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From: chaiklin@umn-cs.UUCP (Seth Chaiklin)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.bio
Subject: Re: Greenpeace's "Rainbow Warrior" sinks
Message-ID: <775@umn-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:36:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: umn-cs.775
Posted: Sat Jul 13 13:36:07 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 11:21:55 EDT
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Reply-To: chaiklin@umn-cs.UUCP (Seth Chaiklin)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN
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Keywords: Greenpeace, ecology
Xref: watmath net.misc:8267 net.bio:227
Summary: 

In article <1176@pucc-k> rsk@pucc-k.UUCP (Wombat) writes:

>Greenpeace's vessel, the "Rainbow Warrior", sank yesterday.  One
>crewmember is missing, but the others are alright.

The newspaper article I read reported that the "Rainbow Warrior"
was sunk by a bomb, attached to the outside of the ship.  At the
time, the ship was in French Polynesia, protesting French
nuclear testing.  Fernando Perereia, the ship's photographer was 
reported as dead.  This man was a Dutch citizen, but born in
Portugal.  David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (who
earlier this year refused to allow American Navy ships to dock 
in New Zealand because they would not confirm or deny the presence 
of nuclear weapons on-board), was reported to have said that he was
considering sending a military ship from New Zealand to the area.