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Are the Plumbers Back? CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Three heavy wooden doors, ragged panels gouged out where deadbolt locks and doorknobs should be, lean against the sanctuary wall in the Old...
...Steve Vogel (Steve Vogel, a graduate student in political science at the University of California at Berkeley, recently spent eighteen months in France...
...You get the same answer: the United States Government...
...Goldstein speculates that future ads will instead emphasize the need for nuclear power, as well as its safety...
...and that the "share is expected to grow to about 70 per cent by the 1990s...
...In my opinion, if the FBI or CIA broke in, we wouldn't know about it," Gardner says...
...People say that Arabs are different," Greliche remarks, "but we [students] find we all like the same music, go to the same movies, and go for the same actors...
...ABC and NBC left the question unresolved...
...utilities in 1984 (the latest year for which figures are available) was imported...
...The statement took a favorable view of Exxon's plan...
...Exxon's claim that careful monitoring will prevent accidents is also in doubt...
...The U.S...
...Even here, though, the current plan is lacking...
...They won't do much...
...S.O.S...
...Racisme, "people have been ashamed to admit that they are racist...
...Committee for Energy Awareness (CEA), a public relations outfit supported by utility companies...
...I don't think we really can affect the way racists think," concedes S.O.S.'s JeanMarc Lalung...
...CEA's animated ads featured money bags falling from the sky, with the message that Americans spend almost $1 billion every week on foreign oil...
...only immediate action once an accident occurs could do that...
...S.O.S...
...Elissa Dennis (Elissa Dennis is a staff reporter for the Cambridge Tab, a community weekly...
...The group began its work in December 1984 by selling badges with its now-familiar slogan, Hands Off My Buddy...
...According to the Department of Energy (DOE), however, at least 48 per cent of the uranium delivered to U.S...
...You have to ask yourself two questions," says Garrett Brown, associate director of Nuevo Instituto de Centroam-erica, which runs a program for North Americans in Nicaragua and has been the victim of five break-ins...
...S.O.S.'s twenty-six-year-old president, Harlem Desir, has since become a public figure himself by debating such stodgy right-wingers as Alain Peyrefitte of the Alliance Francaise and Le Figaro...
...Groups like CEA appear more interested in image-building and profit margins than public safety," says Denman...
...If Exxon gets this design, it will probably ruin the aquifer at the head of the Wolf River," charges Frank Jablon-ski, an attorney for the Wisconsin Environmental Decade...
...In April, the church's appeal was denied...
...If Vernay is correct, S.O.S...
...Jean-Marie Le Pen and his extreme-right National Front Party have capitalized on such sentiment to win 9.8 per cent of the vote and thirty-five seats in the National Assembly in legislative elections last March...
...And Brown adds that a June march and rally in support of the church groups' activities drew more than 350 people...
...is not dependent on oil imports for our electricity any more," says Denman...
...But ten years after closing, state law permits Exxon to petition the state for release from its thirty-year responsibility if the mine appears stable...
...Until recently," says Michelle Greliche of S.O.S...
...Then, on the nights of June 7 and 8, seven office doors were destroyed or torn from their hinges in the most violent of the break-ins...
...The proposed mine would be located near the headwaters of the Wolf, a favorite site for fishing and canoeing...
...But church administrator Peggy Smith is not convinced Colton committed the other six break-ins...
...Alain Vernay of Le Figaro argues that racial violence may become much worse once the "man in the street" realizes that the new government really does not want to crack down against immigrants...
...It recently won an out-of-court settlement from Le Figaro for an article about an Arab wrongly accused of a crime in Lyon...
...Andrew Liberman (Andrew Liberman writes for the LA Weekly and contributes to the Guardian...
...It is not coincidental that those of us working for peace in Central America are working legally and peacefully," Brown says...
...Break-ins two weeks later, and again in April, September, and December 1985, followed the same pattern...
...11 The facility for disposal of mining wastes, or tailings ponds, could contaminate the groundwater with toxic sulfides and heavy metals...
...Ironically, says CASA information coordinator Alan West, the break-ins seem to be having the opposite effect...
...But from a technical standpoint, we're on solid footing...
...Coal and nuclear energy are homegrown...
