The World - News from Oct. 8, 1985

Five French navy ships and three Greenpeace vessels protesting France’s nuclear tests maneuvered warily off Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific, but no clashes were reported. Jonathan Castle, captain of the Greenpeace, a converted tugboat, said the protesters are outside Mururoa’s 12-mile limit and are not thinking of crossing it “at the moment.” France drew international condemnation, and touched off a political furor at home, by sinking the environmental organization’s Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in July.