The World - News from June 17, 1986
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said he has agreed to act as mediator in the Rainbow Warrior dispute between France and New Zealand. Relations between the two countries have been near the breaking point since last July, when French agents sank the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environmentalist organization, in Auckland harbor. The Rainbow Warrior had been preparing to lead a flotilla in a protest against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
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