[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION - Hawai'i depleted uranium

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army focuses on Makua, Strykers, depleted uranium

By William Cole
Honolulu Advertiser
January 21, 2008
	

There are few subjects involving greater sensitivity � and for that
matter, time, money and effort � for the Army in Hawai'i than Makua
Military Reservation, Stryker vehicles and depleted uranium.

All three have come up in recent weeks, and all represent the challenge
of keeping up a strategically important military presence in a
relatively small island chain.

Hawai'i's stock and trade is natural beauty and tourism, but its second
greatest economic driver � which is not acknowledged nearly enough � is
the military.

The challenge is to reconcile the two.


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For the entire column, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080121/COLUMNISTS32/801210311/1315/COLUMNISTS32

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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