Subject: HEADLINES 2 - 4 FEBRUARI 1996

Feb 4 1996 (Reuter) - Japan had again urged China to stop its
nuclear weapons testing programme and Japanese concerns about
the weapons would be reflected in a 25-nation Asia-Europe
summit meeting in March, a Japanese official said. China has
defended its testing programme, saying it conducts far fewer
tests than other nuclear powers and it will agree to a
comprehensive test ban when other states are ready to.     

Feb 3 1996 (Reuter) - Almost 80 percent of Indonesians were
opposed to nuclear power plants in their country, The Jakarta
Post reported on Saturday. The official Antara news agency
reported on Wednesday that Indonesia was considering an offer
by Canada to help build the nuclear plant. Environmentalists
and other critics say the proposed plant would be dangerous
because Mount Muria was an earthquake-prone area of Java
island.

Feb 2 1996 (Reuter) - Iraqi nuclear engineers, known to be
specialists in piping and welding, received training in
Germany and other Western countries before the Gulf War, an
official of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency said on Friday. 
The engineers worked at Iraq's two pre-war civil research
reactors at Tuwaitha, where international experts later found
evidence of a clandestine bomb-making programme. Parts of
expertly-turned steel tubes were intercepted by British
customs officials in 1991 in what was believed to be segments
of a so-called super gun.     

Feb 2 1996 (Reuter) - Lithuania's nuclear power plant of
Ignalina has passed a security inspection and was not the
source of radiactive fallout detected last month over
Scandinavia, officials said on Friday. "We checked very
carefully what was happening at Ignalina at the time, we have
not detected any abnormalities," Povilas Vaisnys, the director
of the Lithuanian State Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, told
Reuters. The Norwegian daily Aftenposten said the radiation
could have come from Russia or the Baltic states.