European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday september 1, 1995 world the stars and stripes Page 13 tahitians Sharpen protest of French nuclear test plan Papeete Tahiti apr anti nuclear demonstrators stormed government buildings to protest Frances plan to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Polynesian Independence campaigners warned that the proposed tests which May Start As soon As this weekend could spark a bloody confrontation. Women rallying against nuclear weapons carried their protest right into the High commissions offices a the heart of the French polynesian government taking Security forces by Surprise. The police chief called in riot squads. But the protest remained peaceful. A a Here in Tahiti and around the world women Are not respected. And so now we Are standing up marching on and telling women a Wake up stand up and go on a a a said roti make the protest Leader. They marched through the streets of the capital wednesday to the territories parliament. Opposition parties in French polynesia Are also on the March. A if the bomb explodes on Friday september 1st, Papeete is going to explode a said Ben Teri Itaehau an opposition politician. About 620 Miles tothe East near the test site the Crew of a traditional polynesian Canoe sponsored by the Cook islands government complained that French helicopters and Jet fighters buzzed them at Low Altitude As a a to Kkt my a tahitian woman blows a seashell whistle during a protest March in Papeete denouncing Frances scheduled nuclear tests. A sign in background Calls French president Jacques Chirac a they sailed to join the anti nuclear protest flotilla at muru Roa atoll. France has said it will explode seven or eight nuclear devices at its French polynesian test Sites Between september and May. . Troops in Kuwait Start desert Maneu vers from the associated press Kuwait a the 1,400 . Troops sent to Kuwait after renewed tensions with Iraq took part in Maneu vers wednesday to hone navigation skills in the desert. Capt. Austin Johnson of the . Army a 1st Cav div said Asams Battle tanks Bradley fighting vehicles and command and control vehicles were deployed. V he did not give any More details about the. Maneu vers in Northern Kuwait which began Early wednesday. Kuwaiti forces Are expected to take part in the War games later but Johnson did not say when that would be. The United states built up its forces in the Region after Saddam Hussein a son in Law former it. Gen. Hussein Kamel Hassan Al Majid defected to Jordan on aug. 8. Al Majid said the iraqi president was planning an attack on saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The United states has 23,000 troops and eight warships in the Region. Bomb kills Punjab minister Chandigarh India a bomb killed the chief minister of the Northern state of Punjab and 12othcrs outside the government Headquarters thursday. Chief minister Beant Singh was getting into his bulletproof car outside the 10-Story building in the state capital Chandigarh when the bomb exploded information Secretary . Daw a told the associated press. A a a a a a a a a .7. A a a a .7 Singh a car and two other vehicles were ripped apart in the blast. Most of the dead were Singh a armed guards. Years of Militancy by sikh guerrillas demanding a Homeland ended with Singh selection in 1992 Singh belonged to the Congress party which is also in Power in new Delhi. A a dutch authorities Stop planting explosives the Hague Netherlands a police planted explosives in passenger Luggage on a daily basis for the past seven years to test Airport Security in Amsterdam the Justice ministry said wednesday the admission was accompanied by an announcement that Justice minister Winnie Sorgdrager had banned the practice aug. 21. The practice was exposed last month when a bungled Security test sent explosives without detonators on a Northwest airlines flight from Amsterdam to Orlando fla., in the Luggage of an unsuspecting Florida professor. The discovery caused outrage in the Netherlands whose Schipholt Airport a the nations largest a is considered a Model of Security and efficiency. In her statement Sorgdrager said the National police started the tests in the Wake of the december 1988 bombing of pan am 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland in which 270 people died. She said the tests aimed at keeping sniffer dogs in practice did not have official approval. The Type of explosive used was not disclosed but the de Tele Graaf newspaper said the substance that slipped through last month was c-4, a plastic explosive test explosives without detonators were routinely planted in passenger Luggage and then intercepted by sniffer dogs before the Luggage was boarded according to a Justice ministry investigation. Although a dog detected the explosives in the professor s Luggage police forgot to remove them officials said. Ukrainian boy purposely infects 15 girls with aids Kiev Ukraine apr a 13-year-old boy who discovered he had aids has deliberately infected at least 15 girls in Ukraine an official said wednesday. _ a this is the first such Case in Ukraine when a teen Ager 6arely out of his childhood has deliberately endangered the lives of 15 girls a said Valery Ivasyuk chairman of Ukraine a National committee against aids. The boy whose name has not been disclosed because he is a minor lost his parents about a year ago when both of them died of drug overdoses Ivasyuk said. When the teen Learned he had aids he decided to give it to others and deliberately sought different sex partners Ivasyuk said. A under Ukraine a Laws deliberately spreading aids is punishable by nit eight year jail sentence. 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