The World - News from Nov. 15, 1985

France has apologized to the family of a crewman who drowned when the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk in New Zealand last July, a spokesman for the environmental group announced in Amsterdam. The letter to Hanneke Pereira, the widow of Fernando Pereira, was signed by Defense Minister Paul Quiles on behalf of French President Francois Mitterrand. The Greenpeace spokesman said the letter offered acceptable compensation for Pereira’s death, but he declined to reveal the amount. Pereira, a photographer, left an 8-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter.