The World - News from Aug. 13, 1985
Greenpeace, the environmental organization whose flagship Rainbow Warrier was blown up in New Zealand last month, has obtained another vessel and sent it on a mission to the Antarctic. A spokesman said Greenpeace hopes to focus attention on threats to the continent that could be created by large-scale exploitation of its mineral reserves. The vessel, a former tugboat that was renamed Greenpeace, will stop in New Zealand.
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