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DATELINES GETTING SHAFTED BASIN, MONTANA Got an ache in your shoulder? A pain in J your back? Having trouble breathing? Here's a novel cure—go sit in an abandoned! mine and breathe some...
...In the past, such objections were handled on a case-by-case basis, but the highly public refusal in 1979 by twenty-seven high school students made what had been a sporadic phenomenon look more like a movement...
...The Commodity Credit Corporation has 770 million pounds of non-fat dry milk, 545 million pounds of cheese, and 441 million pounds of butter in warehouses around the country—enough, in other words, to give away one pound of cheese, one pound of butter, and one and one-half pounds of dry milk each week to eight and one-half million families until the cows come home...
...Do we hang onto those stocks and let them continue to grow...
...And many leading Israeli liberals have articulated the widely held belief that being in the army is the ultimate means of expressing oneself as an Israeli...
...Economic disruption is as much a byproduct of nuclear power as environmental disruption, they say...
...Recently, Secretary of Agriculture John Block publicly raised the question of what he was going to do with the growing surplus of dairy products...
...Hosting scores of resource scholars at lavish conferences, preparing four books in the past four years, and collaborating on several forthcoming college texts, the Center's members have sought to exert a maximum impact on the nation's policy analysts...
...The Sunshine pamphlet attributes the cures to radon combining "with other elements in this peculiar area...
...Young men who, like us, opposed oppression, agreed to serve in the territories because occupation was presented to them as a temporary situation, justified by the security needs of the state...
...Within Israel, however, it has been widely discussed since the first resisters were jailed last year...
...According to their brochures, t lie "Merry Widow Mine" of Basin and lhft...
...Supplies would not be exhausted because the Government keeps acquiring more through its efforts to keep milk prices from falling...
...To further confirm that "intelligence is nothing new," other citations include the old testament...
...Block asked...
...The only hitch is that virtually no one in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) seems interested in carrying out the program...
...works of art grace the building's entire first floor" (the majority being "abstract with an emphasis on color studies...
...Stephen Zunes (Stephen Zunes is a free-lance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...mine and breathe some radioactive gas...
...Scores of other military personnel, and some prominent American Jews, have expressed sympathy for the resisters...
...Coalition members see the financing of nuclear energy as a clear labor issue: The resulting high cost of energy will hit industries hard and ultimately knock jobs out of the economy...
...Do we let them spoil and lose tremendous amounts of money...
...Harvard economist Joseph P. Kalt denounced Federal efforts to divert the flow of wealth to the producers and owners of energy resources as harmful to "the general health of the nation's economy...
...A RIGHT-WING RETREAT FOR REPORTERS BOZEMAN, MONTANA With the fall from grace of the liberal think tanks, a score of conservative, neoconser-vative, and libertarian institutes are scrambling for a piece of the action in policy-making...
...Although none of the resisters is in jail now, there is fear that the government will deal harshly with other members of the Group of Twenty-seven, who are expected to be inducted this fall...
...Even more recently, it sold 220 million pounds of butter to New Zealand at below world market prices...
...Each time another young Israeli publicly refuses to serve in the occupied territories, the debate on the military occupation and the right of conscience returns to the limelight...
...Even a tiny amount of radon gas can cause lung cancer, although the risk varies with the amount inhaled...
...The Coalition for Jobs and Energy, initially organized by the Puget Sound Conversion Project, expects the utility and nuclear industries to raise $1.5 million nationally in hopes of defeating the measure, and it is now raising funds to offset that staggering figure...
...Increased leukemia and birth defect rates have also been found among uranium miners and among those who work in or live near uranium mills, where radon exposure is less intense...
...I've got six people waiting to buy this place," said the Sunshine owner...
...At one of the plants, measurements were not always expressed the same way on paper as on the hardware...
...The Acme of Skill notes that a biblical verse is engraved in Georgia marble in the central lobby of CIA headquarters: "And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.—John VI1I-XXXII...
...At this writing, it is unknown whether CIA Director Casey has moved in with sand-blasters...
...He wrote then-Secretary Bob Bergland...
...At least twenty-one reservists and six soon-to-be-inducted students have announced that they, too, will not serve in the occupied territories...
...Seven months later, the announcement of the program's inception was finally published in the Federal Register, the bulletin board for all Government activities...
...In doing so, it is helping the group that originally organized the initiative, a group with a somewhat more obvious but no less appealing title: Don't Bankrupt Washington...
...Phil Primack (Phil Primack is a free-lance writer in Ep-ping, New Hampshire...
