Subject: HEADLINES 1-2 Oct. 95  CORRECTION

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yesterday. Sorry. WISE Amsterdam


2 Oct (Reuter) - France was again the target of a wave of
global outrage after its second nuclear test. The fiercest
condemnation came from Japan, Australia and New Zealand. The
United States criticised the test. European Union foreign
ministers voiced their regret. Britain refused to speak out
against French testing.

2 Oct (Reuter) - London would not be pushed into taking sides
in the nuclear debate. Britain, itself a nuclear power, viewed
the matter from a different perspective. The Foreign Office
again denied media reports that Britain was receiving data
from the French nuclear tests, adding that the French and
British systems were dissimilar.

2 Oct (Reuter) - The French territory of Tahiti was calm but
tense on Sunday night as pro-independence groups warned that
France's latest  nuclear test in the region could ignite a
violent rampage aimed at French expatriates. Protesters will
rally on Tuesday outside French Polynesia's parliament in
Papeete and call on the Territorial Assembly to debate French
testing.

2 Oct (Reuter) - Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson,
already at odds with French President Jacques Chirac, slammed
France's second nuclear test on Monday, saying Paris was
continuing to snub world opinion.

2 Oct (Reuter) - Denmark condemned the second French nuclear
test in the South Pacific on Monday, criticising Paris for
ignoring international condemnation of the blasts.

2 Oct (Reuter) - The Dutch government condemned a second
French nuclear test and urged that a moratorium on further
experiments now be respected.

2 Oct (Reuter) - Sixteen Greenpeace activists climbed on to
the roof of the French ambassador's residence in London to
mount a protest against France's second nuclear test.

2 Oct (Reuter) - As dozens of South Koreans protested outside
the French embassy, the South Korean government said it
regretted France's second nuclear blast and demanded an
immediate end to all nuclear testing.

2 Oct (Reuter) - New Zealand protested to France over its
second nuclear blast and stepped up pressure on Britain to
join international condemnation of the tests. New Zealand,
which has close traditional ties with Britain, has made no
secret that it feels let down by London's silence.

2 Oct (Reuter) - Prime Minister Paul Keating said the test,
one of France's biggest ever, defied common sense."The test
ignores the understandable outrage of the international
community at the French government's first test and compounds
the sense of anger felt by regional countries as a result of
the continued testing," he said in a statement. Australia's
Transport Workers Union said it had placed a ban on refuelling 
Air France flights from Sydney from midnight in protest
against the test.   

2 Oct (Reuter) - The South Pacific Forum on Monday condemned
France's second nuclear test in the region, saying it would
further harm ties between Paris and the 16 forum nations. A
forum spokesman said it was now a "strong possibility" that
France could be suspended as a dialogue partner to the forum. 

1 Oct (Reuter) - Tahiti's main independence group and
non-government organisation said France's second South Pacific
nuclear test on Sunday could spark violence and unrest among
homeless and jobless young people in the French territory. The
capital was quiet on Sunday afternoon, with the city district
virtually deserted except for police patrols. 

2 Oct (Reuter) - Japan's Foreign Minister Yohei Kono will
summon French ambassador Jean-Bernard Ouvrieu to express deep
regret at the second in a series of French nuclear tests in
the Pacific, the Japanese government said.  
The mayor of Hiroshima, the first city ever to suffer atomic
bombing, issued a strong protest against the latest test."To
strengthen one's nuclear arsenal at a time when we are
searching for a world without nuclear weapons is an act
betraying the international community," Takashi Hiraoka said
in a message sent to the French embassy in Tokyo.