The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, May 28, 1980-Page 7
FUTILE PROTEST CAUSES $500,000 DAMAGE
Militants leave Seabrook plant
SEABROOK, N.H. (AP) - Militant
anti-nuclear demonstrators, unable to
amass the thousands drawn to peaceful
protests, began scattering yesterday
after their latestfutile but costly attem-
pt to disrupt construction at the
Seabrook power plant.
Authorities estimated the cost of con-
trolling the protest would exceed
$500,000 - about half as much as the
total for 15 previous peaceful protests
but more expensive than a militant ef-
fort last fall.
ABOUT 300 protesters - down from
1,500 four days before - tried yester-
day morning to block about 1,200
workers from returning to the construc-
tion site after the holiday weekend.
State troopers and National Guar-
dspersons, who had turned away the
protesters over the weekend, tore down
a log roadblock and cleared a path
through the protesters to the three plant
entrances.
Two people were arrested, bringing
the total to 40 in four days of protests,
but there were none of the violent con-
frontations of the first two days. All of
those arrested, most on tresspass and
disorderly conduct charges, were
released on bail.
NO SERIOUS injuries were reported
over the weekend. Troopers and guar-
dsmen used riot clubs, tear gas, Mace,
dogs, and water hoses to foil the
demonstrators' attempts to cut through
the eight-foot-high chain link fence
around the site.
Since construction began in 1976,
protesters have been trying to stop the
building of the $3.1 billion twin-reactor
plant. Those demonstrations, most
organized by the anti-nuclear Clam-
shell Alliance, were peaceful and legal,
and drew crowds of up to 18,000.
Last October, the more militant
Coalition For Direct Action at Seabrook
orchestrated the first assault on the
fence. About 1,500 activists showed up
and were repulsed by police for three
days.
WHILE THE more recent protests
have not gotten demonstrators onto the
plant site, they have cost the state more
than $1 million to control.
Norman Cullerot, a spokesman for
Public Service Co. of New Hampshire,
the plant builder, said last October's
demonstration cost the state well over
$500,000, "and I can assure you that the
one this weekend will top thatone very,
very easily."
He said the previous 15 more peaceful
demonstrations cost a total of about $1
million.
THE COALITION also organized the
jatest protest.
"Direct action is not for everybody
right now," said John Whitney of
Kingston, R.I. "It is a very high risk
tactic, but eventually when people see
the necessity for radical action, I think
the numbers will swell."
Mark Wotton, a demonstrators'
medic from Holyoke, Mass., said, "We
are showing the world that if you want
to build a nuclear plant, you are going
to have to deal with us coming by twice
or three times a year."
The biggest problems facing Public
Service Company of New Hampshire,
the plant's builder, have been on other
fronts. There have heen man
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Palace in Tokyo yesterday. Hua's trip marked the first visit of a Chinese premier to Japan in 2,000 years of Sino-
Japanese history.
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