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Digest 103, originally sent Sat May 29 02:30:10 1999 :
There are 8 messages in this issue.
Topics in today's digest:
1. NucNews-0 Brief 5/27/99
2. NucNews-0 Brief 5/28/99
3. NucNews-5 5/28/99 - China Spy (4+)
4. NucNews-6 5/28/99 - Kosovo (6+)
5. NucNews-4 5/28/99 - China Spies (4)
6. NucNews-1 5/28/99 - DU-Puerto Rico; DU Contractors; Caldicott quote; Russia/Missile Defense/Chernobyl; Australia; NKorea/US (2+) Pakistan/India (2+)
7. NucNews-2 5/28/99 - Britain/UN warning; Weapons Spreading; Senate $288 Billion Military Bill; Navy/Shipbuilders; Pentagon/Litton; Boeing F-16s/Israel; Lockheed
8. NucNews-3 5/28/99 - Caldicott quote; Northrop; Hackers; DOE fines Fluor; DOE grants; China/CTBT constraints; /tech-transfer key; /press
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:12:50 -0400
Subject: NucNews-0 Brief 5/27/99
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NucNews-1 5/27/99 - DU Serbia; Spy Network US-UK; S.Africa/CTBT; Chernobyl; India (3+); Pakistan
NucNews-2 5/27/99 - Australia; Argentina; IAEA Radioactive Scrap; Nuc Recycling; conversion-Rhombic Corporation (2); Livermore Lab/Russian Secrets; Y2K/Markey; Military Base Closures Blocked
NucNews-3 5/27/99 - US - Nuc Waste (4); Letters (3); Conn-PIRG; Maine-Yankee; Satellite Firms
NucNews-4 5/27/99 - China (5++)
NucNews-5 5/27/99 - Kosovo- Chernomyrdin / Carter / Gorbachev / Canada / Clinton
NucNews-6 5/27/99 - Kosovo-Milosevic; Peace Orgs take on Clinton; Santa Cruz - Stop the War Activist Jailed
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[Thanks for bringing it back up, Reuters!]
1. Serb opposition warns of ecological catastrophe 11:10 a.m. May 26, 1999 Eastern (Reuters) http://www.dogpile.com (search wires "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv??? OR radiation") BELGRADE, May 26 - Serbia's leading opposition party warned on Wednesday the country faced an ecological catastrophe due to NATO's bombing campaign, saying Kosovo had become a nuclear desert and the river Danube was partially dead. The Democratic Party said in a statement that NATO had dropped more than 15,000 tonnes of bombs so far, including some using depleted uranium. ``Kosovo has become a virtual nuclear desert in which it will not be possible to live,'' the statement said....
2. Lawmakers Raise Questions About International Spy Network By NIALL McKAY, May 27, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/27network.html An international surveillance network established by the National Security Agency and British intelligence services has come under scrutiny in recent weeks, as lawmakers in the United States question whether the network, known as Echelon, could be used to monitor American citizens.... -- National Security Agency http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ -- Central Intelligence Agency http://www.cia.gov
3. SOUTH AFRICA'S SIGNATURE OF AGREEMENT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY Issued by: Department of Foreign Affairs, May 24, 1999 http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/briefing/nw19990524/3.html The South African Permanent Representative in Vienna, Ambassador Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko, and Ambassador Wolfgang Hoffman, Executive Secretary of the Provisional Technical Secretariat of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO PrepCom), signed a Facility Agreement at a ceremony which took place in Vienna yesterday....
4. SGI-Enabled Robot Sent to Chernobyl to Help Prevent Future Nuclear Accidents Robot to Begin Mapping Dangerous Site in 3D for Stabilization, Cleanup May 27, 1999 /PRNewswire/ -- Contact: Charlie Rasch of SGI, 301-572-3287, or crasch@sgi.com http://news.excite.com/news/pr/990527/ca-sgi-robot-nuclear A significant step was taken today to diminish the chance of another nuclear disaster at Chernobyl when the "Pioneer" robot team presented the Ukrainians with a robot powered by SGI (NYSE:SGI).... The sarcophagus is a "greenhouse" of radioactive fuel, rubble and dust, according to Pioneer team leaders. Rain is seeping into the reactor and draining through radioactive material into ground water. If the sarcophagus is not repaired as planned, these officials say it would probably collapse, spreading hazardous radioactive dust into the atmosphere -- potentially causing another severe accident at Chernobyl....
5. A BLAST FROM THE PAST Behind the mystery of India's nuclear dithering By Ajay Singh, Asia Week, May 28, 1999 issue http://www.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/current/issue/feat9.html IN THE SUMMER OF 1955, the father of India's nuclear program, Homi Bhabha, presided over the first United Nations conference on the peaceful use of atomic energy.... His opening speech was memorable both for its loftiness and its vision. "The major states have agreed to maintain peace," he said. "Those who have the good fortune to participate in this conference are privileged to be in the vanguard of the march of history." But it wasn't long before the theme of the Geneva conference began to sound anachronistic. Within five years, Britain and France had conducted atomic tests, joining the nuclear club established in the 1940s by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. China exploded its way into the fraternity in 1964. India joined a decade later....
6. Rocket Fires India Into Commercial Orbit (Reuters) May 27, 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/r/990527/02/science-space-india SRIHARIHOTA, India (Reuters) - India entered an elite club of commercial satellite launching nations Wednesday when a rocket blasted off from a southern seaport with two foreign payloads....
7. INTERVIEW - INDIA BUILDS UP NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION By Simon Cameron-Moore (Reuters) May 14, 1999 http://202.139.253.156/news/14059915.html BOMBAY - The nuclear contribution to India's domestic power generation capacity will go up by almost 50 percent over the next year, Rajagopala Chidambaram, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said.... -- India Says Kashmir Air Strikes Will Continue (2:29 AM) http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/02/news-kashmir-objective -- India Strikes Again In Kashmir (5:08 AM) http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/05/news-kashmir -- Pakistan Says Shoots Down Two Indian Jets In Kashmir (6:02 AM) http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/06/news-kashmir-pakistan-jets
8. Pakistan Boasts of Might The Associated Press, International Herald Tribune Paris, Wednesday, May 26, 1999 http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/WED/IN/fill.2.html ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has enough nuclear weapons to ''destroy the enemy in case of aggression,'' the architect of the country's nuclear program, Abdul Qadir Khan, said Tuesday....
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9. Govt assesses drilling results for nuclear dump Tuesday 25 May, 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-25may1999-35.htm The Federal Government has completed exploratory drilling at six of the possible sites earmarked for a national nuclear waste dump in South Australia's far north. The drilling will determine the most geologically appropriate area to dump low to medium-level waste, some of which will come from Sydney's Lucas Heights nuclear reactor....
10. ARGENTINA NUCLEAR PLANT SHUT OFF FOR SEAL REPAIR By Robert S. Elliott (Reuters) May 12, 1999 http://202.139.253.156/news/12059914.html BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's Atucha I nuclear power station, which is to be put up for sale by the government, will be kept shut for the next two weeks while a seal on a pump is repaired, the plant's manager said.
11. INTERVIEW - IAEA TO TRACK FUGITIVE RADIATION SOURCES By Camila Reed, Reuters, May 21, 1999 http://202.139.253.156/news/21059906.html LONDON - Radioactive materials are increasingly being sold for scrap, traded illegally or even dumped by roadsides, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says....
12. METALS INDUSTRY FACES COSTS FROM NUCLEAR RECYCLING Reuters, May 17, 1999 http://202.139.253.156/news/17059910.html BRUSSELS - Thousands of tonnes of base metals can be recycled from within the nuclear industry but the industry faces costs and problems when tackling radioactive materials, said Chris Begg, an engineering consultant....
13. Rhombic Corp. to Produce Dust Plasma Company Press Release, BUSINESS WIRE--May 26, 1999-- http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990526/rhombic_co_1.html VANCOUVER, BC--Rhombic Corporation (OTC BB:NUKE) has acquired from Russian, German, and American scientists a method of manufacturing a high efficient disperse deposit material (DCM) or dust plasma, that is made up of a homogeneous interior covered with a thin and strong connective coating.... A special application is a coating that leads to a very low cost conversion of long lived nuclear wastes from nuclear reactors into stable nuclides or the elimination of the radio active plutonium by transmutation into uranium. This potential of DCM plasmas to neutralize radio active wastes opens the door for Rhombic Corporation to enter the billion dollar waste site clean up business that plagues the world with toxins.... --- Exchange: U.S. OTC Bulletin Board - Symbol: NUKE http://www.rhombic.com/ http://www.rhombic.com/nuclearbattery.html ... Rhombic has acquired the Nuclear Battery - Nuclid Battery technology for the aerospace industry. The battery is a continous power source for both near and outer space applications. Rhombic Corporation is on an ever expanding mission to bring the latest technology to the world into real world applications....
14. Panel Votes to Fund Livermore Lab To Safeguard Russian Atom Secrets Jason B. Johnson, S.F. Chronicle Staff Writer, Thursday, May 20, 1999 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/20 /MN74244.DTL A House committee voted yesterday to give Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory more than $400 million to fund laser research and disarmament programs designed to keep Russian nuclear secrets from falling into the hands of terrorists....
15. U.S. NRC CITES Y2K NUCLEAR PLANT WORRIES - MARKET By Patrick Connole (Reuters) May 14, 1999 http://202.139.253.156/news/14059916.html WASHINGTON - Problems with emergency backup generators at the Pilgrim nuclear station in Massachusetts are among the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's safety concerns for the Year 2000 rollover, Representative Edward Markey said....
16. Senate Rejects Closing of More Military Bases By ELIZABETH BECKER, New York Times, May 27, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/base-closings.html WASHINGTON -- A week after Congress approved a $15 billion package to finance the war in Kosovo and other Pentagon programs, the Senate on Wednesday rejected the administration's request to close more military bases and save money....
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17. CLINTON, CONGRESS WRANGLE OVER NUCLEAR WASTE Reuters, May 24, 1999 (Reuters) http://202.139.253.156/news/24059902.html WASHINGTON - The White House opposes storing millions of tonnes of nuclear waste at a temporary site in the Nevada desert, but might agree to the government taking the radioactive fuel off utilities' hands, a Department of Energy spokesman said....
18. Waste not going to Deer Trail Flats radioactive waste still looking for home By Berny Morson, Denver Rocky Mountain News, May 26, 1999 http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0526deer1.shtml Radioactive waste from Rocky Flats won't be buried near Deer Trail, after objections by town residents and Gov. Bill Owens....
19. Burial of A-bomb facility debris being questioned BY TONY PERRY Los Angeles Times - San Jose Mercury News http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/nuclear20.htm California health officials are investigating if a hazardous waste company violated state law by recently burying 2,200 tons of radioactive debris left over from the World War II Manhattan Project in a dump in the southern San Joaquin Valley....
20. Mediation begins on Shattuck waste May 22, 1999 - By J. Sebastian Sinisi. Special to The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0522i.htm The parties in the dispute over the Shattuck Superfund cleanup site met Friday to announce the beginning of a mediation process to determine what to do about the radioactive waste accumulation....
21. Flawed Missile Defense May 27, 1999 New York Times Letters http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/letters/larner.html To the Editor: Re "After Many Misses, Pentagon Still Pursues Missile Defense" (front page, May 24): A missile defense cannot work and would be bad strategy.... Related Articles New Anti-Missile System to Be Tested This Week (May 24) http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/early/052499missile-defense.html
22. To Save the Flounder May 27, 1999 New York Times Letters http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/letters/lsmith.html To the Editor: John Cronin, in "Power Plant Overload" (Op-Ed, May 20), writes that environmental groups sued to prevent the Millstone nuclear plant in Connecticut from being restarted after a shutdown because of its impact on fish, but lost on the law. However, he doesn't note that Fish Unlimited, one of those groups, was successful in closing Millstone Unit 2 for eight days to save winter flounder larvae in surrounding waters.... --- Power Plant Overload May 20, 1999 New York Times, By JOHN CRONIN http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/early/05209920cron.html State by state, government regulators are trying to reform the electric utility industry. They should spend some time reforming themselves as well....
