FRENCH TESTS
Attack on Admiral
(X.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) PAPEETE, Dec. 13. Admiral Marc de Joybert, French naval chief of staff, replied yesterday to an open letter from two Polynesian Parliamentarians who accused him of visiting “a conquered nation”— French Polynesian, Agence France-Presse reported.
The Parliamentarians, Senator Pouvanna a Dopa (Cen(trist Union) and a deputy, Mr (Francis Sanford (Reformist), (said in their letter that Ad(miral Joybert, who arrived on Saturday, had come "to (inspect your troops and your ' death equipment with the aim “of continuing among us exHperiments that are too dan(gerous for the Government “to want to carrv them out ■ in your country.” (The reference was to the i French pacific nuclear test--1 ing site at Mururoa Atoll). The Parliamentarians added 1 that “Polynesia and th* in habitants of the Southern Hemisphere have had, and are (continuing to have, imposed ’lon them physical and genetic (sacrifices that should be im(cumbent only on France and (its inhabitants.” Admiral Joybert’s reply, printed in the press, said that: “It is indeed well known, and Australian and New Zealand scientists have courageously testified to this, that our tests, carried out under conditions that we are all aware of, do not involve any genetical physical consquence."
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33408, 14 December 1973, Page 9
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