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Nixon Authorizes; " Amchitka Nuclear Test

WASHINGTON ' (GP), — ifnless there is a 'last-minute change by the Nixon administration only a court injunction can prevent the United States from setting of! its huge underground thomb test at a North Pacific Island early next month. _

Canadian protests and ‘biltcr words from Alaskans did not deter President Nixon from authorizing the massive blast. equal to 5 million tons of TNT.

The Canadian government conceded that Nixon’s decision is_ irrevocable since the test preparations are so advanced the bomb cannot be recovered

from more than a mile un- derground. External Affairs Munster

Mitchell Sharp of Canada said Nixon’s go—ahead oniy'added to the already-strained relations between Canada and the U.S.

Sharp warned that the Canadian government would hold the U.S. responsible for any damage done to the environment by the blast.

1n the United Nations, Canada vusked to speak today in the General Assembly’s main political committee, a; naturai‘ place to raise a protest over nuclear tests Slice group mm is discussing international

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NIXON

To Proceed With Amchitka Test

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

.Canadians" in a ,;telephone conve-rstion with U.S.

_. ()utrage and dismay was the general Can i reaction to the, United States decision Wednesday '

ahead with itspi-oposed nuclear weapons test on Am- chitka lsla’ntt

‘President Nixon made the announcement in a White House communique the same day a full-page advertisement was published in the Washington Post pleading with him not to ap- prove ‘the test. ‘

The advertisement was pur- chased by a group of 66 Canadians in the hope of

dissuading the U.S. government. ' Stuart Keate, publisher of the Vancouver Sun and one of the

;66 sponsors (of the ad-

'vertisementiaVs‘aid the .‘U.S. decision ‘Was “a great disap- pointment to all of us.”

. External Affairs Minister _Mitchell Sharp told the‘ Com- mons he had \“deep sense of disquiet among personal

Secretary of State William ;Rogers on hearing the news.

', In Washington Canadian

“Ambassador Marcel Cadieux reacted with “a sense of dismay” when informed 'of the 'decision 90 minutes before the -ot‘ficial announcement. was ,Lmade. ' N0 APPLAUSEI

Not a voice was {,raised publicly in Canada to applaud the U.S. decision to detonate the five megaton test device 6,000 feet under the barren rock of the desolate island. /

It is one of the Rat Islands of the Aleutian chain that durves across the_ entrance tr. the Bering Sea between Alaska and the Soviet Union“.

expressed the ,

Nuclear Blast has ‘proposed that all churches in Canada hold a day of mourning, tolling their belts, in protest over the blast.

Rev. Robert Pearson, coalition ' president, also said the group-

had sent a telegram with 55,000 '. to President Nixon ‘

signatures opposing the blast.

Despite his upset at the U.S. ,

decision, Mr. Sharp told the

Commons the decision by the »

U.S. was irrevocable. “We can only accept it." Prime Minister Trudeau, also in the Commons, had the same reaction when he replied to pressure from Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield to make a personal heads-of—state plea to President Nixon to veto the test. "‘A’si‘ted outside" the Commons how the U.S. decision would affect already-tense Cahada '—‘ U.S. relations. Mr. Sharp- said, “it. doesn’t help them.” He told the Commons Canada. would hold the U.S. responsible for “any short-or long~terrli

'effects of this test.”

. It was noted that nuclear dust' ’ rom an 'underground test in Nevada last December finally settled on the Thunder Bay area of Northern Ontario.

A Canadian spokesman in Washington said Mr. Cadieux also raised this point. INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM

“The ambassador. also invoked the question of international principle-whether one country has the right to engage in ex- periments which could endanger the environment of another coun-

NIXON KNOWS

Mr. Trudeau said' the president already is well aware of Canada’s position and a personal appeal would only be a form of grand-standing on his part.

Meanwhile, in Vancouver, a second Greenpeace vessel was preparing to travel to the Aleutians in an attempt to either delay the blast or monitor its affects on the immediate area.

The original Greenpeace mission was returning to Van~ couver from Prince Rupert, B.C., not having time enough to return to Amchitka in time for the blast. '

So, a second, taster boat — the former navy minesweeper HMCS Fortune — was being prepared for the trip.

About 40 persons are expected on board Greenpeace Two for the trip and the vessel is sick pected to be at the site in plenty of time for the blast. ~

David Anderson, Liberal MP for Esquimalt-Saanich. said President Nixon's decision could- only be interpreted as a plete disregard for the {saline of others." I . ‘

“To hell with the rest otha world -— that seems to b‘Mri Nixon’s attitude in this matter," Mr. Anderson said 'in- a telephone interview. f‘Tlt'isl decision can only putyfurther, '. SI‘SBIRS on our relations‘ﬂithlﬁi

Victoria Mayor Courtney Haddock said he heard of’llr. Nixon’s decision with shock-and

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Canada. I Stand together. Understand together.

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“No matter how danger may be, I can‘tﬁondone such experiments With our world,” he said.

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