Subject: headlines

                  NUKE-NET  HEADLINE  ALERT  '95
     
     (July 9) Reuter is reporting that the French ambassador has
not been summoned by New Zealand's prime minister to explain the
actions against the Rainbow Warrior II as previously reported.
 
     (July 9) Reuter is reporting that the crew of the Rainbow
Warrior II is now being questioned on Mururoa.  They will be
released soon.
 
     (July 9) Reuter is reporting that New Zealand's prime
minister says France has gone "totally over the top" for storming
the Rainbow Warrior II with tear gas.  He said they didn't need
to board an unarmed ship with such force.
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that the French ambassador to
Australia told Australia's foreign minister that he does not
classify tear gas as a weapon.
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that the Irish prime minister
says the storming of the Greenpeace vessel was incomprehensible
and will raise the issue at the next European Union meeting of
foreign ministers.
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that Canada says the storming
of the Rainbow Warrior II was unnecessary.  In Vancouver, nine
Greenpeace activists chained themselves together and occupied the
French consulate.  The group and another demonstrator were
removed after several hours and charged with trespassing, police
said.  Greenpeace organized protest rallies outside France's
offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal.  The
Vancouver demonstration attracted about 75 people and was the
biggest of the four, officials said. 
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that New Zealand's prime
minister says France is showing contempt for the rest of the
world.  He encourages all nations to protest. 
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that informal talks over
nuclear materials have resumed between the European Union and the
US.  The EU wants several changes to the draft revised agreement,
including ones relating to rules covering the withdrawal of
United States' consent rights for the use of US-origin nuclear
materials.  This has been one of the central obstacles in
negotiations which have rumbled on since 1991.
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that German Chancellor Kohl
will discuss France's planned nuclear test with Chirac.  A poll
shows that 91 percent of Germans oppose the tests and believe
Kohl should press Chirac to stop them.  The poll also found that
51 percent of Germans would be prepared to boycott French
products and 37 percent would boycott travel to France.
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that the daughter of a
Greenpeace photographer, killed when French agents blew up the
Rainbow Warrior exactly 10 years ago, said that France's plan to
resume nuclear testing showed his death had changed little.
    Marelle Pereira, 18, laid a star-shaped floral wreath outside
the French embassy in London to remember her father Fernando, who
drowned when the Rainbow Warrior was blown up in Auckland harbor
on July 10, 1985.  "You can't sink a rainbow," the wreath read.
"After my father's death I don't think a lot has changed."
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that a fire at the Czech
Dukovany nuclear plant caused only minor damage and was
extinguished within 15 minutes by the Czech plant's fire brigade.
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that convicted nuclear spy
Mordechai Vanunu will appear before an Israeli court this week to
ask for an end to his solitary confinement that has lasted nine
years.  Authorities apparently fear the former nuclear technician
who spilled secrets to a London newspaper in the 1980s could do
it again.  Vanunu's lawyer says after nine years in prison any
secrets his client might have known had already been published or
are now obsolete.
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that unnamed sources close to
the International Atomic Energy Agency say the flurry of activity
to resume testing by China and France may be a positive sign that
they are trying to squeeze a few more test in before an
international test ban treaty is reached next year.  
 
     (July 10) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace activists,
including a member of the original Rainbow Warrior when it was
sunk, chained themselves to the French embassy in Dublin,
Ireland.  Police took no action.
 
     (July 10) UPI is reporting that the Rainbow Warrior II has
been towed outside the 12-mile limit at Mururoa and is now
anchored 17 miles from the coast.  
     In Washington DC, Greenpeace protestors were arrested when
they wrapped the French ambassador's home in rainbow colored
paper and a nuclear radiation sign.  
 
     (July 11) Reuter is reporting that two Greenpeace activists
have breached security at Mururoa and climbed the drilling rig
which bores the hole for the planned nuclear test.  The report
came from crew members aboard the Rainbow Warrior, which is being
towed forcibly from Mururoa with French commandos still on board. 
   The crew had no passports with them, and gave their names as
Fernando Pereira, the name of the Dutch-Portuguese photographer
killed when French secret agents blew up the original Rainbow
Warrior in Auckland harbor on July 10, 1985.
     The crew staged a sit-in on the wharf at Mururoa over the
confiscation of navigational equipment and several of their
inflatable craft by the French authorities.  About 100 French
foreign legionnaires then surrounded the crew and eventually
bodily lifted them onto a transport vessel to ferry them back
onto the Rainbow Warrior II. 
 
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