Democracy Now : November 20 : Radiation Testing Settlements. More With Stan Goff

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Democracy Now : November 20 : Radiation Testing Settlements. More With Stan Goff
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Democracy Now : November 20 : Radiation Testing Settlements. More With Stan Goff / Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman. - Democracy Now is a daily election year program which takes an in-depth look at the political landscape and interviews visionaries from all walks of life, including members of grassroots organizations who challenge the status quo. - CONTENT: pt.1. Political headlines (3:00) -- pt.2. Financial settlement for those victims of top-secret radiation testing during the Cold War. Government will compensate 12 victims, 11 of whom were injected with plutonium without their consent of knowledge, as part of the test on the effects of radiation fallout| guests Elmerine Allen Whitfield, whose father was experimented on, Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute of Energy and Environmental Research. (16:00) -- pt.3. Nukes in Space, Mars 96 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Chile. The probe carried 22 instruments from 20 nations including founr batteries containing radioactive plutonium| guest Karl Grossman, investigative journalist (10:00) -- pt.4. More of the interview with Stan Goff, the retired special forces master sergeant who has served in Somalia, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Vietnam, Panama and Haiti. (17:00) - Broadcast November 20, 1996.

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