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Challenging the stereotype of Indians as uncompromising conservationists, more than 200 individual Navajo landowners have quietly leased 1,440 acres to Hydro Resources Inc., an Albuquerque company that plans to mine uranium ore from a local aquifer (a layer of water-bearing rock). The company has promised a lucrative payoff: more than $40,000 for each property it leases, plus royalties as high as 25% on the sale of the uranium ore. For some Navajo landowners that could translate into more than $1 million a year--a nice paycheck anywhere, but especially in a region with double-digit unemployment...
...town's primary well is situated only 2,000 ft. from the nearest proposed mining site. A similar uranium-mining effort in the 1980s failed to preserve the water's purity, says Mitchell Capitan, the soft-spoken leader of a grass-roots organization opposed to the mine. "We can't afford to risk our children and our future," says Capitan. Martin agrees, "It's a disruption to Mother Earth, and it's not the Indian...
...Crownpoint the uranium issue has sharply divided the Navajo. At the tribe's chapter house (where the local governing body sits), a recent motion to oppose the mine sparked such furious debate that the issue was permanently tabled. "Anyone who wants to get re-elected can't touch this," says Rosemary Silversmith, the chapter-house treasurer...
Washington delivered stern diplomatic notes last week warning both countries not to fit nuclear warheads on missiles. The Administration plans to press them to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and begin serious negotiations to halt production of the plutonium and highly enriched uranium that fuel their bombs. The U.S. also wants to try to mediate their long-running dispute over Kashmir...
...report said workers with the program have deactivated many nuclear armaments, stored weapons-grade uranium and plutonium out of the reach of "rogue" states, denuclearized three countries and employed many Soviet weapons scientists and engineers to discourage them from selling their expertise to terrorists or rogue states...