The World - News from Oct. 10, 1985
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The protest ship Greenpeace intensified the battle of nerves with French warships in the South Pacific by sailing within 200 yards of a restricted zone around France’s nuclear test site. French naval officers said the Greenpeace, shadowed by the navy tug Hippopotame and the corvette Henry, moved to its closest position so far to a 12-mile territorial limit around Mururoa Atoll. Three months ago, French agents sank the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, New Zealand, as it prepared to protest the Mururoa tests.
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