S. Africa, Britain, radwaste, naval war?

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>]

This is from Reuters News service. More instigative journalism .. 
more hype ..  Seems that nuclear issues, aimed to alienate the 
public, will continue. This is very disturbing.
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 CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - A British ship carrying  
reprocessed nuclear waste to Japan from France reneged on a 
promise that it would not enter South Africa's 200-mile 
exclusive economic zone, government officials said Monday. 
  ``The government received assurances that they would not  
(come within 200 miles of the coast), and they did, which is 
very unfortunate,'' said Cassandra Gabriel, spokeswoman for the 
Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. 
  She said Pallo Jordan, minister of the department, was  
expected to make a full statement Tuesday. 
  South African Navy spokesman Stan Slogrove said a minehunter  
monitored the ship, the Pacific Teal, Sunday as it passed the 
Cape coast on its way from France to Japan. 
  ``At the speed and course she was following she would have  
left the EEZ by now and is on her way to the east. We will 
continue monitoring until she's well outside our area,'' he 
said. 
  ``We monitored her about 140 nautical miles (off the coast).  
She just kept on her course, she was making a little cut off the Cape,
cutting the corner a bit,'' Slogrove said, adding that the minehunter
did not radio the ship at any stage. 
  The ship is carrying 40 blocks of vitrified radioactive  
plutonium waste back to Japan after reprocessing in France. 

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