...Its first step was to hurry to the state's registration office and appropriate the words "jobs" and "energy," which, members believe, underline their commitment to an energy strategy that combines community-based renewable resources with employment opportunities...
...The criticism, which also included benefit concerts by prominent Israeli performers and four major rallies, resulted in Algazy's early release last summer...
...And that they drilled in their use, diligently and often...
...The group is made up not of the nuclear proponents and utility lobbyists its name evokes, but of progressive elements of Washington labor...
...Out of the pages of the Merry Widow pamphlet beam the faces of smiling men and women, mostly in their fifties and sixties, photographed as they play cards in the shafts or dabble their feet in the underground "radon health water...
...In the 1800s, the pains were confirmed to be lung cancer...
...At four of the reactors, emergency directions did not list specific positions for controls...
...Ken Micetic does...
...a smaller amount to charitable institutions...
...Confusion would result in an emergency situation, warned the study, "when, for example, a flow indicator is calibrated in percentages while the procedure designates gallons per minute...
...Moreover, at five of the six plants visited, the terms used to describe controls were not always identical to those displayed on the actual panels...
...By the 1960s, the U.S...
...I don't really know the answer...
...no page numbers, and the absence of an expiration date on temporary procedures...
...In such a highly militarized society, any form of resistance to military service has been virtually unheard of...
...In so doing, he declared, "The time has come for the CIA to return to its more traditional, low-public profile...
...During the 1981 school year, it donated 219 million pounds of dairy products to schools and summer camps and DATELINES agencies was so impressed with the program that it directed the Department to begin it no later than ninety days after the legislation's enactment...
...Who knows what other things the CIA will return to, if indeed it ever left them...
...Even Peace Now, the largest anti-war organization in Israel, has vehemently dissociated itself from the resistance movement...
...In the study, prepared for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Xyzyx Information Corporation of Canoga Park, California, analyzed written procedures for handling loss-of-coolant accidents at nine nuclear plants and staged mock accidents at six...
...which states, "To find security without fighting is the acme of skill...
...Its next task will be to win support for a voter initiative on the November ballot which, if passed, would require a statewide vote before a consortium of utilities could issue public bonds to complete its five nuclear plants now under construction...
...The radon, the owner says, "is nature's own remedy...
...These banks, often called "pantries," "shelves," or "closets," distribute boxes of food to destitute families...
...The Israeli government decided to crack down...
...More frequent practice, the study noted, would help keep an operator calm during an actual emergency...
...When it comes to environmental issues, none of them could be trying harder than the three-year-old Center for Political Economy and Natural Resources at Montana State University (MSU...
...As early as the 1600s, uranium miners in Czechoslovakia complained that their work caused stabbing chest pains and led to early deaths...
...Nonetheless, a Merry Widow operator assured me that the radiation levels in her mine—which is an abandoned gold shaft— were entirely safe...
...The cures are not psychological, because we've had animals go in there with arthritis and come out cured...
...It's not as if the Government didn't have enough milk, cheese, and butter on hand to start giving the stuff away...
...In a telephone interview, a Sunshine operator said the radon "affects the brain, causing the body to relax," and allowing a natural cure to take hold...
...According to one "noted arthritic specialist," inhalation of the mine air might stimulate "a master gland through a natural, medical radiation within the human body...
...the usual requirement was once a year...
...I received a nice letter back," recalls Micetic, "which said basically, 'Your party was nice, but your ice cream was soft.' " Nevertheless, Micetic persevered and found an ally in his state's Senator Dennis DeConcini...
...Not to mention keeping the rest of us calmer the rest of the time...
...The USDA now spends more than $36 million a year to store the surplus dairy products...
...They would be willing to serve in the army within Israel's 1967 borders, but they refuse to be part of a military occupation which denies such basic human rights as freedom of speech or freedom of protest to the 1.2 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza...
...But there is a growing movement in Israel of young Jewish draftees who are refusing to serve in the occupied territories...
...Ever wonder what the Federal Government does with all the milk, butter, and cheese it accumulates under its dairy price support program...
...refused to support a military policy they considered wrong...
...Tom Galazen (Tom Galazen is a free-lance writer in Bayfield, Wisconsin...
...Don Hopps (Don Hopps is chairman of the Puget Sound Conversion Project, an organization of church, labor, and peace groups...
...That is precisely what at least two boom^ ing Montana businesses are recommem ing...
...Harvey Wasserman (Harvey Wasserman is co-author of "Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation," to be published by Dell next year...
...the study noted...
...In fact, she said, there were plans afoot to set up a small shaft just for dogs and cats...
...He refused to go and was placed on trial before a military judge who sentenced him to thirty-five days, delivering a monologue about his research on Israel's far-ranging boundaries at the time of King David...
