UC48 November 1981

WOMEN AGAINST MISSILES: THE GREENHAM COMMON STORY CB MANIA

EDWARD BOND ON DEMOCRACY FREE SEXUALITY NUKESPEAK - BOMB LANGUAGE

MIRACLE CURE AND THE EXCLUSIVE WILLIAM BURROUGHS INTERVIEW

Call lor higher incomes for people aged over 75

Future importance of vegetable prices hit natural water power

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RIOT RESEARCH A NEW WEAPON for 'scrambling' brain circuit* hasbindawlop*d for riot control im- gun is a high powwd,

oped for lasers. According to Slate Research

Bulletin the weapon is a more sophisticated version of the 'photic driver', and its effects ere to induce giddiness, nausea, and a blinding headache "similar to a severe hangover" lasting for about five minutes. The person 'shot' by the gun can then be easily apprehended.

But little is known about the long term effects of weapons like these. I f you want to carry out your own experiments with the SPG asguinea-pigs, the "Light Shield" is made by Security Equipment Suppliesand costs

"The checking and searching of youthful, athletic West Indian youths wearing short jeans, tee- shirts and multi-coloured t m - c o ~ type hats who ho wr around pedestrian precincts, walkways and subways in city centres will detect outstanding handbag snatches and whet has become commonly known as 'street mugging'. . . that is tha sort of prejudice and discrimination we want from police officers."

'The Prejudice We Want . . .' 3 The Bulletin also carries a

report on prejudice in the police, including thefollowing quote 4 from Detective Superintendent Holland of West Yorks police: I-

RTZ IN 1 . 1 THROUGHOUT its r i u t o notor- iety, RTZ has claimed it merely operates unctar the laws of oountrla wber it mims, and is powwim to ¥tt *I Thin, it is "bound" to u n mimrant labour . .. - - labour in South ~frlct,-exploit itoh Aboriginal tend in Austr- alia, and mat the immoral occupation of Namibia.

Now, startling evidence is coming to light that RTZ is pressuring a national government to alter a major piece of legislat- ion, In its favour. The government is that of Panama: the legislation - a labour code which guarantee* minimum wages and would appear to give some protection to trade unions.

According to the Latin America Commodities Report (August), a "favourable response" from the government could 'remove the final obstacle to QTZ's participation in the Cerro Colorado copper project."

The project is, of course, a major threat to the largest indig- enous nation of Panama, the Guaymi. And failure to control

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officers has indicated that train- ing has little effect on eradicetin prejudice, and suggests that the police force attracts conservativi and authoritarian 'personalities. Carried out bv a ooliceofficer and a social psychologist from Leicester University, the study finds that continued service in the police itself results in increasingly illiberal and intol- erant attitudes towards black people.

*State Research Bulletin (~01.5) no 26 October-November 1981 from i Poland st rut , London W l (01-734 5831).

BONN, October 10th: A West German government official commentad that this pwca march, the biggest ever in Germany. was 'not rapremn- tatiuw of the feelings of the people'. The rally VMS attended by 250,000 demonstrators.

the labour force could be a major threat to RTZ.

Already, at the Tribunal on RTZ held last May, international lawyer Gordon Bennett warned that RTZ could try and twist the Panamanian government around its palm. An RTZ law- yer in Panama City told Bennett, when asked how the company could conform to the country's Minerals Resources Code - and rehabilitate the land it's pillaged - "If we can't get round it, we'll get r id of it" (Or words to that effect.)

Just how RTZ is nowplannin to circumvent the labour legislat- ion remainsto be seen. But this time, it may not Ñcap lightly: at this year's TUC conference a rasoiution was pamd which won would ostensibly ensure indus- trial action against a Brithh company exploiting non-union labour anywhere in the world.

Parting Company

*Parting Company Is Dubllshed by Partisans at 218 Liverpool RC London N1.

FAST

NOTHING MUST INTERFERE WITH FAST BREEDER REACTOR POLICY. That is thm sat determination of the Govern- mont and it was revwled, almost by chance, by thm new Chief Scientist to the Oapartm*nt of Energy, Or Anthony C h i l l i

He took the chair at a meeting on fusion energy held in the Royal Society of Arts and addressed by Or R S Pease, director of the Culham Labora- tory where the Atomic Energy Authority is trying to find what it regards as an 'alternative' to nuclear power. Basically, it is the peaceful equivalent of the transi- tion from the 'A' bomb to the 'H' bomb - in theory, if a way can be found to contain a temper- ature of about 20 million degrees Centigrade, fusion could create a man-made sun

One might think that Dr Challis would welcome any such prospect. But at the meeting his primary o r wT was to insist to

fusion energy would not h l à § b l 'before the middle of the next century' end so 'the step of being able to miss out developing and using the F a t Breeder probably is not open to us.'

