Subject: HEADLINES 24-26 November 1995

      26 Nov 1995 (Reuter) - Australian Prime Minister Paul
Keating enlisted former military chiefs, government leaders
and a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his crusade to rid the world
of nuclear weapons. The 15-member Canberra Commission named by
Keating includes former French prime minister Michel Rocard,
former U.S. defence secretary Robert McNamara, former British
military chief Michael Carver and 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
winner Joseph Rotblat. The commission is charged with helping
to chart Australia's ambitious campaign to abolish all nuclear
weapons.

      24 Nov 1995 (Reuter) - Russia's Federal Security Service
(FSB) said it was investigating a mystery radioactive package
found in a Moscow park that has sparked fears of Chechen
guerrilla attacks in the capital. The package was found by NTV
television on Thursday in the northeast of the city. The
independent NTV later quoted an FSB spokesman, Alexander
Mikhailov, as telling reporters that initial tests showed the
package did not pose a serious danger to the environment or
people's health.

      24 Nov 1995 (Reuter) - Bulgaria said it would study a
key component of its oldest Soviet-made nuclear reactor after
Russian experts demanded safety tests. The restart last month
of the 21-year-old reactor number one at Kozloduy near the
border with Romania after seven months of safety upgrading
caused international concern, despite Bulgarian assurances
that it was safe.
 
      24 Nov 1995 (Reuter) - European Union countries need
more technical data on the proposed closure and
decommissioning of the Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear reactor
complex before they can commit funds, a European Commission
spokesman said.

      24 Nov 1995 (Reuter) - Rock stars savaged French
President Jacques Chirac for nuclear testing in the South
Pacific at an MTV music awards ceremony in Paris, mixing
insults with calls to ban the bomb. "What a city, what a
night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a
wanker you have for president," Bono, the lead singer of Irish
supergroup U2, said in receiving an MTV 1995 award for best
group on Thursday night. MTV also awarded its "Free Your Mind"
award for a non-governmental organisation fighting against
injustice to the environmental group Greenpeace, which has
been among the most vocal opponents of Chirac's tests.