23. CONN-PIRG Blasts N-U Updated 4:38 AM ET May 27, 1999 Reuters http://news.excite.com/news/r/990527/04/connecticut-news-summary-6 (HARTFORD) -- The Connecticut Public Interest Research Group is blasting Northeast Utilities over N-U's report on its environmental impact. A spokesman for CONN-PIRG says N-U has increased its toxic emissions in recent years because it had to burn more polluting material to compensate for the shutdown of its nuclear power plants in Connecticut. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered all three Millstone reactors shut down three years ago because of safety concerns.
24. CLICK By Dan Pacheco, Thursday, May 27, 1999; Page C04 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/27/156l-052799-idx.html In need of a slightly radioactive pressure turbine, generator or emergency switchgear? Look no further than the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Facility, whose components are being peddled on the Web at bargain prices. CLICK http://www.buynuclear.com/mymain.html
25. Satellite Firms Accused of End Run By Vernon Loeb, Washington Post,, May 27, 1999; Page A28 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/27/003l-052799-idx.html ... Both companies offered extensive retorts yesterday, arguing that the Cox committee misinterpreted their actions, misconstrued much of the limited information they provided the Chinese and ignored other evidence that the companies provided the committee staff to bolster their contention that no laws were broken....
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26. Memo: China Spying Found in 1984 By Pete Yost, Associated Press, May 27, 1999 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000824-052799-idx.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military intelligence assessment was short and to the point: China was improving its nuclear warheads by stealing technology from the United States. The year: 1984...
27. Prescriptions for Keeping Secrets Report on Chinese Espionage Inspires a Variety of Hill Proposals By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, May 27, 1999; Page A03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/27/151l-052799-idx.html
28. Spy Threat to U.S. May Be Marginal By John Diamond, Associated Press, May 27, 1999; 2:39 a.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000844-052799-idx.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lost amid the alarm over the alleged Chinese theft of U.S. nuclear secrets is a conclusion being articulated by arms control advocates, intelligence officials and even some Republicans: The threat to the United States may be marginal at worst.... ALSO: THE REPORT ON CHINA SPYING--Threat to U.S. is slight, experts say BY STEVE GOLDSTEIN, May 26, 1999, in the San Jose Mercury News http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/nation/docs/damage26.htm --- Threat posed by China's acquisition of nuclear secrets may be small By STEVE GOLDSTEIN Mismi Herald Washington Bureau May 25, 1999 http://www.herald.com:80/content/today/docs/024701.htm --- Experts say China's gains are political, not military May 26, 1999 Philadelphia Inquirier http://www.phillynews.com:80/inquirer/99/May/26/front_page/THREAT26.htm http://192.215.235.13/ChinaSpy/CoxReport/
29. Cox Report: Overview CBS News, May 25, 1999 Part 1: http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0526deer1.shtml Part 2: http://www.cbs.com:80/flat/story_156202.html Part 3: http://www.cbs.com:80/flat/story_156203.html Part 4: http://www.cbs.com:80/flat/story_156204.html Part 5: http://www.cbs.com:80/flat/story_156206.html http://www.house.gov: full text of the Cox Report --- Burr Comments On Cox Report (Reuters) 27 May 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/r/990527/06/north-carolina-news-summary-5 --- Boswell Speaks Out About Espionage (Reuters) 27 May 1999 (Related Articles) http://news.excite.com/news/r/990527/06/iowa-news-summary-3 --- Engagement Without Illusions By [Senator] Max Baucus, Washington Post, Thursday, May 27, 1999; Page A39 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/27/291l-052799-idx.html
30. China Denies Spying, Blasts U.S. Over Cox Report Updated 4:40 AM ET May 27, 1999 (Reuters) By Christiaan Virant http://news.excite.com/news/r/990527/04/international-china-usa ... "China is not like the United States," Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao told reporters scornfully.... Lashing out at a Congressional report on alleged Chinese espionage by California Republican Representative Christopher Cox, Zhu said Beijing was a "law abiding" nation which supports peace and adheres to the United Nations charter. "Cox and his ilk do not hesitate in using all kinds of despicable means and even go to extremes to create rumors and confuse the public in whipping up anti-China sentiment," Zhu said.... --- China May Put Man Into Space This Year (Reuters) May 27, 1999 (Reuters) http://news.excite.com/news/r/990527/02/science-china-spaceship
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31. 'Impossible to Talk Peace With Bombs Falling' By Viktor Chernomyrdin, Thursday, May 27, 1999; Page A39 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/27/244l-052799-idx.html I deem it necessary to express my opinion on the Kosovo situation as the warfare escalates and the danger grows of a shift to ground operations, which would be even bloodier and more destructive. I also want to comment on certain ideas put forward by President Clinton in his contribution of May 16 to the New York Times.... --- Russian Peace Envoy Threatens To Suspend Talks (1:23 AM) http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/01/news-yugoslavia-usa-chern omyrdin --- Russia Signals Yugo Talks Go On Despite Indictment (4:21 AM) http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/04/news-yugoslavia-russia-ne gotiations --- Russia Envoy's Belgrade Trip In Balance (4:43 AM) http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/04/news-yugoslavia-russia --- Russia Envoy To Fly To Belgrade-Spokesman (5:15 AM) http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/05/news-yugoslavia-russia-trip
32. Have We Forgotten the Path to Peace? By JIMMY CARTER - May 27, 1999 New York Times Op-Ed http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/27cart.html After the cold war, many expected that the world would enter an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Those who live in developed nations might think this is the case today, with the possible exception of the war in Kosovo. But at the Carter Center we monitor all serious conflicts in the world, and the reality is that the number of such wars has increased dramatically.... How did we end up in this quagmire? We have ignored some basic principles that should be applied to the prevention or resolution of all conflicts.... Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.
32. Gorbachev Says Kosovo Could Usher In New Cold War (5:42 AM) Updated 5:42 AM ET May 27, 1999, By Philippe Naughton http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/05/news-yugoslavia-gorbachev
33. Canada Lodges NATO Plea By The Associated Press, May 27, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-Kosovo-Alliance.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Canada is lodging a plea for NATO to choose its bombing targets in Yugoslavia more carefully as the Clinton administration extends its review of U.S. policy in the Kosovo conflict....
34. Text of Clinton Kosovo Message http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Clinton-Kosovo-Text.html By The Associated Press, May 27, 1999 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Text of a radio address to the Kosovar people released today the White House press office....
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35. War Crimes Charge To Be Announced Against Milosevic By Charles Trueheart Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, May 27, 1999; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/27/075l-052799-idx.html THE HAGUE, May 26-The international war crimes tribunal plans to announce Thursday that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been indicted for his role in atrocities and mass deportations carried out by military forces under his command in Kosovo, tribunal sources said today....
36. Peace Organizations Set to Take On Clinton By NORMAN KEMPSTER, Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1999 http://www.latimes.com/search/findcgi?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2E%2E%2F%2E%2E% 2FCNS%5FDAYS%2F990521%2Ft000045630%2Ehtml&DocOffset=1&DocsFound=29&QueryZip= peace+AND+groups&Collection=Hunter&ViewTemplate=search3%2Ehts WASHINGTON--Eighteen peace groups, many of them allies of the young Bill Clinton in the antiwar movement three decades ago, announced Thursday a coordinated campaign to pressure the president into ending the bombing of Yugoslavia....
37. ANTIWAR ACTIVIST JAILED IN SANTA CRUZ May 27, 1999, San Francisco Food Not Bombs <sffnb@iww.org> - Web Page: http://www.foodnotbombs.org Anti-war activist Steve Argue was brutally beaten with night sticks by rampaging Santa Cruz police before being arrested on Saturday evening, May 22, during a protest prepared by the Santa Cruz Coalition to Stop the Bombing. While on the ground, a cluster of police kicked and struck him as one officer forced pepper spray into his throat and directly into his eyes. The police then waited almost an hour before taking their nearly comatose victim to the hospital.... _____________________________
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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 20:15:47 -0400
Subject: NucNews-0 Brief 5/28/99
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NucNews-1 5/28/99 - DU-Puerto Rico; DU Contractors; Caldicott quote; Russia/Missile Defense/Chernobyl; Australia; NKorea/US (2+) Pakistan/India (2+)
NucNews-2 5/28/99 - Britain/UN warning; Weapons Spreading; Senate $288 Billion Military Bill; Navy/Shipbuilders; Pentagon/Litton; Boeing F-16s/Israel; Lockheed
NucNews-3 5/28/99 - Caldicott quote; Northrop; Hackers; DOE fines Fluor; DOE grants; China/CTBT constraints; /tech-transfer key; /press
NucNews-4 5/28/99 - China Spies (4)
NucNews-5 5/28/99 - China Spy (4+)
NucNews-6 5/28/99 - Kosovo (6+)
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[Dios mio, look who they're radiating now! Here may be the issue that will get the U.S. military exercises stopped in Puerto Rico. Where else are they testing this stuff?]
1. Jet Fires Shells Near Puerto Rico Filed at 12:56 p.m. EDT, May 28, 1999, By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Puerto-Rico-Military-Accident.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Marine fighter jet has mistakenly fired 263 shells loaded with radioactive depleted uranium at a practice range about 10 miles from a Puerto Rican town, the Navy said....
2. GD, other U.S. firms would supply Kosovo Wednesday, May 26, 1999 04:47 PM http://quicken.webcrawler.com/investments/news/story/rtr/?story=/news/storie s/rtr/06/n25176206.htm&symbol=LMT In May 25 NEW YORK story headlined "GD, other U.S. firms would supply Kosovo ground war" read 13th paragraph to read ... "These include "Hellfire" missiles made by Lockheed Martin, whose joint venture with Northrop Grumman -- Longbow Limited Liability" ... (Corrects Lockheed's partner to 'Northrop Grumman' from 'Boeing'). NEW YORK, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. military contractors that would be involved in a ground war in Kosovo include General Dynamics, maker of the M-1 tank, and Boeing Co. (Nyse:BA) , maker of the Apache helicopter, defense analysts said on Tuesday. Aerospace giants such as Lockheed Martin Corp. (Nyse:LMT), which makes the F-16 fighter jet being used in the 2-month-old air war in Yugoslavia, also make equipment that would back a ground war.... (see Message 2)
3. Russia Blasts US on Missile Defense Thursday, May 27, 1999; 9:36 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000497-052799-idx.html MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia today accused the U.S. Congress of threatening world stability and encouraging another nuclear arms race with its efforts to develop an anti-ballistic missile system... --- Robot Exploring Chernobyl Reactor By Viktor Luhovyk Associated Press Writer Friday, May 28, 1999; 2:01 a.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990528/V000593-052899-idx.html
4. Rio Tinto says no plans to sell, develop Kintyre Australian Financial Review, May 27, 1999 http://www.afr.com.au:80/content/990527/update/update13.html Rio Tinto Ltd chairman Robert Wilson said that the company has no plans to sell or develop the Kintyre uranium project in Western Australia at this stage. He said in response to a shareholder question at the annual general meeting here that the project remains on care and maintenance and will be for some time. Rio Tinto put the project under care and maintenance in October last year because of low uranium prices...
5. US: No Nuclear Violation by N.Korea By The Associated Press, May 28, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-NKorea.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. inspection of a large tunnel complex in North Korea yielded no evidence that North Korea is in violation of a 5-year-old nuclear agreement, a State Department spokesman said today....
