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From: jcm@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (John Martin)
Subject: EPA WORKS TO WEAKEN THE CLEAN AIR ACT
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: EPA, NRC, non-reactor facilities
Organization: Plex-1, Michigan's Public Access Usenet Gateway  (Ann Arbor).
Distribution: us
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:14:00 GMT

     The EPA is proposing to rescind the new 1990 Clean Air 
Act air emission standards for all NRC licensed non-reactor 
facilities on the grounds that the less stringent NRC 
regulations may provide an "ample margin of safety."  These 
facilities include uranium fuel cycle plants, uranium mills, 
hospitals, medical research facilities, radiopharmaceutical 
manufacturers, laboratories, universities, and industrial 
facilities (over 6,000 facilities).  Many who live near such 
non-reactor facilities are concerned that the NRC's 
traditional coddling of the nuclear industry and its poor 
past regard for public safety puts local communities at 
risk.

     Comments concerning the proposed rescinding of the rule 
must be received by the EPA on or before January 14, 1993.  
A public hearing concerning this proposal will be held in 
Washington, DC at 10 am on January 14, 1993 if a request is 
made. Contact the EPA, Fran Jonesi at 202-233-9229.

     The NESHAP rule (40 CFR Part 6, Subpart I) would limit 
radionuclide emissions to any member of the public in any 
given year to 10 millirems and to no more than 3 mrems from 
radioiodines.  The current NRC standard is 100 mrem for the 
general public.  The proposed rule would force facilities to 
use control systems, to maintain effluent monitoring data, 
and to report monthly if out of compliance.  The new NESHAP 
rule gives citizens the right to take legal action to compel 
compliance.

     These NESHAP rules were originally written to include 
both nuclear reactors and NRC-licensed non-reactor 
facilities, but in 1991, the EPA suspended the NESHAP rules 
for reactors.  Recently, however, the US Court of Appeals 
for the DC Circuit Court ruled the EPA's action to be 
illegal.  Temporarily, at least, these reactor facilities 
must meet the stricter air standards of the new Clean Air 
Act rather than the less stringent NRC standards.  The 
January hearing will decide if the EPA can do for local non-
reactor facilities what they did for reactor facilities in 
1991.

     For more information regarding this hearing, contact 
Dora St.Martin, Citizens for Safe Waste Disposal, Ann Arbor, 
Michigan.  313-996-0649.

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I'd really appreciate it if someone out there could upload
this note to Econet.  Please send me e-mail first, though,
so that we can make sure that only a single copy winds up
there.

-- 
-- 
John Martin
jcm@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
Subject: HUD NYCHA SCANDALS END
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Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:13:44 GMT

Earlier this year the NY Post disclosed that the US Department of
Housing and Urban Development had directed the New York City Housing
Authority to give a contract to organized crime contractors.

Rumor has it that there are VERY interesting minutes of meetings
floating around town. These minutes name names; contractors, New York
City Housing Authority big shots, US Department of Housing and Urban
Development big shots. Ears burning!

Rumor has it that some New York City Housing Authority employees
involved with money handling are SO upset that they have circulated
open letters complaining about what the employees feel are
improprieties. Now, if this is true, many people at New York City
Housing Authority would already know about this. Has there been
recent quick changes at the NYCHA? Will anyone step forward publicly?

Following a recent Normandeau Newswire posting someone suggested that
Anderson Windows of Brooklyn and Section 8 funding should be looked
into. It was said that Mead Esposito was connected with the firm. But
Queensbridge Houses tenant leaders simply don't have time to
investigate -so many scandals, so little time.

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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Asia news
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:10:25 GMT

/* Written  4:10 pm  Dec 15, 1992 by worldpnews@igc.apc.org in igc:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Asia news" ---------- */
>From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


CAMBODIA
 A UN camp in Cambodia has come under attack by the Khmer Rouge for
the first time. The incident comes amidst a string of violent
attacks by the KR.

Just a few days ago, the UN base camp for electoral, police and
military components came under fire during a KR rocket attack on a
nearby commune. The district UN supervisor said the shells were
aimed deliberately at the camp, moved two kms from the registration
site for safety. A senior KR commander from another division told
him he had also been ordered to fire on the camp.

