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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 1. Mars 2007 / Time Line March 1, 2007
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Stillehavet som atomvåbenfri zone.
Siden 1984 har man i Stillehavsområdet mindet USAs
brintbombeforsøg i 1954.
Eksplosionens voldsomme radioaktive nedfald som ramte
besætningen på den japanske fiskebåd Lucky
Dragon, fik uoverskuelige følger for befolkningen på
Bikini.
Litteratur:
Keever, Beverly Deepe: Shot in the Dark: The largest
nuclear bomb in U.S. history still shakes Rongelap Atoll and its
displaced people 50 years later.
U.S. Nuclear Testing Program in the Marshall
Islands.
http://www.nuclearclaimstribunal.com/testing.htm
03/01/2001
International kampagnedag mod landminer.
03/01/2007
Det er nu 48 måneder siden, at USAs præsident Bush erklærede krigen
i Irak for vundet.
03/01/2007
Under store demonstrationer beslaglægger poliet ungdomshuset på Jagtvej 69.
03/01/2007
NEWS RELEASES from the United States Department of Defense
DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Marines
who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Sgt. Chad M. Allen, 25, of Maple Lake, Minn., died Feb. 28 while
conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Allen was
assigned to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine
Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Pfc. Bufford K. Van Slyke, 22, of Bay City, Mich., died Feb. 28
while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Van
Slyke was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve's 1st Battalion, 24th
Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Saginaw, Mich.
03/01/2007
National Security Archive Update, February 14, 2007
The Presidential Records Act in Crisis
Six Years Since White House Intervened, Five Years of "Pure
Delay"
Archive Director Testifies Before House Oversight Subcommittee
Washington, DC, March 1, 2007 - Since 2001, the government has
added five years of delay into the process of releasing
presidential records, according to testimony delievered today by
Archive executive director Thomas Blanton before the House
Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives.
These are statistics from the Reagan Presidential Library -- their
official estimates of response times that they send to you when you
request documents. The delay has risen from 18 months in 2001 to 78
months today.
According to Blanton's testimony:
"The late President Ronald Reagan left office 18 years ago, in
January 1989, and the Reagan Library began making his White House
records public in 1994, as the law envisions, with most
restrictions expiring by the 12-year mark, or January 2001. The
Freedom of Information Act says federal agencies have to respond to
requests for records within 20 working days (roughly four weeks),
yet if you write the Reagan Library today asking for a specific
record, the Library staff will write you back with an estimate of
78 months (six and a half years!) you will have to wait before they
complete processing. At the 12-year mark, that is, in early 2001,
the Reagan Library's estimated response time was only 18 months.
For organizations like mine that are veteran users of the Freedom
of Information Act, 18 months is not an unusual delay when the
subject matter involves classified documents or complicated
processing."
"But early 2001 is the moment that the new White House counsel (now
the Attorney General) decided to hold up the scheduled release of
the infamous 68,000 pages of Reagan Library records that were ready
to go, cleared by the professional archivists and the career
reviewers, under the process that actually worked in the 1990s.
During 2001, as those 68,000 pages sat on a White House lawyer's
desk, the delay estimated by the Reagan Library went from 18 months
to 24 months, by the time President Bush issued his Executive Order
13233 in November 2001. Since then, the delay reached 48 months in
2003, and 60 months in 2005, before its current 78 months."
"In other words, we are only six years down the road from the
initial White House decision in early 2001 to intervene in the
Presidential Records Act process, and five years of that turns out
to be pure delay."
For more information, see today's posting at
http://www.nsarchive.org ;
http://hermes.circ.gwu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nsarchive&A=1
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