The unfortunate Dr Pease tried (politely, because he was arguing with his boa) to refute this. 'It would be wrong for me to try to persuade anybody to take account of fusion in making investment decisions now,' ha l i d cauf i~s ly .

But he added: 'As to the next century, I think we can do batter because we must find out at an marlier stage whether fu lon will work. By expanding relatively modestly on the development of fusion - currently, we spend about a tenth of what we are ipendmg on fission - w could make the more r@d p r o g r ~ needadto answer, by the end of the century, the qwstion of whether or not fusion will work,'

The merits, and the possibility, 3f achieving fusion energy can be discussed endlessly; what is signi- ficant is the (peed with which Or Challis rushed to defend the Fast Breeder Reactor against any Èssibilit that it might not be leaded. This also helps to explain uhv the Government has decided lo t to invest in a North Sea gas pipeline: anything which detracn from its argument that we must lave an FBR is regarded with luspicion.

David Ross

I i DEMONSTRATORS who githemd outside the NiicCx 81 tnde fair in Bide on dctolxr 6th wre gassad and shot at With mbbw bultottby riot p o r i

Over 300 mode from ThmmrdbwrdDt4lhoermud Sdzi land, the Fitaral Republic luceÑfull and other pol& of Gwnuny, France Bdaum, ~ t n ~ ~ t h e d m m b AuitrU, G r m Briafn, the itftonfromriÑfvifalffML . Nothwiandi and Cuud* took numbf of SO-aW 'fuchn' pin in the rally in t e l e ctty (right wing young extremists) ,

-..--. - .... -..-.. -...-.. .."".- and nuclear ~ ~ p o r n . Haw# shortly rue@@& ~ e n ~ t h ~ itport '* from anti-n-r VoUpt IMRng the main links, n p ~ i i l l y RockwII Intamatiod's involve

with t l r M X minib, the 51 bombu, tha Crux* mimh flightconwunr. thç&M Shuttlesnd if -tion of tti* Rocky FI f f I t * in Colorado ~ ~ w a p o m e n dwMbmd~producwI.

contra h id inf i l tr fd the dornoimraton, O w domomtmtar who l'iy They nurehad through tha as hot hapnmnç i t earlier Swlw down outrid* Nuctox on ToMdm

t d a fair whw thaw wn con- with the police by f l m '

S-E-W ~ i w with f r o n d bv crowd control Ixrrian mcouradna Illfl actiiritv a& ' "HcwUl.h* hosoitalfd for

opposition group Nix Nudcx around alhd on the BÑl govunnrnt to flop N U c h 81 - M% of the loci1 oooulitiin h id v o f d in a At?amof#pqw!hnot, *

" AçrwPo lSto20pwBle smnlMd doo it Ind window! eraundttr site of the fiir and ' owturnad two art. Fjrecngkan Mid smoke bombs w m In off and ihore than 100 pol io MÃ̂ thm ordwmi to dilptrn witha

not only thb rioting crowd but ¥ta the p ~ M f u l dçmon m a n . Piain dothm police arritd a nurnbtr of

USA: Pam Me That Nuke; Penta- gon leaden report that more than 3,000 military personnel have been removed from nuclear weapons duty in the past f iw years because of drug and alcohol abuse. Many were apprehended as a result of sumrise drug bum at US military i"stallati&. All

probablv b* the ten one. 6 : . .- .-- ' W l e ~ Oipctor Walt* t

tlto~foundusing illicit drugs am . tmifentd to positions of l o w t responsibri, w h as th&'matBP: pool or food service. The Pmta- ¥o planned to mm up its drug searcttprogramm thisOctober.

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MUROROA: Qreenpeace Is to send i t s ship 'Greenpeace Ill' to the Muroroa Atoll to reieareh radiation levels. Sourm dairr thata racent crack in theAtoll, caused by French underground bombtesta; hatcamed* active poimning.of the watus around Mororoe. The Australian g0ve-t hat agreed to hold an inquiry, and mill probably aloo take France to the Intamationat Court. .

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MANILA: The j u n g l ~ o f LA& Island, Philippines, echo witii the gunfire of Japanese hunters. They

am clients#&& Tokyo-batM ' World SaWtClub,which rights to M o p tourism r' n 7000 Philippine islands. The dub's m3irities are causing concern among tba nation's @-and social workers, who claim tht- the Japanese are responsible Windit. crtminatrshooting of wild - animals and birds.

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FLORIDA" Cattails, f- univerul weed. have recently - bun found to be a .,,.I

WHEN itcomÑto&ngt cost of nu* ¥(¥ctrici ft* UKAEA. the ¥iKtri -d*.BonmmnttcodK* wt it wrong.

