Subject: Headlines 14 - 15 oktober 1995

     Oct 15 1995 (Reuter) - Anti-nuclear activists
demonstrated against Beijing's nuclear testing during a brief
stopover in Italy by Chinese premier Li Peng on Sunday. Greens
and other environmentalist demonstrators hung a banner
proclaiming "Boycott 'Made in China'. No to nuclear testing"
outside a Milan court.

     Oct 15 1995 (Reuter) - About 10,000 protesters gathered
outside France's main submarine base Le Fred on Saturday in
one of the country's biggest anti-nuclear demonstrations.  
   Protesters, from environmental, left-wing and pacifist
groups, chanted "Stop the tests, stop nuclear weapons" and
"Chirac, Juppe, you are murderers and we are all Polynesians." 

     Oct 14 1995 (Reuter) - Cuba and Russia have agreed to put
up the bulk of the money needed to place the island's first
Soviet-designed nuclear reactor on line. The director of the
unfinished plant, Isaac Alayon, told Prensa Latina that of the
$750 million dollars needed to complete the first reactor,
Russia had agreed to invest $349 million and Cuba $208
million. The rest will be sought from other financial sources. 

     Oct 14 1995 (Reuter) - The British Foreign Office on
Saturday denied reports that it had asked France to delay any
further planned nuclear tests in the South Pacific until after
next month's Commonwealth summit. "There has been no request
to France to delay their tests. It is very much up to them.
The British position remains unchanged," a foreign office
official said on Saturday.  

     Oct 13 1995 (Reuter) - Cuba and Russia are seeking
foreign partners to form an international venture to complete
and operate an unfinished Soviet-designed nuclear power plant
in south-central Cuba, a senior Cuban official said on Friday. 
"This association is open to any firms that would like to take
part," said Rodrigo Ortiz the Deputy Minister for Basic
Industry.

     Oct. 15 1995 (UPI) -- Indian authorities are planning to
expand production capacity of their nuclear energy plants by
10 times by introducing a new technology, the Press Trust
ofIndia reported Sunday. The country's Department of Atomic
Energy and Nuclear Power Corporation hope to boost nuclear
capacity from the present level of 1940 megawatts to 20,000
megawatts in the next 20 years by a plutonium rich carbide
fuel -- plutonium uraniam moncarbide, which is not widely used
elsewhere in the world.