Subject: HEADLINES 5-6 December 1995

      6 Dec 1995 (Reuter) - Greenpeace said it had lodged an
appeal against a Tahitian court decision not to order the
return of two ships and a helicopter seized during protests
against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific. "We will
appeal this all the way," Greenpeace International lawyer
Duncan Currie said in a statement. "The French state can take
no comfort in this decision. The decision is a triumph of
brute force over law."

      5 Dec 1995 (Reuter) - Bulgaria's controversial Kozloduy
nuclear plant switched off automatically after a new
protection system accidentally kicked into operation, a
spokesman said. Managing director Kozma Kuzmanov told the
protection system had gone on during regular checks of the
diesel generators of reactor number one.

      5 Dec 1995 (Reuter) - France came under fire at the
Western European Union (WEU) assembly on for its nuclear
tests, but managed to delay an embarrassing vote on a
resolution urging Paris to curb its programme of underground
blasts. The assembly, a consultative grouping of
parliamentarians from the 10 WEU nations, agreed to a French
demand to put off any vote until Wednesday after a sometimes
stormy session.