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| Vandenberg
Air Force Base, California, July 7, 2000 (8:00) - Three Greenpeace activists
have staged a protest at the launch site for the Star Wars interceptor
missile on Meck Island, part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Two of the activists have been detained, but one is still moving freely
in the area. The news comes just before the Air Force is scheduled to fire a "kill vehicle" missile from Meck Island to intercept a Minuteman II missile fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Kwajalein Atoll action follows other protests Greenpeace has staged throughout the day at Vandenberg and in the waters offshore. On arrival at Meck Island, Greenpeace notified US military authorities in the Marshall Islands. Greenpeace opposes the development of a Star Wars missile system because it endangers existing nuclear arms control treaties and will ignite a new nuclear arms race. "The world is calling for the Star Wars program to be stopped," said Greenpeace campaigner Ben Pearson, stationed in the Marshalls. "President Clinton must immediately scrap the whole program before the world is faced with a new and much more dangerous nuclear arms race." Meanwhile the Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise continues sailing in waters designated as hazardous by the Air Force for the purposes of this test. Four inflatable boats have been launched from the ship and are moving throughout the exclusion zone. BREAKING NEWS - We have just been informed by Vandenberg Air Force Base officials that all seven Greenpeace volunteers who were near the launch pad in Vandenberg have been apprehended. We are currently trying to confirm this information. |
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