Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 04:59:55 -0400
 
      7 May 1996 (Reuter) - Russia's Federal Security Service
(FSB) has arrested a scientist for manufacturing and smuggling
abroad materials that could be used in nuclear devices,
Itar-Tass news agency reported. Tass quoted an FSB spokesman
in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk as saying the scientist,
using his own technology, had produced at least one kg (2.2
pounds) of the material and tried to smuggle it out of the
country.

      7 May 1996 (Reuter) - Police used batons and water
cannon to disperse anti-nuclear activists trying to halt a
controversial shipment of nuclear waste from reaching a
storage unit in northern Germany. Thousands of demonstrators
and police faced off along the rail lines where the
radioactive cargo, which crossed into Germany from France near
Karlsruhe at midday, was due to travel on its slow voyage
north to storage in Gorleben.

      7 May 1996 (Reuter) - Greenpeace shrugged off the fact
that it had let a shipment of nuclear waste from France to
Germany slip through its fingers and insisted it was still
making progress in its battle against atomic energy.

      7 May 1996 (Reuter) - Germany has deployed thousands of
police and border guards  to protect the train from militant
anti-nuclear opponents who have sabotaged rail lines and
clashed with police to protest against the radioactive
shipment.

      7 May 1996 (Reuter) - The environmental group Greenpeace
admitted that a cargo of nuclear waste bound for Germany had
probably been spirited out of a French reprocessing plant
under its nose. Greenpeace's Jean-Luc Thierry said the
organisation was giving up its surveillance of the plant at La
Hague in northwest France after a cat-and-mouse struggle,
believing the highly radioactive cargo was already en route
for Germany.

      7 May 1996 (UPI) - Russian security officials have
arrested a scientist they say has sold more than a kilogram
(2.2 pounds) of dual- use radioactive material abroad, the
Federal Security Service said Tuesday. A spokesman for the
former KGB in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia told the
state-controlled Itar-Tass news agency the scientist prepared
the material himself and said it could be used for military
purposes.

      7 May 1996 (UPI) - Indonesian authorities deported three
Japanese citizens for misusing visas by participating in an
anti-nuclear protest in Central Java province, an immigration
official said. Sujono, head of control and execution at the
immigration office in Semarang, the capitral province of
Central Java, said that the three would be flown to Japan
later Tuesday afternoon via Jakarta.

       7 May 1996 (UPI) - The United States said it will not
use nuclear weapons to stop the construction of an underground
chemical weapons plant in Libya if ongoing diplomacy fails to
halt the program. It is unusual for the Pentagon to publicly
rule in or out the use of any weapons system in facing a
potential security threat.