No one was injured but the next day a message was sent from the KR,
ordering the electoral team to leave.

 The incident follows a series of attacks and increased
mobilization of KR guerrillas in north-central Cambodia. (R.
Australia 12/13)


CHINA
 Under a program to convert many of its military plants to civilian
production, China says it would welcome foreign investment in its
nuclear industry.

The official China Daily newspaper quoted the director of planning
of the China National Nuclear Corporation as saying his country
would welcome all types of investment in its nuclear industry. He
said that last year, civilian production in his company made up 54%
of its total value of $420 million, and the proportion would exceed
80% soon.

Reuters news agency says an easing of tensions with Russia and the
other Republics of the former Soviet Union, a renewed friendship
with India, and a stress on military high technology has thrown
much of China 's weapons makers into chaos. The agency says the
defense industry is one of the country's biggest employers and much
of its production is concentrated in already depressed regions in
the north and east.

China first exploded a nuclear bomb in 1964, and announced last
year that it would join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Little is known outside China about the extent of the country's
nuclear arsenal. (R. Australia 12/13)
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Government-fundamentalist clashes in Algeria; Moslem
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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NEWS:Dec 15 Deadline for Salvador
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:38:36 GMT


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EL SALVADOR: DEC. 15 DEADLINE FOR "FINAL" SETTLEMENT

December 15 is the deadline for the guerrillas of El Salvador's
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) to turn over all
their weapons, as agreed in a United Nations-brokered "peace"
settlement last January.

As part of the deal, some 200 notorious military officers are
supposed to be "retired" from service--including the minister and
vice minister of defense and a large portion of the top military
brass. The infamous Atlacatl Brigade was officially disbanded in
late November, but none of its members have been dismissed from
the service.

The FMLN has demanded that before the deadline the Armed Forces
give a "clear accounting" of some 10,000 guerrilla weapons which
were seized in the course of the war. The rebel force worries
that these weapons could be used by death squads with direct
links to the Armed Forces. They point out that in November 1989
the death squad used AK-47s to massacre six Jesuit priests, their
housekeeper and her daughter. They most likely seized these
weapons from the guerrillas.

The Defense Minister and other top officials have been implicated
in these killings and many others.

Some rebel military leaders have refused to turn in their weapons
until there is more concrete evidence of compliance by the
government side to the terms of the peace agreement.

                                            --Charles Tucker

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From: idealord@dorsai.com (Jeff Harrington)
Subject: ZAP: Phone the 800 Number for Hate State (Colorado) Tourism
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:44:30 GMT

Those interested in sending a message to Colorado residents that bias
against homosexuality will not be tolerated can call their 1-800-COLORADO
tourist info number and voice your outrage.  
 
Bias incidents are up!  Beatings at gay clubs across Colorado have more than
doubled!  
 
Make yourself be heard!
 
Jeff Harrington             PGP 2.0 Public Key Available via Email
idealord@dorsai.com         

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Timorese Resistance Fights On
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Organization: PACH
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:10:02 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 353.0 **/
** Topic: Timorese Resistance Fights On **
** Written  6:12 pm  Dec 16, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor **
** Written  2:46 pm  Dec 15, 1992 by apakabar in cdp:reg.indonesia **

