Subject: headlines 29 sept

     29 Sept 1995 (Reuter) - Canadian David McTaggart and
another anti-nuclear activist, Australian Chris Robinson, had
been flown from Tahiti to Europe, after expelling him for
sailing a yacht into an exclusion zone around Mururoa.  
Twenty-one Polynesians on board the yacht were flown back to
their homes immediately after being arrested.


     29 Sept 1995 (Reuter) - Catching sight of a small ad in a
Canadian newspaper in 1972 was the start for David McTaggart
of a fierce struggle to save the planet. The add was an appeal
for volunteers to join together and sail to Mururoa to try to
stop French atmospheric tests. This week, in almost identical
circumstances, Mctaggart's determination to put an end to
nuclear testing led to his arrest by French authorities and
his deportation from Tahiti.


     29 Sept 1995 (Reuter) - Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma
expressed confidence on Friday that Western countries would
provide the $4 billion needed to close the Chernobyl nuclear
power station by the year 2000. He also said the plan to build
a gas-fired station to replace Chernobyl was inappropriate and
had been abandoned. Ukraine, Kuchma said, needed to upgrade
existing facilities, including large hydroelectric stations on
the Dnieper River built in the 1930s.


     29 Sept 1995 (Reuter) - The German government expressed
interest in a French offer to extend its nuclear defence
shield to Germany during a parliamentary debate on Friday.
Opposition Social Democrats, Greens and the reform communist
Party of Democratic Socialism all spoke out against any German
part in the formulation of French nuclear policy.  


     29 Sept 1995 (Reuter) - Russia said on Friday it will
keep nuclear reactor contracts with Iran unchanged, after
China said it had scrapped a similar deal opposed by the U.S.
After three years of bitter debate with Washington, Beijing
this week terminated the agreement to deliver relatively small
300-megawatt power stations. China's reasons for cancellation
of the deal were not clear.   


     29 Sept 1995 (Reuter) - Police boarded a Greenpeace ship
sailing the Rhine just outside Germany's parliament in Bonn on
Friday and broke up a noisy protest against French nuclear
testing. The environmental activist group would also like
parliament to reject France's offer to start talks on
extending its nuclear shield to protect Germany, he added.