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After France admitted that its intelligence agents had blown up the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland's harbor last July, relations between Paris and Wellington seemed to hit rock bottom. They were exacerbated even further last week when New Zealand customs officials announced that "enough ammunition to start a small war" had been found on the French-owned cargo vessellie de Lumière when it docked in Auckland. Aboard were some 5,300 high-caliber pistol rounds, automatic weapons parts and two military walkie-talkies...
...months in clashes between French settlers and indigenous Melanesians seeking independence from France. The ship's cook, Michel Four, 29, pleaded guilty to illegal possession of the munitions, but he insisted that profits, not politics, had motivated him. "I need money because I want to marry a young New Zealander," he told an Auckland court. In Paris, the incident drew yawns. Noted a French official: "A boat has been stopped in New Zealand with several bullets on board." RWANDA An Unnatural Death...
...were using tanks, artillery and even jet fighters. Other reports told of the explosion of an ammunition dump and of air-force bombing runs on Aden's airport and harbor, as rebel troops advanced on the presidential palace. On Friday, the royal yacht Britannia interrupted a journey to New Zealand to help evacuate foreigners. Small boats transported about 300 people to the ship before fierce fighting halted the rescue operation...
...truly feel sorry for the Parisians who are enduring this wave of bombings. But to some New Zealanders, this latest bout of terrorism is ironic. Was it not the French government that committed its own terrorist bombing against the Greenpeace ship in New Zealand last year? France strongly lobbied for the release of two of its terrorists, Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, just as the Arab extremists are now campaigning for the release of their comrades. Chris Aimer Dunedin, New Zealand Aquino's Road Show...
...heats off Fremantle, Perth's port city. Six American syndicates want the chance to confront the Australian defender in the finals at the end of the southern summer next February. So do two teams each from France and Italy, as well as entries from Britain, Canada and New Zealand, whose unique fiber-glass boat was doing well enough last week to draw a protest. This week four Australian boats, including another of Bond's, will begin competing for the honor of defending...