Call to stop tests
NZPA Papeete (Tahiti) The Legislature of French Polynesia asked the French Government yesterday to suspend all nuclear test blasts on Mururoa Atoll, 1200 kilometres south-east of Papeete.
The Territorial Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a territorial investigating committee to take evidence from Polynesian workers at Mururoa about two accidents there last month.
On July 6 an explosion of cleaning fluid killed two nuclear decontamination workers. On July 25 a small tidal wave injured
two persons—the Same day that an underground test blast took place, according to New Zealand seismologists. The resolution also urged that impartial civilian bio-' logists, expert. on the effects of radioactivity, “be sent immediately” to Mururoa. The resolution said that the Assembly reserved the right to take action if in one month the Government had not given a favourable reply to the blastsuspension request or the Assembly had not been informed of findings by the investigating committee and biologists.
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