Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 05:52:49 -0400
 
3 June 1996 (Reuter) - Jailed nuclear technician Mordechai
Vanunu has said a young woman who helped in his 1986
Israeli-ordered abduction was murdered by the secret agents
who seized him, court records made public on Monday revealed.  
He was sentenced to 18 years in jail for giving the London
Sunday Times smuggled photos of Israel's Dimona nuclear
reactor  
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2 June 1996 (Reuter) - Algeria, which has a Chinese-made
nuclear reactor for research, has signed a draft agreement
with China for nuclear cooperation, the official Algerian news
agency APS said on Sunday. It said Algeria's minister of
universities and scientific research, Boubakeur Benbouzid,
stressed the need to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes
and said cooperation in the fields envisaged by the agreement
would start soon.  
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2 June 1996 (Reuter) - German crime investigators say that
increasing numbers of criminals dealing in nuclear contraband
are using their wares to extort cash in Germany because they
can't find enough buyers, says the german weekly Focus.  
About 198 people were caught trading illegally in nuclear
materials in Germany over the last year. The eight blackmail
cases involved threats to poison people or cause explosions
using nuclear materials.
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1 June 1996 (Reuter) - Ukraine became a nuclear weapons free
nation on Saturday with the transfer of the last of its
warheads to Russia, President Leonid Kuchma said. Under the
1994 agreement Ukraine was to receive $1 billion in
compensation for giving up the nuclear weapons and Russia was
to sell the nuclear components of the warheads to the United
States and provide compensation to Ukraine, mostly in the form
of fuel for its five nuclear power stations.   
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31 may 1996 (Reuter) - Japan's Supreme Court on Friday
nullified the 1993 election of a town mayor who supports the
construction of a nuclear power plant, handing a victory to
anti-nuclear residents. Supreme Court Presiding Judge Shinichi
Kawai said there were sufficient grounds to doubt the fairness
of the April, 1993, election held at Suzu, a small coastal
town on the Sea of Japan about 500 km (310 miles) west of
Tokyo.