6. North Korean site yields only a system of empty tunnels By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May 28, 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/investiga/investiga1.html An American team that inspected a North Korean site suspected of being part of a revived nuclear-weapons program found only empty tunnels, the State Department said Thursday, but intelligence officials said increased activity at the site recently raises suspicions that telltale equipment may have been removed.... U.S. Finishes N. Korea Inspections Thursday, May 27, 1999; 6:30 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000389-052799-idx.html --- U.S. Envoy Reports on N.Korea Visit By The Associated Press, May 28, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-NKorea-US.html --- US Envoy Tours N.Korea Capital Thursday, May 27, 1999; 6:07 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000375-052799-idx.html
7. Pakistan's Big Day Overshadowed By Kashmir 04:22 a.m. May 28, 1999 Eastern, By Scott McDonald http://www.dogpile.com (search newswires "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv??? OR radiation") ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan marked the first anniversary of its nuclear tests Friday but the celebrations were overshadowed by growing tensions with bitter rival India over the disputed Kashmir region. --- Pakistan: Captured pilot 'prisoner of war' USA Today, May 28, 1999 http://usatoday.com/news/world/nw1.htm http://usatoday.com/news/world/nwsthu09.htm --- Kashmir Duel Stirs Fears Of an Expanded Conflict By Pamela Constable, Washington Post, May 28, 1999; Page A01 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/186l-052899-idx.html --- India Sends More Jets Into Kashmir By Arthur Max, Associated Press, May 28, 1999; 12:46 a.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990528/V000563-052899-idx.html --- India Wants Downed Jet Pilots Back By Arthur Max Associated Press Writer Friday, May 28, 1999; 5:37 a.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990528/V000672-052899-idx.html --- India-Pakistan Fight Worries U.S Thursday, May 27, 1999; 6:51 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000409-052799-idx.html
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8. Britain warns UN of nuclear proliferation threat 06:37 a.m. May 27, 1999 Eastern, By Stephanie Nebehay (Reuters) http://www.dogpile.com (search newswires "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv??? OR radiation") GENEVA, May 27 - Britain urged the U.N. Conference on Disarmament on Thursday to relaunch talks designed to halt production of atomic bomb-making fissile material, saying nuclear proliferation remained a real threat....
9. Weapons Spreading By William C. Potter and Jonathan B. Tucker, May 28, 1999; Page A35 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/090l-052899-idx.html The fabric of treaties, informal agreements and export-control measures designed to halt the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction is under siege....
10. Senate Approves $288 Billion Military Bill 01:17 a.m. May 28, 1999 Eastern http://www.dogpile.com (search newswires "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv??? OR radiation") WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Thursday overwhelmingly passed a $288 billion defense authorization bill that supporters said would help replenish a military sapped by declining budgets and increasing responsibilities....
11. Navy to Fight Shipbuilding Merger By Tim Smart, Washington Post, May 28, 1999; Page E10 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/163l-052899-idx.html The Navy plans to oppose Litton Industries Inc.'s proposed $1.8 billion purchase of Newport News Shipbuilding Inc., defense industry sources said yesterday, a position that threatens the deal...
12. The Pentagon Opposes One Bid by Litton, but Not Another By LESLIE WAYNE, May 28, 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/litton-newport.html The Defense Department said Thursday night that it was recommending against Litton Industries' unfriendly bid for Newport News Shipbuilding Inc. on the grounds that the proposed union would cause too much concentration in the military shipbuilding business....
13. Boeing Sweetens Bid For Jet Order Updated 7:31 AM ET May 28, 1999 (Reuters) http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990528/07/business-aerospace-boeing NEW YORK - Boeing Co. has made a sweetened bid to Israel for a $2.5-billion jet order, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Boeing has been locked in a battle against Lockheed Martin Corp. for the Israeli contract, and speculation has intensified that Lockheed's less expensive F-16 jets would constitute the majority of the order, the newspaper said.... --- Lockheed Martin - Recent Headlines May 28, 1999 Reuters Webcrawler http://quicken.webcrawler.com/investments/quotes/?symbol=LMT
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14. What Happens When an Atomic Bomb Falls ONE PEACE IDEA 5/27/99 http://www.sequel.net/peace In the light of recent continuation of testing of nuclear weapons, we need to remind ourselves about the folly of using nuclear bombs as weapons of war. Here is what happens when a bomb falls, as described by Dr. Helen Caldicott, a physician who has written Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do...
15. Northrop To Buy Allegheny Unit Updated 12:32 AM ET May 28, 1999 http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990528/00/business-aerospace-northrop NEW YORK (Reuters) - Northrop Grumman Corp., the nation's fifth-largest defense contractor, said Thursday it would buy a unit of Allegheny Teledyne Inc. to boost its strength in making unmanned military air vehicles.
[Oops, how did this sneak in? Interesting, nevertheless...]
16. Hackers attack FBI, Senate site 5/28/99- USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsthu08.htm WASHINGTON (AP) - Computer hackers continued a series of electronic attacks against some Internet sites for the federal government Thursday, defacing the Web page for the U.S. Senate before it was taken down....
17. DOE Fines Fluor For Nuke Safety Problems Updated 6:27 PM ET May 27, 1999 http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/18/business-nuclear-waste WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal government fined a unit of engineering giant Fluor Corp. a record $330,000 Thursday for safety violations at an Energy Department nuclear waste dump...
18. U.S. Unit of ABB to Participate in Research Grants Under U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Initiative 09:50 a.m. May 27, 1999 Eastern http://www.dogpile.com (search newswires "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv??? OR radiation") NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1999--A U.S. unit of ABB will participate in three of the first grants to be awarded under the U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Initiative....
19. Experts Say Report Cites Test Ban Role in Blocking Chinese Gains U.S. Newswire 25 May 13:55 http://www.usnewswire.com:80/topnews/Current_Releases/0525-122.htm To: National Desk, Defense Reporter Contact: Adam Eidinger or Steve Rabinowitz, 202-547-3577 or 202-744-2671, for the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers; Web site: www.crnd.org WASHINGTON, May 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The newly-released report of the House Select Committee led by Rep. Chris Cox (R-Calif.) raises important questions about what steps the U.S. Senate is not taking to minimize damage to U.S. security by the loss of sensitive nuclear weapons secrets from our nation's laboratories, say leading nuclear weapons experts....
20. China Says Tech Transfer Key To Nuclear Sector 01:39 a.m. May 28, 1999 Eastern http://www.dogpile.com (search newswires "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv??? OR radiation") BEIJING (Reuters) - Technology transfer will be a ``key prerequisite'' for China in choosing future foreign partners to build nuclear power plants, a senior Chinese government official was quoted Friday as saying....
21. Chinese Press in Full Attack on Cox Report By ERIK ECKHOLM, May 28, 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/052899china-nuke.html BEIJING -- China's official press on Thursday attacked the credibility of the congressional report accusing China of extensive military espionage, asserting that "the specter of McCarthyism looms large in the Cox report." ...
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22. U.S. Hi-Techs Fear Anti-China Mood Updated 5:31 AM ET May 28, 1999, By Matt Pottinger http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990528/05/business-trade-china-usa BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. high-tech firms are worried about losing business in China following an inflammatory congressional report that calls for tighter export controls to combat alleged spying by Beijing, executives said Friday....
23. Energy Aide in Spying Case to Be Honored By JAMES RISEN, May 28, 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/052899china-nuke-trulock.html WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department intelligence official who first raised the alarm about China's theft of American nuclear secrets will receive a special award Friday from Energy Secretary Bill Richardson for persisting in his inquiry despite numerous bureaucratic roadblocks, officials said Thursday....
24. Nuclear Secrets and Spin Doctors By LANNY J. DAVIS, May 28, 1999 New York Times Op-Ed http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/28davi.html There's no spin that can make the allegations of Chinese espionage a good story for the White House. If cutting-edge nuclear technology made its way from Los Alamos to the People's Liberation Army, that is a bad story -- not just for the Clinton Administration, but for the United States as well. When I served as President Clinton's chief spokesman for certain scandal issues, I had to accept a hard reality: that one cannot change bad facts. What I and my colleagues in the White House counsel's office tried to do instead was to get all the facts out the door, good and bad, early and completely....
25. Planted Document Sows Seeds of Doubt Spy Experts Wonder What China Hoped to Reap By Vernon Loeb and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, May 28, 1999; Page A03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/104l-052899-idx.html If Chinese spies really have stolen secrets about the design of the most sophisticated U.S. thermonuclear warheads, why would they tell the CIA? ...
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26. Lott Seeks to Cool Attacks Over Spy Case By ART PINE, May 27, 1999, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer http://www.latimes.com:80/excite/990527/t000047674.html Congress: Senate GOP leader urges caution in reaction to Cox report on alleged China espionage. Caveat follows calls for administration resignations.
27 Senate approves tighter security at nuclear labs By Nancy E. Roman and Dave Boyer, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May 28, 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/news/news1.html The Senate responded to Chinese spying Thursday by easily passing legislation to tighten security at U.S. nuclear laboratories, while 81 members of Congress demanded the resignation of President Clinton's national security adviser.... --- Senate Tightens Up on Tech Exports By Tom Raum, Associated Press, May 27, 1999; 4:28 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000267-052799-idx.html --- Accusations Rife; Details Sparse By Ian Hoffman and John Fleck Albuquerque Journal - May 26, 1999 http://www.abqjournal.com:80/news/2secrets05-26.htm
28. Lab Reforms Stall in House Senate Approves Cox Committee Security Suggestions By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, May 28, 1999; Page A03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/070l-052899-idx.html Legislation to tighten security at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories ran into a snag in the House yesterday after a separate measure breezed through the Senate by a voice vote.... --- Votes to Beef Up Lab Security Wait By Tom Raum, Associated Press, May 28, 1999; 3:16 a.m. EDT ... The three who voted against Senate passage of the defense bill were Democratic Sens. Russ Feingold and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin and Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. Those not voting were Ernest Hollings, D-S.C.; Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.; Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Connie Mack, R-Fla., and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y. The bills are H.R. 1401 and S 1059.
29. Reno blames FBI for not initiating China wiretap By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May 28, 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/news/news2.html Attorney General Janet Reno, sharply criticized in Congress for declining to aggressively investigate suspected Chinese espionage, said Thursday the FBI should have come to her two years ago if it had concerns about a Justice Department refusal to seek a wiretap in the spy probe.... --- Reno Was 'Not Briefed' On Spy Wiretap Details Associated Press Friday, May 28, 1999; Page A16 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/216l-052899-idx.html --- White House Aide's Ouster Urged, Berger Won't Quit 01:18 a.m. May 28, 1999 Eastern By James Vicini (Reuters) http://www.dogpile.com (search newswires "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv??? OR radiation")
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30. Thirty House Democrats Seek Bombing Halt as an Incentive for Talks By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 28, 1999; Page A32 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/208l-052899-idx.html More than two dozen House Democrats, most of whom have previously supported the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia, called upon President Clinton yesterday to halt airstrikes for 72 hours as an inducement to bring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the bargaining table....
31. Clinton: Indictment Won't Alter Plan By David Briscoe, Associated Press, May 27, 1999; 6:28 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000388-052799-idx.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- The war crimes indictment of Slobodan Milosevic will not change NATO's military objectives but should make clear to Serbs who is responsible for their suffering, President Clinton said today. ``He has to be turned over,'' said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.... --- U.S. Urges Milosevic to Surrender By George Gedda Associated Press Writer Thursday, May 27, 1999; 2:49 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000177-052799-idx.html
32. Charges Against Milosevic Detailed Yugoslav, Top Aides Face Counts Rooted In Purges, Slayings By Charles Trueheart, Washington Post, May 28, 1999; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/140l-052899-idx.html THE HAGUE, May 27A U.N. war crimes tribunal today announced the indictment of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four other senior officials on charges of crimes against humanity stemming from the conflict in Kosovo, a move welcomed by the United States and other NATO allies but condemned in Belgrade.
[Note the words "for the first time." Sixty-four days they endured without responding. Also note, once again, a record number of sorties Thursday (741). Tanks and armored anti-aircraft were hit, probably with depleted uranium unless they've used it all up.]
33. Yugoslav Missiles Targeting NATO Planes By William Drozdiak, Washington Post, Friday, May 28, 1999; Page A32 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/206l-052899-idx.html BRUSSELS, May 27As NATO warplanes step up the pace and number of their airstrikes on Yugoslavia, Belgrade's air defense forces are responding for the first time with ferocious volleys of antiaircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles, alliance officials said today...
34. Vegetables A Casualty Of NATO Air War? Updated 9:08 AM ET May 27, 1999 http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/09/odd-hailstorms SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Bulgaria's valuable vegetable crop has become the latest casualty of NATO's air war against neighboring Yugoslavia.... Five stray NATO air-to-ground HARM missiles and another Russian-made missile have hit Bulgarian territory near the western border with Yugoslavia. Agriculture accounts for about 20 percent of Bulgaria's gross domestic product.
35. Stop Bombing Yugoslavia Raymond Giraud, and others, Stanford University faculty Thursday, May 27, 1999 San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/27 /ED98615.DTL&type=printable THE BOMBING of Yugoslavia must stop.... _____________________________
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26. Lott Seeks to Cool Attacks Over Spy Case
By ART PINE, May 27, 1999, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer http://www.latimes.com:80/excite/990527/t000047674.html
Congress: Senate GOP leader urges caution in reaction to Cox report on alleged China espionage. Caveat follows calls for administration resignations.
