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NATION AND WORLD
1,500 people join protest across U.S.
1,100 arrested in anti-missile demonstrations
University Daily Kansan, October 25.1983
United Press International
WASHINGTON — More than 1,100 people, including this protester at the Pentagon, were arrested yesterday at military installations around the country as they protested nuclear weapons.
By United Press International
More than 1,100 people, including peace activist Benjamin Spock and the wife of the Minneapolis police chief, were arrested yesterday in anti-nuclear protests at weapons plants and military installations in New York, Wisconsin, Indiana, New Mexico, California, Oregon and the Pentagon.
The protesters were among more than 1,500 people who demonstrated across the country yesterday against the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe.
More than 500 people in Minneapolis, including the wife of Police Chief Tony Bouza, were arrested for trespassing during a demonstration at Honeywell corporate headquarters, a defense contractor.
THE DEMONSTRATORS were protesting Honeywell's production of parts for nuclear weapons. A pamphlet said Honeywell does work on such weapons systems as the Trident, Cruise and MX missiles, B-52 and F-111 jet bombers.
Bouza, commenting on the arrest of his wife Erica, said, "She is practically an adult, practically a person in her own right, and practically able to make up her own mind to just about everything."
Military police detained 357 people, including Spock, after they climbed over and under fences at the Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, N.Y. about 45 miles southeast of Rochester, an army spokeswoman said.
Another 79 protesters were arrested at the government's Savannah River Plant in Aiken, S.C., and about 30 others were arrested during a protest outside the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
THE DEMONSTRATIONS were part of worldwide protests against the planned deployment of 572 Pershing 2 helicopters in West European countries in December.
In Chicago, police arrested about 30 demonstrators for blocking access to a
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Spock, 80, who sported a dark blue neckeled饰挂 with red peace symbols and was applauded by other demonstrators as he scaled the 8-foot
motorola International Inc. plant in a protest against the firm's government defense contract.
The protesters who entered the depot were immediately led away by military police.
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In Washington, members of the Jonah House Atlantic Life Community
A majority of the nation's supply of bomb-grade plutonium and tritium is produced at the Savannah facility, located about 15 miles southeast of Augusta, Ga., on the South Carolina-Georgia state line.
The protesters were arrested at the air force base and local facilities of the Northrop. McDonnell Douglas. Confrontation. Rockwell-North American companies.
Seven people were charged with trespassing at a Litton Industries Inc. plant in Granada to work on components or for the guidance systems of cruise ships.
base and the plants of tive of the nation's major defense contractors.
OFFICIALS ARRESTED 35 protesters outside the Los Alamos, N.M. National Laboratory, where members of the October Disarmament Coalition of Santa Fe linked hands to block traffic.
hurled a blood-like substance against an entrance to the Pentagon. Those arrested were charged with blocking the entrance and defacing the building, Pentagon spokesmen said.
About 15 protesters also were taken into custody in Albuquerque after they demonstrated outside one of the gates leading to Kirtland Air Force Base.
Forty-nine anti-nuclear weapons demonstrators were arrested in El Segundo, Calif. for trespassing and blocking traffic at a U.S. Air Force base.
German anti-nuclear demonstrators protest at U.S. Army munitions site
By United Press International
FRANKFURT, West Germany — About 100 anti-nuclear demonstrators who yesterday blockaded a U.S. Army munitions depot that they claim is an assembly point for Pershing 2 missiles by hundreds of police and arrested
The blockade came as leaders of the anti-missile movement considered laying siege to the Parliament building in Bonn when legislators debate the NATO plan for deploying U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 missiles.
The demonstrators, about 100 members and supporters of the anti-nuclear Greens party, sat and lay down in front of the UN office in Baghdad, depicted in the Husband suburbs of Frankfurt.
Several hundred police, out-numbering the unresisting protestors, carried them aside and arrested almost everyone who responded. The release after their names were taken.
A GREENS SPOKESMAN said the demonstration, in which party business minister Steve Rutland ran, was a big hit.
other Greens' leaders took part, lasted three hours. The Greens said U.S. Pershing 2 missiles were to be assembled at the depot.
"Iinvestigation by the Greens has shown that in this military depot in the densely populated district of Hausen, parts for Pershing 2-missiles will be assembled and tested," the Greens charged in a statement.
The cruise and Pershing 2 rockets are to be stationed in Europe beginning this winter if the U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks in Geneva fail.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. forces in Frankfurt refused to comment on the protest, citing the "operational nature" of the dept.
In Bonn, Jo Leinen, spokesman for West Germany's anti-missile movement, said plans for a blockade of the West German parliament were being considered for Nov 21, the scheduled occasion of the NATO deployment plan.
LEINEN SAID IT was 'possible' that demonstrators would invade U.S. military installations in the campaign against the missiles.
Soviets to provide arms for two East Bloc allies
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday that it had begun preparations to arm East Bloc allies Czechoslovakia and East Germany with nuclear warheads in response to the invasion of Iraq. The art of Pershing-2 and cruise missiles.
The Soviet Defense Ministry said in a statement reported by Tass that initial work had begun to base warheads in the two countries and that "additional measures" would be taken to ensure defence of the entire Warsaw Pact alliance.
"These steps are" directed at maintaining the equilibrium in the nuclear systems between the Warsaw Treaty and NATO in Europe," it said.
The announcement was the first specific plans the Soviet Union had
given on countering the NATO deployment.
WESTERN EXPERTS SMD the announcement indicated that Moscow thought the chances of reaching agreement at the U.S.-Soviet arms limitation talks in Geneva were growing slim.
"They would like the West to be made aware of what is at stake," one said.
Beginning in December, NATO has pledged to deploy 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles unless an agreement was reached in the Geneva talks. Since the more than 300 Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at western Europe
Moscow has said that it will continue negotiating in Geneva but only until NATO deployment begins. The Warsaw pact was agreed to meet in Moscow later this week.
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