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...private session with journalists last week, French President Francois Mitterrand described it as "criminal and absurd . . . and stupid." Indeed, whoever blew up and sank the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environmental organization, in New Zealand's Auckland harbor last July did not do France or its President any favor. As the usually pro-Mitterrand Paris daily Le Monde and other papers zeroed in on the culpability of the government in the mysterious act of sabotage, the President could no longer remain aloof from what was rapidly becoming one of France's worst political crises in the four years since...
...Quiles, a Mitterrand loyalist who had been Minister of Town Planning, Housing and Transport, was quickly named to replace him. In addition, Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, head of the French foreign espionage agency, was summarily sacked after he refused to answer pointed questions about secret- service missions to New Zealand...
...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...
...cruise market from 10% to 42%. In France, about 80% of imported oil is carried by Soviet tankers, while French ships transport less than 1%. Even the Japanese have been hurt. Since 1981, the Soviets have snatched an estimated 10% of the cargo trade between Japan, Australia and New Zealand...
...Titanic would be both technologically and financially unthinkable. Yet at least one salvage expert may be ready to give it a try. He is Britain's John Pierce, who designed an array of inflatable canvas bags to lift the Rainbow Warrior from the bottom of Auckland harbor in New Zealand after it had been sunk by a terrorist bomb. According to accounts in the British press, Pierce has suggested a similar approach for the Titanic. But raising the 418-ton Greenpeace ship from a shallow harbor is one thing, rescuing the 46,328-ton Titanic from 2 1/2 miles...