...I kept telling them to stop...
...So the whole question of using that ad again is in abeyance at this point...
...There's a lot of rhetoric being tossed around about the DEIS," says Bob Ramharter, who is the DNR's project coordinator for the Exxon plan...
...It will bring jobs to a depressed area and tax revenues to the state, he notes, adding that if there is any contamination, careful monitoring by the company will prevent any major problem...
...In fact, safe energy groups revealed that forty-nine of the 101 U.S...
...Chirac and his men are not bullies," Vernay explains...
...Exxon Moves to Wisconsin CRANDON, WISCONSIN Beneath the thick, marshy forests of northern Wisconsin lies one of the world's largest deposits of copper and zinc...
...It's not really reasonable for us to ask a company to deal with any severe breakdown of the system," says the DNR's Ramharter...
...There has been a public hearing about the beatings, and Zinzun has filed suit against the police, but no one for the city will talk about the case...
...We just take different religious holidays...
...Racisme has grown from a group of friends into a national phenomenon, but it has not managed to turn back a rising tide of racism and anti-immigrant sentiment in France...
...Tohelp control the costs of energy imports, we use energy efficiently," say the ads, "and we use our country's own energy resources like electricity from coal and nuclear energy...
...A check stolen from a Central American Solidarity Association (CASA) checkbook and later cashed for $3,700 led to the arrest of Joseph Colton, who has admitted committing the June 8 break-in, according to Cambridge police detective Richard Gardner...
...That makes me very angry...
...After SECC filed its formal complaints with the three networks, the nuclear group struggled unsuccessfully to validate its ads and voluntarily pulled them off the air three days after the Chernobyl disaster...
...Monitoring itself will not prevent contamination...
...He has announced that forty stitches, one lost eye, and one concussion will not stop him from continuing his Assembly campaign or his criticism of the police...
...At the July public hearing, and afterward under the open dome of the Pasadena City Hall, seven other Peace and Freedom Party candidates, along with Zinzun and CAPA activists, demanded police accountability, the immediate suspension and indictment of the involved police officers, and an independent investigation of the incident...
...The administration has also proposed to amend the code of nationality so that children of foreign-born parents living in France are no longer granted automatic French citizenship...
...France has experienced waves of immigration before, but the present one is said to be different because the largest immigrant group, the North Africans, refuse to assimilate...
...The Safe Energy Communication Council (SECC), a coalition of fifteen national public-interest groups concerned with energy, the environment, and the media, questioned CEA's facts—effectively enough that executives of the ABC and NBC television networks took the ads off the air in June and suspended them until the nuclear group can demonstrate their accuracy...
...More nuclear plants would let us lick our dependence on foreign oil and thumb our noses at those nasty OPEC nations...
...It expanded its audience, then, by recruiting help from such national figures as singer Yves Montand and tennis player Yannick Noah...
...State law requires Exxon to monitor and maintain the site for thirty years after closing...
...Expensive office equipment and cash in plain view were left behind...
...What's more, Exxon will be under no obligation to mine...
...But now Le Pen has come out and said what a lot of people have been thinking all along...
...But the DNR plans to require Exxon only to prepare for gradual deterioration of the system...
...nuclear reactors...
...His neighbor Frank Taylor also tried to stop the police...
...Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and his administration have reinstated spot checks for identification by police and have pledged to expel any foreigner convicted of a serious crime...
...11 Discharges of toxic substances into streams near the operation could result in the accumulation of various heavy metals in invertebrate and fish populations...
...French Racism on the Rise PARIS A young Senegalese student named Diego is riding the Paris Metro when a woman screams that her handbag has been stolen...
...Anti-Arab sentiment often ends in violence...
...Since then, S.O.S...
...Pam Taylor, his wife, watched...
...Five policemen were beating him at once," she says...
...The conservative Le Figaro published a notorious special issue last October titled "Will We Still Be French in Thirty Years...
...CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Three heavy wooden doors, ragged panels gouged out where deadbolt locks and doorknobs should be, lean against the sanctuary wall in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, testimony to a series of break-ins that, for the past year and a half, have terrorized organizations housed in the church basement...
...But since the 1973 oil crisis, utilities have replaced most of their oil-fired generating plants with coal or natural-gas units, relegating oil to a "fuel of last recourse...
