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...Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, reaffirmed Orthodoxy's support for the ecumenical movement but urged it not to be overly preoccupied with "sociopolitical aims." The W.C.C.'s campaign against racism has raised other hackles, too, by blacklisting some 1,000 firms in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand for investing in or trading with South Africa. The W.C.C. itself sold $ 1.5 million worth of holdings in just such firms (out of its $3.5 million portfolio) as a "symbolic" gesture, but noted that member churches might well use their interest in such companies to influence policies instead...
...Zealand has sent a frigate, with Minister of Mines and Immigration Fraser Colman on board, into the testing area, where it has observed the tests from an upwind position. French warships have not disturbed it. A private schooner, the Fri, also sailed into the area to protest, but French sailors boarded it and hauled its skipper, David Moodie, 27, of Sausalito, Calif., and his 15 passengers off to the island of Hao. In Hiroshima, 130 victims of the first atomic blast marched in silent protest...
...Zealand frigate, with cabinet member Fraser M. Colman aboard, will remain in the testing area until "all" the French tests are over, Kirk said...
...Zealand scientists have already detected a light increase in radioactive fallout in the Cook Islands and in New Zealand since last week's test, Kirk said...
...French are notorious for miscalculating the weather," he said. After the September 1966 test, winds blew nuclear debris over the Fiji Islands. Some debris hit New Zealand as well, he said...