fact
that AmerGen is in discussion with owners of several nuclear
plants in various parts of the country. But we're not at
liberty to disclose which ones they are," PECO spokesman Bill
Jones said.  Speculation in Britain recently has favored PECO
as the most likely buyer of Three Mile Island.  But Duke
Power, operator of seven nuclear plants in North and South
Carolina, would be more familiar with the facility than other
utilities because of the assistance its exectives rendered to
their counterparts in Pennsylvania in the aftermath of the
disaster 18 years ago.  Not that Duke officials have been
ready to talk about the plant. "We don't respond to rumors one
way or the other," Duke spokesman Joe Maher.

Sunday October 5 6:49 AM EDT  Police Arrest 27 at Florida
Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston














CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Twenty-seven
anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape
Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to
launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel.
Police said up to 1,200 protesters took part in the peaceful
demonstration outside the gates of the air force base, where a
Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an
11-year mission to Saturn and its moons. The White House
approved the planned Oct. 13 launch Friday.  The station is
several miles from Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center,
where the space shuttle Atlantis was due to land Sunday after
a mission to Russia's Mir space station.
      Organizer Bruce Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace
and Justice earlier said some of the protesters would force
their own arrest by scaling the fence of the station.  Brevard
County Jail spokeswoman Joan Heller said a total of 27 people
were arrested in the protest and brought in and would be
charged with trespassing on a government facility.  Reporters
said they included 11 elderly women who were members of a
group called Grandmothers for Peace. Police led the women
through a gate before detaining them so they did not have to
climb the fence.  Among them was 87-year-old Peggy McIntire of
St. Augustine, Florida, the president of the group.  About 20
other people then scaled the fence and were arrested by
uniformed police officers.  "It just seems foolish to launch
this rocket, it just seems risky considering all the other
ways they have to power it," said Beth Lavoie, 22, from
Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. "At least when I get
arrested it's only my personal self that's in danger, with
this launch the whole world is at risk."
      The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72
pounds of plutonium, according to the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.  It is not the highly radioactive
plutonium used in warheads, nor does it fuel a reactor. As the
plutonium decays naturally, the heat produced in three
separate generators will provide power for Cassini.  This is
not the first time plutonium has been launched into space. In
the past 30 years, NASA counted 23 such launches. But the
January explosion of a Delta II rocket over Cape Canaveral,
and the cloud of noxious gases visible for hours afterwards,
caused new concern.
      NASA says the risk of contamination is very low. Even if
the rocket explodes and the 18 modules of ceramic plutonium
are exposed -- an unlikely sequence of events -- someone would
have to inhale minute particles of the plutonium to be at
risk. In that event, NASA scientists say, cancer could result.
Gagnon said activists were not trying to halt the mission but
instead ground it until Cassini can be redesigned.  Cassini is
scheduled to fly by Venus twice, then fly by Earth and
Jupiter, gathering speed and momentum before arriving at
Saturn in July 2004 for a four-year study of the giant ringed
planet.









Sunday October 5 6:49 AM EDT  Police Arrest 27 at Florida
Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Twenty-seven
anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape
Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to
launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel.
Police said up to 1,200 protesters took part in the peaceful
demonstration outside the gates of the air force base, where a
Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an
11-year mission to Saturn and its moons. The White House
approved the planned Oct. 13 launch Friday.  The station is
several miles from Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center,
where the space shuttle Atlantis was due to land Sunday after
a mission to Russia's Mir space station.  Organizer Bruce
Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice earlier
said some of the protesters would force their own arrest by
scaling the fence of the station.
      Brevard County Jail spokeswoman Joan Heller said a total
of 27 people were arrested in the protest and brought in and
would be charged with trespassing on a government facility.
Reporters said they included 11 elderly women who were members
of a group called Grandmothers for Peace. Police led the women
through a gate before detaining them so they did not have to
climb the fence.  Among them was 87-year-old Peggy McIntire of
St. Augustine, Florida, the president of the group.  About 20
other people then scaled the fence and were arrested by
uniformed police officers.  "It just seems foolish to launch
this rocket, it just seems risky considering all the other
ways they have to power it," said Beth Lavoie, 22, from
Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. "At least when I get
arrested it's only my personal self that's in danger, with
this launch the whole world is at risk."
      The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72
pounds of plutonium, according to the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.  It is not the highly radioactive
plutonium used in warheads, nor does it fuel a reactor. As the
plutonium decays naturally, the heat produced in three
separate generators will provide power for Cassini.  This is
not the first time plutonium has been launched into space. In
the past 30 years, NASA counted 23 such launches.
      But the January explosion of a Delta II rocket over Cape
Canaveral, and the cloud of noxious gases visible for hours
afterwards, caused new concern.  NASA says the risk of
contamination is very low. Even if the rocket explodes and the
18 modules of ceramic plutonium are exposed -- an unlikely
sequence of events -- someone would have to inhale minute
particles of the plutonium to be at risk. In that event, NASA
scientists say, cancer could result.  Gagnon said activists
were not trying to halt the mission but instead ground it
until Cassini can be redesigned.  Cassini is scheduled to fly
by Venus twice, then fly by Earth and Jupiter, gathering speed
and momentum before arriving at Saturn in July 2004 for a
four-year study of the giant ringed planet.










