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About 300 arrested at anti-sub demo By PHILLIP EMERSON For the Emerald At 10 a.m. (EST) today in New York City the first U.S. special con ference on disarmament will be called to order. At the same time, across the continent, in jails around Kitsap County, Wa. break fast will be served to 300 new in mates. These prisoners, arrested on the Trident Submarine Base in Bangor, hope to have made a Oniy five of the estimated 290 protesters arrested Monday were charged with trespassing at the Trident nuclear sub marine base, the others were released by au thorities. A spokesperson for Live Without Trident said the protesters would return this morning for a repeat performance. statement to their countrymen about their committment to a peaceful world — one without the Trident submarine “We feel it is important that people realize that the govern ment, which says it is for disarm ament, is going ahead with this project which will escalate the arms race," said Janice Marshall of Eugene at the occupation. The Trident is simply the most destructive weapons system ever conceived, according to the pro testors. Its capabilities far outdis tance those of the presently de ployed Polaris-Poseidon fleet. The sheer destructive power of Trident, its enormous cost and the strategic implications of its de ployment have catalyzed a de termined resistance movement in tent on bringing these issues to public attention. For this purpose, several hundred people will risk up to 6 months in jail and $500 in fines in the “occupation” at Tri dent. The protests in Bangor, at the shipyards at New London, Conn., and the Lockheed plant in Califor nia were simultaneous, with de monstrations on Sunday and oc cupations, a la Trojan, on Mon day. The demonstrators know they’ll wind up in jail, so when the par liamentarian calls the disarma ment conference to order this morning, he will be toasted with warm Tang in the jails of Kitsap County. The Kitsap County Sheriff smiled and snorted a little, won dering just who I was. The main gate was 100 yards up the road, the parade directly behind us. "Just another routine traffic con trol,” he said. His partner estimated the crowd at 4,500. The throng, one lane wide, was % of a mile long. There were young and old march ing. Students, babies, brokers, teachers and many photo graphers. There were families 1 I I marching. Some were familiar with the ab stract mathematics of strategic theory, others not. It was a colorful procession, bearing the flags of every nation in the U.N. The locals were generally wary, cynical. One group of six adults, observing the parade, produced the comment “They might as well be marching down main street in Moscow.” Lorainne Anderson is mad be cause the new main gate freeway will wipe out 19 and one half of her grandfather’s 20-acre home stead, where she lives. “We tried to fight them in zoning meetings, but SALE 20% to 30% off on 100% pure cotton shirts, skirts, and tops for men and women. Ana In IMPORTS FROM INDIA 1038 Willamette Street 687-9766 we were outnumbered.” She shrugs, looks down the road to her place. There are blooming rhododendrons around the roof. She leans on her mail box, looks tired, and smiles at the passing people. “You're about twenty years too late,” a local resident says. Another local, talking with a young marcher, explains at length the travail and procedure of his long zoning fight with the Navy. The boy tells the man that things will be better now, with all the pub licity. The man says “I'm afraid you’re too late.” The boy replies: “No, we’re not, but you’ve got to get busy too.” The old man shakes his head and disappears with his lawn chair into the trees. The rally breaks up, and those who don’t go home spend the night at the Peterson farm near the base. A few hundred people, arm in arm, form a circle and sing to the night. Their voices have a haunt ing quality through the trees, hard to describe. Softer than amplified music, the depth and resonance of this collective voice is acousti cally more compelling. 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They are distributing pamphlets to early-arriving workers, and they take care not to be late. At 6:50 a.m. the protestors ar rive at the gate. For a moment, there is a dramatic silence. The faces are peaceful and resolute, betraying a certain joy. Eyes mois ten. There are embraces, kisses, smiles. Rugs are thrown over the barbed wire fence, six feet high, and with a whoop the “Live With out Trident” people do their thing, running onto the field beyond the fence, sitting on a grassy knoll one quarter mile from the fence. About 300 demonstrators go over, 18 from Eugene. Within min utes a friendly Frisbee is flying over a small corner of the Trident base. The arrests begin within a half hour. Some are dragged out, but most stroll arm in arm with their affinity groups, waving. As the Canadians are hauled out, their support contingent sings, “God Save The Queen,” as today is Elizabeth’s birthday. The protestors are admonished not to chant. 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