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...eagerly awaited government-ordered Tricot report on what has become known as l'affaire Greenpeace answered some questions but left others as tantalizingly mysterious as ever. All through the summer, Paris papers and French politicians had speculated endlessly about whether the government was responsible for the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the environmental group Greenpeace, in Auckland harbor in New Zealand on July 10. Tricot's conclusion: "Everything I have seen and heard gives me the certitude that at the government level there was no decision aimed at damaging the Rainbow Warrior...
...cause of the uproar was the scandal that has been steadily increasing since the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of Greenpeace, the 1.5 million-member environmental protest group, was bombed and sunk on July 10 in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, killing a Greenpeace photographer. The ship, which was sunk by two bombs attached to its hull, was about to lead a protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. The evidence, trumpeted across the country last week by a French press in full cry, strongly suggests that France's secret service, the Direction Generale...
...Gaulle 17 years ago, to head an official commission of inquiry. As the accusations and conjectures multiplied, Tricot discreetly interviewed Premier Laurent Fabius, Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, head of the DGSE, and other high-ranking government and military officials. Tricot's mission is to find out who sank the Rainbow Warrior and who gave the orders to do it. His eagerly awaited report is expected to be issued this week...
...their nuclear-testing policy. New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, whose government earlier this month joined twelve other regional nations in urging a nuclear-free zone in the South Pacific, has called the French tests "deplorable." Lange has promised to sue the French government if its responsibility for the Rainbow Warrior bombing is proved...
...meantime, Greenpeace is reaping more free publicity than at any other time during its 14-year history. Last week a replacement for the Rainbow Warrior set sail from Amsterdam headed for the Pacific. The new flagship, a converted oceangoing 900-ton tugboat that has been christened the Greenpeace, will rendezvous with other ships to protest French nuclear tests in the South Pacific expected to be held in October. In a sharply worded statement immediately following the ship's departure, Mitterrand vowed to continue testing in the area and to repel all protests "by force if necessary." Greenpeace officials have said...