...But in reality, everything has been done to facilitate annexation, and repression was directed towards that end...
...Another donor is Richard Mellon Scaife, who has bestowed millions on conservative think tanks from coast to coast...
...Last year, Dani Amir was the first of the Group of Twenty-seven to be recruited...
...That's what happened to Ken Micetic, who works for Second Harvest in Phoenix, Arizona, an outfit that supplies technical information to communities that want to start their own food banks...
...But as the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin began to stress the permanence of Israeli control over lands seized in the June 1967 war, Israeli soldiers began in greater numbers to question their presence there...
...This year alone, it is estimated, the Government will purchase some $1.6 billion worth of dairy products...
...Dan McIntyre (Dan McIntyre is a free-lance writer in Missoula, Montana...
...As one resister, Oron Adar, puts it, the Israeli government has "tried to transform the occupation into a permanent fact...
...DeConcini and Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri attached an amendment to some agricultural legislation mandating that the Agriculture Department begin a pilot program to distribute surplus agricultural products to eligible food banks...
...The pamphlet claims "a check" showed 90 per cent of those who visited got "beneficial results" for their psoriasis, hay fever, asthma, eczema, sinusitis, arthritis, migraine, diabetes, allergies, or "other ailments...
...At MSU, their money talks in scholarly tones...
...there are "more Ph.D.'s employed by the CIA than by any other Government agency...
...The heavy sentencing drew strong criticism from Knesset members, other public figures, and the Israeli press, where Algazy's jail term was compared to sentences handed down to soldiers convicted of murdering Arab civilians and prisoners of war...
...But if you were in the business of giving away food to needy folks, knowledge of that kind of stash would set you to thinking...
...The analysts found that the procedures varied widely in quality and "were consistently inadequate on several important points...
...Queen Elizabeth I, and the Thirteenth Century Mongol leader Subotai, who "directed his forces to spectacular military successes in their invasion of Europe" because he had good spies...
...Today, publications of this nature have short shelf lives...
...So far, it has lain virtually dormant...
...The USDA's bovine pace casts further doubt on the Reagan Administration's shaky claims of concern for the poor...
...The message they received was clear: "There is no scientific way of demonstrating that a more egalitarian distribution of income and wealth is better than one less so," stated B. Delworth Gardner, professor of agricultural economics at the University of California at Davis...
...A recent Government-sponsored look at emergency procedures for nuclear plants tends to dash such hopes...
...cautions in the wrong places...
...Meanwhile, the movement is growing...
...Three years of military service plus one month each year of reserve duty until the age of fifty-four is compulsory for all Israeli men and women—excluding some orthodox women and yeshiva students...
...If we had high levels in there, the state would shut us down so fast it would make your head spin," she said...
...The booklet, Intelligence—The Acme of Skill, includes an "intelligence glossary" that points out the difference between "clandestine" and "covert action," a CIA chronology, a question-and-answer section, and an array of trivia: the CIA headquarters and grounds cover 219 acres...
...In mid-June, the Center marshalled an aggressive battery of anti-Government, pro-market Ph.D.s to address journalists from eighteen influential publications...
...The longest sentence was handed down in January to Gadi Algazy, who declared that he would "rather be jailed than be a jailer of Palestinians" and was sentenced to a year in prison, on top of the 150 days he had already served...
...Some decided they were unwilling to serve there at all...
...YE SHALL NOT KNOW ANYTHING LANGLEY, VIRGINIA "We believe that as much information as possible about the Central Intelligence Agency and the Intelligence Community should be shared with the public," declares the thirty-page document bound in deep red covers...
...What is perhaps more significant about The Acme of Skill is that it exists at all...
...Sunshine Health Mine" of Boulder a J both inducing hundreds of the sick .mil fee- J ble to enter mine shafts and breathe the radon gas emitted by the natural iinmmm found there...
...But in the case of this program, the bureaucrats at USDA are turning their backs on an effort that would not only mitigate any harm done by cuts in the food stamp program but also save money...
...Other substantial cuts are planned, all in the interests of a balanced budget...
...The Coalition, led by Tom Baker of Machinists' District Lodge 751 and Susan Levy of the Washington Federation of Teachers, is trying to reclaim economic issues from the conservative sloganeers...
...Still other defects found at some of the plants included graphs or charts that were poorly designed and practically illegible...
...Its publisher is the CIA itself—the CIA of sunnier times when some small efforts to illuminate its dark dens were made...
...In many cases, they have exhausted all their resources and have no other place to turn...
