Big French Build-Up
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For Nuclear Tests
Fifteen hundred French soldiers and civilians will be stationed in Tahiti by the end of this year for France's nuclear testing programme in the South Pacific.
The French Prime Minister, Mr.
Georges Pompidou, said this in the French Parliament in March in reply to a written question from Mr. John Tearii, Deputy for French Polynesia.
Mr. Pompidou said that "owing to the nature of the tests", exact figures could not be given for military and civilian personnel in the whole of French Polynesia for the tests.