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14 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - 39 of the 44 required states have
signed the nuclear test ban treaty, altogether there are
already 124 signatures, with Fiji the first nation ratifying
the treaty. India goes on denying to sign this `unequal
treaty'.

14 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - Today an international conference urged
to free Mordechai Vanunu, the man who had given information
about the Israeli nuclear arms program to the London Sunday
Times in October 1986, and was after that lurged by the
Israeli secret service Mossad and is kept in prison since
that. Meir Vanunu, who campaigns since eight years for
releasing his brother, said it to be a landmark that Israeli
newspapers are allowed do write about the subject and that it
can be openly talked about the kidnapping. Former Israeli
cabinet minister Yuval Ne'eman said on Monday, he thinks, that
``Vanunu committed an act that in other countries might have
been punished with death.'' 

14 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - The Taiwanese Parliament, which
rejected on May 24 this year plans to build the nation's
fourth nuclear power plant, is going to review the matter, as
the cabinet appealed angainst the cancellation. A two-thirds
vote of the parliment, which is needed to thwart the cabinet,
would be like a non-confidence vote. Because the stakes are
very high, the opposition and anti-nuclear groups will launch
actions.

14 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - Today french people living in Saint-
Alban and Saint-Maurice-L'Exil can go and get iodine pills in
order to be prepared for an nuclear accident in the close
situated nuclear power plant. A prescribtion had been sent to
2,500 people. The iodine pills shall prevent radioactive
iodine being absorbed and causing thyroid cancer. The
campaign, announced at the 10th anniversary of the Chernobyl
accident, is planned to be extended to about 50,000 people
living near nuclear power plants.

14 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - The U.S. Defense Secritary William
Perry will visit Russia tomorrow. Speaking to the State Duma
he is expected to urge then ratifying the 1993 signed Start-2
treaty, which is about reducing long range nuclear warhead
stockpiled to about a third of the cold war level. The treaty
has been attacked by politicians who fear this would leave
Russia open for western blackmail, and who are concerned about
the expansion of the NATO.

13 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - An two-day international conference of
the supporters of Mordechai Vanunu will start on Monday in Tel
Aviv with paticipants like Joseph Rotblad, winner of the 1995
Nobel Peace Prize and Daniel Ellsberg, an american
whistleblower about Vietnam matters in 1971. Vanunu, who
spilled secrets about the Israeli nuclear weapons programme to
a british newspaper in October 1986, is kept in prison since
then. A petition seeking Prime Minister Netanyahu to visit
Vanunu has been signed by 12,000 Norwegians. Vanunu could be
set free for good behavior in November 1998, according to
Israeli law.