POLICE forced their way into a South African experimental facility to allow animal rights groups to rescue 14 baboons destined for use in nuclear weapons testing by the French military. Policemen used a bolt cutter to force the locks of the French-run Centre Africaine Primatologie Experimentale (CAPE) near Hazyview in eastern Mpumalanga, after an animal rights group was refused entrance. The CAPE centre is believed to export between 60 and 70 baboons annually to the French military for the testing of nuclear and other weapons. The baboons were examined by veterinary surgeon Dr. Nthethe Raditapole, who said their condition was ”appalling”. – Own Correspondent and AFP