Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 04:25:24 -0400
 
      8 May 1996 (Reuter) - A shipment of French-processed
atomic waste reached a German storage depot after pitched
battles between an army of riot-clad police and about 3,000
jeering anti-nuclear protesters. The normally peaceful
farmland around Gorleben in north Germany looked like it was
hit by a civil war as the controversial shipment reached here.
Helmeted police lined country lanes near the storage depot in
Gorleben, 120 km (75 miles) east of Hanover, and used water 
cannon, teargas and clubs to clear away waves of anti-nuclear
protesters.

      8 May 1996 (Reuter) - Anti-nuclear activists sang around
campfires as they waited early on Wednesday for a
controversial rail shipment of nuclear waste to reach a
storage unit in northern Germany. Hundreds of activists kept a
peaceful all-night vigil along a railway line leading to
Gorleben nuclear waste storage, where they had clashed with
police on Tuesday afternoon after trying to sabotage the
tracks to prevent the shipment's arrival.

      8 May 1996 (UPI) - Nearly 10,000 police fought violent,
running battles with protestors and kept them from preventing
delivery of nuclear waste material to Gorleben. Demonstrators
hurled stones, bottles and other missiles, erected blazing
barricades and staged sitdown protests in the road to prevent
a truck carrying the 120-ton Cask for Storage and Transport of
Radioactive Material to the underground site. In Bonn, Green
and Social Democrat members blamed the government's disregard
for anti-nuclear sentiment for the violence in which a number
of police and demonstrators were injured.