Saturday October 4 5:43 PM EDT  About 30 Arrested at Florida
Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla 4 October 1997(Reuter) - About 30
anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape
Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to
launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel.
Police said up to 1,200 protesters took part in the peaceful
demonstration outside the gates of the air force base, where a
Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an
11-year mission to Saturn and its moons.
      The White House approved the planned Oct. 13 launch
Friday.  The station is several miles from Cape Canaveral's
Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle Atlantis was due
to land Sunday after a mission to Russia's Mir space station.

      Organizer Bruce Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace
and Justice earlier said some of the protesters would force
their own arrest by scaling the fence of the station.
Reporters counted about 30 arrests in all, including 11
elderly women who were members of a group called Grandmothers
for Peace.
      Police led the women through a gate before detaining them
so they did not have to climb the fence.  Among them was
87-year-old Peggy McIntire of St. Augustine, Florida, the
president of the group.  About 20 other people then scaled the
fence and were arrested by uniformed police officers.  "It
just seems foolish to launch this rocket, it just seems risky
considering all the other ways they have to power it," said
Beth Lavoie, 22, from Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. "At
least when I get arrested it's only my personal self that's in
danger, with this launch the whole world is at risk."
      The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72
pounds of plutonium, according to the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.  It is not the highly radioactive
plutonium used in warheads, nor does it fuel a reactor. As the
plutonium decays naturally, the heat produced in three
separate generators will provide the 744 watts needed to power
Cassini.  This is not the first time plutonium has been
launched into space. In the past 30 years, NASA counted 23
such launches. But the January explosion of a Delta II rocket
over Cape Canaveral, and the cloud of noxious gases visible
for hours afterwards, caused new concern.
      NASA says the risk of contamination is very low. Even if
the rocket explodes and the 18 modules of ceramic plutonium
are exposed -- an unlikely sequence of events -- someone would
have to inhale minute particles of the plutonium to be at
risk. In that event, NASA scientists say, cancer could result.
Gagnon said activists were not trying to halt the mission but
instead ground it until Cassini can be redesigned.  If Cassini
launched successfully, it was scheduled to fly by Venus twice,
then fly by Earth and Jupiter, gathering speed and momentum
before arriving at Saturn in July 2004 for a four-year study
of the giant ringed planet.  -- End --


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Headlines 26 - 29 september 1997 and 3 - 5 october 1997

      MOSCOW, Sept 26 (AFP)  A battery nuclear missiles of
France targettet on Russia were dismantled in October 1996
according president Chirac. The air- and seaborne missiles
stay intact and are programmable at once.


      UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (AFP) On Friday Russia and the
USA have signed nuclear disarmament accords which reduce the
strategic arsenals significantly and pave the way for Russian
ratification of the Start II treaty which restricts each
superpower to 3500 ballistic missiles.


      MOSCOW, Sept 27 1997 (AFP) Friday on the meeting of the
Russian Defence Ministry Chiefs it was stated that the nuclear
arsenal is safe and under control. There is no risk of
incidents like the missing suitcase-bombs which was suggested
by Genaral Alexander Lebed, the former head of the National
Security Council.


      MOSCOW, Sept 27 1997 (AFP) Ukraine owed 450 million
dollars from selling fission material out of dismantled
tactical nuclear weapons. This money will be written off
against debts on oil towards Russia and repayments for
government credits.


      VIENNA, Sept 28 1997 (AFP) The 1998 budget of the IAEA is
supposed to be $ 222 an increase towards 1997. The conference
on Monday should impelent an agreement with North Korea on
dismantling its nucler weapons programme.


