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Japanese Plutonium Stockpiles: A Transportation, Storage, and Public Relations Challenge
In: The journal of environment & development: a review of international policy, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 99-110
ISSN: 1552-5465
In accordance with Japan's nuclear policies, Japanese nuclear power companies have regularly shipped depleted uranium fuel to reprocessing plants in the United Kingdom and France. These British and French companies extract plutonium from Japanese spent fuel; the newly reprocessed plutonium may be used to create a derivative nuclear fuel called MOX (mixed oxide fuel). Currently, the Japanese government seeks to use MOX fuel to serve Japan's economic growth, energy self-sufficiency, and national security needs. The Japanese government suggests that reprocessed plutonium must be used as MOX fuel to prevent others from using the plutonium to create weapons. Currently, large stockpiles of highly reactive plutonium and reprocessing wastes wait in the United Kingdom and France for transport back to Japan, raising many safety concerns for nations that lie along the shipping route. This article examines the advantages and disadvantages to Japan's MOX program and considers alternatives to MOX fuel.
Lesbian/Gay Rights and Immigration Policy: Lobbying to End the Medical Model
In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 208-225
ISSN: 1528-4190
On 3 June 1977, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) denied an immigrant visa to a Filipino woman, Zenaida Porte Rebultan, when she acknowledged that she was a lesbian. Rebultan qualified as a second-preference alien for purposes of immigration because every other member of her immediate family had already moved permanently to the United States. The INS declared her excludable, however, under section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, according to which "aliens afflicted with psychopathic personality, or sexual deviation, or a mental defect" were "ineligible to receive visas and shall be excluded from admission into the United States."
Lesbian/Gay Rights and Immigration Policy: Lobbying to End the Medical Model
In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 208-225
ISSN: 0898-0306
In 1917, the US Congress enacted legislation that authorized the US Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) to refuse immigrant visas for a variety of medical conditions, of which homosexuality was named as one. At that time, the American Psychiatric Assoc (APA) defined homosexuality as a "constitutional psychopathic inferiority." While the wording was revised in 1952 & 1965, the definition remained strong enough to justify INS exclusion of homosexual immigrants. Even though the APA removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973, considerable ambiguity remained regarding the INS practice until the passage of the 1990 Immigration Act. Surprisingly, repeal of the ban on gay & lesbian aliens was simply part of a broad reform of immigration laws; there was little input from the lesbian/gay movement. The seventeen-year lag between the 1973 APA decision & the 1990 reform demonstrates the limitations for effecting change in federal policy of a social movement that must rely more on logic & moral rationality than political empowerment. J. W. Stanton
Beyond Black or White: An Alternate to America.Vernon J. Dixon , Badi G. Foster
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 78, Heft 3, S. 747-748
ISSN: 1537-5390
The Black Middle Class.Sidney Kronus
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 78, Heft 2, S. 453-456
ISSN: 1537-5390
'The Gay Rights State': Wisconsin's Pioneering Legislation to Prohibit Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
In: Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, 2007
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Pat Frawley: right-wing money bag [supporter of conservative causes, particularly the American security council]
In: The Progressive, Band 34, S. 14-19
ISSN: 0033-0736
The Perils of Marriage as Transcendent Ontology: National Pride at Work v. Governor of Michigan
In: Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Forthcoming
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The thick blue line [recent law enforcement tactics to curb civil disorder in the United States]
In: Civil liberties, S. 21-22
ISSN: 0009-790X
The money torrent and the fifth horseman, a statement of the finncial power of the Federal Government to spend, to tax, to borrow, to control money, credit and banking, all related to the outlook for individual liberty and general progress
In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435015645518
"A supplement to the 1947 spring number of American affairs." ; "Notes and citations": p. 29-30. ; Mode of access: Internet.
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