...CEA's claim that nuclear power is a 'home-grown' alternative to dependency on foreign imports is simply incorrect...
...a lawsuit seeking release of the information is under consideration...
...Charles Mandon and his teen-age son, for example, added two more dead and five more wounded to the victims' list when they attacked their Moroccan neighbors for "making too much noise" at a house-warming party...
...In a formal complaint to ABC last March, SECC pointed out that the DOE figures also indicate that in 1984 imported oil constituted 35 per cent of total U.S...
...Le Pen blames France's four million immigrants for social ills ranging from high unemployment to crime in the streets...
...This church is under attack," says Peggy Smith, calling attention to the day-care center, tenants' organization, and other groups also housed in the church...
...The incidents at the Cambridge church fall into a pattern the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been charting: break-ins at sanctuary churches and the homes and offices of people involved in Central America work...
...Racisme.tries to counter specific racial incidents in the courts and the media with a network of 400 local committees throughout France and abroad...
...It is not unprecedented for the FBI to use an ex-convict like Colton for its investigations, she notes...
...This attack occurred almost two years ago...
...Frank had never had a problem with the police," she says, but the officers ordered her husband to "get your black ass in the house...
...All eyes turn to Diego, the only nonwhite within reach, and a few passengers begin to rough him up...
...And who benefits by it...
...CBS found our response acceptable...
...But the number of jobs the operation will create is in dispute, and many may go to people from out of state...
...Get Your Black Ass in the House' PASADENA, CALIFORNIA Police brutality—racially motivated police brutality, in particular—is an old story...
...I don't think you'll see Chernobyl mentioned in upcoming ads very much," he says...
...We're satisfied that the American public will no longer be subjected to misleading inaccuracies in these ads...
...Nuclear Truth in Advertising WASHINGTON Consider nuclear power: It's a home-grown product, as American as baseball and apple pie...
...There's no reason to believe the Reagan Administration wouldn't do it again...
...The Nuclear Regulatory Commission later disclosed, however, that the Chernobyl reactor did have a containment building similar in design to those used by many U.S...
...And those in favor of more war work violently, illegally, in the dark of the night...
...But we can certainly try to change the way some of them act...
...Files were rifled, but little of monetary value was taken...
...Several potentially significant environmental impacts are not addressed," says Arthur Brooks, a professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: 11 Soil erosion and siltation of streams may destroy the habitat of much of the aquatic life in surrounding areas...
...After the Chernobyl disaster, the group ran full-page ads in such major newspapers as The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today touting the superior safety of U.S...
...That was the message of a television advertising campaign produced by the U.S...
...reactors...
...In May, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Exxon's proposed mine...
...his solution is to send them all back where they came from...
...That is all under attack...
...Jeremy Solomon (Jeremy Solomon is an editorial intern at The Progressive...
...He and his neighbors went out to discover police beating a man, and some thirty people tried to intervene...
...Gardner scoffs at the idea that the break-ins are politically motivated, saying both Colton and Floyd Odom, who was arrested with Colton and charged with cashing the CASA check, are "admitted cocaine freaks" and probably broke into the church to steal items they could sell to get money for drugs...
...The FBI in November 1985 denied Freedom of Information Act requests for its files on the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, citing a threat to the anonymity of an FBI informant...
...reactors possess protective containment structures, while Soviet designs like Chernobyl's do not, the ads crowed— implying that serious nuclear accidents could not occur here...
...A scrawled note accusing "gringos" of prostituting themselves to foreign interests was left by a March 1986 intruder...
...CEA's print ads have strayed from the truth as well...
...And the July 15 arrest of a Boston man charged with the most recent break-in did nothing to allay those suspicions...
...But the "made in America" pitch was off the mark...
...nuclear plants currently in operation have faulty "pressure suppression containments," incapable of withstanding a meltdown...
...The mine is "good for Wisconsin," says Barry Hansen, an Exxon official in Crandon...
...it could open and close the operation with the rise and fall of metals prices, thereby creating a boom-bust economy in this small community...
...This is great," says Scott Denman, director of SECC...
