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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Monday, August 7, 1995 Internet’s ‘Murmuring Voices’ Scream Against Nuclear Tests France until it abandons the test plans, voices against the tests from all over the Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said Sunworld and make them into a big movement,” said Shimizu, 23, one of three To-day. Some Australians and New Zealanders kyo University graduate students who apparently got French President Jacques launched the protest over the Internet Chirac’s personal Internet address and delcomputer network's World Wide Web uged him with so much e-mail of pretest Environmentalists say the tests are needthat he finally pulled the plug, the Sydney less and dangerous to the region, known for Morning Herald reported last week. its crystal waters and pristine beaches. ForBehind the scenes, people like Internet eign governments are slapping France with protest co-organi: zer Nishihara Yuichi of economic boycotts. Japan are quietly but persistently using Australia will put political pressure on THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — To discourage France from testing nuclear weapons deep beneath the emerald surf of the South Pacific, Seishi Shimizu surfed the ‘net So did more than 43,000 other people from 92 countries who have signed an electronic petition on the Internet condemning French plans to resume underground atomic tests next month at MururoaAtoll in French Polynesia. “We wantto gather all the murmuring On the Internet, the protestis officially known as “Stop Nuclear Tes Shimizu simplycalls it his “electronic civic moveThe petition will be available on the In- Worried that someone might openthe hatch andkill everyone — inadvertently or otherwise — O'Connor had a trusted crew member place a padlock on the hatch’s handle as soon as Columbia reached orbit that overcast June morning. Besides O'Connor, only two or three others on the seven-member crewknew the combination of the lock, which stayed put until it was timefor the shuttle to come home nine days later. Among those not informed were the two payload specialists — NASA terminology for guest fliers, usuallyscientists “I'd known these other people for years and years,” O'Connor explained. “These payload specialists, they'rea little bit less of a known entity.” With Americansspendinglonger periodsin orbit and construction of an international space station just two years away, the human factor — trust, boredom, despair — takes on added import. Likeit or not, people of varied nationalities, abilities and tastes wili be stuck with each other for three to six months in orbit once the space station is up and run- SRE er ELD Takis loannides/The Associated Press a Turkish sentry post and both groups threw rocks at one another. A Greek Cypriot hurls a bottle at a U.N. vehicle Sunday in Cyprus, where bikers protested the division of the island. smuggling, a German newspaper reported Sunday. What to Do With Third Bomb Suspect THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — With less than a week before the federal government's deadline for indicting Oklahoma City bombing suspects Timothy MeVeigh and Terry Nichols, the fate of McVeigh’s Army buddy and confidant, Michaei Fortier, 26, remains perhaps the most critical unresolved factor in the prosecution’s 4month-old case. Sources close to the investigation said federal prosecutors have been locked in a grinding debate for weeks over whether to seek Fortier’s full cooperation in exchange for a lesser charge or to arrest him as a principal co-conspirator in the Apri] 19 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building thatleft 168 people dead and morethan 500 othersinjured. If Fortier is charged as a principal player, he could face the same maximum punishment as McVeigh and Nichols: the death penalty. ByFriday, prosecutors will unveil the fruits of one of the most exhaustive criminal probes in US. history. Investigators did not uncover a multilayered conspira- cy involving a large number of accomplices, suchascitizen militias, as tedious, have in part revolved MeVeigh and are those involving Fortier as an gree, several other players, Michael Fortier including Fortier — the person they be- lieve can help bolster their largely circumstantial case. After initially asserting McVeigh’s innocence, Fortier began talking when faced with a possible grand jury subpoena and threat of perjury. Information he has provided authorities is believed beneficial to their case against McVeigh — including Fortier’s prior knowledge of McVeigh’s alleged plot, and that he and MeVeigh cased the federal building shortly before the explosion. Fortier’s attorney, Michael McGuire, has been negotiating with federal prosecutors about a possible guilty plea to a reduced charge that would sparehis client from the death penaltyor life in prison. The discussions, described around the length of time Fortier would serve behind bars. Among the possible charges being discussed as part of a plea bargain accomplice. Sources said that by the end of jast week, lawyers for both sides still were at loggerheads. Proseeutors would prefer to wrap up Fortier's case before they seek to indict MeVeigh and Nichols, but at least one sourcesaid the negotiations could drag on beyond Friday's deadline or abruptly break off — with the government seeking to indict Fortier. As he waits for his fate to be decided, Fortier’s life remains in limbo. The man who wrote in his high school yearbook that his plans were “to enjoy every mo- mentof mylife and take events as they come,” now weighs the grim prospect of prison and living apart from his wife and 2-yearold daughter. Lori Fortier also has been under investigation as a possible accomplice, placing additional pressure on her husband. Fi BAUSCH & LOMB" Daily Wear SOFT CONTACTS S44 2 Same Day Fittings Some Limitations Apply <ge Advantage [* ‘ Eye Care ea 4774 %. UNIVERSITY PRWY.. eee500) S =< a =| @ From The article said Valentin Lebedev, director of the could trigger depression, something space programs want to Krasnoyarsk-26 uranium mine in eastern Siberia, warned authorities about avoid because of the potentially deadly consequences in a confined craft. “If we expect to send people on safety dangers, but got no response. Hethen called on Yeltsin to personally in- [Mars] missions of two or three years, we darn well better deal spect the mine Lebedev's pleas, along with increasing international pressure to address the safety of the huge nuclear complex, prompted Yeltsin with the psychological aspects in addition to the physiological ss, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin 1992 to May 1995, Russian nuclear power plants reported 25 serious incidents and 7,673 minor ones. The most severe were at plants in Tver and Kursk in western Russia is to try to console, would be the exact wrong thing to do,” Thagard said. 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Earlier, hundredsof the motorcyclists defied police and U.N. troops androaredinto the neutral zone dividing the Mediterranean island. Some 2,000 motorcyclists set off from the western area of Skouriotissa, 40 miles west of Nicosia, on Sunday morning to make their way along the 112 miles cease-fire line that has divided the island since 1974 . Six hundredpolice officers and 200 U.N. peacekeepers proved little match for the bikers as they rode into the U.N.-controlled buffer zone. Turkey invaded north Cyprus in 1974 after a coup in Nicosia engineered by the junta then ruling Greece. Eye Exam g ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — secret sur- ment.” CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It Including Comprehensive N-Trouble In Russia tration with fighting words. 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