...Another economics professor, Richard B. McKen-zie, of Clemson University in South Carolina, likened Government intervention in business to the suppression of free speech and proposed a constitutional amendment to protect business from such intrusion...
...According to Sunshine advertising, the curative properties of mine air were discovered by accident in June 1950, when an arthritic woman followed her husband into a shaft...
...Among the assembled scribes were editorial writers from The Wall Street Journal and the Detroit Free Press, reporters from the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, the publisher of the Dallas Times Herald, editors of Newsday and the Denver Post, and writers from Harper's and Fortune...
...Nor is it that the USDA is unwilling to part with its hoard...
...The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture and related WORKERS VS...
...Another journalist, who asked not to be identified, characterized the theorists as "far afield," but pointed out that their doctrines seem to "have fallen on some favorable ears in Washington, D.C...
...NUKES SEATTLE, WASHINGTON What's in a name...
...THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S GOLDEN HOARD WASHINGTON, D.C...
...their conscientious objection is selective...
...So far the Administration, acting in concert with the conservative Congress, has excluded one million people currently on the food stamp program...
...At several of the nine plants, investigators found many instructions written in paragraph form rather than as short, concise, identifiable steps...
...The chief culprit seems to be the same radon gas trumpeted by the "spa" owners as a cure...
...Cures of any kind are not promised or guaranteed," says Sunshine's flier...
...Most of the families qualify for welfare assistance but are still waiting to receive the benefits...
...The utilities' own estimates of the cost of the plants have soared from $4.1 billion to $23.8 billion—more than $5,000 for every man, woman, and child in the state...
...But despite widespread support from individuals, no major organization or political party has formally endorsed the resistance...
...Public Health Service had demonstrated a fivefold increase in lung cancer among uranium miners, even after such factors as cigarette smoking were accounted for...
...None of the plants visited required operators to practice emergency procedures as frequently as once a month...
...Even better: Ever wonder what the stuff could be used for...
...But "the attendant can show you testimonials or you may hear patients tell of their experiences...
...missing or inadequate worksheets...
...And because he did, the Government now has a pilot program, established by Congress, to distribute the ever-increasing surplus of dairy products to low-income families through local emergency food banks...
...The sale raised such a row with dairy producers that the Agriculture Department distributed a seven-page "butter paper" to members of Congress...
...In its first two years, the Center raised about $425,000 from such organizations as the Samuel Robert Noble Foundation, which was endowed by oil and gas profits, and the Heritage Foundation, which achieved a certain fame with its 3,000-page transition guide for Ronald Reagan detailing plans for the abolition of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, and the surveillance of groups that threaten to "weaken the Government...
...Even Life magazine eventually covered the "stampede" of relief-seekers flocking to the mines...
...As members of the Coalition for Jobs and Energy in Washington state would be quick to attest, plenty...
...Other health experts take a different view of radon...
...James K. Morris (James K. Morris reports from Washington for several newspapers and radio stations in the Middle West...
...Paying only their travel expenses, the journalists were treated to a week at the Lone Mountain Guest Ranch in the shadow of Montana's spectacular Spanish Peaks Primitive Area...
...It is a fraternity of those seeking freedom from pain...
...Aside from the support of some international human rights groups—such as Amnesty International—there has been little attention to the movement outside of Israel...
...It's just that when the new USDA administrators came aboard, this new program did not get ranked as a priority...
...One writer found the conference disappointingly one-sided and chose not to write a word about it...
...Her pain allegedly disappeared, and news of the "cure" spread near and far...
...Micetic decided that since food banks were helping people who would shortly be receiving food stamps, the Agriculture Department would be interested in giving the banks a helping hand...
...The publication's title comes from a quote attributed to "Sun Tzu, Military Strategist, China, 400 B.C...
...None of the resisters is a pacifist...
...ISRAEL'S DRAFT RESISTERS JERUSALEM The numbers are small, especially when compared to the thousands of young Americans who, a decade ago...
...In an emergency situation, the operator should not be forced to wade through a paragraph to find information on what to do and how to do it...
...For example, seven of the nine written procedures had no illustrations of control panels to help plant operators find the right indicators or controls among the hundreds in the room...
...already CIA Director William Casey has eliminated the Agency's office of public affairs, which produced the booklet...
...Ken Micetic did...
...You would have to come here to see the changes people get...
...KEEP YOUR COOLANT CANOGA PARK, CALIFORNIA If you lived near a nuclear power plant wouldn't you like to know that the folks at the controls had clear, easy-to-follow instructions at the ready for any emergency...
...Sometimes it's just like a miracle...
Vol. 45 • October 1981 • No. 10
