Subject: HEADLINES January 4-5, 1995


     4 Jan. 1996 (Reuter) - France will complete its
controversial final series of nuclear weapons tests in French
Polynesia by the end of February rather than May as originally
scheduled, President Jacques Chirac said on Thursday. Chirac
has said the series, originally due to be eight tests and end
in May, could be cut to six tests.



     4 Jan 1996 (Reuter) - Two survivors of the atomic bomb
which hit Hiroshima in 1945 appealed in Paris to French
President Jacques Chirac to learn from their harrowing
experience and end nuclear tests. The anti-nuclear campaigners
travelled from Japan to the French capital to launch an
exhibition on the effects of the 1945 bomb.



     4 Jan 1996 (Reuter) - Russia has no plans to store
Taiwanese nuclear waste and any contract between the two would
violate Russian law, the nuclear energy ministry said on
Thursday. Ministry spokesman Georgy Kaurov denied a Taipei
report that the first shipment of between 2,500 and 5,000
barrels of low-level radioactive waste could arrive this
summer.



     5 Jan 1996 (Reuter) - New Zealand said on Friday that an
end to French nuclear testing in the South Pacific could not
come too soon.

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