WASHINGTON--Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) warned Wednesday that Congress should not "rush to judgment" in dealing with alleged Chinese espionage, despite a House investigative panel's contention that Beijing has stolen America's top nuclear secrets.
Lott said that the United States must remain engaged with the Chinese government to keep from driving Beijing into a new Cold War. He also sought to cool partisan attacks based on the spy charges, saying: "I don't think we should say this is the fault of this administration or that administration."
The senator's comments were in marked contrast to the reaction of many key Republican political leaders only a day earlier. When the House committee's report was issued Tuesday, a number of GOP lawmakers and candidates heaped blame on the Clinton administration and called for the resignation of top officials.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) echoed Lott's cautionary tone Wednesday, saying that Congress has "a duty to find out what happened in the past, what's occurring now and what should be done to hold those involved responsible," but he stopped short of calling for immediate action.
Capitol Hill strategists said that most congressional proposals for reform are likely to come from the House and Senate intelligence committees, which are expected to begin hearings on the China espionage issue after the Memorial Day recess next week.
Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach), chairman of the investigative panel that issued the report on China, has referred almost half of the 38 recommendations in the document to appropriate congressional committees and has asked the administration to put the rest into effect.
Even Cox praised the administration Wednesday, saying he was "heartened" to hear that it intends to adopt many of the panel's recommendations. But he said he thinks the panel still will have to do "a little bit of a persuasion job" on some points.
The White House has embraced 30 of the remedies recommended by the committee, which spent a year investigating reports of Chinese espionage and technology transfers. But it has rejected the panel's call for surprise inspections of high-performance computers sold to China and for Defense or State Department veto power over high-technology exports.
The sentiments expressed by Lott were echoed by lawmakers of both parties in separate House and Senate hearings at which Cox and Rep. Norman Dicks of Washington, ranking Democrat on the investigative panel, discussed the committee's findings.
Rep. Doug Bereuter (R-Neb.), chairman of the House International Relations subcommittee on Asian and Pacific issues, praised the Cox panel's findings, which were unanimously endorsed by its Democratic and Republican members, as "extraordinarily bipartisan."
Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), a member of a Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee that convened one of the hearings Wednesday, warned that Americans "should not waste our time searching for scapegoats" because "only our enemies can take solace" from that.
Meanwhile, the White House rejected a call by House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) that President Clinton fire National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger for not acting aggressively enough to deal with early warnings about Chinese espionage.
During a presidential trip to Florida, White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart said that "the president has full confidence in Mr. Berger" and has no plans to ask for his resignation. Lockhart did not address GOP demands that Clinton also fire Atty. Gen. Janet Reno.
Despite Lott's display of restraint, Republicans were not willing to stifle all of their criticism of the administration's handling of the espionage issue.
Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House International Relations Committee, called on the administration to scrap its policy of trying to form a "strategic partnership" with China, calling it "naive and misguided" in the wake of the Cox panel's findings.
At the same time, four lawmakers, including Rep. Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo), urged Clinton in a letter to set aside negotiations for China's entry into the World Trade Organization. The others were Gilman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and Sen. Russell D. Feingold (D-Wis.).
Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, excoriated the administration for refusing to cooperate during the early stages of the investigation, before finally agreeing to relent.
For all the recommendations in their report, Cox and Dicks said that their primary hope is that lawmakers will prod the administration into getting Europe and Japan to reimpose restrictions on the export of sensitive technology to prevent Beijing from circumventing U.S. restraints.
The complete text of the Cox report is available on The Times' Web site: http://www.latimes.com/coxreport
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27 Senate approves tighter security at nuclear labs
By Nancy E. Roman and Dave Boyer, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May 28, 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/news/news1.html
The Senate responded to Chinese spying Thursday by easily passing legislation to tighten security at U.S. nuclear laboratories, while 81 members of Congress demanded the resignation of President Clinton's national security adviser.
On a voice vote, the Senate adopted a set of proposals by Majority Leader Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, that would expand congressional oversight of technology exports and increase Pentagon monitoring of satellite launches in China.
Meanwhile, Rep. Cliff Stearns and 80 other members of Congress, including one Democrat, sent a letter to President Clinton Thursday calling for the resignation of Samuel R. Berger.
"It has become evidently clear that Mr. Berger intentionally misled Congress and the American people in regard to when he was briefed about Chinese espionage and he has intentionally misled Congress and the American people about when he briefed you," they wrote in a letter delivered Thursday afternoon.
House Majority Leader Dick Armey called for Mr. Berger's resignation on Tuesday. Within 24 hours another 80 had joined him including Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., Ohio Democrat.
Mr. Stearns, Florida Republican who circulated the letter, said three more Democrats may join after they read the report.
"Someone in this administration needs to be held accountable, and that's something that's been sorely lacking in this administration," said Paul Marcone, a spokesman for Mr. Traficant. "It happened on his watch. Republicans and Democrats should demand accountability."
Rep. J.C. Watts, Oklahoma Republican and chairman of the conference, said he would go a step further.
"The greater question is why would the president want to keep a national security adviser that would do that," he said. "This is pretty serious stuff."
Mr. Berger, appearing Thursday night on "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" on PBS, denied any wrongdoing. Asked whether he has considered resigning, he said: "No, not at all."
Mr. Clinton says Mr. Berger acted promptly to improve security at the Energy Department laboratories.
"I think Mr. Berger acted appropriately and therefore I would not release him or ask for his resignation," Mr. Clinton said March 11 in Antigua, Guatemala.
Mr. Berger told "Nightline" on March 12 that he first became aware of China's espionage efforts in July of 1997. But Notra Trulock, the former chief of intelligence for the Department of Energy, said he briefed Mr. Berger in April of 1996.
"The briefing that I gave Mr. Berger in April of 1996 was explicit," Mr. Trulock said. "It was detailed and to the point.
"We told Mr. Berger what we thought had been acquired by the Chinese and we were able to tell him that we thought we had identified a suspect, a number of suspects, and that the FBI had cooperated with us in the course of this investigation," Mr. Trulock said.
The New York Times criticized Mr. Berger in an editorial Wednesday, the day after the Cox report's release, saying: "The failure of the national security adviser, Samuel Berger, to respond more vigorously when first briefed about possible nuclear espionage three years ago requires further inquiry."
The editorial said Republican calls for Mr. Berger's resignation "feel premature," but "his fitness is in question and must be carefully weighed in the days ahead."
Meanwhile, the Senate tacked onto the defense authorization bill Thursday some of the the Cox committee's proposed solutions. They would:
Require the president to notify Congress of any investigation into violations of U.S. export-control laws.
Enhance the intelligence community's role in the export-license review process. Express strong support for the enhancement of the commercial space launch industry in America.
Require the secretary of defense to submit an annual report on the military balance in Taiwan Straits, similar to the report delivered to the Congress earlier this year.
But Mr. Watts said addressing the security at labs is one thing.
"This is much greater than security at the labs," he said. "I'm scratching my head wondering why the president would want to keep a national security adviser who wouldn't brief him about something so serious."
Rep. Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania Republican who served on the Cox committee, said he has resisted pressure from colleagues to call for Mr. Berger's resignation because "I don't want a scapegoat here."
"The buck stops where Harry Truman says it stops -- at the White House," Mr. Weldon said.
He challenged the Clinton administration's contention that it moved quickly to improve security at weapons laboratories upon learning of potential nuclear espionage. Instead, Mr. Weldon distributed a time-line chart showing numerous missteps by the Clinton administration on national security, including a decision by former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary to do away with a color-coded classification security system for employees at U.S. labs.
"You haven't heard that from the White House," Mr. Weldon said. "The effort to spin this has been incessant by this administration."
Mr. Weldon revived accusations that the Clinton administration eased restrictions on technology transfers to China in exchange for campaign contributions from American firms seeking to profit from trade with the Chinese.
"What you have here, for seven years [of the Clinton administration], was a wholesale auction of American technology," Mr. Weldon said. "Is that all China's fault? Our government failed the American people."
He also renewed contentions, depicted on a flow chart, that Democratic campaign contributions in 1996 could be linked to the People's Liberation Army and other parts of the Chinese government.
Asked if he could show that Chinese money had purchased U.S. policy changes, Mr. Weldon said, "I don't have the direct quid pro quo. I think that needs to be investigated further."
Mr. Weldon repeated earlier Republican calls for the Justice Department to release a memo from FBI Director Louis J. Freeh to Attorney General Janet Reno recommending an independent counsel to investigate campaign fundraising.
Senate Tightens Up on Tech Exports By Tom Raum, Associated Press, May 27, 1999; 4:28 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000267-052799-idx.html
Accusations Rife; Details Sparse By Ian Hoffman and John Fleck Albuquerque Journal - May 26, 1999 http://www.abqjournal.com:80/news/2secrets05-26.htm
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28. Lab Reforms Stall in House Senate Approves Cox Committee Security Suggestions
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, May 28, 1999; Page A03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/070l-052899-idx.html
Legislation to tighten security at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories ran into a snag in the House yesterday after a separate measure breezed through the Senate by a voice vote.
Members in both houses were to attach to the fiscal 2000 defense authorization bill reforms designed to correct problems described in a report published Tuesday by a House select committee that investigated technology transfers to China and allegations of Chinese espionage at the labs. But the GOP House leadership was forced to recess proceedings when it became clear that angry Democrats had enough votes to defeat the rule that was to govern which amendments could be brought up for debate.
Democrats were upset that the House Rules Committee refused late Wednesday night to allow consideration of a bipartisan measure, drafted primarily by Rep. Norman D. Dicks (D-Wash.), the ranking Democrat on the China panel. His proposal had the support of several Republicans and primarily codified security changes already being implemented by the Clinton administration.
Dicks, who learned late Wednesday that his measure had been ruled out of order, went to the House floor yesterday and described as "an insult" the Republican plan to allow votes only on GOP reform proposals. "I am very disappointed that the Republican leadership has chosen to take a partisan approach to implementing our report," he said.
Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), chairman of the select committee, said after the House recessed that he was prepared to support the Dicks amendment along with others proposed by his GOP colleagues. "I view this as an opportunity," Cox said after consideration of the bill was delayed.
Among the Republican amendments ruled in order for a vote, and expected to be reintroduced, was a highly controversial one by Rep. Floyd D. Spence (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, which would require the secretary of defense to prepare a plan for transferring nuclear weapons programs from the Energy Department to the Pentagon by January 2002. That proposal, which had not been subject to any study or hearings, was immediately opposed by the White House.
As a result of yesterday's action, a new rule governing amendments to the defense bill will be considered when the House returns June 7 after its Memorial Day recess.
In the Senate, bipartisan, noncontroversial reform proposals sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) passed easily. For the most part they also codify new security policies but also contain a provision that would require nuclear lab employees and contractors who visit China or other sensitive countries to be accompanied by an Energy Department employee with training in countering threats of espionage and intelligence-gathering by foreign nationals.
Meanwhile, a group of 80 GOP House members sent President Clinton a letter demanding that he fire national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger for failing to inform the president "of the most serious espionage ever committed against the United States." However, it was Berger who, after first hearing allegations of spying in early 1996, sent his Energy Department intelligence briefer, Notra Trulock, to inform the ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.
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Votes to Beef Up Lab Security Wait
By Tom Raum, Associated Press, May 28, 1999; 3:16 a.m. EDT
... The three who voted against Senate passage of the defense bill were Democratic Sens. Russ Feingold and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin and Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. Those not voting were Ernest Hollings, D-S.C.; Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.; Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Connie Mack, R-Fla., and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y.
The bills are H.R. 1401 and S 1059.
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29. Reno blames FBI for not initiating China wiretap
By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May 28, 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/news/news2.html
Attorney General Janet Reno, sharply criticized in Congress for declining to aggressively investigate suspected Chinese espionage, said Thursday the FBI should have come to her two years ago if it had concerns about a Justice Department refusal to seek a wiretap in the spy probe.
"In all of these matters where there is something serious, where there is a disagreement, where [FBI Director Louis J.] Freeh disagrees with the findings, I think that it should be discussed at my level," Miss Reno said, adding that Mr. Freeh never asked that the decision be reviewed or appealed.
