Subject: HEADLINES 14 February 1996

Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 04:30:23 -0500

      14 Feb 1996 (Reuter) - Russia's domestic security
service FSB denied that it had identified a consignment of
highly radioactive plutonium smuggled into Germany from Moscow
in 1994 as stemming from a Russian reactor. But it
acknowledged Russian authorities were investigating robbery
and illegal distribution of nuclear material. German press
reports alleged the FSB had admitted in a letter to the Bonn
justice ministry that plutonium had gone missing from a
research reactor at Obninsk, southwest of Moscow.

      14 Feb 1996 (UPI) - The British engineering company at
the center of the "arms-to-Iraq" inquiry knowingly supplied
nuclear arms components to Baghdad, the Financial Times
newspaper said Tuesday. Executives of the company, Matrix
Churchill, faced court action in 1992 for allegedly selling
weapons components - until it emerged that the British
government had secretly relaxed its rules on military exports.

      14 Feb 1996 (UPI) - Scientists at Bristol University
reported they have found what they believe is a plausible link
between cancer and overhead power cables. The team of
researchers at the university in western England  said power
lines could act as a magnet in attracting cancer-causing
particles that occur naturally in the air. The National
Radiological Protection Board, however, dismissed the work of
the Bristol researchers as "purely speculative."