    According to a December 15 Reuter story datelined Sydney, Timorese
guerrillas said on Tuesday they had ambushed an Indonesian patrol in
East Timor, killing at least 30 soldiers, in the first attack since the
capture of rebel leader Xanana Gusmao.
    Guerrillas made a surprise attack on two truck-borne reconnaissance
patrols last week near Maubisse in the Same region of the
Indonesian-ruled territory, guerrilla spokesman Jose Ramos Horta told
Reuters on Tuesday.
    The two Hino military trucks were destroyed and all the Indonesian
soldiers aboard were killed, he said, adding that there were no rebel
casualties.
    Rebel organiser Alfredo Ferreira in Darwin confirmed the attack, the
first major clash reported since November 20 when Indonesian troops took
separatist Timorese guerrilla leader Gusmao prisoner.
    Rebels say Gusmao was tortured into saying what he does not believe
and have challenged Jakarta to release him so he can speak his mind.
    "If he is now a supporter of Indonesia's views then let them bring
Xanana to (the United Nations in) New York," Ramos Horta said.
    "There in neutral terrain let him speak," Horta said before leaving
for New York to attend talks on December 17 between Indonesia and
Portugal over the former Portuguese territory.
    The United Nations does not recognise the annexation and still
considers Portugal the administrative power.
    An Indonesian army massacre of Timorese civilians in November 1991,
captured on film by visiting Western journalists, bought the
long-festering issue to a head and helped trigger this week's talks, to
be chaired by U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
    Indonesia has said the guerrilla movement Falantil (Armed Forces for
the Liberation of East Timor), which includes members of Fretilin, had
become a spent force since Gusmao's capture, and that 1,000 rebels had
surrendered to Indonesian authorities.
    Rebel sources say many of those who surrendered were in fact
ordinary villagers who had not been involved in the conflict.
    They said clashes between the lightly-armed guerrillas and
Indonesian forces were continuing under Gusmao's replacement Antonio
Gomes da Costa, known by his nom de guerre Ma'Huno.
    About 15,000 Timorese have lived in exile since the Indonesian
invasion, mostly in Portugal or Australia, where Ramos Horta is based.
** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **

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From: Hank Roth <odin@world.std.com>
Subject: Don't Re-colonize Somalia
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:41:06 GMT

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{From PEOPLE'S WEEKLY WORLD, December 12, 1992}
EDITORIAL
DON'T RECOLONIZE SOMALIA
 
Somalia presents grave dangers to the U.S. and the entire world. 
No one can be against feeding starving Africans, and this is one 
reason why the United Nations resolution authorizing the U.S. to 
use military force to do so passed unanimously, with the support 
of China, India and Zimbabwe. But this was, in fact, horrible 
political manipulation on the part of the U.S. and the U.N.
 
When Somalia became independent in 1960, large numbers of Somali 
nomads continued to range across neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya. 
Unifying them in a "Greater Somalia" set Somalia against the 
entire Organization of African Unity. When Gen. Mohammed Siad 
Barre and his clan came to power in 1969, there was a chance 
Somalia could be oriented in a progressive direction. But in 
1977, with assurances of support from Egypt and the U.S. Barre 
broke with the USSR and invaded "western Somalia" (Ethiopia), 
only to suffer bloody defeat.
 
U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, one of the 
architects of the Camp David agreement, was then No. 2 man in the 
Egyptian foreign ministry. He is no stranger to conniving with 
Washington.
 
And Washington today needs Somalia, as a base in the oil-rich 
Middle East and Africa. Having just been forced out of its Subic 
Bay base in the Philippines, U.S. imperialism sees Somalia as a 
choice morsal.
 
President Willian McKinley told the U.S. in 1899 why he decided 
to keep the Philippines: "I got down on my knees and it came to 
me we had a duty to help our little brown brothers." Disgusting 
hypocrisy and imperialism go together. We still have time to stop 
both.
 
Feed the hungry everywhere, including here. No re-colonization of 
Africa. Bring U.S. troops home and let U.S.-funded African troops 
from the OAU provide security in Somalia.
 
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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Cuba:Jailed Poet,Fidel on Somalia
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:28:24 GMT


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From el diario/La Prensa 12/18/93

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa"
is a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

European Parliament Demands Freedom for Cuban Poet

On Dec. 17, the European Parliament in Strasburg asked for the
"immediate" release of the poet Maria Elena Cruz Varela, arrested
for political dissidence. The full meeting in Strasburg approved a
resolution proposed by liberal Spanish deputy Carlos Gasoliba, in
which he denounced the situation of political prisoners in Cuba.
The European Parliament will ask the foreign ministers of the
European Community to mediate with Cuban authorities to improve
the situation of those arrested, and to ask the Cuban government
to respect human rights. (edlp 12/18/92 from EFE)


Castro Condemns Somalia Invasion

Cuba's President Fidel Castro condemned the multinational military
intervention in Somalia, and particularly the participation of the
US, which he said aims to "resolve the problem of hunger with
cannons." Castro's statement was released by the Cuban news agency
Prensa Latina on Dec. 17. He pointed out the contrast between the
US's supposed concern for the hunger suffered by the people
Somalia, while at the same time it continues to impose the embargo
against Cuba. (edlp 12/15/92 from AFP)


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Subject: REQUEST FOR INFO/CONTACT
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:58:37 GMT
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For a study of policymaking relating to conservation, national parks,
and environmental protection in Argentina, I would appreciate hearing
from anyone who is aware of particular cases, disputes, debates, or
policy discussions about such issues in Argentina.

