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Greenpeace protest ship
enters French territory
□ The Rainbow Warrior
II closed in on a coral
reef where France will
conduct nuclear tests.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) —
French warships and the Green
peace protest ship Rainbow War
rior II closed in Sunday on a coral
reef in the South Pacific where
the environmental group wants to
stop French nuclear tests.
The French navy has been au
thorized to fire on any ship that
gets within 12 miles of Mururoa
Atoll, where France has said it will
conduct eight underground nu
clear explosions between Septem
ber and May.
The Rainbow Warrior II en
tered the 12-mile zone at about
5 a.m. Sunday local time (10
a.m. EDT), said Penelope
Komites, a Greenpeace spokes
woman in Paris.
The Rainbow Warrior
II and two companion ves
sels are trying to reach
the atoll for the 10th an
niversary of France’s sink
ing of the original Rain
bow Warrior in Auckland
Harbor, New Zealand, on
July 10, 1985.
That ship was on a sim
ilar mission to protest
French nuclear tests when
French scuba divers mined the
ship, drowning Greenpeace pho
tographer Fernando Pereira.
“The safety of our ship and
crew are paramount, but we are
prepared to risk the force of the
French military if we can stop
the greater danger of nuclear
testing at Mururoa and Fan-
gataufa,” Greenpeace spokes
woman Stephanie Mills said
from the Rainbow Warrior II.
Fangataufa is a nearby atoll
that is another potential test site.
Armed French ships have
been following the Rainbow
Warrior II for at least three
days. The French navy was
tracking the vessel with three or
four warships as well as a heli
copter, Komites said. She said
the crew on the Rainbow War
rior II said French navy com
mandos were in view of the ship.
The 1985 attempt to end the
environmental group’s protests
against French nuclear testing
in the South Pacific was a trag
ic miscalculation, embarrassing
France and making Greenpeace
the world’s leading environ
mental group.
France may have mishandled
the issue again. President
Jacques Chirac’s announcement
last month of the resumption of
nuclear tests gave Greenpeace
plenty of time to prepare for the
10th anniversary of the attack.
France has already set off
more than 130 atmospheric and
underground nuclear tests at
Mururoa Atoll, 650 miles east of
Tahiti, since 1966. Former
French President Francois Mit
terrand declared a nuclear test
moratorium in 1992.
On Sunday, a memorial ob
servance was held for Pereira on
the shore of Sydney Harbor. In
Canberra, some 2,000 protesters
gathered outside Parliament
House to denounce the French
decision to resume tests.
Greenpeace has said there
will be no advance notice of how
or when the Rainbow Warrior II
will conduct its protest.
The French patrol boat
Railleuse was sent from Mu
ruroa with commandos to inter
cept any inflatable boats Green
peace may use to try to get
ashore, said Adm. Philippe Eu-
verte, commander of military
forces in French Polynesia.
Euverte told reporters in Mu
ruroa that the towboat Revi was
also near the coast. It could be
used to drag the protest ships
away from the atoll.
The Rainbow Warrior II has
been joined by the 40-foot Green
peace sailboat Vega, and the
Bifrost, a steel-and-fiberglass
replica of a Viking ship operated
by three Danish anti-nuclear pro
testers, with two other crew.
The Bifrost, which is indepen
dent of Greenpeace, plans to
help distract the French vessels
rather than sail into Mururoa.
"We are prepared to risk the
force of the French military
if we can stop the greater
danger of nuclear testing."
—Stephanie Mills
Greenpeace spokeswoman
Stew Milne, The for
Now we're having some fun
Jason Strickland, a senior Physics major, serves to Sandy Shidler, a senior Accounting major, during their Sunday afternoon gar
of racquetball in the Read Building.
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Interest groups compete for tax break
□ The House Ways and Means
Committee is holding hearings
on proposed tax law changes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax relief could
come for people who drink hard apple cider
or ride in limousines if lobbyists can per
suade the House Ways and Means Commit
tee to choose their pet provisions among
hundreds of competing proposals.
A special interest battle royale is devel
oping as the tax-writing committee, headed
by Rep. Bill Archer, holds hearings this
week on some 230 tax law changes pro
posed by its members.
The Texas Republican has warned its
members that they’ll have to suggest a way
to pay for any break they advocate. Never
theless, hundreds of lobbyists were cheered
by the knowledge that their proposals had
cleared the first cut.
If the process works as it has in the past,
by late summer or early fall Archer will go to
each of the 20 other Republicans on his pan
el and ask what provisions they must have
and what provisions they can live without.
Then the list of proposals will be cut to a
manageable and affordable length, perhaps
a few dozen.
Some lobbying pitches are straightfor
ward appeals for lower taxes. The Northeast
McIntosh Growers Association, based in
Westfield, Mass., believes its members could
sell more apples if hard apple cider were
taxed like beer at 23 cents a gallon rather
than $1.07 a gallon, like wine.
Many of the proposals would fix anom
alies in the tax code.