      PARIS, Sept 28 1997 (AFP) Greenpeace has measured
substantial amounts of plutonium and strontium near the
outlet-pipe of the Hague reprocessing plant.


      NEW YORK, Sept. 26 1997 (UPI) Several arms control
agreements are signed in New York between the USA, Russia,
Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Russia gets time till 2007
for implementation of the Start-II treaty.


      ANKARA, Sept. 26 1997 (UPI) Turkey does not believe the
Russian affirmation the missiles delevered to the Greek
Cypriot sector of Cyprus are not able to target Turkey nor any
other ground or sea target.


      MOSCOW, Russia, September 24, 1997 (ENS) Al Gore has
promised Russia to provide some funding for the conversion to
civilian use of 3 plutonium-producing-reactors in the year
2000. The plutonium produced after 2000 in these three
reactors shall not be used in nuclear weapons.

      CMS 29 September 1997 - Due to a greater competition in
the USA electricity world the danger exists the cost-cutting
measures in the nuclear power plants can also have their
impact on health and safety. This is said today by a NRC
spokesman. Especially older npp's get trouble because of the
steep rising safety costs.


      MOSCOW, Sept 29 1997 (AFP) - 500 tonnes of enriched
uranium and 50 tonnes of plutonium will be withdrawed from the
Russian stockpile because of the Start II treaty writes the
Russian President Yeltsin to the opening session of the IAEA
meeting in Vienna.


      VIENNA, Sept 29 1997 (AFP) - "There is no reason to
celebrate" is said by a Greenpeace protest Monday at the 41
IAEA meeting. According Greenpeace the nuclear industry's days
are numbered. The protest was also against the IAEA-expansion
towards the East.


      VIENNA, Sept 28 1997 (AFP) December 1 Hans Blix will be
succeeded by Mohamed El-Baradei after 16 years in the
International Atomic Energy Agency - office. The IAEA still
promotes nuclear energy and tries to prevent the spreading of
nuclear weapons.


JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas USA 29 Sept 1997 (Reuter) - At
7:58 a.m. EDT (1158 GMT) and 17 000 miles an hour the Lewis
earth satellite faultly burnt up in the atmosphere along the
coast of Antarctica after being launched in August 1997.

headlines 3 - 5 Oktober 1997

      LONDON, Oct 3 1997 (AFP) Tony Blair, the British Prime
Minister wants to develop an 'ethical' export policy on arms
sales to coutries with poor human rigts records, f.i.,
Indonesia where last week the export licences of a 1 million
pound arms deal has been blocked.


       TOKYO, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  The Japanese fast-breeder
programme has officially been put in the mothballs after
several serious accidents with the Monju fast breeder reactor.


       MAJURO, Oct 3 (AFP) After 23 nuclear explosions the US
government wants to clean-up the Bikini Atol to enable the
former residents to return home. The budget comes from the US
department of interior, $ 9,4 million and a US stock-market-
fattened compensation trust fund ($120 million?). They try to
prevent the uptake of caesium in fruit (a.o.) crops by using a
potassium containing fertilizer.


       TEHRAN, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  The head of Iran's Atomic
Energy Organisation said that atomic energy is necessary for
Iran for limited gas and oil reserves. Iran seeks help from
China and Russia to finish the the Bushehr plant under IAEA
cooperation.


       VIENNA, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  On Friday the IAEA demanded to
Iraq to immediately give up all the information about
suspected nuclear arms sites.


        VIENNA, Oct 3 1997 (AFP) On Friday the IAEA urges North
Korea to allow the IAEA to inspect the nuclear installations.


        WASHINGTON, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  US president Clinton
wants to sell nuclear power equipment to China. Clinton wants
to certify the US congress that China does not spread nuclear
weapons so Westinghouse Electric Corp can sell atomic reactors
to China.


        VIENNA, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  The IAEA wants to inflict a
nuclear free zone in the Middle East without mentioning
Israel's more than 200 nuclear warheads. Israel did not sign
the NPT.


      MOSCOW, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  According to the Russian
counter-intelligence service the story about the suitcase
nuclear bombs is absolutely absurt just like the story about
the Russian exports of nuclear missiles to Iran. The Israel
media play a role in bringing the last issue according the
counter-intelligence service.



      GENEVA, Oct 3 1997 (AFP)  The Ecumenical Council of
Churches has surveyed the age of the 10 - 15 000 nuclear
workers on the French nuclear testsites in the Paific.
10 percent of the workers was under 18 and 6 percent were
under 16. 0,3 percent was under 10. Almost no medical
screening has been performed by the French.



