Subject: headlines

                  NUKE-NET  HEADLINE  ALERT  '95
 
     (July 18) Reuter is reporting that New Zealand's prime
minister is disappointed that Britain has not taken a stance
against France's nuclear testing plan.  New Zealand will send a
research ship to the Mururoa test site.
 
     (July 20) Reuter is reporting that Japan formally has
requested that France end plans for nuclear testing.  France
reacted by warning Japan not to boycott any French products or
relations would be hurt.
 
     (July 20) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace is sending its
190-ft. ship MS Greenpeace from Barcelona to Mururoa Atoll.
 
     (July 20) Reuter is reporting that South Korea's president
is meeting with the US president in Washington to discuss
assurances that North Korea will comply with the nuclear power
plant agreement and not produce weapons-grade materials. 
 
     (July 20) Reuter is reporting that Vietnam is studying
proposals to build a nuclear power plant.  The only reactor in
Vietnam is a research reactor.  South Korea has indicated it will
sell technology to Vietnam.
 
     (July 21) Reuter is reporting that the Group of 77
developing countries is preparing a resolution condemning nuclear
tests.
 
     (July 21) Reuter is reporting that the French Polynesia
assembly has rejected a motion opposing the resumptions of
nuclear testing.  France subsidizes the Polynesian economy. 
 
     (July 21) Reuter is reporting that despite US pressures and
agreements a Pakistan government committee says it needs the
nuclear option because of the threat of war from India .
 
     (July 22) Reuter is reporting that the French navy has
spotted the missing empty Greenpeace Zodiac rubber dingy 120
miles north of Mururoa.  It is believed the men are on Vanavana
Atoll and not on the Mururoa Atoll.
 
     (July 22) Reuter is reporting that Cook Island is sending a
ceremonial canoe to Mururoa to protest the nuclear tests.
 
     (July 23) Reuter is reporting that Chirac's decision to
resume testing has lowered his approval in France to 44
percent.
 
     (July 23) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace says three
activists are now aboard the Vega after eluding the French
military for several weeks.  The men were playing a "cat and
mouse" game with the military to disrupt the planned nuclear
tests. 
     (July 24) Reuter is reporting that one of France's largest
trade unions is supporting foreigners who boycott French products
to protest nuclear testing.
 
     (July 24) Reuter is reporting that the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) says documents purporting to show Iraq is
reviving a banned nuclear weapons program are fakes.  The IAEA
says the documents contained significant inaccuracies in
qualifications, titles and names of individuals and technical and
administrative organizational structures.
 
     (July 24) Reuter is reporting that Sweden's Ringhals nuclear
plant has experienced three emergencies since the beginning of
the year.  In January a leaking ventilation pipe brought water
levels dangerously low, a stoppage in February was due to a bent
fuel rod, and a turbine disturbance triggered a fire alarm in
April.  Sweden has 12 nuclear plants.
 
     (July 24) Reuter is reporting that six Greenpeace activists
protested outside the French embassy in Moscow.
 
     (July 24) Reuter is reporting that France's opposition
Socialist Party wants a referendum vote on nuclear testing.  A
spokesman says France cannot justify the need to test by claiming
national security is at risk without the tests.
 
     (July 25) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace is asking for
a ruling from French State Council on the legality of Chirac's
decision to resume testing.  The requests also asks that the
tests be barred until a ruling is issued.
 
     (July 25) Reuter is reporting that the French Super-Phenix
fast breeder reactor will be repaired at the expense of
$4 million dollars.  The reactor has operated for only six months
since 1976 and is plagued with numerous safety problems.
 
     (July 25) Reuter is reporting that Japan is urging China to
stop nuclear testing at talks in Beijing.  China says its tests
are few in number and limited in scale compared to other
countries. 
 
     (July 25) Reuter is reporting that ten Greenpeace activists
in Barcelona, Spain chained themselves to a French aircraft
carrier which might be carrying nuclear weapons.  Spanish police
removed the protestors without arrests.
 
     (July 25) Reuter is reporting that 48 Australian legislators
have signed up to board a protest ship and join a growing
anti-nuclear flotilla bound for France's nuclear test site.  The
hope is to create a continuum of boats going into the area so
there's a constant presence around Mururoa to prevent the French
from conducting the tests.
 
     (July 26) UPI is reporting that Japanese Emperor Akihito and
Empress Michiko visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the end of World War II.  "I hope the world
deepens its understanding of nuclear weapons, and I pray for the
repose of their victims and for peace, so that humanity will
never experience such a disaster again," said Akihito.