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 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Twenty years after he drowned in his cabin on the sabotaged Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, photographer Fernando Pereira was honored Sunday with a marble sculpture lowered to the seabed beside the sunken ship in which he died.
As supporters and friends prepared to ease the sculpture into 85 feet of water in New Zealand's Matauri Bay, a French newspaper reported this weekend that the French spy agencies that sank the ship in 1985 with two mines placed by frogmen had direct approval from then President Francois Mitterrand.
The vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, had been readying to sail for France's South Pacific nuclear testing site at Mururoa Atoll to protest a series of nuclear explosions.
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