"I assumed that since I did not hear from the FBI, that the matter had been resolved to their satisfaction," she said.
The attorney general's remarks marked the latest public disagreement among Miss Reno, the FBI and a Justice Department task force investigating campaign finance abuses during the 1996 presidential election, including accusations that China sought to influence U.S. policy with illegal campaign donations.
Miss Reno's remarks, at her weekly press briefing, were in answer to rising criticism over a 1997 Justice decision to turn down a request by the FBI for a warrant for electronic surveillance on now-fired Taiwanese-born Wen Ho Lee, a computer scientist under investigation for possibly providing nuclear secrets to China from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
She defended the decision Thursday, as she did in a six-paragraph statement earlier this week, saying evidence presented by the FBI for the warrant did not meet standards set under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. She said that while she was not "apprised of the details of the case at the time the decision was made," career lawyers in the department's Office of Intelligence Policy Review had rejected the warrant.
"I think in this instance it should have been brought to my attention by the Office of Intelligence Policy Review, considering the subject matter," she said, noting that she had now "confirmed with all concerned that if the FBI continues to disagree, that it comes back to me."
Last July, Charles G. LaBella, the federal prosecutor she picked to head the task force probe, told Miss Reno that she was required under the Independent Counsel Statute to seek the appointment of an outside prosecutor in the case. He eventually lost his job after his recommendation became public.
Mr. LaBella's recommendation coincided with an earlier memo from Mr. Freeh, who also recommended that Miss Reno seek the appointment of an independent counsel to take over the department's campaign finance investigation. Mr. Freeh said in the November 1997 memo that the attorney general had a conflict of interest involving an investigation of the fund-raising activities of Mr. Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.
Miss Reno rejected the recommendations, to the dismay of Republicans in Congress.
Justice officials confirmed Thursday the FBI sought the warrant based on three pieces of information: Mr. Lee was among the Los Alamos scientists with access to critical W-88 nuclear warhead information that China had obtained; he had gone to China to lecture; and he had once called a colleague, Peter Lee, another laboratory scientist under suspicion of spying.
None of that information, they said, established probable cause that a crime had been committed -- a requirement under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The act requires that investigators have information linking the target of a wiretap to clandestine intelligence-gathering on behalf of a foreign power.
Had a request been made to review the Justice Department's decision, Miss Reno said she would have asked to meet with Mr. Freeh and would have requested that the FBI review its records "to see if there was additional information that could be utilized to show probable cause.
"I would have looked at everything. I don't know what the end result would have been, but I do know that we would have discussed it and done everything we could to see if probable cause could be developed," she said.
Miss Reno also addressed the calls for her resignation, saying she had no intention of stepping down. She said she did not believe she was being set up by the administration as the "fall guy" for the China investigation.
Sens. Richard C. Shelby, Alabama Republican and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Robert G. Torricelli, New Jersey Democrat, have questioned her role in the matter and asked President Clinton to review the case to determine whether it had been handled properly.
"I think it's time for President Clinton to have a conversation with the attorney general about her ability to perform her duties and whether or not it is in the national interest for her to continue," Mr. Torricelli said last weekend.
Mr. Clinton said this week he had no plans to call for her to quit.
Last week, she named Randy Bellows, a senior litigation counsel in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria, Va., to head a task force to determine whether the investigation was mishandled.
Miss Reno said she wants to know if "everything was done right" in the FBI's probe of Mr. Lee, who was fired March 8. He has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing. China has denied stealing U.S. secrets from the New Mexico laboratory.
The FBI's Los Alamos probe began in 1995, when the CIA learned from documents from a Chinese agent that W-88 nuclear-warhead technology had been leaked to China. The FBI began searching for the source of the leaks from among 1,000 people with access to the secrets. How they came to focus on Mr. Lee is not clear, although he had continued access to classified information after he came under suspicion until late 1998.
ALSO:
Reno Was 'Not Briefed' On Spy Wiretap Details Associated Press Friday, May 28, 1999; Page A16 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/216l-052899-idx.html
White House Aide's Ouster Urged, Berger Won't Quit 01:18 a.m. May 28, 1999 Eastern By James Vicini (Reuters) http://www.dogpile.com (search newswires "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv??? OR radiation")
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30. Thirty House Democrats Seek Bombing Halt as an Incentive for Talks
By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 28, 1999; Page A32 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/208l-052899-idx.html
More than two dozen House Democrats, most of whom have previously supported the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia, called upon President Clinton yesterday to halt airstrikes for 72 hours as an inducement to bring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the bargaining table.
Though Clinton abruptly dismissed the request, the suggestion underscored how Democrats remain anxious about the administration's Kosovo policy, an issue that is likely to resurface when Congress reconvenes after its one-week Memorial Day recess. Thirty Democrats spanning the ideological spectrum signed the letter to Clinton, 25 of whom voted in favor of airstrikes.
Rep. Sam Farr (Calif.), one of the Democrats calling for a bombing pause, emphasized that lawmakers had relied on the Pentagon for guidance in the early stages of the conflict but had become more attuned to public opinion.
"Now we're hearing the voice of the people," Farr said. "Our constituents are saying, 'Why not try the peace card?' "
To a large extent, the request reflected nervousness among many Democrats over the possibility that Clinton might send ground troops to the region without exploring every other alternative. The president has not ruled out ground troops, though he says he does not plan to deploy them for now.
"If I have one constituent who comes back in a body bag, I want to be able to look their family in the eye and tell them we tried everything we could before their son or daughter gave their lives for our country," said Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-Mass.).
Democratic Caucus Chairman Martin Frost (Tex.) said yesterday that Clinton may be able to convince Democrats ground troops are needed in the future, but he would have to make a concerted effort.
"A majority of the caucus is still uncomfortable with the concept of ground troops," Frost said. "A clear majority of the caucus wants to give the president every opportunity to be successful and let the bombing campaign continue. There is some sentiment for a bombing pause, but the majority wants to let the president, as commander in chief, handle that."
Clinton is vacationing in Florida, where White House press secretary Joe Lockhart told reporters that the bombing would continue. "There's been a small group of Democrats who have been consistent from the beginning of this conflict and have opposed military action," he said.
"I think it's certainly a legitimate position to take and to articulate," he added. "For our purposes, we believe that we need to continue, we need to continue to intensify until Milosevic changes his policy, allows the refugees back with security and autonomy."
Rep. Rod R. Blagojevich (D-Ill.), who met with Milosevic and helped obtain the release of three American soldiers earlier this month, said he and his colleagues support NATO's effort to end Milosevic's campaign. But he added, "We must have the courage to face reality and admit that our current strategy is failing to achieve our principal objective in the region: namely, ending the violence and returning the Kosovo Albanian refugees to their homes."
"It is time to open the door to a peace settlement in the Balkans -- and see if Milosevic is serious about withdrawing his troops from Kosovo. Let us challenge him to put up or shut up," Blagojevich added.
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31. Clinton: Indictment Won't Alter Plan
By David Briscoe, Associated Press, May 27, 1999; 6:28 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000388-052799-idx.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The war crimes indictment of Slobodan Milosevic will not change NATO's military objectives but should make clear to Serbs who is responsible for their suffering, President Clinton said today. ``He has to be turned over,'' said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Clinton said charges against the Yugoslav leader and four other top Serb officials ``will help to deter future war crimes by establishing that those who give orders will be held accountable.'' ...
U.S. Urges Milosevic to Surrender By George Gedda Associated Press Writer Thursday, May 27, 1999; 2:49 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000177-052799-idx.html
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32. Charges Against Milosevic Detailed Yugoslav, Top Aides Face Counts Rooted In Purges, Slayings
By Charles Trueheart, Washington Post, May 28, 1999; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/140l-052899-idx.html
THE HAGUE, May 27A U.N. war crimes tribunal today announced the indictment of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four other senior officials on charges of crimes against humanity stemming from the conflict in Kosovo, a move welcomed by the United States and other NATO allies but condemned in Belgrade.
Chief prosecutor Louise Arbour said a tribunal judge had granted her petition charging Milosevic and the others with crimes against humanity in the deportation of more than 700,000 ethnic Albanians from Serbia's Kosovo province and the murders of 340 people, mostly young men.
Also charged in the joint indictment, the first in history against a wartime chief of state, were Milan Milutinovic, the president of Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic; Vlajko Stojiljkovic, the Serbian interior minister; Nikola Sainovic, the deputy prime minister of Yugoslavia and a close Milosevic aide; and Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic, chief of staff of the Yugoslav army.
"Now the world is a much smaller place for them," Arbour said at a news conference here in The Hague, where the six-year-old International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has headquarters. The indictment was accompanied by a judge's order that the assets of all five in U.N.-member countries and Switzerland be frozen.
Russia sharply criticized the indictment and said it complicates its already difficult efforts to mediate a settlement of the conflict between NATO and Yugoslavia. Special Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin still plans to travel to Belgrade Friday following a fresh round of talks today with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, the European Union envoy on the crisis. [Story on Page A28.]
The indictment's number of 340 "identified" civilians known to have been murdered is much lower than broader Western estimates. NATO has put the toll at 4,500, and U.S. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen has spoken of as many as 100,000 deaths. Arbour said the tribunal's evidentiary standards are tougher to meet than those of politicians.
Milosevic and the others are charged in the indictment with personal responsibility for ordering, planning, instigating, executing and aiding and abetting the persecutions, deportations and murders committed in Kosovo since Jan. 1. All but Sainovic are also charged with command responsibility for the war crimes -- knowing about the crimes of subordinates and failing to stop them.
Further charges against them, and against others, and for crimes they may have committed in support of Serb nationalist forces during factional fighting in Bosnia and Croatia from 1992 to 1995 are likely, Arbour indicated today.
Asked in an interview why she had not been able to muster prima facie evidence for genocide charges -- convincing proof that the suspects had sought deliberately to destroy or eliminate a specific population -- Arbour said, "I never overplay my hand. We're not there yet. We're not finished with our work against the accused."
The evidence that tribunal investigators have collected in and around Kosovo and from NATO countries is "voluminous, abundant," Arbour said, but she said she would reveal only its broad outlines until the prosecutor's office is required to disclose it to the defense in the event of a trial.
Arbour refused repeatedly to entertain questions about the negative impact the indictment could have on international diplomatic efforts to wrest a Kosovo peace agreement from Milosevic. Officials involved in the diplomatic process are concerned that the tribunal's action might harden Milosevic's already stiff negotiating position, or make it even more difficult to find international support for an agreement signed by wanted men.
"The evidence upon which this indictment was confirmed raises serious questions about their suitability to be the guarantors of any deal, let alone a peace agreement," Arbour said. "They have not been rendered less suitable by the indictment; the indictment has simply exposed their unsuitability."
Human rights and international justice groups applauded the indictment, for which they had been clamoring for months, and the United States and other governments did likewise.
"It will help to deter future war crimes by establishing that those who give orders will be held accountable," President Clinton said during a brief appearance at the front gate of the sprawling, secluded compound outside Jacksonville, Fla., where he and his wife are vacationing. "It speaks to the world in saying that the cause we are fighting for in Kosovo is just."
Clinton also spoke by phone for about 10 minutes each with French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair about Kosovo and the war crimes indictment, said White House press secretary Joe Lockhart.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright said Milosevic must be taken to The Hague for trial, adding that there should be no possibility of an immunity deal for him as a condition of any peace accord in Kosovo.
There were a few dissenting voices. French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement said the indictment "does not serve peace" and that the tribunal had "a pseudo-moral vision instead of a political one."
Yugoslav officials repeated their customary refusal to recognize the jurisdiction of the tribunal, which it regards as an instrument of NATO war-making. Goran Matic, a minister without portfolio in the Belgrade government, called the tribunal "a private court" established by the United States and NATO "to destroy the sovereignty and judicial order of other states when they don't like someone."
In response to questions about the timing of the indictment, Arbour said "criminal charges are not usually good news, and they're never good news for the accused." But she said she had been motivated in part by "real-time" political considerations in pressing for indictment in the five months since January, when Yugoslav army and Serbian police units launched an all-out offensive against secessionist ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo that included the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian civilians from their homes and lands.
The Canadian prosecutor said she was concerned that the potential indictees would be "factually put outside the reach of the law -- they could disappear" to avoid arrest warrants. The indictment today cut off any immunity option, Arbour said -- "short of an extraordinary act by the Security Council interfering with the constitution of this tribunal."
