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                      Saturday, June 06, 1998
                      Indians, environmentalists
                      claim victory at Ward Valley

                      Associated Press 
                      NEEDLES, Calif. -- Indian tribes and environmentalists
                      claimed victory Friday after federal authorities withdrew an eviction
                      notice for their 113-day camp-in to block a nuclear waste dump project
                      at Ward Valley. 
                      A federal court was expected to make the final decision on the
                      project, however. Ward Valley is 117 miles south of Las Vegas. 
                      The Fort Mojave Indians and other Colorado River tribes
                      occupied the desert site to bar work on a repository for "low-level"
                      radioactive waste from power plants, hospitals and laboratories. 
                      The Wilson administration has been trying for years to acquire
                      the 1,000 acres of desert. The state Department of Health Services has
                      licensed a contractor to accept radioactive garbage from facilities in
                      California, Arizona and the Dakotas. 
                      The material would be stored in unlined trenches. Indians, along
                      with conservation groups and local governments, worry that
                      radioactivity could leak to the Colorado River, less than 20 miles away.

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