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...their justifications for the tests are not entirely convincing, French scientists--and others--have largely refuted the notion that the underground experiments pose any immediate environmental threat. Since 1982 at least five expert studies--including one by antinuclear marine biologist Jacques Cousteau and one by the International Atomic Energy Agency-- concluded that France's Pacific tests at Mururoa and nearby Fangataufa atoll, conducted from 1966 to 1992, had caused no radioactive contamination and no significant ecological impact...
...Greenpeace intensified its campaign to halt France's nuclear tests in the South Pacific, French commandos seized two of the environmentalist organization's vessels close to an atoll where underground trials will be conducted. The boarding of the vessels was ordered after several Greenpeace inflatable dinghies were intercepted near the site...
...could make it the Saudi Arabia of the north. The area is one of the world's leading sources of diamonds, and Logan notes that 80% of the gold produced there comes from riverbeds and ancient gravel banks, an indication that the republic has barely begun to tap its underground veins...
...group had hijacked last December. (The GIA has vowed to "avenge our martyrs.")Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanctonreports that authorities have other indications of possible GIA involvement: the fabrication of the bombs from empty gas cannisters is identical to techniques used by GIA guerrillas in Algeria, and an underground GIA newsletter published in Sweden that claims responsibility for the first bombing...
...eight-part PBS series, The Shock of the New (1980). He is completing work on an eight-hour TV special about American art, scheduled to air on BBC late next year. He can also be seen in the new documentary film Crumb, offering a critical assessment of the underground comic artist Robert Crumb...