IRAQ

France Denies Plans to Rebuild Nuclear Reactor

Mr. Alain Juppe, the French Government spokesman, denied on 5 August that his country was planning to assist Iraq to rebuild a nuclear reactor destroyed by Israeli warplanes in June 1981. The French official was reacting to a story published by the French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine which printed excerpts from a message delivered last June from Premier Jacques Chirac to President Saddam Husain. Chirac's message did not...