       PAPEETE, Oct 4 1997 (AFP)  There have no children been
enployed on the Frenc nuclear test sites in the Pacific
according the French Nuclear Research Center in Papeete and:
"All civilian and military workers are under medical
supervision". But the vast majority of the workers have no
confidence in the French medical system and talk about cases
of severe irradiation as well as a rise in toxic poisoning,
miscarriages, cancer and other illnesses.


       MOSCOW, Oct 4 1997 (AFP)  15 capsules, emitting a lot of
radiation were found in a unit of Georgian soldiers. Ten
soldiers are admitted in a Moscow hospital with severe
radiation sickness.


      LONDON, Oct 5 1997 (AFP) The spareparts of the Trident
nuclear missiles, ordered in the USA are not arriving in GB.
Thousants of non-nuclear parts are missing over recent years.


      SEOUL, Oct 5 1997 (AFP) - A torn up paper found in a
dormitory with the photograph of the North Korean leader was
the reason for suspension the work on the construction site of
the USA - South/North Korean Korea Peninsula Energy
Development Organization (KEDO) nuclear reactors in North
Korea. South Korea has in reaction prosponed the departure of
a North Korean reactor survey team.


      CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla,. Oct. 5 1997 Continuing
demonstrations are vowed against the on October 13 scheduled
Cassini launch with 72 pounds of plutonium on board. 27 people
are arrested for thresspassing the fence. Thousants of
protesters rallied at a field near the launch site  Saturday,
about 800 walked to a locked gate outside the facility -- with
hundreds of military and law enforcement officers looking on.


PHILADELPHIA 5 October 1997 (Reuter)  Three Mile Island
together with



Sunday October 5 1997 8:39 AM EDT  Three Mile Island Could be
First Nuclear Sale By David Morgan

PHILADELPHIA 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Three Mile Island, the
site of the worst commercial U.S. nuclear accident, could
become the first nuclear power plant in history to be sold,
industry officials say.  With the U.S. electric utility
industry moving quickly toward deregulation, the owners of the
crippled facility have entered talks with a potential buyer.
Parsippany, N.J.-based GPU Inc.said it hopes to sell Three
Mile Island along with the Oyster Creek nuclear plant at
Forked River, N.J., as a package deal.  Industry speculation
has centered on Philadelphia-based PECO Energy Co.and Duke
Power Co. of Charlotte, N.C., as potential buyers. They are
two of the nation's largest power plant operators.
      But a GPU spokesman declined to identify his company's
negotiating partner.  "Because of a confidentiality agreement,
I can't say more than that," the spokesman, John Fidler, said.
When asked how advanced the talks were, he responded: "Let's
put it this way. We're at the point where we've signed a
confidentiality agreement. I think that speaks for itself."
      GPU announced plans to sell its older Oyster Creek
facility in April, and weeks later began talking about the
possible sale of both plants, which generate 1,400 megawatts
combined and account for $1.3 billion in net investments.
Fidler said a package sale would end GPU's presence in nuclear
power and help set the stage for a possible shift out of the
energy generation business altogether.  GPU also could get top
dollar for the two facilities, which analysts see as the first
in a series of nuclear plant sales expected to take shape as a
highly regulated industry moves to embrace the spirit of
market competition.  "It's only a matter of time before
somebody buys it," remarked Ed Tirello, an energy industry
analyst at NatWest Securities in New York.
      Three Mile Island, located in the Susquehanna River south
of Harrisburg, came close to a complete meltdown and a
catastrophic release of radioactive gases in March 1979. The
nuclear power industry never fully recovered from the accident
and, to this day, only one of the facility's two reactors
still operates.  Officials at the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission said the sale of the Three Mile Island plant would
be a first for the U.S. industry, adding that the site's
checkered past would not present any extra regulatory hurdles
for a potential buyer.
      "There would be a regulatory review and the license would
have to be amended, and the NRC would have to make the finding
that the new company had the capability to operate the plant,"
NRC spokesman Joe Gilliand said. "But there wouldn't be
anything special (done) because it was Three Mile Island."
PECO Energy, which operates four nuclear reactors in
Pennsylvania and has ownership interests in two others, formed
a joint venture with British Energy Plc last month, with the
express purpose of buying and operating U.S. nuclear plants.
The joint venture is called AmerGen Energy Co.  "It is a fact
that AmerGen is in discussion with owners of several nuclear
plants in various parts of the country. But we're not at
liberty to disclose which ones they are," PECO spokesman Bill
Jones said.  Speculation in Britain recently has favored PECO
as the most likely buyer of Three Mile Island.  But Duke
Power, operator of seven nuclear plants in North and South
Carolina, would be more familiar with the facility than other
utilities because of the assistance its exectives rendered to
their counterparts in Pennsylvania in the aftermath of the
disaster 18 years ago.  Not that Duke officials have been
ready to talk about the plant. "We don't respond to rumors one
way or the other," Duke spokesman Joe Maher.

