CND Heddwch 24 Winter 2000

Description

'Heddwch' is the supporter magazine for CND Cymru, the Welsh Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, published roughly quarterly from 1991 to the present day.
CND Heddwch 24 Winter 2000-2001 Eng.pdf
Contents
Page 1:
• Stop USA’s ‘star wars’ lunacy! - Cartoon.
Page 2:
• United States National Missile Defence - Clinton ducks the issue but war preparations go ahead anyway.
Page 3:
• What is US ‘National Missile Defence’ (NMD)?
• Helen on NATO (the “Nuclear American Take Over)
• Comment - The power of direct action.
Page 4:
• News round up:
• French call for a nuclear weapon for the European Union
• Signs that the USA is preparing for war (and that Britain is to be its nuclear aircraft carrier again)
• More signs of US war preparations
• Ethical millstone dropped - Labour party no longer referring to an ethical foreign policy.
• Depleted uranium debate - Disagreements about DU dangers continue.
Page 5:
• News round up cont.:
• Nuclear submarines - wasting life for nothing - Plans to raise the nuclear reactors of Kursk.
• Final victory for Aleksandr Nikitin - Attempt to revers Nikitin’s acquittal is dismissed.
• Sellafield: a government blind to the facts? - Labour has lobbied for new reprocessing at Sellafield.
• Diego Garcians: people, or pawns in a nuclear game? - It’s time for justice for the people of Diego Garcia.
Page 6:
• Nuclear procedures - conventional weapons - US Intelligent Agency document “Iraq Treatment Vulnerabilities’ obtained.
• Scottish Nationalist Leader says “Trident out”
• A vision for Trecwn - Plans to store nuclear waste at Trecwn have stalled.
Page 7:
• Trident Ploughshares 2000: Blockade of Faslane August 1st 2000
Page 8:
• The dream of young Yugoslavs: a world without borders, a world at peace - Rachel Sweeting discusses her trip to Yugoslavia.
Page 9:
• Pact - Poem by R.S. Thomas.
• Neither legal nor moral - Available from the Committee for Peace in the Balkans.
• The End of the World is in the Mail - Envelopes to protest nuclear submarine stamps.
Page 10:
• Campaign updates:
• Calls from Hiroshima August 2000 - Excerpts from the Declaration of the 2000 World Conference against A & H-bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki remembered
• CND makes a fine point at Flyingdales, Aldermaston and Downing Street - “Point the Finger’ season of campaigns.
• Caernarfon Mayor signs international appeal to scrap nuclear weapons
Page 11:
• Time for Peace by Janet Ganguli - Book review.
• Trident Ploughshares trials
• A serious dilemma for the jury at the ‘Trash Trident’ trial
• AMs support Faslane blockade
Page 12:
• Support for arrested councillors - The Paisley North branch of the SNO praises Renfrewshire councillors on nuclear weapons stance.
• Iraq protest halts Whitehall - Protests in London call for Iraq sanctions to be lifted.
• Pembrokeshire protester stops the Millennium Wheel
• Trade Unions join CND in rejecting “Star Wars”
• No to NATO - CND demonstration at the NATO Defence Ministers meeting.
• Gibraltar protests
• Charges against US ELF disarmers dropped
Page 13:
• More US Plowshares charges dropped: “our security is neither in wealth nor in war”
• Chelyabinsk authorities speak out against nuclear waste imports
• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom - WILPF is active in South Wales.
• The tooth fairy looks for the truth about nuclear pollution - Donate your children’s baby teeth for radioactivity research.
Page 14:
• Diary dates
• Calling all students! - Launching the CND Student Network.
• Greenham sculpture for Cardiff - your comments please.
• CND Cymru Contacts
• Heddwch contacts.