Arbour was asked if she thought any of today's indictees would ever face trial. "I may sound naive, but I would not be in this business if I didn't believe in the law," she said.
Arbour said she expects U.N. member countries to execute the arrest warrants against Milosevic and the others -- along with three dozen other wanted men from the wars in Bosnia and Croatia -- "at the next feasible opportunity" if the suspects do not surrender to the tribunal. The likelihood of either development is next to nonexistent. The tribunal does not try suspected war criminals in absentia. Life in prison is the maximum sentence it can impose.
The ad hoc tribunal, the first to prosecute war crimes since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials after World War II, was established in 1993 to investigate charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and other crimes committed during the war that raged among Bosnia's Serbs, Muslim and Croats until 1995. A year later, the United Nations merged into it a twin court to prosecute and try those responsible for the massacre of at least 500,000 people in Rwanda in 1994.
The tribunals have limited personnel and financial resources, so they have had to depend on U.N. budgets and the in-kind contributions of lawyers and investigators from sympathetic countries and nongovernmental organizations. They also lack police or enforcement powers, so they have had to rely on Western governments to carry out arrest warrants.
In the most politically sensitive cases, notably those of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, U.S. and European peacekeeping forces in Bosnia have taken a careful and selective -- critics say fearful and passive -- approach to apprehending suspects. Karadzic and Mladic, among others, are at large, and their daily whereabouts are reportedly no secret to those charged by the U.N. Security Council with arresting them.
The intense drive to deliver an indictment also raised questions here about the chief prosecutor's plans, three years into a four-year term. Arbour, a 52-year-old Quebec-born judge on leave from the Ontario Court of Appeal, is likely to be appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court in the weeks to come, sources say. If she accepts the job, she would have to be ready to hear cases in Ottawa by September.
Her departure would leave the tribunal, at its most visible moment yet, in search of a new chief prosecutor. The tribunal also will be getting a new presiding judge at year's end, as the incumbent president, former U.S. federal judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, has announced her plans to leave, also ahead of schedule.
Arbour sought the indictment of Milosevic and the four others before tribunal judge David Hunt on Sunday, and the next day he granted her request for arrest warrants, the freezing of the assets of the accused, and a lid on a formal announcement until today. She said she had wanted the delay to allow for the safe exit from Yugoslavia of a U.N. humanitarian mission and enough time to inform governments with personnel in Yugoslavia who might be subject to post-indictment reprisals.
Staff writer Charles Babington in Florida contributed to this report.
The Indicted Yugoslavs
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has indicted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four other high officials for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war. The indictment said the five planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in a campaign of terror and violence against Kosovo Albanian civilians.
Slobodan Milosevic, 57
President of Yugoslavia. Milosevic functions as president of the Supreme Defense Council of Yugoslavia and commands the national army. Since fall 1998 he has exercised de facto control over the ruling and governing institutions of Serbia, including its police force.
Milan Milutinovic, 56
President of Serbia since late 1997 and a member of the Supreme Defense Council. He has participated in many international negotiations, including the Dayton talks on Bosnia and the Rambouillet talks on Kosovo.
Nikola Sainovic, 50
Deputy prime minister of Yugoslavia. Prime minister of Serbia since 1993. He was an official member of the Serbian delegation at the Rambouillet peace talks in February.
Gen. Dragoljub
Ojdanic, 58
Chief of staff of the Yugoslav army. He is responsible for the army and any federal and republican police forces subordinated to the army.
Vlajko Stojiljkovic
Interior minister of Serbia since March 1998. He is responsible for the enforcement of laws, regulations and general acts promulgated by Serbia's legislature, government or president.
SOURCE: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; photos from Reuters
Background
The War Crimes Tribunal
The war crimes tribunal in The Hague was established in 1993 after the Balkan wars in Croatia and Bosnia. It is the first international tribunal for the prosecution of war criminals since World War II. Its formal name is the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. A separate tribunal has been set up to deal with ethnic killings in Rwanda.
1. Office of the Prosecutor
The staff seeks evidence and prepares cases initiated by the prosecutor.
Justice Louise Arbour, left, of Canada, succeeded the tribunal's first prosecutor, Richard Goldstone of South Africa, in October 1996. She is on leave from the Ontario Court of Appeals. The tribunal's prosecutor is appointed by the U.N. Security Council.
2. Evidence is then presented to one of 14 judges.
3. Presiding judge: Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, United States
Vice president: Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Guyana
Antonio Cassese, Italy
Claude Jorda, France
Richard George May, Britain
Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba, Zambia
Rafael Nieto Navia, Colombia
Fouad Abdfel-Moneim Riad, Egypt
Almiro Simoes Rodrigues, Portugal
Lal Chand Vohrah, Malaysia
Wang Tieya, China
David Antony Hunt, Australia
Mohamed Bennouna, Morocco
Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaica
The judges are elected by the U.N. General Assembly.
4. If the judge approves the evidence, an indictment is issued with precise instructions on whether and when to publish it.
5. A formal trial is then held before the judges in The Hague.
* No defendant can be tried in absentia.
* If convicted, the maximum penalty is life in prison.
* The convict would serve his sentence in the tribunal's detention facility, which is within a Dutch penitentiary in Scheveningen on the outskirts of The Hague.
6. Convictions may be appealed to an appeals chamber, which serves both the Yugoslavia tribunal and the Rwanda tribunal. Five of the judges -- McDonald, Shahabuddeen, Nieto Navia, Wang and Vohrah -- also serve in the appeals chamber.
The tribunal has:
* Publicly indicted 84 people. Eighteen indictments were withdrawn; six indictees have died.
* 27 indicted suspects still in custody or under house arrest in The Hague.
* Convicted and sentenced seven; one was acquitted.
* 10 trials under way.
SOURCES: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, CSCE, staff reports
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[Note the words "for the first time." Sixty-four days they endured without responding. Also note, once again, a record number of sorties Thursday (741). Tanks and armored anti-aircraft were hit, probably with depleted uranium unless they've used it all up.]
33. Yugoslav Missiles Targeting NATO Planes
By William Drozdiak, Washington Post, Friday, May 28, 1999; Page A32 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/206l-052899-idx.html
BRUSSELS, May 27As NATO warplanes step up the pace and number of their airstrikes on Yugoslavia, Belgrade's air defense forces are responding for the first time with ferocious volleys of antiaircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles, alliance officials said today.
NATO authorities said the latest 24-hour phase of the air campaign drew 33 surface-to-air missile attacks on allied planes, more than at any time since the airstrikes began in late March. One pilot reported that a missile exploded so close to him that his plane shook.
"A sense of desperation is setting in as they make a last determined stand to shoot down at least one of the NATO planes, because they want one last victory," said German Air Force Maj. Gen. Walter Jertz, a NATO military spokesman. In more than 27,000 NATO missions since the start of the air campaign, the Yugoslavs have downed only two planes, and no NATO pilots have been killed or captured.
During the first weeks of the air war, NATO strategists were puzzled by the absence of antiaircraft fire from Yugoslav defenses. They concluded that air defense operators were hunkered down in a "survival mode" to protect themselves from being attacked once they turned on their radar systems to track allied planes.
"That's when we realized that nobody wanted to eat a HARM missile for [Yugoslav President] Slobodan Milosevic," said Lt. Gen. Michael Short, NATO's top air war commander, in an interview last week at his headquarters in Vicenza, Italy. He was referring to the highly accurate anti-radiation missiles carried by many NATO aircraft to neutralize ground radar systems.
While recent clear weather has made it easier for NATO pilots to identify their targets, it also has helped Yugoslav antiaircraft operators track incoming planes without having to turn on radar that would betray their locations.
NATO officials said alliance aircraft flew a record number of sorties today -- 741, including 308 attack missions and 74 others designed to suppress air defense systems.
Airstrikes Wednesday night and early today hit a wide range of targets, the officials said, including 10 artillery positions in Kosovo province -- the focus of the nine-week-old conflict. At least five tanks, eight armored personnel carriers and four antiaircraft artillery emplacements also were hit.
Other targets struck included ammunition storage sites, radio and television transmission and relay sites, oil storage tanks, airfields and army and police barracks buildings, the officials said.
Power facilities around Belgrade were also hit again. Two major power distribution stations in the capital were struck, and residents said much of the city remained without electricity for most of the night.
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34. Vegetables A Casualty Of NATO Air War?
Updated 9:08 AM ET May 27, 1999 http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990527/09/odd-hailstorms
SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Bulgaria's valuable vegetable crop has become the latest casualty of NATO's air war against neighboring Yugoslavia.
The Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday that hailstorms destroyed millions of dollars of crops this month because anti-hail radar systems were turned off to avoid attracting the hostile attention of NATO warplanes en route to Yugoslavia.
"The anti-hail systems have been switched off because they use radar to detect hailstorm clouds and guide anti-hail missiles to destroy them," an official told Reuters.
"NATO planes can easily mistake these radars with anti-aircraft defenses in Yugoslavia," the official said. The two systems use similar frequencies.
Anti-hail missiles are designed to cause the ice in hailstorm clouds to turn to water or evaporate.
Hailstorms damaged 77,000 acres across Bulgaria by May 22, the ministry said. Some 40 percent of crops in those areas were considered lost, with damage estimated at $8.7 million.
Bulgaria allowed NATO to use its airspace for strikes against Yugoslavia on May 4. Bulgaria and Yugoslavia have similar types of Russian-built air defenses.
Five stray NATO air-to-ground HARM missiles and another Russian-made missile have hit Bulgarian territory near the western border with Yugoslavia.
Agriculture accounts for about 20 percent of Bulgaria's gross domestic product.
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35. Stop Bombing Yugoslavia
Raymond Giraud, and others, Stanford University faculty Thursday, May 27, 1999 San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/27 /ED98615.DTL&type=printable
THE BOMBING of Yugoslavia must stop.
Wiser heads must prevail to curb our government's ambition to have the rest of the world submit to U.S. hegemony. We must recognize that it should not be our destiny to rule the world, but rather to work to sustain organizations that can bring about peace and justice.
On moral and political grounds, the U.S.-dominated bombing is an unlawful exercise of force. Euphemistically called a ``humanitarian intervention,'' the bombing has shown a callous disregard for human life, has solidified Serbian support of the Milosevic government, weakened the democratic opposition and wildly escalated the abuse and displacement of the ethnic Albanian Kosovars.
The Clinton administration has violated not only the U.N. charter, to which our country is a signatory, but arguably also the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Act.
The NATO attack has been responsible for numerous civilian casualties. It has used particularly abhorrent weapons, like the radioactive ``depleted uranium'' projectiles, which spread a trail of contaminated dust on the battlefield, and the infamous cluster bombs, especially effective in shredding human flesh. Some have defended the bombing on the grounds that Serbian violence in Kosovo has been so horrendous that we could not stand by and do nothing. But an inhumane response even to acts of inhumanity is indefensible.
Measures we should take might include:
-- Proceed to real negotiation with Yugoslavia. The Rambouillet ``agreement'' sought to dictate terms of unconditional surrender that no sovereign nation could accept. It stipulated, for example, that NATO ``be immune from all legal process,'' not just in Kosovo, but throughout the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, its personnel ``immune from any form of arrest, investigation or detention by the authorities in the FRY'' and entitled to ``enjoy . . . free and unrestricted passage and unimpeded access through the FRY, including airspace and territorial waters.''
-- Entrust diplomacy to the United Nations, which has been marginalized until now, not to NATO, a regional military force created to prevent Soviet expansion into Western Europe. Furthermore, Russia must be a participant in the negotiations.
Raymond Giraud, Sandra Drake, Charles Drekmeier, Charle Stein, Robert Finn, Rush Rehm, Hubert Marshall, Joel Beinin, Hans Samelson, Bernard Roth, Paul Seaver, Robert Polhemus, John Manley, Dow Woodward, Ronald Rebholz, Susan Holmes, Tse Lai, Joseph Romano, D. Carleton, Yakov Eliashberg, David Gilbarg, Kefeng Liu, Harold Kahn, George Papanicolaou, Marjorie Perloff, Hongkai Zhao, Harry ELam, Jun Liu, Paul Switzer, Andrea Nightingale, and Jean-Marie Apostolides are members of the Stanford University faculty.
