PAGE 2 AMCHITKA NUCLEAR TEST Tn 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 at New in Terrace 4608 Lakelse Avenue (next to the Lakelse Hotel) another office for Borrow with confidence... look for the HFC sign of - prompt, courteous, trustworthy money service BORROW UP TO $5000 We think you will like doing-business with the | newest office of HFC—Household Finance. You arrange your loan in bright, cheerful surroundings. The HFC manager will give you the most helpful service possible. He’s a specialist in making instalment loans, and he will handle your account with consideration and understanding not only when you make a loan, but all along the line. In fact, HFC - serves more than '4 million- Canadians like you every year—and two out of three new . customers come to Household on the recom- mendation of friends. 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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 for Alta. 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 » Jin’ the: 1967. election, Social - Credit: wons55 seats, the =: ’ . Conservatives... six, «: the” “ uiberals. three, and one went Cardston, «Infisfall, ] Stettler d ‘Taber-Warner. 2 “and a three-way battle in 48°" 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 “They can issue the war-. ng the ning,” says Mr, Stowe, “but 1 4 4 . 1 t saan 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.”’ a ne ae Americans can do about: it _ _couver Labor Council, the 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 "not. supposed. to. _Tadioactive material to drift to | MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1971 16-year-old —. holds lead" in yachting - tement to - WHITSTABLE, © -Exigla: - (Reuter). — Jérzy Rasinski,. year-old Polish champion, the lead when the world cad@ yachting ‘championships enim tered their third day here teday In Tijesday’s two.. races ‘ Rasinski, sailing . Mili finished first and third to ta over. the over-all lead. fror Britain's ‘Peter Marchant. _ § Leonard ‘Lee-White of . 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