Subject: Headlines 12 - 13 oktober 1995 Oct 10 1995 (Reuter) - Dr. Maryann MA ,a pregnant cancer researcher was contaminated by someone at National Institites of Health with radiation after she resisted a supervisor's pressures to have an abortion. An NIH spokesman did not dispute the apparently intentional nature of the contamination, calling it an "unfortunate episode" and noting that the institute called in the FBI to investigate the case. The baby is expected in December. Oct. 13 1995 (UPI) -- Joseph Rotblat, a scientist who resigned from the Manhattan Project and then dedicated his life to campaigning against the nuclear weapons it developed, won the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize along with his anti-nuclear organization Pugwash. The Nobel Committee said it awarded the $1 million prize this year to encourage the world to now rid itself of the nuclear threat. Oct 13 1995 (Reuter) - Politicans from 130 countries, meeting as the Inter-Parliamentary Union, voted on Friday to condemn French nuclear testing. The Bucharest conference passed by 933 votes to 65 with 356 abstentions a New Zealand motion, backed by Japan, Chile and Australia, calling on France and China to abide by a voluntary ban on nuclear testing. Oct 13 1995 (Reuter) - Western diplomats reported progress on Friday in fresh talks on financing the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power station, but Ukraine's influential nuclear lobby remained cautious. Diplomats close to the two days of talks, conducted by technical experts of G7 industrialised countries, said discussions were productive. Oct 13 1995 (Reuter) - A top NATO official told Ukrainians on Friday there was "no need to get excited" about the possibility that an expanded Western alliance might station nuclear weapons nearby. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Hennady Udovenko this week said deployment of nuclear weapons near the former Soviet republic's border would be a "provocation" and said the Alliance would be better off improving its ties with Russia. Oct 13 1995 (Reuter) - South Africa's nuclear agency forced a fictional television series about sales of atomic weapons off the air, a lawyer for the state broadcaster said on Friday. The programme's characters dabble in the business of atomic energy and uranium enrichment and some buy nuclear weapons under false pretences from South Africa. South Africa is the only country in the world which assembled and then scrapped a nuclear arsenal. Oct 13 1995 (Reuter) - Denmark said on Friday it would offer 50,000 crowns ($9,000) each in compensation to workers who say they were contaminated when cleaning up atomic debris from the 1968 crash of a U.S. bomber in Greenland. Large amounts of contaminated snow, ice and water were removed from the crash site by workers who many years later claimed their cancer death rate was 1.5 times the national average. Oct 12 1995 (Reuter) - Five weeks before the new harvest of Beaujolais wine comes to market, wine industry leaders are playing down boycott threats over France's resumption of nuclear testing in the South Pacific, hoping things will blow over. France has mobilised its overseas diplomats, agricultural missions and business and export organisations to try to counteract boycott appeals. Oct 12 1995 (Reuter) - Germany's ruling Christian Democrats told French deputies on Thursday Bonn would only consider a French offer of expanding its nuclear shield if this did not endanger its ties with the United States. Bonn was not interested in using an extended French defence plan as a way to get "a finger on the button" for nuclear arms. Oct 12 1995 (Reuter) - Ukraine and the West appeared on Thursday to be edging closer to a solution on financing the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power station. Diplomats in contact with the G7 delegation, the second to visit Ukraine in three weeks, said the talks were going well. A government economic plan approved by parliament on Wednesday calls for the nuclear share of Ukraine's electricity production to rise from 33 to 40 percent by next year. Oct 12 1995 (Reuter) - Foreign Minister Herve de Charette hinted on Thursday that France's controversial nuclear tests might wrap up sooner than the May 31 deadline set earlier by President Jacques Chirac. Oct 12 1995 (Reuter) - Commonwealth parliamentarians meeting in Colombo this week have signed a petition protesting against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific, a Malaysian delegate said on Thursday. MP Wan Hanafiah said the petition was signed by more than 600 participants. Oct 12 1995 (Reuter) - The Greenpeace environmentalist movement said on Thursday French police broke up a demonstration involving four vessels in Tahiti on Wednesday and ordered the yachts to be immobilised until the case came to court. The yachts Joie, Sudden Laughter, Te Kaitoa and Carumba were intercepted and boarded by police commandos after they sailed across Papeete harbour displaying banners with anti-nuclear testing slogans. Oct 12 1995 (Reuter) - France's embassy in Australia has hit out at an Australian union's anti-nuclear protest ban on refuelling an Air France aircraft, saying it was an act of piracy that would damage Australia's commercial reputation. Oct 12 1995 (Reuter) - World electricity demand could be met solely by nuclear power by the middle of the next century if fossil-fuel powered generators are replaced by fast-breeder reactors. "Oil and gas resources, which are estimated to be exhausted by the middle of the 21st century, can be replaced by FBR-based nuclear power if it is introduced aggressively on a global scale from the year 2030," said Sadao Kijima, vice-president of Japan's Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industries. Japan, as the only country in the world is pushing ahead with its first 280 mw fast-breeder reactor. Oct 11 1995 (Reuter) - New Zealand and other South Pacific states drove home their attack on French nuclear testing on Wednesday, using a forum of 500 parliamentarians from 130 countries to issue a call to "stop this foolishness." Launching a debate on the French testing at Mururoa atoll, New Zealand politician Max Bradford told the conference the campaign against testing was directed as much against China as against France and was not intended to be anti-French.