The World - News from Nov. 13, 1985
France agreed in principle to pay compensation and apologize to the Dutch family of a Greenpeace photographer who died in the July 10 sinking of the environmentalist group’s flagship, Greenpeace said in Paris. Fernando Pereira drowned trying to retrieve camera equipment from the Rainbow Warrior as it sank in the harbor at Auckland, New Zealand. French secret agents detonated mines on the ship’s hull to block Greenpeace from interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
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