The World - News from Oct. 6, 1985
The environmentalist vessel Greenpeace arrived off the French nuclear test site of Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia amid tight surveillance by the French military. It linked up with four yachts from New Zealand that sailed to Mururoa to join the protest against French nuclear testing. The Greenpeace, flagship of the environmental-activist group of the same name, replaces the Rainbow Warrior, blown up July 10 by French agents in New Zealand. Disclosure of the attack has rocked the French government.
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