...In three dozen cases in twelve cities documented by the New York-based human rights group, expensive equipment and cash have been ignored while files and membership lists were examined, according to Adelita Medina, coordinator of CCR's Movement Support Network...
...Coal and nuclear energy are made in America...
...Amid the commotion, the woman miraculously recovers her bag, and Diego's attackers abandon their assault without so much as a curt pardon...
...Ten years ago, Exxon Minerals Corporation, a subsidiary of the Exxon Corporation, moved into this sparsely populated area and proposed a large operation to mine and process the huge deposit...
...afterwards, responsibility for monitoring and maintenance rests with the state and would no longer be Exxon's problem...
...has directed a national campaign against the increasingly prominent racist attitudes in the country...
...But for Michael Zinzun, co-founder of the Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA), it has taken on an eerie freshness...
...Several of the thirteen basement offices, notably those of groups opposing Reagan Administration policies in Central America, have been broken into seven times since November 1984...
...I suspect there will be votes for a settlement...
...But his friends rallied to his support and, in their outrage, created an antiracist organization, S.O.S...
...Opponents, particularly environmental groups, say the plan is deficient in a number of ways...
...Four offices—three of them housing groups focused on Central America issues—were forcibly entered a few days before the December 1984 arrival of a Salvadoran refugee to whom the church provides sanctuary...
...Meanwhile, Zinzun has seized the day...
...Racisme...
...Early one Sunday morning in June, Zinzun, a Peace and Freedom Party candidate for the California Assembly, heard a disturbance outside his home in northwest Pasadena...
...Today, reports DOE, only 5 per cent of U.S...
...In the resulting melee, Zinzun was knocked unconscious...
...Chris Nichols (Chris Nichols is an editor of Power Line and Environmental Action magazines, published by the Environmental Action Foundation...
...He warns that SECC will "be back on their doorstep immediately," should CEA try to air its "home-grown" ads again...
...Spokespeople for CEA claimed the ads "are not deceptive and not inaccurate" but were pulled because the group "does not run advertising in the summer...
...We responded to SECC's challenge as the networks requested," says Carl Goldstein, CEA's vice president for media and public relations...
...The CEA commercials began airing in September 1985...
...Zinzun is still undergoing medical treatment and is frequently sedated, but his home has become a whirlwind of activity...
...He awoke to a concussion, forty stitches, a battered body, and the loss of his left eye...
...The editors argued that the European population of France will decrease by 5.2 million in the next three decades, while the non-Europeans will increase their numbers by 5.3 million to account for 17 per cent of the total population...
...Police chief James Robenson, who is black, says he has reassigned two officers involved "to other desks...
...The organizations' members suspect the U.S...
...Then they began beating him and Zinzun...
...The latest attacks on immigration have come from the new coalition government...
...But the DNR and Exxon believe the DEIS is adequate...
...Diego, disillusioned with the racist attitudes he faced in the land of liberie, egalite, fraternite, was ready to give up and go home...
...The city of Pasadena wants to minimize this thing," according to Terrance Bennett, Zinzun's attorney, who thinks his case will never get to court...
...Right...
...electricity is produced with fuel oil, domestic or foreign...
...The Federal Government "carried out break-ins of this character at all kinds of offices throughout the 1960s and 1970s," recalls Garrett Brown...
...U Drawdown of lakes and streams in the vicinity of the mine due to pumping could threaten the existence of these bodies of water...
...Who's done this before...
...oil consumption...
...The long term is the real place to be concerned," says Ramharter...
...Tax revenues are also uncertain, since the state's projections are based on economic data supplied by Exxon...
...Now some people become French citizens without even knowing it," complains Bernard Stasi, parliamentarian of the Union for French Democracy, one of the ruling coalition's parties...
...Racisme will have its hands full...
...CASA's fundraising letters have brought in more money as people hear about the harassment, West says...
...Since then, Exxon has been pushing Wisconsin's state government to accept its plan...
...The Wall Street Journal reported that uranium "imports now account for perhaps half the uranium recently contracted for in the U.S...
...Government is attempting to intimidate political activists...
...The purpose of the break-ins is not intelligence-gathering, Brown thinks, but "intimidation, disruption, and harassment...
Vol. 50 • September 1986 • No. 9
