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...DIED. THEODORE TAYLOR, 79, theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the cold war who specialized in designing smaller, more powerful atom bombs - and then became a fierce antinuclear campaigner; in Silver Spring, Maryland. His "Davy Crockett" - a 23-kg device that fit in a suitcase - outpowered the lab's 4,091-kg "Little Boy" bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. In the mid-1960s Taylor, alarmed at the proliferation of the devices, became a self-described "nuclear dropout." "My work at Los Alamos had been so intellectually stimulating but so insane," he said...
...MIKE JENDRZEJCZYK, 53, human-rights champion and Washington director for the Asia division of Human Rights Watch (HRW); of natural causes; in Washington, D.C. An expert on U.S. foreign policy in Asia, Jendrzejczyk first became involved in human rights as a Vietnam War protester in the 1970s and an antinuclear demonstrator in the 1980s. After a tenure with Amnesty International, he joined HRW in 1990. During his 13 years at HRW, Jendrzejczyk campaigned against abusive security forces in Asia, rallied assistance to North Korean refugees and defended the rights of members of minority religions...
...show goes well, though the crowd is a bit stiff. She lauds Columbus for being in the forefront of her favorite cause, the antinuclear movement. She's referring to the work of her friend, '60s activist Harvey Wasserman, a local, but the audience doesn't seem to get it. "I guess you can like my music without liking my politics," she says sheepishly after the show...
...Antinuclear demonstrators are hardly new to Germany. In fact, this is the second such stop-the-transport protest this year. But since Sept. 11 the demonstrators have a new argument: that the spent nuclear waste, moving slowly by truck or rail, provides an easy target for terrorists...
Paradoxically, the German antinuclear Green Party helped make the shipment happen. In June the federal government (the Greens are part of the coalition) and the nuclear power industry signed a groundbreaking agreement to phase out atomic energy in Germany completely. Under the deal, each of the country's 19 nuclear power stations will shut down after 32 years of service, an average of 12 years from now. As part of the agreement, the government agreed to take back nuclear waste that had been shipped to France in the '70s and '80s for reprocessing into storable materials...