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Note: If you are seeing it in rmail, Note: it means the file has no messages in it.  1,, Received: from dartvax.dartmouth.edu by cabot.dartmouth.edu (5.61a+YP/4.1) id AA08103; Thu, 31 Jan 91 07:25:29 -0500 Received: from d0.dartmouth.edu by dartvax.dartmouth.edu (5.65+D1/4.4HUB) id AA00267; Thu, 31 Jan 91 07:26:03 -0500 Received: by D0.DARTMOUTH.EDU id <71111>; 31 Jan 91 07:25:53 Return-Path: <@DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU:ACTIV-L@UMCVMB.BITNET> Received: by mac.Dartmouth.EDU via SMTP; id <3040018>; 31 Jan 91 07:25:48 Received: from dartcms1.dartmouth.edu by dartvax.dartmouth.edu (5.65+D1/4.4HUB) id AA00241; Thu, 31 Jan 91 07:25:10 -0500 Message-Id: <9101311225.AA00241@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Received: from DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU by DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 7530; Thu, 31 Jan 91 06:41:14 EST Received: from BUACCA.BU.EDU by DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 7529; Thu, 31 Jan 91 06:41:12 EST Received: from BUACCA.BITNET by BUACCA.BU.EDU (Mailer R2.05) with BSMTP id 8375; Thu, 31 Jan 91 06:41:40 EST Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 01:06:55 CST Reply-To: Rich Winkel UMC Math Department Sender: Activists Mailing List From: Rich Winkel UMC Math Department Subject: environmental alert on gulf To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L *** EOOH *** Return-Path: <@DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU:ACTIV-L@UMCVMB.BITNET> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 01:06:55 CST Reply-To: Rich Winkel UMC Math Department Sender: Activists Mailing List From: Rich Winkel UMC Math Department Subject: environmental alert on gulf To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L /** mideast.gulf: 131.0 **/ ** Topic: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION ALERT ** ** Written 9:18 am Jan 30, 1991 by prcsandiego in cdp:mideast.gulf ** ACTION ALERT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT January 24, 1991 TO: All environmental groups, peace groups, world citizens FROM: GULF ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM Coordination Centre Mariott Hotel Rm. 1229 Amman, Jordon Phone: 011-962-6660-100 Fax: 011-962-6670-100 or Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Phone: (604) 736-1399 FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION PLEASE PASS ON Eco war now overshadows the shooting war in the Middle East. Dr. Abdullah Toucan, General Secretary of the High Council of Science and Technology for the Royal Scientific Society of Jordon has today shown us computer models which predict a "nuclear winter" scenario resulting from the potential firing of oil wells in Kuwait. The resulting unquenchable firestorm from as many as 700 burning oil wells would rage for years. One well is already alight, and "Black Rain" has fallen on Iran. This cloud of toxic soot and ash is exptected to reach North America in two weeks. During a half-hour TV broadcast to the nation last night, Dr. Toucan said that the chemical composition of this hydrocarbon cloud is deadlier than the chemical and biological weapons controlled by Saddam Hussein. Dr. Toucan told us today that if Iraqi troops fire mined oil fields in the face of an allied assault in Kuwait, the resulting smoke and ash will cover an area the size of the United States and circle the earth for months. Temperatures could drop 20 degrees C in many regions, monsoon rains would fall in Pakistan and India, Saudi Arabia's desalination plants would choke on contaminated seawater, and vast deluges of highly toxic acid rain would ruin crops and contaminate fresh water supplies worldwide. We must stress that within a matter of weeks or days, current military plans could unleash an unstoppable series of events leading to unimaginable global catastrophe. You must appreciate the gravity and urgency of the situation in the Middle East. PLEASE help us put together an expedition of marine scientists, climatologists, environmental activists and journalists to sail immediately for the Gulf to monitor the fallout from the oil wells now burning in Kuwait. Please contact us immediately if you wish to join this nonaligned worldwide coalition. Vessels, qualified volunteers, funds and equipment of all kinds are urgently needed by the Gulf Emergency Response Team. Dr. Carl Sagan, Dr. Paul Cruizen, Joe Farman and Dr. Bernard Lown endorse Dr. Toucan's urgent warning. These top scientific advisers are frightened and so are we. I am Randy Thomas, an award-winning Canadian journalist and eco-activist - and experienced ocean sailor. Carl Chaplin is a world-renowned envrionmental artist and activist who has travelled to Amman with me for the cause of peace. Ours is a private and independent effort with worldwide contacts. Thank you for your immediate attention. EVERY HOUR COUNTS. -ends- Special to ENS by Randy Thomas Amman, Jordon January 26, 1991 BAGHDAD THREATENED BY NUCLEAR CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION For the six-million residents of Baghdad, the New World Odour many include whiffs of toxic chemicals and radioactive dust folloiwng relentless allied air attacks which have delivered the equivalent of four Hiroshima bombs on the city during the first week of war. I interviewed a Gulf Peace Camp volunteer, just arrived here from Baghdad, who told of fleeing a "chemical cloud" in one section of the city. "You could see and smell it," he said. We ran for our lives." He thought the toxic clould could have come from industries damaged by the heavy bombing. In related developments, Dr. Abdullah Toucan, top science adviser to King Hussein, told Vancouver artist Carl Chaplin and myself that he was concerned by the release of Seranin, mustard gas, and other chemical warfare agents following the destruction of an Iraqi chemical warfare factory ltLamara. Even worse, the worldwide nightmare of sabotaged nuclear power plants has come true with the bombing of a five megawatt nuclear plan near Baghdad. Dr. Toucan fears that dangerously high levels of Iodine, Cessium, and other radio- active contaminants may be spreading to that city. The General Secretary of Jordon's High Council of Science and Technoloy echoes the call of King Hussein and Crown Prince Hussan for an immediate cease fire to assess the environmental impacts of chemcial and nuclear contaimnation in Iraq. A look at a Middle East map shows US troops in Saudi Arabia to be downwind from these toxic releases. Dr. Toucan also described the oily pall of soot and smoke from a burning Kuwaiti oil field at al-Wafra as "more toxic than any chemcial or biological weapon in Sadam Hussein's command." Fears that this cloud of "Black Rain" could grow to the size of the United States if hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells are set alight during an imminent US invasion have prompted Dr. Toucan, Carl Sagan, and other world scientists to call on the UN to invoke a special Article of the UN Charter, involving an immediate meeting of the UN General Assembly in the face of "danger to the world." "The UN must demand an immediate ceasefire so that we might study and discuss and present our analysis of this environmental crisis to the General Assembly," Dr. Toucan told this reporter. "This is not a military or political call for a ceasefire, which has little success, but an ecological call." Dr. Toucan's report - endorsed by Dr. Carl Sagan, Dr. Paul Crutzen, Director Air Chemistry at the Max Planek Institute, Joe Farman, discoverer of the ozone hole for the British Antarctic Survey, Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Bernard Lown, Dr. Noel Brown of the UN Environmental Programme, climatology Prof. Tim O'Riordan and others - has been rejected by UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. "Mr. de Cuellar's refusal to recognize the urgency of the situation is un- acceptable," Dr. Toucan said. ** End of text from cdp:mideast.gulf **