Word: antinuclearism
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...largest support ship, MV Greenpeace. French authorities impounded a third protest vessel a few days before setting off a second atomic blast last week. In the wake of the seizures and the resulting public squabbling among Greenpeace leaders, top officials forced the resignation of one of its key antinuclear strategists and reprimanded another...
...orgy of trashing and looting, they virtually destroyed Tahiti's international airport, smashed storefront windows and torched several buildings before French Foreign Legionnaires and paramilitary troops arrived. The upheaval, which injured 40 people and did damage estimated in the millions of dollars, was attributed to a volatile mixture of antinuclear and pro-independence sentiments...
...their justifications for the tests are not entirely convincing, French scientists--and others--have largely refuted the notion that the underground experiments pose any immediate environmental threat. Since 1982 at least five expert studies--including one by antinuclear marine biologist Jacques Cousteau and one by the International Atomic Energy Agency-- concluded that France's Pacific tests at Mururoa and nearby Fangataufa atoll, conducted from 1966 to 1992, had caused no radioactive contamination and no significant ecological impact...
...train pulled into the Saint-Michel station along the Seine River near Notre Dame cathedral.No group has claimed responsibility for the incidentbut authorities have several theories, reports TIME's William Rademaekers. "The French have many enemies," he explains. Algerian militants, Bosnian Serbs and extremist antinuclear groups -- all have motives. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group (AIG) has a longstanding threat of retaliation after the French stormed an airplane hijacked by four of its members in December, 1994. All four were slain in the raid. Then again, Bosnian Serbs could be sending the French a stern warning after a reported bombing attack...
...Antinuclear, anti-Star Wars scientists were not reassured. Some campaigned through last summer against even the mention of any nuclear deterrence in the final draft of the interception workshop's report. Then came word of Comet Swift-Tuttle. "Nothing so clears the mind as the sight of the gallows," quips Canavan, who oversaw the final report. "Even though Swift-Tuttle turned out to be a false alarm," he says, "it brought everyone's thinking into focus. There was no longer the kind of disagreement you saw earlier about nukes versus non-nukes." Compromises were made, and the long-delayed interception...