For instance, a heart attack victim:-'
ported by fixed-wing air ambulance{?,
10 percent federal excise tax meant!"-
line passengers. The same patient ah'
helicopter ambulance doesn’t.
Rural lawmakers, led by Kep t
Herger, R-Calif., are fighting to equal:: •
tax treatment. They argue the currer c •
tern discriminates against rural rear -
Fixed-wing aircraft are used more of*
fly rural people to larger towns for tre:>'
while helicopters, with their shorter '
are more commonly used at accidents*'
in urban areas.
The problem for lawmakers tryin? '
through the proposals is that plausft '
and con arguments can be mounted for '
And, if this week’s three hearings eadi* -
day, the committee will only have abs
minutes to spend on each proposal.
Serb tanks advance into ‘safe area’
□ Serb forces also seized 20
peacekeepers in two days.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) ~~
: Bosnian Serb tanks and infantry drove to
the edge of Srebrenica on Sunday and fired
shells into the town, a U.N.-designated
: “safe area’ in which civilians are supposed
to be spared from attack.
The Serbs also seized five Dutch peace
keepers, bringing to 20 the number taken
in two days of advancing toward the gov
ernment-held eastern enclave.
In response to the Serbs’ move to within
a half-mile of the Srebrenica town line, an
; elite team of Dutch peacekeepers deployed
; wire-guided anti-tank weapons.
U.N. officials had no word on casualties.
But Osman Sulic, a Srebrenica city council
lor, told Sarajevo media that eight civilians
had been killed and 27 wounded since
: Thursday, when the Serb assault began.
Alexander Ivanko, a U.N. spokesman in
Sarajevo, said the five peacekeepers who
were seized Sunday and 15 others who
were taken Saturday night were not con
sidered hostages.
Earlier Saturday, a Dutch peacekeeper
: died after being shot by Bosnian government
: forces while his unit was retreating from an
observation post seized by the Serbs.
Of the peacekeepers detained Saturday,
seven from one observation post were taken
to the Bosnian Serb town of Bratunac, north
of the Srebrenica enclave. The eight others
remained at their UiSf. post, which was occu
pied by the Serbs, U.N. spokesmen said.
U.N. spokesmen did not know if the
peacekeepers had resisted Serb capture of
the U.N. posts. The Dutch Defense Min
istry in Amsterdam denied Serb claims
that the peacekeepers had voluntarily left
the observation post.
Bosnian government officials and state-
run news media warned of a civilian cata
strophe if Serb troops reached the town of
Srebrenica, a U.N.-declared "safe area” in the
enclave of42,000 Bosnian Muslims.
"If Srebrenica falls, that will be the end
of the U.N. mission in Bosnia-Herzegov
ina,” said Mustafa Bijedic, Bosnian ambas
sador to the United Nations.
Such an event would be a severe blow to
the U.N. mission. No U.N. safe area has yet
fallen in Bosnia’s three-year war, although
Gorazde and Bihac came under similar in
tensive Serb assaults last year.
Both those assaults tapered off after
NATO airstrikes. But NATO has always
been extremely cautious about taking air
action and is likely to be especially so in
Ci Bosnian Serb
Government-Croat
imrisi'Fo federation
U a It? m Serb-held Croatia
Gl Bosnian Serbs overran two U.N.
observation posts in the eastern enclave
of Srebrenica, Saturday night.
Associated Press
the wake of last month’s seizure of hun
dreds of peacekeepers by the Bosnian
Serbs in retaliation for airstrikes near
Serb headquarters in Pale.
Health Tips
Replacing water importanti
avoid dehydration, heat stro-
By Heather Korb
Special to the Battalion
During these hot summer
months, stay hydrated by drink
ing plenty of water. Approximate
ly 60 percent of our bodies is
made of water, and we can sur
vive only a few days without it.
Drinking eight 8-ounce glass
es of water a day is recommend
ed. Water suppresses the ap
petite, helps the body metabolize
stored fat, maintains muscle
tone, rids the body of wastes and
decreases bloating.
Replacing fluids is especially
important when exercising.
Drink two cups of water two
hours before strenuous activity,
then 1 1/2 cups 10-15 minutes
before this activity and one-half
to three-fourths cups every 15
minutes during the activity.
After the activity, two cups of
water for each pound lost will be
needed. The thirst mechanism is
often unreliable and exercise can
blunt it, so drink fluids
you get dehydrated.
Be aware of the signs c % ‘
exhaustion and heat str'
you feel extreme fatigue J
my skin, experience diz:*
and fainting, or your bod;’
perspiring — get out of if'
Drink fluids, cool off wil
packs and if symptoms p*''
seek medical attention.
Besides water, some
good sources of water ir/'
fruit juice; vegetable juice';
soda; artificially sweetene*;
caffeinated soft drinks
sports drinks.
Avoid alcohol and cat;’
which act as diuretics. Fre'
and clear urination indicatt'
er water balance. Scanty, £"
colored urine indicates you ’
more water in your diet.
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