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JERUSALEM (September 22, 1998 1:19 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com)

   - Ten anti-nuclear activists were stopped Tuesday as they tried to
   conduct a "citizens' inspection" at an Israeli nuclear facility.

   Police said the activists -- including Britons, Americans and
   Norwegians -- tried to enter the Dimona plant in southern Israel,
   where the government is widely believed to be producing nuclear
   weapons.

   The arrests came after a demonstration outside the plant, at which the
   activists called on Israel to stop making nuclear weapons and to
   release nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu.

   Vanunu, 43, a former nuclear technician at Dimona, was found guilty of
   espionage in 1986 after telling Britain's Sunday Times newspaper that
   Israel had built more than 200 atomic bombs at the plant.

   He has become a symbol of Israel's anti-nuclear movement for daring to
   spill Israel's nuclear secrets and has served two thirds of his
   18-year sentence. A parole board ruled in May that he should complete
   his term.

   Rina Moss, spokeswoman of the Israeli Committee for Mordechai Vanunu
   and a Middle East Free of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons,
   said most of the protesters dispersed peacefully after two hours.
   "Our demonstration is to tell the Israeli government this reactor and
   stockpiling and production of nuclear weapons is in violation of
   international law ... This reactor must be opened to international
   inspection and supervision," Moss said.

   "The second thing is the immediate release of Mordechai Vanunu who has
   been kept in solitary confinement for 11 years ... He is a prisoner of
   conscience," she told Reuters by telephone from outside the reactor in
   the Negev Desert.

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