Subject: headlines 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): Two activists, Canadian David McTaggart and Australian Chris Robinson were arrested and expelled when their yacht, the Vega, sailed into the exclusion zone around Mururoa. The 21 Polynesians also on board were flown back to their homes immediately after their arrest. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): New Zealand Foreign Minister Don McKinnon on Thursday accused France and China of showing a cavalier disregard for world opinion and said the damage would take long to repair. McKinnon said a resolution would be submitted to the assembly, which would condemn nuclear testing and demand it stop. It is expected to pass, sometime in November, by an overwhelming majority. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): Four Greenpeace activists were detained on Fangataufa atoll on Thursday as speculation mounted France's secondary nuclear test site would be used for the next and possibly most powerful test. The four entered the military exclusion zone and were arrested near a disused runway on the outside of the atoll. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): Bulgaria is ready to defy international pressure and reopen the controversial Kozloduy reactor number one, deputy prime minister Kiril Tsochev said on Thursday. Last week ambassadors of the G-7 urged Bulgaria not to reopen the reactor. Experts from the IAEA have been invited to Kozloduy next week. The 440-megawatt reactor number one, which came into operation in 1974, has been closed for seven months to allow upgrading and safety checks. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): Bavaria's state interior minister Guenter Beckstein on Thursday rejected allegations that investigators plotted with German intelligence to smuggle radioactive plutonium to Munich from Moscow on an airliner. A German court jailed two Spaniards and a Colombian in July for smuggling a suitcase containing weapons-grade plutonium from Russia but the judge said they had been enticed into the deal by an agent in the pay of the BND. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): Ukraine Environment Minister Yuri Kostenko accused Western Europe of distrusting Ukraine over its pledge to close the Chernobyl nuclear power station and said the United States was more understanding of his country's difficulties. Ukraine says about $4 billion is needed to close Chernobyl by the year 2000 and is unhappy about the rejection this week by G7 experts (meeting in Kiev) of its plan to build a new thermal plant to compensate. The G7 experts preferred completion of unbuilt nuclear reactors and a general upgrading of existing hydroelectric and thermal plants. Kostenko also said the government had prolonged until October tenders for construction of a plant to produce fuel rods for Ukraine's nuclear reactors and reduce the country's dependence on poor-grade Russian fuel. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): An Iranian official on Thursday denied reports that China had decided to cancel its nuclear cooperation with Iran. Iran, which has agreements with Russiam and China for building nuclear power stations, says its nuclear programme is peaceful, rejecting U.S. charges that it is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): France said on Thursday it had cooperated with a team of European Union experts investigating the safety of its nuclear tests but stopped short of denying they had been barred from some sensitive test sites. Foreign Ministry spokesman Doutriaux said France had never agreed to allow experts to visit military test sites. But EU Environment Commissioner Bjerregaard told on Wednesday that France had blocked experts from visiting some test sites, making it impossible for a full assessment of safety and health procedures. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette made a Freudian slip in a speech to the United Nations: "The fight against the proliferation of nuclear tests must be universal." Officials said the minister had meant to refer to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, not tests. 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): North Korea official media warned that the country was running out of patience waiting for the October, 1994, nuclear agreement to be implemented. The $4.5 billion package includes about 500,000 metric tons of heavy crude oil to tide North Korea over until the nuclear reactors are installed in several years time, and management and disposal of North Korea's existing spent fuel. On Saturdy expert-level negotiations are beginning with representatives of the U.S.-led Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO). 28-SEP-1995 (Reuter): The United Arab Emirates has joined the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a foreign ministry official said on Thursday. An United Nations conference decided in May to extend indefinitely the 178-nation global treaty that aims to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.