Word: mururoa
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...sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, in which a crew member was killed. For weeks the government denied any involvement in the bombing of the ship, which had been docked in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, before it was to lead a protest against French nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll. Under persistent pressure from the French press, Premier Fabius was eventually forced to admit that French intelligence agents had indeed been ordered to blow up the ship. The scandal tarred the government with suspicions of a cover-up and forced the resig- nation of Defense Minister Charles Hernu...
...Bernard Tricot, a respected former chief of staff for President Charles de Gaulle. Tricot's report, completed in 17 days, revealed only a murky picture of French spies trying to learn about Greenpeace's plans for a floating protest against France's nuclear tests on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa this autumn. Although Tricot confirmed that there had been a French espionage mission in New Zealand, he absolved the government of responsibility for giving any direct order to sink the Greenpeace ship. Later, however, he admitted that he could have been "duped" by the officials he interrogated...
...Greenpeace, the 1.5 million-member environmental protest group, was bombed and sunk on July 10 in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, killing a Greenpeace photographer. The ship, which was sunk by two bombs attached to its hull, was about to lead a protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. The evidence, trumpeted across the country last week by a French press in full cry, strongly suggests that France's secret service, the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, was responsible for the sabotage...
...national leadership which displays the moral sense of a gang of street bashers." The words were blunter than most, but the sentiment was echoed around much of the world. After the French detonated their first bomb of the series two weeks ago at the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti, Peru broke off diplomatic relations with France. Last week 13 other nations, including Australia, Japan and Canada, sent protests to Paris...
...French believers in a nuclear force claim that parity is not the objective of the Mururoa tests, that the aim is simply to develop sufficient weapons to provide a taux d'ennui (nuisance tax). If France could knock out just a couple of major cities in any attacking nation, this reasoning goes, that would be enough to deter a bigger power from trying to knock out all of France...