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Somewhere in the South Pacific last week, united in a quixotic cause, were a former French army general, a New Zealand service station owner, a former Australian paper bag manufacturer, a young American couple and a New Zealand woman six months pregnant. They and a dozen or so companions were heading for the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti and 530 miles northwest of rocky Pitcairn Island. Their mission: to force the French government to abandon plans to explode a series of nuclear devices in the area...
...Pacific protesters are not alone, however. Indeed, although France has conducted nuclear tests in the region of Mururoa yearly since 1966, it has never encountered the current level of outrage. The New Zealand government ordered a frigate, with a cabinet minister aboard, to steam into the test area. The World Health Organization called for an immediate halt to the French plans. Australian trade unions refused to handle French imports, from Camembert cheese to cosmetics; they also let 1,000 bags of mail from France pile up in the post offices. Somewhat ghoulishly, the girls at a Melbourne high school sent...
...also got from Whitehall an agreement in principle that Australia's own High Court should replace Britain's Privy Council as the last court of appeal for Australian litigants. There was somewhat less harmony on a more substantive issue -namely, that Britain should join Australia and New Zealand in opposing further French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home merely promised "careful study" of the possible dangers...
GEOTHERMAL POWER. Though underground reservoirs of steam and water have long been tapped in Iceland, New Zealand, Italy and Japan, the only large geothermal enterprise in the U.S. is a steam field known as the Geysers in California's Sonoma County. There, steam from deep in the earth drives turbogenerators that produce some 302,000 kw. of electricity, roughly 40% of San Francisco's total requirements...
Meanwhile, the first suspected act of violence by Black September terrorists within the U.S. took place in Washington, D.C., last week. A shot was fired into a bedroom of the home of the New Zealand chargé d'affaires. Luckily, no one was hurt. Apparently it was a ludicrous case of mistaken identity: the attackers were after the Jordanian ambassador-who had moved away two years earlier. "The terrorists may have been using a very old diplomatic directory," said the understandably nervous New Zealand charge, Gerald Hensley, adding: "It is most unlikely that the shot was intended...