World IN BRIEF : FRANCE : New Zealanders in Anti-Nuclear Protest
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New Zealanders aboard yachts protested French nuclear testing in the South Pacific by sailing into the port of Brest, near the main base of France’s nuclear missile-armed submarine fleet. Nine protesters, part of a group of about 40 New Zealanders on an anti-nuclear tour of France, sailed near a military area of the port in northwestern France in five yachts bearing anti-test banners, but did not venture to a nearby island where France’s nuclear submarines are based.
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