The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, June 15, 1982-Page 3 NEW YORK PROTEST LARGEST EVER IN U.S. Huge turnout for By ANDREW CHAPMAN and PAMELA KRAMER Special to the Daily NEW YORK - A crowd of more than half a million people gets its message across through sheer numbers, if nothing else. And that's exactly what happened here Saturday, when people from around the world descended on midtown Manhattan and Central Park for a peaceful protest against the nuclear arms race. "We have come here in numbers so large that the message must get through to the White House and Capitol Hill," Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., told the throng assembled for the four-mile march from the United Nations to Cen- tral Park. anti-nuke rally THE THOUSANDS waiting to take their places in the march, cheered deafeningly when actor Ozzie Davis announced over the loudspeakers that more than 400,000 people were on Fifth Avenue "where they're shopping for peace." Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, New York City Mayor Edward Koch, Bella Abzug, and Linda Ronstadt were among the other celebrities who spoke to and enter- tained the rally's participants in front of the U.N. and on the 18-acre Great Lawn of the park. The crowd exceeded in number those gathered for any previous demon- stration in the United States, including the anti-war protests held during the 1960s. The largest gathering in Central Park before Saturday was last year, when about 400,000 amassed to hear the Simon and Garfunkel reunion concert. MAC NICOLSON, a 30-year-old Australian, observed that the anti- Daily Photo by JACKIE BELL PROTESTERS, ASSEMBLED on Central Park's Great Lawn, listen to speakers during Saturday's anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City. nuclear movement has a much broader base of support than did the peace movements of the 60s. "This rally is quieter than the ones in Europe," said Bertil Kindstromer of Gottberg, Sweden, but he noted that the Saturday event was far larger than any he had previously seen. A' veteran of the peace marches in the 60s, he said he thinks the no-nukes crowd is much more respectable than those of the Vietnam era. College students were no better represented at the rally than were other age groups. A diverse collection of people with backgrounds ranging anywhere from Roman Catholicism to communism gathered together for one common goal: opposition to the nuclear arms race. SEVERAL OF the slogans made famous during the 64s anti-war movement have weathered the years, finding their way onto signs borne in the march and hanging from windows along the route. Many underwent slight changes, an indication of the wider variety of par- ticipants in this decade's protest. Now, world leaders are not only supposeOl to "make love, not war," but - according See NEW YORK, Page 5 1,600 arrested in protest outside U.N. missions (Continued from Page 1)- "We've got enough arms to kill each other. What do we need the neutron bomb for?" said Matthew Guerin, 70, of Long Island, outside the U.S. mission moments before he was dragged to a waiting stretcher and carried to a police bus. Police said 1,609 people were arrested and issued summonses for disorderly' conduct, almost 900 of them at the U.S. Mission. The protests began at 8 a.m. and all but the U.S. Mission protest en- ded by mid-afternoon. THOSE ARRESTED included veteran anti-war activitsts D avid Dellinger, Daniel and Phillip Berrigan, and Elizabeth McAllister. A block south of the U.S. Mission a group from San Francisco calling itself the Nuclear Freeze '80s Committee set fire to American, Soviet, British, Chinese, and French flags as well as the flag of India, which has also exploded a nuclear device. Small groups who charged Israel and South Africa have secretly developed nuclear weapons later staged protests at those nations' missions. The sit-ins followed Saturday's massive anti-nuclear parade and rally, the largest in history, in which more than 700,000 people marched through the streets of Manhattan to Central Park, urging world powers to lay down their nuclear arms. ALTHOUGH the demonstrations were aimed at all nuclear powers, the largest crowds and the most arrests were at the U.S. Mission directly across from the United Nations, where several world leaders-including West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-were speaking at the Second Special Session on Disarmament. Schmidt told the U.N. General Assembly the Soviet Union and its allies had deployed hundreds of intermediate- range nuclear weapons, "many of them targeted on my country." "The impatience of people-and not only of younger people-is growing," the chancellor said, "impatience with governments that appear to be doing no more than talk while at the same time they are developing, producing and in- stalling ever more deadly weapons." With Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in the audience of the special disarmament session, Schmidt said any one of the missiles could destroy his hometown of Hamburg and the two neighboring cities. For this reason, West Germany and its partners were striving to negotiate "a stable military balance between West and East." AP Photo A PASSERBY ATTEMPTS to make his way through yesterday's anti- nuclear protest in front of the Soviet mission to the United Nations. Police arrested more than 1,600 demonstrators attempting to block the UN'. missions of five nuclear powers.