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AMCHITKA NUCLEAR TEST

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VANCOUVER (CP) —
Nobody who’ plans to be
aboard the Greenpeace knows
what will happen this Octaber
when the Americans detonate
a nuclear bomb a mile deep in
an earthquake-prone Alaska
island.

The bomb, with the power of
five million tons of TNT, is 250
times more powerful than the
atomic bomb dropped on
Hiroshima near the end of the
Second World War, It is the
biggest underground ex-
plosion ever considered by the
United States.

The Americans who plan to
detonate the bomb will be 23
miles away at a remote
control centre on the western

end of the island. The
Greenpeace, an 90-foot
Canadian halibut boat

chartered by the Vancouver-
based Don't Make A Wave
Committee, plans to be 20
miles closer,

‘The Greenpeace plans to
cruise just beyond the three-
mile territorial limit,” says
committee co-founder Irving
Stowe. “It will be a Canadian
beat in international waters,
and there is nothing the
Americans can do about it,”
ABANDON PROJECT

The Americans could call
off the blast — and that is what
the Don’t Make a Wave
Committee is about,

Its objective is to have the
U.S. Atomic Energy Com-
mission abandon Cannikin,
project name for the un-
derground test on the Aleutian
Island of Amchitka,

“We don’t say there will be
an earthquake," says lawyer-
turned-ecologist Irving Stowe,
“and we don’t say. there will
be a tidal wave,

“We don’t even say there
will be a leak of lethal
radiation.

“But surely it is insane to
set off such an explosion when
the possibility of earthquake,
tidal wave or radiation leak

exists, no matter how
remotely.””

The AIC expects the blast
will create a huge sub-
terranean cavern in the
Amchitka bedrock; then the
bedrack, melted by the intense
heat will harden again and
seal off the cavern and the

‘ radiation will be conatined in

an underground vault made
by the bomb itself,

VITAL TO DEFENCE

Ti officially describes the
risks as minimal. It bases this
on extensive underground
nuclear tests in Nevada and on
relatively small tests in 1965
and 1969 on Amchitka, The
AEC says further, without
elaboration, that project
Cannikin is vital to the defence

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of the United States.

Jim Bohlen, a 45-year-old
engineer who designed rocket
motors for American nuclear
missiles before coming to
Canada as a landed im-
migrant in 1967, says he is not
convinced the AEC knows |

what it is talking about.-" .
“How can it be?" he asks,

“The AEC conducted 230
underground nuclear tests in

Nevada and there was a

radiation leak from 67 of
them, including one last

December that sent radiation
across the Canadian border.
Now they've stopped testing
altogether in Nevada because
of the danger to buildings in
Las Vegas, 100 miles from the
testing grounds. .
“Everyone of those leaks, of
course, wag an accident.
“The one-megaton blast on
Amchitka in 1969 registered
6.7 on the Richter earthquake
scale, and was followed by at

least four after-tremors of°

lesser intensity in subsequent
months.

“The hole for Cannikin is
only three miles from the one
dug for Milrow, the 1969 blast,
and the radiation from Milrow
is still trapped there under
pressure, waiting for a fissure

to develep through which it
can escape, Cannikin could
provide that fissure.”
BOMB IS WARHEAD

“The only thing [ am con-
Vinced of,” says Mr. Bohlen,
‘is that the dangers inherent
in Cannikin far outweight any
theoretical advantages in
weapons design that it might
give the United States.

“And. after all, the bomb
they plan to test is the
warhead for a Spartan anti-
ballistic misslie: about all
they can prove by exploding it
6,000 feet underground is that
it will go off."

Jim Bohlen says he will
become a Canadian citizen
next year, Both he and his wife
Marie plan to be aboard the
Greenpeace. .

Also expected to be aboard
the Greenpeace is Vancouver
lawyer Paul Cote, 30, a
member of the Canadian
Olympic Games sailing team
and a co-founder with Stowe
and Bohlen of the Don't Make

Tories set
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ousting

EDMONTON (CP) -- Peter
Lougheed’s Progressive

Conservatives made it clear ©

Monday they are serious in
their bid to oust the Social
Credit party from power in the
Aug. 30 Aberta election.

When nominations closed at
2 pm., the Conservatives
were the only party to keep
pace with Social Credit by
fielding candidates in all 75
constituencies’. .

The New Democratic Party
managed to get 70 into the
race, and the Liberals 20.
Three independents brought
the candidates’ total ta a
record 243.

The previous high was 241 in

1935, the year Social: Credit

first came to power. There

were 235 in the last election,

- May. 28,. 1967, when Social

Credit was returned to office
for the ninth straight time.

