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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 10. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 French warn Greenpeace ship near test site skipper told 12-mile-zone violation makes vessel subject to seizure aboard till , off muru Roa athe Rench Navy issued a written warning monday to the Captain of the anti nuclear porn test ship Greenpeace As the vessel entered the contiguous zone off the Trench nuclear testing site at muru Roa atoll. An officer from the Trench frigate Lin Seigne de Vul Issca Henry no Rcd .1 Small boat and crossed the open sea to the Greenpeace several Hundred Yards awas to present Apt. Intuition a to tic with the Brief warning written in i Rench and Lin Glish. We remind you that passage through the  sea within 1 2 nautical Miles of the surrounding reefs of muru Roa and Fanga Laufa atolls is i temporarily prohibited the message said. The contiguous one is the 12 nautical Miles outside the Normal 12-mile territorial limit. Once any ship penetrates that zone a written warning is issued. The Greenpeace environmental organization is in the area to protest the planned underground testing of French nuclear weapons on muru Roa which the Coli its claim is harmful. President i Francois Mitterrand has ordered the Navy to prevent any Greenpeace penetration of the area by Force if necessary. After the naval officer returned to the Henry the frigate s Captain had a Brief radio conversation with Castle. "1 am pulling away our Transfer is ended capt.  Kergall said in the radio Exchange. I Hope that the next Lime sea conditions will allow me to Send you Champagne Castle answered Well a few cases of Champagne would be very  the Greenpeace an oceangoing tug boat was bracketed by the frigate Bally and the Henry while the Sailboat Vega following the Greenpeace was itself being tailed by the French tug rare. Another Greenpeace organization sail boat inc Breeze was about 60 Miles away and the fourth protest boat the a photo in Ramtin Greenpeace campaigner erd 1-Etpold left reads the Nolc of naming brought by a Rench first officer four my in Center. Alliance As reported about 400 Miles from muru Roa. The Greenpeace was sailing Between 20 Miles and 25 Miles off muru Roa. The feeling aboard inc Bally was that the Greenpeace could not Watt too Long before taking some sort of action. A prolongation of the expedition not Only would be costly but it was believed the Large number of journalists aboard the Green peace could not wait forever. Capt. Francois Rouleau commander of the Bally said he expected the Green peace would take action in the next few Days. Under the Law of the sea any vessel entering French Waters around muru Roa is subject to seizure. In the event thai any speedboats Are put out from the Green peace Fleet the ship from which they arc launched is equally subject to seizure. French officials doubt the environmental organization would risk moving the Greenpeace into French Waters thus los ing their ship which is scheduled to make an expedition to the Antarctic. It is nol impossible however thai they May try to launch Speed boats from one or several of the sailboats. Ha/7sform, Woods if battered Mexico City Mexico City a a sudden hailstorm turned Mounds of rubble to mud As workers struggled tuesday to truck away the ruins of hundreds of buildings destroyed by two recent killer earthquakes. The hour Long storm monday evening snarled Rush hour traffic broke water and sewer Mains and flooded Large parts in the North and West sides of the battered metro Politan area of 18 million people. More than 1,500 buildings collapsed in earthquakes sept. 19 and 20 that measured 8.1 and 7.5 degrees on the open ended Richter scale. Another 780 buildings damaged beyond repair will have to be torn Down. Although the govern Mcnol has not up dated the official death toll past 4,600, some newspapers keeping their own count have passed 8,000. The storm knocked Down Many of the tents and other makeshift shelters thou Sands left homeless by the quakes had reeled in Parks and other open areas. Demolition Crews removing rubble from downed buildings had to Stop using cranes bulldozers and other heavy machinery unti tuesday morning while pick and shove teams removed some of the mud caused by the storm. Swollen by ions of Walcer. La Piedad River one of several that runs under the cily broke through ils Concrete encasement in several places flooding the la Piedad and  Cardenas roadways. A sewer main also cracked flooding the North South per Ferico Highway. That and disrupted traffic lights in hundreds of Street Corners caused huge traffic jams hat police said took Faur hours to uns Narl. After sume major repairs cily authorities trying to restore drinking water to More than a dozen districts boosted pressure in the network monday bursting several Mains which engineers did t know were cracked the newspaper Universal reported. A recent government report estimated the earthquakes left close to 4 million peo ple without running water. Hundreds of City owned tank trucks arc distributing purified water in the poorer neighbourhoods free of charge but this is providing for Only half of people s needs. In an 18th-Century building in the Down town area Rescue workers resumed digging through wreckage around Midnight and five hours later found the body of the Grandfather of a 9-Ycnr-old boy also believed buried in the debris. The boy Luis Ramon Nafarrete whose parents for Days insisted he was alive under inc ruins was still missing. Rescue workers had been making frantic efforts to dig him out since last wednesday. There had been reports that the boy was responding to Calls by tapping. Belgian paratroopers showing the Flag i Jok b.  come familiar sights to the villagers of cast Rrt about 75 Miles Northwest of Cornu. The paratroopers arc Par of the Allied Conid Europe Mobile Force am participating in exercise archway express 85. Their Camp is just outside the Village of Congelli. We arc showing the Flag said it. Jean i Rano a ulcers a patrol Leader Wilh the belgian l.l&.-c6tst in paratroopers. We want to Showgh of Parkesh people that if they need us we will Beta in addition to the Bijj a or units from Germany the United kingdom of pwn United slates arc performing deterrent part its during the second half of the exercise the combat operations phase turkish military units will act As hos tile forces and engage the ami7 patrols. Consists of three la sleeping tents inc  Winnand Post. Is on r caning weapons and personal repairs to living quarters and the third platoon performs the patrols. During the sometimes Boring passage of hours it is the patrols that provide enjoyment. For soldiers More than 1.500 Miles from their families entering a Village in their Mercedes trucks is almost like being welcomed Home. The people always seem Happy to see us said sol. Marc peelers the senior sergeant on last sunday s a  s binoculars. Antonc Mem cml by us Dick s Maroon Beret. I and As a flock of while geese watched from a distance the paratroopers watched i or exercise incidents. Teen. Syl Wiley ii at uni d to tie 61h Allied t.1c air Force  office  
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