The AGR at H u m B was partly financed by Wtish. . Aluminium in return tor thm pro- vision of electricity to their smelters at an annual charge "calcuiattd on the basis of efficient operation of Hunters- t o n ~ V .

UnfoFtuiutely, Huntemton B has Mytr worked MM)) enough to product ¥tecMiW.<tttha price sothe^WffftnmiAmnullyt)*y

v i w she laid "We don't r~cnnk ily need the electricity at the '

moment and don't nsc~ssfily : neçdi In five yamL

he have n o i b - M k (A* design turns going." -A<Wiçll they've done @dl

in.-, haven't they? . R.W. ~ackrkhil ,

SAN FRANCISCO: Win £25,00 i f you're the first person to design the vivetron bomb! . iilvatron bomb would destroy nigh-rise buildings and motorway! but do no harm to humans, animals or plants. The new born& would cause concrete, m a i t - and steel to deteriorate - but at^i blow enough 6 to let people ivacu&e dowty.Entries to: s.F.

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AUSTRALIA: A new peace ship,

Btn#in the Pacific, of which Ml* am to be 13. The Pacific Peacemaker is supported by the Coalition for a Nuclear Frto Australia, 537 Wellington St. Perth 6000, Aus.

Whe

p m m ~ ~ m q from 'non-firm' renewps '

are all (xtting in on the act, with oer~nl lv without loitof vast offahore windmill ways a . ,

. . 'ifficien& qn national &id. , -gleamin $heir wrport$a$ym. Wave pokr. meanwhile. looks What hop* k there for'innll

scale windpower? Wl, down in ~xeter, WINQ~EC drapu&&up an imuattive 4tl kW çTtlC*l-Çx . , '

THE WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE BILL nknm i n f o i a ~ h a l ità a m go to cum. From thm Lords IUC46I it

although Mrge-<c*le uniu yf ma effective in prtkntionel ttrthi (due to e m o m i n of phyQal ¥ale Isrw n u m o f *urn- scab& uniu would Wnofitfr8m bcbnomies of phr$ktion vblume - as wed as avoiding di.tribution costs and arteroy I-. line*ttrv canIarv*locinÑdlte.g,fo heat) direct. Sfmllw unlit aho whara lnt-ditch.attamp8 a n

baing mil* to pap It up a bit man. . >

The win mIJiiwiOn In ft* Commons wu on habitat pro- action, incrÑungl being w n by cornerv~tion group! i s the crucial issue.

Tha bill mrges from the QoovnomWith8rnMiurethat tlbw the Nature Conauvmcv Council INCCI to &lay dftruc- tion of &starad Situ of Special Scmtific ,htuett*nd to attnmpt to reach a manqpmat w n n w n t with thà landowner.

though *ttHçt* unit cost haw tumbledfrom.W ~/kWh. afç

use~octriclty at 4 p/kwh, is now ~ulhina rild with a tolfd wind - p o w proflr8mmçinWfv d i u n w i z d unib in w a 3 , Z - unia on the East coast çn a giant (a* vwy ugly) machine on the Orkrwys. The CEGB now says that it can acctpt a 20% contri-

(treated that the N-&&,i , Planning an educational DTOO-

various nuclÈç i-tf knaw a the NudÑf,?<wrInfotmtio G& which a ~ . & sidiaw ofthe chief pro-nu~@W lobby tfoupin~icountw, the B&#! Nu@mr Ferwq (BNFI.

pollution motion wa &id r&tv unmlmourtv at ttm LJbour

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Undercurrents 48 November 1981 2 Eddies - Windscale leak/Riot research/RTZ in Panama/Solar mega-congress 6 Letters8 Women Against Missiles - Ann Pettit reports from the Greenham Common Peace camp 10 Free Sexuality - Wenke Mulheisen: Breaking down couple relationships in the new communes: the end of the nucle-ar family? 12 Nukespeak - Paul Chilton: the chilling distortions of language in the Second Cold War 15 Democracy - Edward Bond16 Mutation Utopias and Magic - Arthur Shingles interviews William Burroughs 18 CB Mania - Easy Riser: Anarchy on the airwaves 20 Miracle Cures - Paul Sieveking’s phenomena update 21 Diary of a Safety Valve - Tony Alien, of the Comic Strip, takes a swing at pacifism 22 African Energy Blues - David Ross: the UN renewable energy conference in Nairobi 23 Travel - Nicholas Albery: A new section, bringing you features on different approaches to travel, escapism and rip-off tours24 Et Cetera25 What’s When and Where26 Reviews30 Classified32 Froth - Loony Doomster on the rampage & Subscription Form______________________________________________________________________________

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