Word: mururoa
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...anchored in the harbor at Auckland, New Zealand, on July 10. A crew member was killed in the blast. The flagship of Greenpeace, the environmental group that opposes nuclear testing and the killing of whales, the vessel was due to lead a flotilla of ships into the waters around Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti, to protest French atomic tests in the area. As the Rainbow Warrior lay prow up in the harbor, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, himself a vocal opponent of nuclear testing, deplored the incident as "a major criminal act with terrorist overtones...
French Premier Laurent Fabius flew to the South Pacific atoll of Mururoa last week to preside over a new round of underground nuclear tests. Accompanying him were Defense Minister Paul Quilès and a 21-member party of parliamentarians and journalists. Hours before the blast, officials announced that the French navy had seized the Vega, a ketch owned by the Greenpeace environmental organization, after the protest ship had entered French territorial waters near the test site. By week's end the four crew members were being taken to a nearby atoll and were awaiting expulsion...
...Mururoa's narrow landing strip, Fabius wasted no time in telling the traveling journalists that France was committed to nuclear testing despite the objections of Greenpeace, as well as those of New Zealand, Australia and other countries in the region. "My visit here is a sign of France's attachment to nuclear deterrence," he said. The unspoken message: France had not been cowed by the international indignation that followed last month's revelation of government involvement in the July 10 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace flagship, in Auckland, New Zealand. ICELAND Take That, You Brutes...
Last September French officials belatedly admitted that unnamed secret-service frogmen had carried out the attack, in which a photographer died, to keep the ship from protesting French nuclear tests on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa. The incident had badly shaken the administration of Socialist President François Mitterrand and forced the abrupt departures of two senior government officials. Last week's hearing was expected to reveal new details in the convoluted affair...
...Rainbow Warrior had stopped in New Zealand while its crew prepared to lead a protest against French nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific. After the arrests, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange observed that the affair had strong political overtones, although there was "no evidence of the involvement of any government." HAITI Baby Doc's Easy...