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22. U.S. Hi-Techs Fear Anti-China Mood
Updated 5:31 AM ET May 28, 1999, By Matt Pottinger http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990528/05/business-trade-china-usa
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. high-tech firms are worried about losing business in China following an inflammatory congressional report that calls for tighter export controls to combat alleged spying by Beijing, executives said Friday.
"The potential for really screwing things up for high-tech is very high right now," said Mark Mechem, a senior analyst at the U.S. Information Technology Office, which represents the computer and high-technology industries in Beijing.
A special Congressional committee chaired by Representative Christopher Cox released a thick report this week alleging successful efforts by Chinese spies to learn sensitive nuclear and military technology secrets from the United States.
China flatly denies the charges, attributing them to "Cold War" warriors who need an enemy now the Soviet Union is gone.
Among the U.S. report's recommendations for tightening U.S. security was a review of high-technology export licensing standards -- a move some fear will lead Congress to block sales of civilian goods with the potential to benefit Beijing's military modernization.
The list of so-called "dual use" technologies could range from satellites and high performance computers to machine tools used for making engine turbines, to telecommunications equipment with encryption capability, analysts said.
"We've had restrictions for some time on high-tech machine tools," said a Beijing-based executive at a U.S. firm. "I don't think any improvements could come in the near future, and things might get tougher for us."
Pentagon officials have frowned in the past on the export to China of U.S. mobile phone technology known as CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), arguing the encrypted format of CDMA would make it hard for U.S. spy satellites to eavesdrop.
A move to restrict CDMA equipment exports could cost U.S. firms such as Motorola and Lucent billions. They have only just won the right from Chinese regulators to sell to domestic telecommunications carriers.
"If they screw that up, it will screw Lucent up pretty horribly," said a company executive in China. "It would really be shooting ourselves in the foot."
Lucent and its competitors would lobby hard in Washington to protect CDMA business, the executive said.
In 1998, the United States blocked the export to China of goods worth less than $50 million. But in a sign of a tougher regime, Washington barred the export of a satellite worth $450 million earlier this year.
But U.S. efforts to staunch the flow of speedy computer chips to China were doomed to backfire, because China could buy identical chips from "tens of thousands" of licensed dealers in third countries, a U.S. industry analyst said in Beijing.
Jim Jarrett, China president for semi-conductor giant Intel Corp, said he believed members of Congress would balance commercial interests with national security concerns.
"Don't assume the sentiment in Washington is only going one way," said Jarrett, who was on Capitol Hill last week to lobby for China's membership in the World Trade Organization.
Jarrett said Congress could even move as early as next week to ease export restrictions on micro-processors and other computer components to allow Intel to sell its speedy 550Mhz Pentium 3 chips in China.
"This would give us the headroom we need to get us through the end of the year," he said.
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23. Energy Aide in Spying Case to Be Honored
By JAMES RISEN, May 28, 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/052899china-nuke-trulock.html
WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department intelligence official who first raised the alarm about China's theft of American nuclear secrets will receive a special award Friday from Energy Secretary Bill Richardson for persisting in his inquiry despite numerous bureaucratic roadblocks, officials said Thursday.
The official, Notra Trulock, will be given $10,000 and the Energy Department's Special Act Award just days after the release of a Congressional report that endorsed Trulock's findings on the scope of Beijing's nuclear espionage against the United States.
"I think Notra Trulock deserves credit and recognition for discovering the problem and for his persistence for pursuing the issue within the bureaucracy," Richardson said in an interview. "He's performed a service to the country that needs to be recognized."
The award for Trulock is significant because his work still remains at the heart of the controversy over the Clinton Administration's handling of Chinese nuclear spying.
Trulock's findings have been attacked by some Administration officials, who have asserted that he exaggerated the strength of the evidence to support his conclusion that China had obtained nuclear design information belonging to the United States.
When he presented his conclusions to the White House in 1997, for example, an official at the National Security Council sought out an alternative analysis based on the evidence from the Central Intelligence Agency, helping ignite a debate within the Government over Trulock's conclusions. That debate continues today.
Trulock will receive the award from Richardson just days after he testified before Congress that he believed his conclusions about Chinese nuclear spying had been challenged by some officials at the National Security Council, the Energy Department and the Government's national weapons laboratories because the conclusions interfered with Clinton Administration and Energy Department policies.
Last week, Trulock told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that he gave 60 briefings within the Government on the evidence in a case involving the possible theft of nuclear data from Los Alamos National Laboratory and was "challenged twice": by "some N.S.C. officials" in the fall of 1997, and by N.S.C. and laboratory officials in late 1998.
He testified that he believed those officials were "motivated by a desire to limit the political damage" from the Chinese espionage matter, and that differences between the C.I.A. analysis and the Energy Department's findings were magnified "by policy officials for political purposes."
He added that the "climate of skepticism and outright denial" of the problem within the Energy Department and the national laboratories represented "the politicization of intelligence at its worst."
Trulock even remains a controversial figure within the Energy Department and at the Government's national weapons laboratories, where some officials believe he overstated the espionage case. Last year, Trulock was removed as chief of intelligence at the Energy Department and given his current position as acting deputy chief of intelligence.
Trulock has praised Richardson's handling of the espionage threat since taking office last fall, but he has criticized the Energy Secretary's predecessor, Federico Peņa, for not moving more aggressively.
"I believe Secretary Peņa and the office of the Secretary did not act expeditiously on the information that we were bringing to them at the time," Trulock told the Senate panel last week.
While rewarding Trulock, Richardson is on the verge of announcing disciplinary actions against other Energy Department and laboratory officials for being too lax in their handling of the Los Alamos espionage case. Richardson has not yet decided who shall be disciplined, officials said.
In April 1995, Trulock was informed by weapons designers from Los Alamos that they believed that China may have stolen American atomic design technology. An analysis of China's nuclear tests strongly suggested that Beijing was developing new, miniaturized nuclear warheads based on American designs.
Several months after opening an investigation into the possible theft of nuclear data from Los Alamos, Trulock and his team at the Energy Department were told that the Central Intelligence Agency had obtained a Chinese Government document that included detailed, classified information about American nuclear warheads. That document was given to the agency by a Chinese "walk-in," who the C.I.A. now believes was a double agent.
Yet Trulock and his team were able to prove that the classified information about American warheads included in the document was accurate.
Richardson pointed to the fact that Trulock had already begun his investigation by the time the document came to the C.I.A. as one reason he should be singled out for credit.
"Most importantly, he and D.O.E. discovered this before the walk-in document and there is documentation to prove that," Richardson said.
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24. Nuclear Secrets and Spin Doctors
By LANNY J. DAVIS, May 28, 1999 New York Times Op-Ed http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/28davi.html
There's no spin that can make the allegations of Chinese espionage a good story for the White House. If cutting-edge nuclear technology made its way from Los Alamos to the People's Liberation Army, that is a bad story -- not just for the Clinton Administration, but for the United States as well.
When I served as President Clinton's chief spokesman for certain scandal issues, I had to accept a hard reality: that one cannot change bad facts. What I and my colleagues in the White House counsel's office tried to do instead was to get all the facts out the door, good and bad, early and completely.
Our superiors were not always pleased by the stories that resulted -- bad facts still make for bad news -- but we learned that if we didn't give complete information the first day, then we would be faced with an even worse scenario: bad news plus a second story about why the first story was incomplete.
Today, unfortunately, the Administration appears to be failing to heed these lessons. By at times putting out incomplete and sometimes contradictory information, it has helped to drive the Chinese espionage story in an excessively negative direction. The release of the Cox report this week has added fuel to a fire.
The most potentially damaging question is, Why did the Justice Department not approve the request from the F.B.I.
for wiretaps of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos employee suspected of espionage? Attorney General Janet Reno has inadequately explained the rationale for this decision, claiming that to do so would compromise classified information.
Her reticence has prompted some journalists and Republican leaders to assume the most sinister interpretation: that Ms. Reno is covering up something truly explosive. Even worse, her silence has led several Democratic Senators, including Bob Kerrey, Robert Torricelli and John Kerry, to join Republicans in questioning the wisdom of the wiretap decision.
There is only one way to handle this problem: explain everything. With all respect, the Attorney General or someone else in the Justice Department could at least explain the legal reasons that such a wiretap was not justified. And we certainly should be told everything about how the decision was made, such as who was involved and how many people in the Justice Department agreed with it.
A second critical question is, "What did the President know and when did he know it?" The White House has made only a token effort to reconcile what seemed like different answers to that question by the President at a March 1999 press conference and by Samuel Berger, the national security adviser, in an NBC interview.
There may well be a way to reconcile what Mr. Clinton and Mr. Berger said, but the White House has not yet mounted an effective, determined effort to do so. If the President misspoke or was not complete in his answer at the March press conference, then the White House should say so and move on. Perhaps Sandy Berger, whose credibility remains high, should go to the White House press room and stay there until all questions have been answered about when the President was first briefed, what he was told and what happened after that.
Until the Administration pursues such a strategy of proactive disclosure, it will be harder to emphasize the positive facts that it has in its arsenal: that the President did take forceful actions to tighten security at the labs, even before the Cox report was issued; that the key acts of apparent espionage documented in the Cox report occurred before the President took office; that previous administrations ignored multiple warnings; that Energy Secretary Bill Richardson is given credit by Notra Trulock, the main whistle-blower on Chinese spying, for his rapid response upon assuming office in August 1998.
Am I spinning for the Clinton White House in that last paragraph? You bet. But this is what I call good spin: get all the facts out, good and bad, and then emphasize the good facts or try to draw the best inference possible from the bad facts.
It doesn't make a bad story into a good one. But it does make a bad story better.
Lanny J. Davis, a former special counsel to the President, is the author of ``Truth to Tell,'' a memoir of his White House experience.
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25. Planted Document Sows Seeds of Doubt Spy Experts Wonder What China Hoped to Reap
By Vernon Loeb and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, May 28, 1999; Page A03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/28/104l-052899-idx.html
If Chinese spies really have stolen secrets about the design of the most sophisticated U.S. thermonuclear warheads, why would they tell the CIA?
A House select committee concluded three days ago that Chinese spies had stolen secrets on seven of the United States' most advanced thermonuclear weapons, giving them nuclear design information "on a par with our own." But the committee's long-awaited report on Chinese espionage revealed that this central conclusion rested largely upon a document deliberately fed to the CIA by a "walk-in" Chinese agent, a spy secretly acting on the orders of China's intelligence agency.
That discovery suggests that China deliberately supplied the United States with evidence of its own espionage against the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calf.), the panel's chairman, took a stab at explaining why the Chinese would have done such a thing, telling a House subcommittee Wednesday that Beijing might have been trying to intimidate Washington, or might simply have made a mistake.
But Cox's explanation evoked much skepticism yesterday as debate raged on Capitol Hill over many of the select committee's central findings and intelligence professionals voiced concern that the panel had placed so much stock in such a suspect document.
"I am very disturbed by it," said Donald P. Gregg, a 31-year CIA operations officer who served as ambassador to South Korea in the Bush administration. "My instincts as an old spook are that it really doesn't compute."
The committee's report, stark in its conclusion about China's theft of U.S. nuclear secrets, fails to resolve numerous questions flowing from the planted document that experts say will undoubtedly be debated for weeks and months to come.
How much has China actually stolen, beyond the scant design references to the W-70 and W-88 nuclear warheads contained in that supposedly "secret" Chinese report? Where were the secrets stolen from? What impact, if any, will they have on China's future deployment of more sophisticated missiles and warheads? On each of these questions, the Cox committee offered what some members described as "worst-case scenarios," conclusions that have been disputed by intelligence and weapons experts in and outside the government.
But by far the most intriguing question is why? Why would China, after picking the U.S. nuclear pocket in such dramatic fashion, want Washington to know? Theories abound in intelligence circles. Many of them cast doubt on the Cox committee's conclusion that the planted Chinese document bespeaks one of the greatest espionage losses in American history.
A former CIA station chief in Seoul, Gregg said his best guess is that the Chinese haven't been as "diabolically clever," and the United States has not been as "monumentally stupid," as the Cox committee suggests.
Gregg theorized that the document contained "degraded information" that the Chinese were deliberately passing back to the CIA as part of an intelligence cat-and-mouse game to show that the Chinese knew the CIA had fed them misinformation.
