71.   French navy commandos seized the Rainbow Warrior II on Sunday shortly after the Greenpeace ship entered French waters off Mururoa Atoll, site of planned French nuclear tests.

72.   French nuclear tests are to resume in September after a three-year moratorium.

73.   France claims the rioting was not related to the resumption of French nuclear tests, which have sparked protests worldwide.

74.   French tests showed that Henri Paul, the driver, was drunk and had taken prescription drugs.

75.   French troops held the ship along with another Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior, for six months after the boats tried to stop French tests at Muroroa Atoll.

76.   French commandos, using tear gas, boarded a Greenpeace ship trying to block the destroyer as part of a protest of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

77.   French military authorities intercepted two Greenpeace activists in an inflatable speedboat Tuesday as they approached a drilling rig at the French nuclear test site at Fangataufa Atoll.

78.   French President Jacques Chirac on Saturday canceled a planned meeting this week with Murayama, who would have protested French tests.

79.   French tests confirm nerve gas components on Iraqi warheads, newspaper reports.

80.   French tests confirmed nerve gas components on Iraqi warheads, a newspaper reports.