Ship continues despite ban
NZPA-Reuter Papeete, Tahiti The anti-nuclear protest ship Greenpeace was heading for Tahiti yesterday for emergency repairs, in spite of a ban on her berthing at the island swiftly imposed by the French Polynesian authorities.
The 60-metre ocean-going tug first signalled the breakdown of her generator on Thursday night while leading a protest flotilla off France’s nuclear test site in the South Pacific.
French warships shadowing the Greenpeace reported that she had left the area of the nuclear base at Mururoa Atoll and was heading for
Tahiti 780 miles to the west.
Mr Gaston Floss, president of the Polynesian territorial Government, swiftly banned the ship from entering Tahitian ports. Official sources said the decree had been made in consultation with the French High Commissioner, Mr Bernard Gerard. French Navy officers said the- Greenpeace’s skipper, Mr Jonathan Castle, had been informed by radio of the ban but that he was continuing towards Tahiti. He was last reported at mid-afternoon yesterday about 145 km west of Mururoa, making 11 knots under •backup power. __
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