Houston T. Hawkins, a former Defense Intelligence Agency nuclear weapons expert who works as a top intelligence official at Los Alamos National Laboratory, cites no less an authority than the Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu and wonders whether the Cox committee has fallen right into a Chinese trap.
Borrowing a page from Sun Tzu's fifth-century classic "The Art of War," Hawkins said, the Chinese could have been trying to sow turmoil in a rival's ranks by triggering a spy hunt. Triggering such suspicion, he theorized, would have served another Chinese purpose as well, helping stem the tide of top Chinese nuclear physicists to the U.S. labs after graduation from U.S. universities.
"They've accomplished these two goals--whether that's what they intended to do or not, and it is all caused by this document turned over by this double agent," he said. "Are the Chinese sophisticated enough to do this? They've been practicing espionage for 2,000 years."
Former U.S. ambassador to China James A. Lilley, who served for years as a senior CIA officer, said that he questions the reliability of the document, which was dated 1988 and passed to the CIA in an as-yet undisclosed foreign embassy in 1995. The agent who delivered the document later returned to China.
The document could have been given to U.S. intelligence as part of a broader effort to show Washington that China had greater military capabilities than U.S. officials then believed, Lilley said. He noted that the Chinese previously had also given documents indicating their sophistication in space weaponry and lasers to an American expert, Michael Pillsbury, who then published a book in the mid-1990s.
Lilley also said the Chinese, in passing the document, could have foreseen that U.S. intelligence would look first at Chinese Americans as the source of the information.
Paul Redmond, the former head of CIA counterintelligence who helped catch traitor Aldrich H. Ames, said he can't believe the Chinese would have included the warhead design information if they really thought it was valuable.
What most likely happened, Redmond said, is that China passed the references to U.S. warhead designs--perhaps to build up the double agent's credibility--without realizing how sensitive they would be deemed by U.S. intelligence and, ultimately, the Cox committee.
"There were a lot of these cases during the Cold War," Redmond said, "where you could never figures out what [the Warsaw Pact countries] were doing."
From the Cox Report: A Chronology of Chinese Espionage
U.S. DISCOVERIES
Mid-1990s U.S. learns China acquired U.S. technical information on high explosives used in nuclear warheads.
1990s FBI puts Peter Lee under surveillance for suspected espionage for China.
1995 "Walk-in" document confirms the theft of information on the U.S. W-88 warhead sometime between 1984 and 1992, and on the W-62, W-76, W-78 and W-87 sometime before 1995.
1996 Intelligence community reports China's theft of additional classified technology on the neutron bomb.
1997 U.S. learns that in 1985, China stole, through Peter Lee, classified information on miniaturized nuclear tests.
CHINESE ESPIONAGE
Late 1970s China steals classified design information on neutron bomb.
1988 China tests neutron bomb.
1992-1996 China tests series of smaller, lighter warheads.
1996 China steals, through Peter Lee, classified detection technology, which could threaten U.S. nuclear submarines.
1996 China, after stealing U.S. information and completing tests of modern thermonuclear weapons, signs nuclear test ban treaty.
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Subject: NucNews-1 5/28/99 - DU-Puerto Rico; DU Contractors; Caldicott quote; Russia/Missile Defense/Chernobyl; Australia; NKorea/US (2+) Pakistan/India (2+)
[Dios mio, look who they're radiating now! Here may be the issue that will get the U.S. military exercises stopped in Puerto Rico. Where else are they testing this stuff?]
1. Jet Fires Shells Near Puerto Rico
Filed at 12:56 p.m. EDT, May 28, 1999, By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Puerto-Rico-Military-Accident.html
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Marine fighter jet has mistakenly fired 263 shells loaded with radioactive depleted uranium at a practice range about 10 miles from a Puerto Rican town, the Navy said.
The accident near the town of Isabela Segunda on Vieques island, off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, in early March was an ``isolated, one-time incident,'' Navy spokesman Roberto Nelson said Thursday.
Nelson, noting it was illegal for the Navy to use the shells on Vieques, said the Harrier jet was mistakenly loaded with the 25 mm shells either at Mayport, Fla., or Norfolk, Va.
The admission bolstered claims by Puerto Rican politicians that the military has acted irresponsibly and should stop using the island for live bombing. Some are demanding that the Navy leave the U.S. territory altogether.
Anti-U.S. politicians who disclosed the incident Thursday said it supports their claims that the military has subjected the island's 9,300 residents to radioactive material, causing a higher rate of cancer. People on the island suffer a cancer rate of 208 per 100,000 residents -- almost double the Puerto Rican average.
Nelson said the area had been cleaned up and that even though only 57 of the shells were recovered, they pose no health threat.
On its official Internet site, the Department of Defense says there is much ignorance about depleted uranium, developed to explode into the armor of tanks.
The heavy metal is only 40 percent as radioactive as naturally occurring uranium ore and -- while chemically toxic -- isn't a radiation hazard unless inhaled, the Web site says.
But Tara Thornton of The Military Toxics Project, an activist group based in Lewiston, Maine, said small amounts of depleted uranium can cause health problems and requires automatic medical testing.
She said that depleted uranium, when it is fired, burns on impact and then oxidizes into tiny dust particles that can be carried by the wind and water. People in the area can be inhaling it or ingesting it, she said.
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Wednesday, May 26, 1999 04:47 PM, By Carol Huang http://quicken.webcrawler.com/investments/news/story/rtr/?story=/news/storie s/rtr/06/n25176206.htm&symbol=LMT
In May 25 NEW YORK story headlined "GD, other U.S. firms would supply Kosovo ground war" read 13th paragraph to read ... "These include "Hellfire" missiles made by Lockheed Martin, whose joint venture with Northrop Grumman -- Longbow Limited Liability" ... (Corrects Lockheed's partner to 'Northrop Grumman' from 'Boeing').
A corrected version follows:
NEW YORK, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. military contractors that would be involved in a ground war in Kosovo include General Dynamics, maker of the M-1 tank, and Boeing Co. (Nyse:BA) , maker of the Apache helicopter, defense analysts said on Tuesday.
Aerospace giants such as Lockheed Martin Corp. (Nyse:LMT) , which makes the F-16 fighter jet being used in the 2-month-old air war in Yugoslavia, also make equipment that would back a ground war.
Besides the F-16, Lockheed makes the C-130, a propeller-driven transport aircraft that can better navigate the Yugoslavian terrain than jet-driven transports such as Boeing's C-17.
"There's been so many mergers in this business over the last decade that the vast majority of U.S. military items is concentrated in not more than a dozen companies," said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute, a public policy research group that gets corporate funding.
The United States and NATO have yet to decide on sending ground troops into Kosovo, but on Tuesday they approved a plan to double peacekeeping ground forces in neighboring Albania and Macedonia to about 50,000 troops.
Up to 7,000 of these troops could be U.S. military personnel armed with U.S. equipment, but the exact number must be determined by President Bill Clinton, said Lt. Col. Steve Campbell, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Some analysts said General Dynamics' products would be most widely used if NATO should expand its effort to a ground war.
General Dynamics makes the M-1 tanks used by the U.S. Army and is one of only two companies that makes submarines for the U.S. Navy.
The Virginia-based company also makes many of the surface ships that would provide missile support for a ground war, such as the Aegis class destroyers.
Helicopters also would be used to back a ground invasion.
These include Boeing's Apache attack helicopters, Kiowa scout helicopters made by Textron Inc.'s (Nyse:TXT) Bell Helicopter unit, and Black Hawk helicopters made by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a unit of United Technologies Corp. (Nyse:UTX) .
But "the biggest single item by any ground war would be the demand for munitions," Thompson said.
These include "Hellfire" missiles made by Lockheed Martin, whose joint venture with Northrop Grumman -- Longbow Limited Liability Co. -- recently won a $327.3 million U.S. defense contract for more than 10,000 "Hellfire" Longbow missiles.
Munitions used in a ground war would also include antitank missiles made by Raytheon and tank munitions made by Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Nyse:ATK) for General Dynamics.
Besides supplying equipment, firms also would win contracts for spare parts and large service contracts, but analysts said it's unlikely that any will see an immediate surge in revenues from a ground war.
Credit Suisse First Boston defense analyst Peter Aseritis said defense contracts from the U.S. government take 12 to 18 months to generate revenues.
"It's not like somebody says, 'I want it now' and it's instantly delivered," Aseritis said.
He added, "This isn't World War II where you're talking tens of thousands of tanks being blown up. You might lose some of them, but ... it's not going to have a huge impact."
Other U.S. companies that would be involved in a ground war include shipping firms. More than 90 percent of all the supplies in a ground war -- such as the 60-ton tanks made by General Dynamics -- are shipped by sea.
Under the Maritime Security Program, all military cargo must be carried by U.S. flag vessels.
Sea-Land, a division of CSX Corp. (Nyse:CSX) , said it is the largest single participant in the Maritime Security Program. Clint Eisenhauer, a Sea-Land spokesman, said the government reimburses the company at competitive rates for lost and delayed commercial business. Quote for referenced ticker symbols: UTX, TXT, LMT, CSX, BA, ATK
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3. Russia Blasts US on Missile Defense
Thursday, May 27, 1999; 9:36 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990527/V000497-052799-idx.html
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia today accused the U.S. Congress of threatening world stability and encouraging another nuclear arms race with its efforts to develop an anti-ballistic missile system.
``This step is a direct challenge to strategic stability and international safety,'' the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
On May 21, the U.S. House of Representatives sent President Bill Clinton a Senate-modified bill that would commit the United States to a limited anti-ballistic missile defense system. Clinton is expected to sign it.
Moscow is fiercely against the plan, which it says would violate the U.S.-Soviet 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. That agreement blocks either country from developing an anti-missile defense system.
Though the United States says the latest proposal is aimed at defending U.S. soil from rogue states like North Korea, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Congress' move ``cannot be judged as anything but another step aimed at undermining the ABM treaty.''
``The United States, with its actions concerning ABM, is stimulating the creation and proliferation in the world of more sophisticated rockets, capable of starting a new arms race,'' the ministry said.
China has expressed similar concerns about the U.S. proposal.
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Robot Exploring Chernobyl Reactor By Viktor Luhovyk Associated Press Writer Friday, May 28, 1999; 2:01 a.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990528/V000593-052899-idx.html
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4. Rio Tinto says no plans to sell, develop Kintyre
Australian Financial Review, May 27, 1999 http://www.afr.com.au:80/content/990527/update/update13.html
Rio Tinto Ltd chairman Robert Wilson said that the company has no plans to sell or develop the Kintyre uranium project in Western Australia at this stage.
He said in response to a shareholder question at the annual general meeting here that the project remains on care and maintenance and will be for some time.
Rio Tinto put the project under care and maintenance in October last year because of low uranium prices.
The project is inland from Port Hedland, 1200 kilometres north of Perth.
Rio said last year it would cost about $120 million to develop Kintyre.
Kintyre has resources of an estimated 36,000 tonnes of uranium oxide which would produce about 2000 tonnes per year of uranium.
The Kintyre deposit was discovered in 1985. AAP
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5. US: No Nuclear Violation by N.Korea
By The Associated Press, May 28, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-NKorea.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. inspection of a large tunnel complex in North Korea yielded no evidence that North Korea is in violation of a 5-year-old nuclear agreement, a State Department spokesman said today.
The spokesman, James P. Rubin, also said that while special envoy William Perry did not meet with North Korean President Kim Jong Il, his delegation was ``well received'' in Pyongyang and met with a number of top officials during a visit that ended earlier in the day.
The trip by the former defense secretary to assess North Korean views was separate from the work of a 14-member inspection team that examined a site U.S. officials had suspected might be hiding nuclear construction activity.
On the inspection of the underground facility at Kumchangni, Rubin said, ``Based on what we know thus far there is no basis to conclude that North Korea is in violation of the agreed framework.'' He was referring to a 1994 agreement under which North Korea would receive fuel oil and nonweapons nuclear reactors in exchange for abandoning any nuclear program that might be used to develop armaments.
``The underground portion of the site is a large empty tunnel complex,'' Rubin said. ``Construction was unfinished and no equipment was present.''
Addressing speculation that nuclear-related equipment might have been moved out before U.S. inspectors arrives, Rubin said, ``It was at a stag