Sunday October 5 6:49 AM EDT  Police Arrest 27 at Florida
Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston














CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Twenty-seven
anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape
Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to
launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel.
Police said up to 1,200 protesters took part in the peaceful
demonstration outside the gates of the air force base, where a
Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an
11-year mission to Saturn and its moons. The White House
approved the planned Oct. 13 launch Friday.  The station is
several miles from Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center,
where the space shuttle Atlantis was due to land Sunday after
a mission to Russia's Mir space station.
      Organizer Bruce Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace
and Justice earlier said some of the protesters would force
their own arrest by scaling the fence of the station.  Brevard
County Jail spokeswoman Joan Heller said a total of 27 people
were arrested in the protest and brought in and would be
charged with trespassing on a government facility.  Reporters
said they included 11 elderly women who were members of a
group called Grandmothers for Peace. Police led the women
through a gate before detaining them so they did not have to
climb the fence.  Among them was 87-year-old Peggy McIntire of
St. Augustine, Florida, the president of the group.  About 20
other people then scaled the fence and were arrested by
uniformed police officers.  "It just seems foolish to launch
this rocket, it just seems risky considering all the other
ways they have to power it," said Beth Lavoie, 22, from
Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. "At least when I get
arrested it's only my personal self that's in danger, with
this launch the whole world is at risk."
      The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72
pounds of plutonium, according to the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.  It is not the highly radioactive
plutonium used in warheads, nor does it fuel a reactor. As the
plutonium decays naturally, the heat produced in three
separate generators will provide power for Cassini.  This is
not the first time plutonium has been launched into space. In
the past 30 years, NASA counted 23 such launches. But the
January explosion of a Delta II rocket over Cape Canaveral,
and the cloud of noxious gases visible for hours afterwards,
caused new concern.
      NASA says the risk of contamination is very low. Even if
the rocket explodes and the 18 modules of ceramic plutonium
are exposed -- an unlikely sequence of events -- someone would
have to inhale minute particles of the plutonium to be at
risk. In that event, NASA scientists say, cancer could result.
Gagnon said activists were not trying to halt the mission but
instead ground it until Cassini can be redesigned.  Cassini is
scheduled to fly by Venus twice, then fly by Earth and
Jupiter, gathering speed and momentum before arriving at
Saturn in July 2004 for a four-year study of the giant ringed
planet.









Sunday October 5 6:49 AM EDT  Police Arrest 27 at Florida
Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Twenty-seven
anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape
Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to
launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel.
Police said up to 1,200 protesters took part in the peaceful
demonstration outside the gates of the air force base, where a
Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an
11-year mission to Saturn and its moons. The White House
approved the planned Oct. 13 launch Friday.  The station is
several miles from Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center,
where the space shuttle Atlantis was due to land Sunday after
a mission to Russia's Mir space station.  Organizer Bruce
Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice earlier
said some of the protesters would force their own arrest by
scaling the fence of the station.
      Brevard County Jail spokeswoman Joan Heller said a total
of 27 people were arrested in the protest and brought in and
would be charged with trespassing on a government facility.
Reporters said they included 11 elderly women who were members
of a group called Grandmothers for Peace. Police led the women
through a gate before detaining them so they did not have to
climb the fence.  Among them was 87-year-old Peggy McIntire of
St. Augustine, Florida, the president of the group.  About 20
other people then scaled the fence and were arrested by
uniformed police officers.  "It just seems foolish to launch
this rocket, it just seems risky considering all the other
ways they have to power it," said Beth Lavoie, 22, from
Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. "At least when I get
arrested it's only my personal self that's in danger, with
this launch the whole world is at risk."
      The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72
pounds of plutonium, according to the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.  It is not the highly radioactive
plutonium used in warheads, nor does it fuel a reactor. As the
plutonium decays naturally, the heat produced in three
separate generators will provide power for Cassini.  This is
not the first time plutonium has been launched into space. In
the past 30 years, NASA counted 23 such launches.
      But the January explosion of a Delta II rocket over Cape
Canaveral, and the cloud of noxious gases visible for hours
afterwards, caused new concern.  NASA says the risk of
contamination is very low. Even if the rocket explodes and the
18 modules of ceramic plutonium are exposed -- an unlikely
sequence of events -- someone would have to inhale minute
particles of the plutonium to be at risk. In that event, NASA
scientists say, cancer could result.  Gagnon said activists
were not trying to halt the mission but instead ground it
until Cassini can be redesigned.  Cassini is scheduled to fly
by Venus twice, then fly by Earth and Jupiter, gathering speed
and momentum before arriving at Saturn in July 2004 for a
four-year study of the giant ringed planet.










