From nukenet@envirolink.org Wed Oct 4 10:44:31 1995 Received: from envirolink.org (DOLPHIN.ENVIROLINK.ORG [128.2.22.19]) by roxy.sfo.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA02563 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 10:44:29 -0700 Received: from (localhost) by envirolink.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA19382; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 13:43:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 13:43:37 -0400 Errors-To: mxe115@psuvm.psu.edu Message-Id: Errors-To: mxe115@psuvm.psu.edu Reply-To: wisemail@wise.antenna.nl Originator: nukenet@envirolink.org Sender: nukenet@envirolink.org Precedence: bulk From: wisemail@wise.antenna.nl To: rherried@roxy.sfo.com Subject: HEADLINES October 2 & 3, 1995 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: R 2 Oct (Reuter) - Ukraine asked Canada to put pressure on its G7 partners countries to provide financing to help it close the Chernobyl nuclear plant by the year 2000. Prime Minister Marchuk complains that some members of the G7, particularly France, were being unhelpful in trying to devise a plan to shut down the power station. 2 Oct. (UPI) - A federal investigative committee will release a report Tuesday documenting decades of government-sponsored radiation experiments on thousands of citizens, and will recommend compensation for many of the people affected. The panel will make few direct recommendations for financial compensation but will offer a system that survivors can use to find out what happened to them so they can seek compensation, necessary medical care and apologies, chairman Ruth Faden said. 2 Oct (Reuter) - Czech police broke up a blockade by environmentalists of the unfinished Temelin nuclear power plant on Monday, making dozens of arrests and injuring two protesters. The blockade started on Sunday. About 160 people had been blocking 11 entrance gates in an effort to prevent construction vehicles and workers from entering the station. 2 Oct (Reuter) - French military sources confirmed that the blast under Fangataufa atoll was indeed that of an operational TN-75 warhead and that these would have a destructive power "equivalent to around 100,000 tonnes of TNT." A TN-75 warhead is intended for the next generation of missile-firing submarines. 2 Oct. (Reuter) - Russia expressed "deep regret" over France's nuclear test in the Pacific, saying that the French test would further complicate the international situation. 2 Oct (Reuter) - South Africa condemned France's latest nuclear test and told its diplomats to raise its concerns with the United Nations. South Africa produced six nuclear warheads in a secret programme starting in the 1970s but has dismantled them and promised not to replace them. 2 Oct (Reuter) - The German government issued a low-key criticism of France's nuclear arms test. Chancellor Kohl has said in the past that he opposed nuclear tests but flatly refused to criticise France. Austria criticised the test in the South Pacific but conspiciously refrained from the sharp attacks on France that followed the first test last month and soured relations between the two countries. 2 Oct (Reuter) - The Mexican government condemned France's second and biggest of its new series of nuclear weapons tests. 2 Oct (Reuter) - Gendarmes took to the streets in Tahiti on Monday to try to prevent violent protests. Leaders of political parties, trade unions, churches and non-government organisations all believe there will be violence in Papeete as people, particularly jobless youths, react to the second nuclear test. Residents and local shopkeepers have armed themselves and hired private security guards to protect their property. 2 Oct (Reuter) - Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said the nuclear policy consequences of the French nuclear explosion were even worse than the environmental effects. Calling for negotiations as soon as possible on banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons, Evans said a further helpful step would be a regime requiring all states to declare and account for their present stocks of fissile material. 2 Oct (Reuter) - Three members of Italy's Green Party chained themselves to the door of the Air France offices in central Rome in protest at France's second nuclear test. They said they wanted Italians to boycott French air lines and cars. 2 Oct. (Reuter) - Greenpeace told U.S. President Bill Clinton bluntly on Monday to intervene to stop French nuclear tests in the South Pacific, and urged the rest of Europe and Japan to speak out in protest. 2 Oct. (Reuter) - Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) condemned France's second nuclear test as "brazen and cowardly" and renewed its appeal for a boycott of French products. CND said it would stage peaceful demonstrations at Dover harbour targetting French trucks bringing goods into Britain as part of its campaign for a boycott of French wine, cheese and other products. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - Bulgaria, which has rebuffed the nuclear safety fears of wealthier states, said on Tuesday it was in the process of restarting its oldest reactor at the Kozloduy nuclear plant. 3 Oct (Reuter) - The 16-nation South Pacific Forum suspended its diplomatic ties with France and said the latest French nuclear test would force many in the region to review their trade and other links with France. Forum chairman and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan decided to suspend the annual post-forum dialogue with France, the forum's only official link with France. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette played down world outrage at French tests saying France faced no real international pressure over its South Pacific nuclear tests and accusing the media and the Greenpeace environmental group of hyping opposition. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - France angrily denied a report that fissures in the rock below its South Pacific nuclear testing sites risk being torn open by future weapons tests. The daily Le Monde published a map of the fissures at the Mururoa atoll in its Tuesday edition and quoted experts as saying they may lead to future leaks of radioactive material into the sea or atmosphere. 3 Oct. (Reueter) - Italy said it had informed France's ambassador to Rome of mounting and widespread concern in the country over French nuclear tests. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - France called for dialogue with South Pacific nations after the region's 16-nation forum suspended ties with Paris over the resumption of nuclear weapon testing in French Polynesia. 3 Oct (Reuter) - Greenpeace protesters blockaded the French ambassador's residence in Wellington on Tuesday in an early morning protest against the French nuclear test. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - A firm of British lawyers threatened to sue the French government after anti-nuclear protestors daubed their offices with paint in the mistaken belief they contained the French chamber of commerce. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - Philippine President Fidel Ramos accused France of intransigence over its second nuclear test, saying the test raised doubts Paris was committed to global disarmament. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - Japan said on Tuesday it will send a special envoy to the United Nations next week to seek additional support among member states for a proposed resolution calling for an immediate halt to nuclear testing. Although the resolution will have no binding effect on either France or China, it would put additional diplomatic pressure on the two countries. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - Air France said it had cancelled one of its flights to Australia after a union banned refuelling of the airline's flights in protest over France's latest nuclear test. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - New Zealand said it will send two naval officers on a diving course in France despite a row over French nuclear tests and a freeze on military cooperation. Foreign Minister Don McKinnon, responding to opposition criticism, said the course was run by a Scottish firm and was not connected with the French government or military. 3 Oct. (Reuter) - Papeete remained calm with gendarmes patrolling the streets after France's second nuclear test, but calls mounted for French Polynesia's parliament to debate the nuclear issue to maintain peace. -- If you are interested to get these headlines and information about nuclear energy regulary, subscribe to the nukenet-list. Send a email to listproc@envirolink.org containing 'subscribe nukenet Your real name' in the message body.