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...MORTON is a soft spoken South African exile. Like many other white South African men, he has refused conscription in what he considered to be an immoral war--white against black. To Morton, the question is one of power. That power comes and begins with uranium. South Africa has a plentiful supply of uranium, as well as its own enrichment plants, and can produce all the weapons-grade material that it wants. It also has weapons and delivery systems to launch strikes into any part of Africa that it chooses. When the inevitable showdown in Southern Africa finally arrives...
...strip mine in the world. Nor is it a coincidence that Rossing's predecessor in this dubiously prestigious position was the Jackpile Mine at Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico--operated by Anaconda for the Atomic Energy Commission, and now by ARCO (the parent) for anyone who wants uranium. As Morton points out, "There is a relation between racism and uranium...
Harvard's investment finance the mineral exploitation of South African bantustans--as well as domestic ones in North America, paving the way for future nuclear development. As Morton comments, "We get so caught up in the scientific minutiae about "nukes" and related fields that sometimes we feel that we lose sight of the fundamental questions. If we could win the struggle to keep uranium in the ground, then we would indeed have sliced off the head of the nuclear industry and weapons threat." If uranium continues to be mined, it will be used...
...flared at him? Afterward, NBC's Linda Ellerbee, mad as a wet hen, complained on the air about "the controlled scene," the "sort of official line" she had heard, and the welcome home-type questions-instead of the presumably sharp ones she would have asked. Over on CBS, Morton Dean was curious as to why only 41 of the 52 hostages were present. Dean demanded of the CBS man on the scene whether it was true, as Dean had been told in Wiesbaden but hadn't been able to confirm, that some of the hostages weren...
DIED. William ("Cozy") Cole, 71, versatile and spellbinding jazz percussionist whose 1958 recording of Topsy became the only drum solo ever to sell a million copies; of cancer; in Columbus. Born in East Orange, N.J., Cole made his first records with the legendary Jelly Roll Morton in 1930 and later played with such jazz greats as Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong...