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France set to defy anti-nuclear armada
The Associated Press
PAPEETE, Tahiti — France is prepared to begin underground nuclear tests even if protest ships ringing the island test site remain anchored there, the French military said Tuesday.
Vice Admiral Philippe Euverte, commander of armed forces in French Polynesia, said the tests would proceed despite the protest fleet's lingering presence.
France intends to detonate seven or eight nuclear devices at Mururoa and Fangatau atolls between September and May.
French President Jacques Chirac said the tests would be safe and are necessary to maintain France's nuclear arsenal.
A fotilla organized by Greenpeace is anchored in waters just off Mururoa Atoll, where France plans to resume its underground nuclear testing program next month.
Greenpeace, other environmental groups and South Pacific nations
have condemned the tests.
On Monday, a French military helicopter blocked a Greenpeace helicopter from approaching Muruosa, Radio New Zealand said yesterday.
It was intercepted by a French helicopter from a navy frigate shadowing the anti-nuclear flotilla in waters off the island, 650 miles east of Tahiti.
The protest helicopter took off from the MV Greenpeace, the environmental group's command ship, which arrived recently in the area.
Gen. Paul Vericle, on Mururau Atoll, was reported as saying yesterday that the French were very close to beginning the tests, with final preparations for the first explosion under way.
As many as 30 protest vessels from New Zealand, Fiji and Australia are expected to join the seven that already have arrived.
French spokesman Jon Walter said France had always maintained it would test the first device during the first half of September.
Man charged with raping teen-ager he met on-line
The Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida man used a computer on-line service to persuade a 15-year-old Maryland girl to run away from home and to meet him in Orlando, where he raped her in a hotel room, investigators said.
The man then allegedly took the teen-ager to his Fort Lauderdale home, where she used his computer to contact a friend who helped her flee.
Details of how she got away were not disclosed.
James Latona, 40, a contractor,
was arrested Aug. 22. He was
charged with sexual battery and
freed on $5,000 bail.
The arrest is one of the latest cases involving adults allegedly cruising cyberspace, looking for children for sex.
The girl arrived in Orlando Aug. 13, and Latona forced her into sex the next day, detectives said.
Sheriff's officials said yesterday that Latona met the teen-ager in a chat room of the Prodigy on-line service. Latona arranged for a plane ticket and promised he would not ask for sex, sheriff's representative Steve Jones said.
When Latona let her use his computer, she contacted a friend, who helped her flee Latona's house the next day, investigators said.
After she returned to Maryland, she contacted the Orange County sheriff's department, which had the girl telephone Latona and draw him into a tape-recorded conversation in which he implicated himself, Jones said.
Latona could not be reached for comment.
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