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...treaty prohibits member nations from acquiring nuclear explosives, testing atomic weapons and dumping nuclear waste. But individual countries will decide whether to allow ships or aircraft equipped with nuclear weapons to cross their territories. New Zealand's ruling Labor Party has refused to allow port calls by nuclear-powered or -armed warships. Last week Prime Minister David Lange said he plans to introduce legislation before the end of the year to make the ban permanent. EL SALVADOR The Bishops' Bleak Warning...
...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...
Then, in a surprise move, New Zealand Solicitor-General Paul Neazor declared that the prosecution had agreed to reduce the charges against the French agents to manslaughter since the defendants had acted only "in support of those who actually placed the explosives." Prieur and Mafart then coolly pronounced their guilty pleas. The entire proceeding lasted 32 minutes. The couple, who had entered New Zealand last June 22 on false Swiss passports, will remain in custody until their scheduled sentencing...
...suppress evidence gathered in the police investigation into the bombing. Greenpeace Chairman David McTaggart denounced the hearing as a "very low level" of justice. Said the conservative French daily Le Quotidien de Paris: "After smothering the repercussions of the Greenpeace affair, the Socialists are today benefiting from New Zealand justice...
Though Prime Minister David Lange's government denied that there was any deal, suspicions were reinforced by French officials. Defense Minister Paul Quilès confirmed in a TV interview that there had been behind-the-scenes "contacts" between the French and New Zealand governments. Said he: "Allow me to be discreet." That prompted Lange to snap, "It's so discreet that no one in Wellington knows about them." To be sure, questions remained, such as precisely who ordered the action and who carried it out, but the Greenpeace affair seemed to be finally sputtering...