Jack W. Hopkins
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
BITNET: hopkins@indiana
INTERNET: hopkins@indiana.edu
Tel: 812-855-0732
FAX: 812-855-7802
PeaceNet: cdp!jhopkins.
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:35:14 GMT


        "Amnesty International has concluded that the Salvadoran
`death squads' are simply used to shield the government from
accountability for the torture, `disappearance' and extrajudicial
executions committed in their name. The squads are made up of *regular
army and police agents*, acting in uniform or plain clothes, *under
the orders of superior officers*."  [emphasis added]
[Who Runs the ``Death Squads''", pp. 8-9]

	--Amnesty International, _El Salvador: ``Death Squads'' -- A
	Government Strategy_ 
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Subject: Texaco Poisons Ecuador
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:00:36 GMT
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TEXACO POISONS ECUADORANS

By Charles Tucker

A continuous, long-term oil spill in the Amazon forest of Ecuador
is destroying the forest and the life system it supports there.

Texaco has extracted more than a billion barrels of oil in 25
years of pumping in the jungle. But the U.S.-based multi-national
corporate giant has ignored the effects on the surrounding
communities and the delicate ecosystem of the region. Ecologist
Judith Kimerling made this assertion in a report issued by a
group called SALVAM (Save the Amazon).

"Indigenous communities in the region have lost their livelihood:
there are no animals to hunt, the rivers are dead and lack fish,
and they can't plant because the land is now sterile. Residents
of the area suffer headaches, lung, skin and intestinal diseases,
and birth defects," Kimerling reported.

There have been continuous minor and major oil spills over
hundreds of miles of oil pipeline through the region, according
to the report. In 1989 one such accident dumped 294,000 gallons
of oil into the Napo River.

As a result 31 Quechua communities in the area lost their crops.
But they received no aid or indemnification whatever.

"Just in the past two months there have been three oil spills at
Texaco facilities," the report continued. The biggest affected 21
communities. "The cause of the spill was human error, but [it]
was worsened by the lack of a containment plan to limit and clean
up the spill to the extent possible, and aid those affected."

A "firm" agreement between Texaco and the Ecuadoran government to
protect the people's right to a contaminant-free environment has
been completely ignored. The problem affects not only Ecuador,
but all humanity, the report emphasized.

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; email: ww%nyxfer@igc.apc.org; "workers"
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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Journalism a Dangerous Profession/ed-lp
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:51:28 GMT


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edlp 12/10

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman.  "el Diario/La Prensa" is
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

JOURNALISM, A VERY DANGEROUS PROFESSION

During 1992, 79 journalists were killed throughout the world, 10
of them in Peru. The Sendero Luminoso allegedly killed the
journalists for "carrying out their journalistic work," according
to Freedom House [a rightwing human rights organization in the
United States]. Other countries in Latin America where journlaists
were killed include Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Paraguay, as well as Cuba and Haiti.

Manuel de Dios Unanue, a Latin American journalist working in the
US was killed, allegedly for his revelation of secret activities
of Latin American drug traffickers and their US links. (edlp
12/10 from AP)

edlp 12/11

MOYLE MURDER INVESTIGATION MOVES FROM SANTIAGO TO LONDON

The investigation of the March, 1990 murder of British journalist
Jonathan Moyle intensified when the lawyer of the deceased's
family announced he would go to London on the morning of Dec. 13
to study "secret documents" that could clear up the crime. Moyle,
who wrote articles about weapons trading, traveled to Santiago to
see an international exposition which the Chilean Air Force had
organized. He was found dead in his hotel. (edlp 12/11 from AFP)


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