$8 MILLION TO GREENPEACE

GENEVA -- GENEVA -- An international tribunal has ordered France to pay more than $8 million compensation to the environmentalist group Greenpeace for the sinking of its nuclear protest ship Rainbow Warrior by French agents, Greenpeace announced.

It said the three-member panel, made up of legal experts from France, New Zealand and Switzerland, ordered France to pay $5 million for the loss of the ship, $1.2 million for aggravated damages and the balance for various losses and costs.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Jacques Chirac said the government had no comment on the decision: "It is a legal ruling and we will carry it out. The case is now closed."

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