The World - News from Aug. 11, 1985
A French couple charged by New Zealand police with the bombing of the environmental ship Rainbow Warrior in which a crewman-photographer was killed are French army officers, state-controlled Radio France-Inter reported. The station identified Jacques Alain Turenge, 34, as a battalion commander and Sophie Claire Turenge, 36, as an army captain. It said they were sent to Auckland by the French Defense Ministry only to keep watch over operations by Greenpeace, the environmental activist group, and protect French nuclear testing, the radio reported. A spokesman for the French Defense Ministry refused to comment on the radio report.
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