Severely handicapped class arrives - The Lowell

'Underwatergate'
scandal persists
By Andrew l*z
Since the bombing of the
Greenpeace flajihip, Aji-J.,*" tt'ar.
Hur. Fr-rwe tu> been taught in .,
tcanfal bciii- amti^ily cmipjrnt
to the United SiaicV "Waferjaie" affair
cf ihc earl/ 1970"*.
Dubbed 'F.-anoc\ Watergate" by
the country'i cotHcrvativc op^\-»«".
tion, tnc Kandal rvpan when Previilrr-
Fratvou MitterTa.Td'1 swu]»tcontrolled
government ftitiiiucd that
French agent* were rnponublc for
The Greenpeace f:anJ-i1 hat
eliminated Mitterrand'* Soculivt pjr
ty\ hoj-c of r-taining tt* nujority
*»hcn French parlmtxnur} elcrttom
ocmr in March, and **ill und:xjhttdl)
be rrmcm;*c;cJ during tin.- next
presidential c'cct«*ru :.i |'» X S.'id
r-'ab.m, "In thi* affair, (here i\ bui
•me target that pc%>plc arc Jimirn: at.
and that i\ IIK president him\Ml ili^e;t for the French
«crctovcr*r4s ««* tencr netucri,
il— DircctH>rt Cco.rxV Jt U Sccuii'c
CMcricurc (DTrSL).
dpi. Donunique Phcur anJ .Via).
Aljm Mafjrt, f*o ajenu who provided
w "utinj rrpons and dupttcd
of the equipment after the iniwior.
Accofiltf.p lit Greenpeace'* San
FranciKii (iflke Jt For. Miwm, the
or^ani/aticn tiCdrtemcU^n^dcloiiljitig
tltc '-hip, (hen «inLmj; I al j
d^pih of ICO ft el a» a f»«me for rulivc
nurine life.
Sutol a wxifcc Jt ihc Greenpeace
of foe. "1ri» i-ri>bicni u lhat ihii at*
fairuLc%;na**4y (rcmslicni/
pr»*icni — French nuclear policy.
Our prtitc^u -fcill omiinjc *'
Greenpeace Mill ha3 a urull licet
of «!ttpt at in tJi-piMjl. *'..hough the
ihip Gr*frpr uili wliwh vurr ( : fCTKh
n.iiciJ t-llicuU fo-1 lh.-j inuvl K»' I"
ii order to tie*:--• *rc;r m: '
Stnl ilSc.-* h-oc d.viilc\l l" pjl oM
juJgt..;ra "•» the ^ v «