Subject: nuke headlines 25 & 26 Oct. 1995

     26 Oct. 1995 (UPI) -- The European Parliament voted
240-169 with 33 abstentions to pass a resolution highly
critical of the French N-tests but lacking any call for court
action. The action, coming two days after the European
Commission declared the tests to be safe for inhabitants of
the region, cleared France of any possible sanction from the
European Union for the testing.


     25 Oct. 1995 (UPI) -- Political parties in Malaysia
Thursday unanimously condemned the French government for
conducting nuclear tests. It marks the first time in which all
political parties in the country, regardless of their
ideology, met to discuss and unite on an international issue. 


26 Oct. 1995 (UPI) -- India's foreign minister has warned U.S.
after Congress approved $370 million worth of arms sales to
rival Pakistan will mean an inevitable increase in India's
defense expenditure, reports said. In 1990, the United States
had banned military aid to Pakistan due to Islamabad's alleged
efforts to develop nuclear weapons.


     26 Oct 1995 (Reuter) - President Jacques Chirac denied
that international opposition to France's resumption of
nuclear weapons tests had affected sales of French goods
abroad.


     26 Oct 1995 (Reuter) - French navy has defended its
boarding of a Greenpeace vessel in the Italian port of
Brindisi, saying that the environmentalists' boat had rammed a
French destroyer to prevent it from leaving harbour. The navy
said the incident was the seventh of its kind against French
vessels in foreign ports since July.


     26 Oct 1995 (Reuter) - The International Court of Justice
at The Hague, Netherlands, is preparing to make a landmark,
though non-binding, pronouncement on whether international law
permits the threat or use of nuclear weapons. The U.N. court
will begin hearing testimony on Monday from 25 countries. The
court's opinion is not legally binding, but experts said a
declaration that nuclear weapons are illegal would step up
public pressure on the nuclear powers to disarm.


     25 Oct 1995 (Reuter) - France could transfer its South
Pacific military command CONSUP from Papeete to New Caledonia
after ending nuclear tests in French Polynesia next year,
according to La Depeche, a Tahiti newspaper.