Saturday October 4 5:43 PM EDT  About 30 Arrested at Florida
Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla 4 October 1997(Reuter) - About 30
anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape
Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to
launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel.
Police said up to 1,200 protesters took part in the peaceful
demonstration outside the gates of the air force base, where a
Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an
11-year mission to Saturn and its moons.
      The White House approved the planned Oct. 13 launch
Friday.  The station is several miles from Cape Canaveral's
Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle Atlantis was due
to land Sunday after a mission to Russia's Mir space station.

      Organizer Bruce Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace
and Justice earlier said some of the protesters would force
their own arrest by scaling the fence of the station.
Reporters counted about 30 arrests in all, including 11
elderly women who were members of a group called Grandmothers
for Peace.
      Police led the women through a gate before detaining them
so they did not have to climb the fence.  Among them was
87-year-old Peggy McIntire of St. Augustine, Florida, the
president of the group.  About 20 other people then scaled the
fence and were arrested by uniformed police officers.  "It
just seems foolish to launch this rocket, it just seems risky
considering all the other ways they have to power it," said
Beth Lavoie, 22, from Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. "At
least when I get arrested it's only my personal self that's in
danger, with this launch the whole world is at risk."
      The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72
pounds of plutonium, according to the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.  It is not the highly radioactive
plutonium used in warheads, nor does it fuel a reactor. As the
plutonium decays naturally, the heat produced in three
separate generators will provide the 744 watts needed to power
Cassini.  This is not the first time plutonium has been
launched into space. In the past 30 years, NASA counted 23
such launches. But the January explosion of a Delta II rocket
over Cape Canaveral, and the cloud of noxious gases visible
for hours afterwards, caused new concern.
      NASA says the risk of contamination is very low. Even if
the rocket explodes and the 18 modules of ceramic plutonium
are exposed -- an unlikely sequence of events -- someone would
have to inhale minute particles of the plutonium to be at
risk. In that event, NASA scientists say, cancer could result.
Gagnon said activists were not trying to halt the mission but
instead ground it until Cassini can be redesigned.  If Cassini
launched successfully, it was scheduled to fly by Venus twice,
then fly by Earth and Jupiter, gathering speed and momentum
before arriving at Saturn in July 2004 for a four-year study
of the giant ringed planet.  -- End --


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headlines 6 oct. 1997

  SEOUL, Oct 6 `97 (AFP)  About 100 South Korean workers are
working on a North Korean nuclear reactor site (Sinpo) which
started on August 19 with support from the USA.
Sept. 30 there happend an incident, because of the two different
cultures. The South Koreans mishandled in the eyes of the North
Koreans a newspaper picture of their leader Kim Jong-II by
throwing it away. The North is now demanding for apologize what
is refused by the South.
But in spite of the refuse the North made sure again the safety
of the South Korean workers. This is a  positive message as the
South `s Yonhap News Agency explained.




  BEIRUT, Oct 6 `97 (AFP) As reaction on the US` accuse to try to
develope atomic weapons the Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Kharazi assured that they`ll use their atomic technology only as
an energy source for to be prepared when the gas and oil reserves
will be finished.
On the Iranian territory there are 10 percent of the world`s oil
and nearly 20 percent of the world`s gas reserves.



  MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct 6 `97 (AFP)
Already a small number of the missing russian plutonium will be
able to destroy a city like Melbourne.
General Lee Butler who has been the head of the United States`
Strategic Arms Command from 1990 till 1992 feares the enormous
amount of missing plutonium which probably will be selled on the
black market even to countries like North Korea, Libya and Syria.
For to prevent this he` ll meet Australian`s Joint Committee on
Defence in Canberra, Opposition Foreign Affairs spokesman Gareth
Evans and key members of the Opposition this week.











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