| From: | ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.Colorado.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Maxim Press Release |
| Date: | Wed, 13 Mar 1996 01:13:36 -0700 (MST) |
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Good evening, my name is Charlie Fingers and I'm here live in the Ute Sector
of the Denver Front Range Free Zone, where Ms. Nicole Velli, President and
CEO of Maxim Arms, will be speaking shortly.
There has been a lot of rumors flying about recent events concerning Maxim
Arms, specifically regarding the recent events in LaPaz, Amazonia, Cairo, and
Phenom Penh, in what used to be Cambodia. There have been reports of massive
explosions, terrorist attacks, and it appears that LaPaz at least is
suffering from some form of radioactive contamination. On these rumors
along, Maxim's stocks have plummeted to another low, losing all the ground
that they had gained since the destruction of the Warsaw production facility
and more.
We're not sure when Ms. Velli will be....ahh, here she is now, and with her
is Mr. John Skulkin, the current Vice-President of Corporate Security.
JS: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, Ms. Velli would like to read from a
prepared statement. There will be time for some questions following her
statement. Miss Nicole Velli.
NV: Thank you, John. Ladies and gentlemen of the press, there have been
many rampant rumors and innuendos regarding Maxim Arms recently. It is the
purpose of this statement to address the rumors and allay any fears the
public might have.
At approximately 6AM local time on the 10th of this month, terrorists struck
three Maxim facilities in a well coordinated assault. In the cases of LaPaz
and Cairo, the targets were small, temporary stores of radioactive isotopes
and material that Maxim uses to produce radiation cancer therapies, satellite
power cells, and small scale experimental reactors. In the case of our
Phenom Penh facility, the terrorists were interested in our primary nuclear
material stockpile worldwide.
The most damaged of the three, our LaPaz facility suffered extreme damage
and, in the process, the containment vessels for the material were destroyed
and radioactive isotopes were released into the atmosphere. This
precipitated the Amazonian government to send environmental experts and
troops to aid in the cleanup and to ensure public safety, as many of Maxim's
employees were injured in the attack and Maxim was unable to immediately
guarantee the safety of the residents of LaPaz. However, the Amazonian
military overstepped their authority when they decided to occupy the LaPaz
facility and deport all the uninjured Maxim employees to Santiago, Chile.
Maxim has only recently been able to return a technical oversight team to
the facility, but we hope to be able to return our employees to their
families living in the suburbs of LaPaz.
In addition, there have been rumors of Amazonian troops near other Maxim
facilities in Amazonia. Because Maxim had not informed the Amazonian
government that we intended to temporarily store small quantities of nuclear
isotopes and materials at the site, the government had considered an armed
search of other Maxim facilities for similar materials. As a sovereign
megacorporation, the Maxim Board of Directors could not allow that to happen,
and tensions rose. Until recently, that is. As of about an hour ago, the
last Amazonian units had been recalled from near Maxim facilities and
Amazonia has agreed to return the LaPaz facility to Maxim Arms within the
next month. In return, Maxim has agreed to allow Amazonian environmental
observers in our facilities, to provide Amazonia with a complete listing of
all potentially environmentally harmful materials in our Amazonian
facilities, and we have been forced to bend to political pressure to
discontinue our biomedical cancer and VITAS research in the Amazon
rainforest.
The second facility, in Cairo, was also attacked, but since the attack was
more of a surgical strike, less damage and less contamination was released
into the environment. Cairo was an additional short-term storage facility
for nuclear research materials. In its case, however, the materials were
destined for our research installations in the Nile river channel and
Ethiopia. We have been able to totally clean up the contamination in Cairo
and we have set up a temporary center for those locals who feel that they
could be affected by the extremely slight contamination released.
Due to the nature of our Phenom Penh facility, I can only say that the attack
there was very well planned and executed and our analysis has shown that it
was designed to appear as if one of the many local Cambodian warlords was
attacking the facility. The attack was successfully repelled and no nuclear
material left the facility.
I would like to take this opportunity to insure the public of Maxim's
commitment to environmental and public safety as well as the advancement of
technology and science. Maxim has been the target of many recent terrorist
activities and we are taking steps to insure that this never happens again.
Thank you. Questions?
Yes, Paula?
Paula Yeats: Miss Velli, you said that the materials stored in LaPaz and
Cairo were radioisotopes and "nuclear materials." Amazonian experts have
released information saying that there was plutonium present. What use does
Maxim have for plutonium?
MV: Maxim uses small amounts of plutonium in our satellite power supplies, and our 4
nuclear fission reactors worldwide use plutonium as the fuel source rather than uranium.
Yes, Mariah?
Mariah Cobol: Ma'am, you said that storage was temporary, yet the warehouses
destroyed in LaPaz were long term storage. Why the discrepancy?
MV: Short term storage is cycled through a warehouse within days in both
Cairo and LaPaz, and that much jostling could potentially break the storage
containers or allow some mistake to ship the materials to some organization
who shouldn't receive them.
Yes, Kathy?
Kathy Mountain Hawk: Miss Velli, does Maxim have any leads as to who was
responsible, and why they would have risked thousands of lives in such a
manner?
JS: I'll take this one, ma'am. We're not sure, Mrs. Mountain Hawk. The
evidence we've seen points in several directions, including rouge elements
in the Amazonian wilderness, several ecoterrorist organizations who have
been harassing Maxim over mining and similar resource operations, and even a
competitor or two. All of them would have benefited by Maxim having
difficulties in Amazonia, and as you know, not all corporations are as
environmentally conscious as Maxim Arms.
MV: Yes, Tad?
Tad Penn: And what of Phenom Penh, where your corporation is not even
allowing the press within a kilometer of the perimeter?
MV: That facility is a large scale production, research, and distribution
nexus for SE Asia as well as the storage point for most of Maxim's refined
and unrefined nuclear materials. It is from there that we ship out plutonium
to our reactors worldwide. Because of the security for other operations not
related to the terrorist attacks, we do not allow anyone within a kilometer
of the site. In fact, we never have, but it wasn't until recently that
anyone like the press was interested in going there.
We have time for one more. Charlie?
Charlie Fingers: Miss Velli, what of the rumors that the plutonium was
sufficiently refined to manufacture nuclear weapons?
MV: Totally unfounded. Maxim doesn't have any nuclear weapons, nor are we
in the business to construct any such weapons. However, even if we were,
how would anyone know after the plutonium had been dispersed by explosives?
I recommend you check your sources a little better, Charlie.
Good night, and thank you for your time.
Charlie: As you just heard, Maxim has....
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