NUKE-NET  HEADLINE  ALERT  '95
 
     (Aug. 5) Reuter is reporting that more than 400 anti-nuclear
protestors demonstrated outside the French and US embassies in
Hamburg, Germany on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of
Hiroshima.
 
     (Aug. 5) Reuter is reporting that France might carry out
seven nuclear test instead of eight.
 
     (Aug. 6) Reuter is reporting that New Zealand Prime
Minister Jim Bolger attended the departure of two ships from New
Zealand to Mururoa Atoll in the first of many participating in
an anti-testing flotilla.  
 
     (Aug. 7) Reuter is reporting that Russia is pressing ahead
with plans to sell two reactors to Iran for $1 billion.  The
spent fuel must be returned to Russia as part of the agreement.
 
     (Aug. 7) Reuter is reporting that the influential French
daily Le Monde newspaper is urging President Jacques Chirac to
scrap planned nuclear tests in the South Pacific, saying it was
better to back down in the face of a global outcry than
stubbornly choose isolation.
 
     (Aug. 8) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace says China is
preparing to test another nuclear weapon this month and is urging
China to stop testing.
 
     (Aug. 8) Reuter is reporting that the Ukraine is growing
impatient for economic aid from the West of at least $4 billion
to help close Chernobyl.  Ukraine says it will continue to
operate the plant if aid is not forthcoming.
     [This is a remarkable ongoing situation where a country is
essentially extorting money from other nations with the threat of
operating a nuclear power plant.  portzlines88]
 
     (Aug. 9) Reuter is reporting that the French nuclear testing
could begin this month.
 
     (Aug. 9) Reuter is reporting that French anti-nuclear
protestors delivered 145,000 signatures to President Chirac
opposing the tests. 
 
     (Aug. 9) Reuter is reporting that London police arrested
four protesters after scuffles broke out during a demonstration
against French plans to resume nuclear testing
 
     (Aug. 9) Reuter is reporting that the German government
thinks France cannot be persuaded to halt nuclear testing.
 
     (Aug. 9) Reuter is reporting that Australia's top Aborigines
organization is criticizing the editor of the French newspaper Le
Figaro for raising Australia's treatment of its indigenous people
in the row over French nuclear testing.
 
     (Aug. 10) Reuter is reporting that France says it will
commit to a comprehensive test ban treaty after May 1996.
 
     (Aug. 13) Reuter is reporting that about 150 anti-nuclear
protestors gathered at the opening of the South Pacific Games in
Tahiti.
 
     (Aug. 13) Reuter is reporting that the Rainbow Warrior II
has departed Fiji to return to the Mururoa Atoll.
 
     (Aug. 13) Reuter is reporting that China is blaming the US
for strained relation by allowing the President of Taiwan to
visit the US, and therefore;  China will continue to test nuclear
weapons. 
 
     (Aug. 14) Reuter is reporting that 90 Catholic bishops from
23 Pacific countries signed a rare joint statement calling on
France to stop nuclear testing in the Pacific.
 
     (Aug. 14) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace has
petitioned Spain to call an extraordinary Council of Ministers
meeting to debate the implications of France's decision to renew
nuclear tests on European Union foreign policy and security. 
 
     (Aug. 14) Reuter is reporting that Australia is demanding a
scientific study of the Mururoa Atoll before anymore testing is
done.
 
     (Aug. 14) Reuter is reporting that China is planning to
build a 4,000 megawatt nuclear plant in the eastern province of
Shandong.  The design calls for four 1,000 megawatt reactors. 
 
     (Aug. 15) Reuter is reporting that Germany is pressing China
for information about the 5 Greenpeace protestors who were
arrested.
 
     (Aug. 15) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace activists will
be deported from China for protesting the imminent nuclear test
which China is planning.
 
     (Aug. 15) Reuter is reporting that four Greenpeace activists
plan to climb France's highest peak, Mont Blanc, to protest the
French planned nuclear test.  The climbers will unfurl a 52 ft.
by 52 ft. banner with a nuclear symbol and a red cross during
their two-week stay. If weather was good, it would be visible in
the nearby Chamonix valley.
 
     (Aug. 16) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace says China is
about to conduct another nuclear test.  
 
     (Aug. 16) Reuter is reporting that French sheep farmers who
waged a celebrated campaign against an army camp in the 1970s
said they were joining the campaign against France's nuclear
tests in the South Pacific.
 
     (Aug. 16) Reuter is reporting that Greenpeace activists
protested outside the Chinese embassy in Athens, Greece over the
deportation of fellow activists.
 
     (Aug. 16) UPI is reporting that France will provide details
on the scientific and environmental aspects of nuclear testing to
the European Union experts.
 
     (Aug. 17) Reuter is reporting that the majority of the
Danish Parliament have signed a protest against France's plans to
test.
 
     (Aug. 17) Reuter is reporting that Canada issued the
following statement:  "We call on all the nuclear weapons states
to cease testing now and forever.  China should respect the
recent call for an end to nuclear testing made at the ASEAN
(Association of South-East Asian Nations) Regional Forum meeting
on August 1. China is a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum."
 
     (Aug. 18) UPI is reporting that Japanese riot police removed
about 30 members of the environmental group Greenpeace from the
front of the Chinese Embassy.  Demonstrators failed to give