Mururoa blast upsets Govt
OLIVER RIDDELL
in Wellington The Government has expressed "grave disappointment" at learning that another nuclear explosion had been detonated at Mururoa last Sunday. All States in the south Pacific were vigorously and unanimously opposed to the testing of nuclear weapons by France in the South Pacific, said the Prime Minister, Mr Lange. This test had been detected on the seismic station at Rarotonga. It had occurred at 6.10 a.m. (New Zealand time) and the yield had been estimated by the DS.LR. to be in the five to eight kiloton range. He said that New Zealand consistently opposed all testing anywhere. But it was particularly disturbing that this resumption of French testing should occur at the time that Australia and New Zealand were trying, once again, to secure in the United Nations General Assembly some tangible Hress in halting all jar explosions.
New Zealand and its neighbours were specially concerned about the French tests, Mr Lange said, because they were being held in the neighbourhood.
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