61.   The voyage of the Rainbow Warrior II was aimed at calling world attention to French plans to set off eight underground nuclear test blasts between September and May.

62.   Though the measure did not mention France by name, it was clearly prompted by a recent French decision to resume test blasts in the South Pacific.

63.   When Pakistan started out, Western nations threatened severe sanctions should the Pakistanis set off test nuclear blasts.

64.   However, it conducted a new nuclear weapons test Saturday and immediately after announced it would suspend test blasts after September.

65.   All journalists who were in Mururoa at the time have now been moved to Papeete, where analysts said the first test blast would be early this week.

66.   China will suspend nuclear tests after September, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday, following a test blast conducted earlier in the day by the country.

67.   The treaty, which bans all nuclear test blasts, opens for signing here Tuesday.

68.   Philippines Foreign Minister Domingo Siazon called on those nuclear powers still conducting test blasts to desist, as he urged early adoption of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.