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...front door was not threatening, nor was the visitor's message. "We are from the peace initiative," the voice said. "We want to talk to you about the missiles." But the U.S. soldier's young wife living in Mutlangen, West Germany, near a major U.S. Army depot, refused even to reply until her unexpected caller had departed. Moments later, when she hesitantly opened the door, she found an anti-Pershing-missile leaflet on her doorstep. "I didn't answer because I was scared," she said. "I don't know what they have against...
...soldiers. Roofs had collapsed, window frames were stained black by fires, and smoke curled from several stone villas. Near by, in the Druze town of Sofar, militiamen carried rocket launchers and ammunition to a white Toyota pickup truck from a small stone church that was serving as a supply depot...
...professed purpose of the 600 women who began camping out on a 52-acre farm in the Finger Lakes region of New York State on July 4 was to protest the storage of nuclear weapons at the nearby Seneca Army Depot. Calling themselves the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, the women, mostly white, well educated and feminist, sought to pattern their demonstration after the Women's Peace Camp protest at England's Greenham Common, a projected site for U.S. cruise missiles. There, several thousand women have assembled, on and off, since September...
...blocked their path. One man brandished a shotgun and was arrested. The women sat quietly on the street; 52 were arrested for disorderly conduct. Many were detained for five days in a school before charges of disorderly conduct were dropped. When nearly 1,700 protesters approached the depot two days later, residents shouted, "Commies, go home!" and waved American flags. After local and state police permitted 244 of the women to climb over a 6-ft.-high fence, military police were waiting to catch them...
DIED. A.T. Baker, 68, versatile TIME writer and editor; of cancer; in Washington Depot, Conn. In his 35 years with the magazine, Bobby Baker covered areas ranging from national and foreign affairs to art and architecture. But his deep love of literature produced some of his most memorable writing, including cover stories on Robert Frost (1950) and André Malraux (1955), and an essay on the state of American poetry...