Subject: headlines

                  NUKE-NET  HEADLINE  ALERT  '95  
 
     (July 30) Reuter is reporting that about 35 German
protestors began a march to Paris to over nuclear testing. 
 
     (July 31) Reuter is reporting that more than 250 scientists
from around the world have backed a call to urge France to
postpone its nuclear tests in the South Pacific until an
assessment of the area can be done.  French scientists are
already aware of the instability of the Mururoa Atoll. 
 
     (July 31) Reuter is reporting that Taiwan says it will not
develop nuclear weapons even though it is capable of doing so.
 
     (July 31) Reuter is reporting that Bulgaria rejects a US
Dept. of Energy report calling its Kozloduy nuclear plant an
accident waiting to happen.  The other reactors identified by the
report as dangerous are Chernobyl, Russia's Kola reactor and
Ignalina in Lithuania.
 
     (Aug. 1) Reuter is reporting that New Zealand's largest
union is calling for a boycott of French products.
 
     (Aug. 1) Reuter is reporting that a Korean Peninsula Energy
Development Organization site survey team will visit North Korea
as part of plans to supply light water reactors of western
design. 
 
     (Aug. 1) Reuter is reporting that China will stop testing
nuclear weapons if a global test ban is enacted next year.  Until
then, China will continue testing.
 
     (Aug. 1) Reuter is reporting that Australia has barred a
French company from bidding for a $740 million jet fighter
contract.  France has recalled its ambassador for negotiations.
 
     (Aug. 2) Reuter is reporting that France has decorated the
commander of the secret agents who sank the Rainbow Warrior ten
years ago.  No reason was given for the promotion of Maj. Gen.
Jean-Claude Lesquer, but it is now known that the ceremony took
place at the time of the storming of the Rainbow Warrior II
nearly a month ago.
 
     (Aug. 2) Reuter is reporting that a Swedish hotel chain is
boycotting French wines.
 
     (Aug. 2) UPI is reporting that a Greenpeace report links a
high incidence of breast cancer in the Great Lakes region with
nuclear power plant emissions.
 
     (Aug. 3) Reuter is reporting that France says it will stand
firm on its decision to conduct eight nuclear tests which are
necessary for the European nuclear deterrent.  When pressed about
why the test are being conducted at Mururoa instead of France,
one government spokesman said Mururoa is geologically the safest
area they could find.
 
     (Aug. 3) Reuter is reporting that about 140 Japanese anti-
nuclear protestors rallied in front of the French embassy in
Tokyo.
 
     (Aug. 4) Reuter is reporting that France is threatening to
stop importing coal and uranium from Australia.
 
     (Aug. 4) Reuter is reporting that the European Union has
completed an agreement with the US for trade of nuclear
materials.
 
     (Aug. 4) Reuter is reporting that the World Wide Fund for
Nature is urging France to drop plans for nuclear testing.
 
     (Aug. 4) UPI is reporting that the mayor of Hiroshima
apologized for Japan's war atrocities and criticized a resolution
passed by the Japanese Diet for not going far enough.
 
     (Aug. 4) UPI is reporting that about 25 Japanese mathematics
professors burned the French flag in front of the French embassy
in Tokyo.  Three Tokyo University students were invited into the
French Embassy to hand over a list of more than 40,000 signatures
collected on the Internet.  [Some Nuke-Netters signed this
petition! portzlines88]
 
     (Aug. 5) Reuter is reporting that an anti-nuclear testing
bumper sticker has become very popular in Japan.
 
     (Aug. 5) Reuter is reporting that the British nuclear
submarine, HMS Sceptre, is heading for home because of a leak in
its primary and secondary reactor cooling system.  The Royal Navy
suffered similar problems in the early 1980s when three Polaris
nuclear submarines were found to have hairline cracks in their
cooling systems. Two have since been disposed of.
 
     (Aug. 5) Reuter is reporting that Canadian Prime Minister
Jean Chretien said, "Increased nuclear proliferation and the
spread of nuclear weapons material and technology in a new era of
increasing regional instability require concerted international
efforts to avoid new sources of potentially catastrophic
conflict."
 
     (Aug. 5) Reuter is reporting that France says it may only
conduct 7 tests instead of eight.
 
     (Aug. 6) Reuter is reporting that 112 environmental groups,
left-wing parties and trade unions are urging French citizens to
use the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima atom bomb to protest
against France's decision to resume nuclear weapons tests.  But,
only 1000 people rallied during the protest in Paris.
 
     (Aug. 6) Reuter is reporting that about 200 Kazakhstan
protestors marched to the Chinese border to mark the anniversary
of Hiroshima and to protest Chinese nuclear testing.  Under
Soviet rule, 459 nuclear bombs were detonated amid massive
secrecy from 1949 to 1989 at the Semipalatinsk test range in
northern Kazakhstan.  There were 113 tests above ground before
1963, "sacrificing the health of half a million people to the
senseless nuclear arms race," said President Nursultan
Nazarbayev. 
 
     (Aug. 6) Reuter is reporting that some 15,000 people led by
a Japanese youth choir marched past the French embassy in Sydney,
Australia.  Some held placards calling Chirac an environmental
criminal.  Another group waved signs reading "Hiroshima Never
Again."