Subject: HEADLINES October 23

Oct 23 (UPI) - Police arrested a member of Greenpeace during
the United Nations' 50th anniversary  celebrations for jumping
off Manhattan's 59th Street Bridge with a parasail and flying
straight toward the U.N. Secretariat while French President
Jacques Chirac was speaking at the U.N.. The parasail was
trailing a banner reading "Stop Nuclear Testing."  

Oct 23 (Reuter) - France's fault-prone Superphenix nuclear
fast-breeder reactor was closed again after a steam leak that
the management said posed no threat to the environment. The
reactor had been operating since September 26.  

Oct 23 (Reuter) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger said
he thought France would conduct fewer than the eight nuclear
blasts originally planned because of the outcry against French
resumption of nuclear testing. He said he thought the most
influencial pressure on France came from European countries
rather than those in the South Pacific and Latin America.
"It's their next door neighbours, Denmark, Norway and so on." 

Oct 23 (Reuter) - The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) opposition
party, a radical off-shoot of the African National Congress
(ANC) said accusations that South Africa had not destroyed all
its nuclear weapons could be true. But former military
intelligence chief General Tienie Groenewald, now a leading
right-wing politician, dismissed the claims in the book "The
Mini-Nuke Conspiracy".
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) affirmed that
South Africa had dismantled all its nuclear weapons, but the
PAC said the IAEA was not physically present when the nuclear
weapons were destroyed and that they should not trust the
given reports.