Redistribution since the

last election created 13 new

constituencies and eliminated

three, increasing membership .

in the legislature to 75 from 65,

It is only the third time a
single opposition party has
challenged Social Credit in ali
ridings in the province. The
Co-operative Commonwealth

Federation did it in 1944 when | 7

Social Credit won 52 of the 60
seals, and the NDP in 1967,
when Social Credit took 55 of -
ORIGINALS MISSING Me
. For the first time, none. of
the original Social Credit
MLAs of 1935 is seeking re-

. ‘election. Wiliam Tomyn, who |
. represented’
~ Norwood, and former cabinet
' minister A.J. Hooke of Rocky’ .
+. Mountain House have retired, °

Edmonton |

‘The dean of the Social Credit

‘corps now’ is’ Highways -

Minister Gordon. Taylor, 61,

who. has won eight elections -

since “1MD.. A--candidate: in
‘of 36 Social. Credit candidates

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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. .

-.A Wave Committee that came

.inte being following the
Milrow test in 1969.

Bohlen, Cote and Pat Moore,

a director of the En-:
‘vironmental Council of British .

Columbia, all spoke against
Cannikin at hearings held

earlier this year in Alaska by

the AEC,
PROTESTS TOO LATE

On the day of the one-.

megaton Milrow test at
Amchitka, on Oct. 2, 1969, a
protest originated at the
University of British
Columbia only days before the,
blast culminated with. sit-
down protests at border points
across Canda.

“We were too late that time
to do much except make our
objections Known," says Ir-
ving Stowe, “‘but out of it came
the Don’t Make A Wave
Committee,

“We are opposed to all
forms of nuclear testing, as is
the Canadian government,
regardless of who does it or
where they do it, But with
Cannikin, because of the

location, we felt we might do - -

something more than: just
write letters of protest.”

Taking inspiration from the
Golden Rule, a Quaker protest
ship the Americans towed
away from Bikini atol in
advance of a nuclear test in
1959, the committee launched
the Greenpeace plan —
conceived as a last-ditch stap- -
the-bomb effort if all other
methods failed.

A suitable boat was. found,
and Vancouver owner-skipper
John Cormack agreed .to a
$12,000 charter fee for a
voyage that may last about six
weeks. A benefit concert in
Vancouver produced the
money, with a few thousand
dollars to spare.

Tentative sailing date is
Sept. 10, so that the Green-
peace will be in the Amchitka
area when the AEC gives its
expected 48-hour notice of the
test and warns shipping to
stay at least 300° miles away.
MOST SCIENTISTS

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can’t see what else they can do
legally. If they attempt to tow
the Greenpeace away, it
would amount to interference
with a foreign vessel onthe
high seas — ‘and that’s

- piracy.”

Apart from Skipper Cor-
mack and a two-man crew,
most of the dozen or s0

‘Greenpeace passengers will

be scientists. They plan to
bring back water, air and rock
samples to be assessed by Dr.
Leonard Waker of Vancouver,
a former adviser to the atomic
energy commission of Sweden
and a specialist in radio
chemistry and radio-
medicine. A few news writers
also plan to make the trip,

Paul Cote says a landing on
Amchitka by a small boat to
collect scientific data is ‘a
Tea] consideration, especially
since the Americans have
refused to make public any of
the ecological findings from
the previous tests.”’

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Meanwhile, ag preparations
for the Greenpeace voyage go

. ahead, the committee remains

hopeful that the ‘voyage will
mot be necessary — that
President Nixon will veto the
test in the face of mounting
citizen opposition in the
United States and Canada,
which backs up official protest

. notes from the governments of

Canada, Japan and the Seviet
Union. ot

VARIED SUPPORT other countries, .
The S0-member committee, And the U.S. Senate has

which has the support of such —_ thrown Cannikin squarely into

varied organizations as the President Nixon'slap. _ -

B.C, Conference of the United
Church of Canada, the Van:

Student Society of UBC and
the Voice of Women, as well as
of numerous ecological and
environmental groups, has
called ‘upon the people of
Canada to write letters to
Prime. Minister Trudeau,
urging that he back up
Canada’s protest note on
Cannikin with a personal “‘We

don't..want {t” sta’
President Nexon,
' In the U.S., a collection of
‘environmental and other |
Groups has filed suit in federal ~
district court in Washington,
D.C. to block the Amchitka
test, partly on. the grounds
that it may violate the in-
ternational test ban treaty of
1963, under which a country is
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