Subject: headlines 11 march 1996
 
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:08:31 -0500
 
     March 11, 1996 (Reuter) - Some 30 Greenpeace crew members
were due in Papeete on Monday to recover five boats seized
during protests against French nuclear tests in the South
Pacific. Greenpeace said it wanted independent experts to be
present when the ships are returned in order to assess any
damage they could have suffered.   


     March 11, 1996 (Reuter) - France, co-president of a
conference on nuclear safety in Moscow next month to be
attended by the G-7 and Russia, said that Ukraine had been
invited to part of the meeting. Ukraine and the G-7 countries
agreed last December on the closure before the year 2000 of
the Chernobyl nuclear power station. Ukraine was invited
because of the importance for that country of the subjects to
be discussed, a French official said.


     March 11, 1996, (UPI) - California seeks a long-delayed
transfer of federal land in its Mojave Desert as a disposal
site for low-level nuclear waste; prompted by environmental
concerns, the Clinton administration has ordered yet another
study to address them -- nearly 16 years after the federal
government directed states to do something about the problem.