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...Telecom. She made it equally plain that a new Thatcher government would stand by its commitment to improve Britain's nuclear deter rent by buying U.S.-built, submarine-launched Trident missiles and would continue to support the planned deployment of U.S. cruise missiles at the British bases at Greenham Common and Molesworth...
...drive that has expanded the membership from 3,000 to 50,000-in addition, there are at least 200,000 politically active sympathizers-and mobilized effective mass demonstrations against the Bomb. Last month C.N.D. members and their allies held hands to form a 14-mile chain between Greenham Common in Berkshire, where the first U.S. cruise missiles are scheduled to be installed later this year, and Burghfield, site of Britain's nuclear warhead factory...
...Easter weekend in the hope that it would take some of the steam out of antinuclear demonstrations scheduled in Britain and West Germany over the holiday. (That hope was not entirely fulfilled: some 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators linked arms on Friday to form a human chain around Greenham Common Air Base, a British facility where cruise missiles are to be installed.) Reagan first proposed to break the news in his Los Angeles speech last Thursday. But diplomats pointed out that if he did so, he would not catch the attention of many European newspaper readers on Good Friday...
...across the Continent in the months leading up to the first missile deployment. Last week demonstrators were once again out in force in West Germany and Denmark. In Britain, 30,000 women joined hands to form a nine-mile "ring of peace" around a Royal Air Force base at Greenham Common, 50 miles west of London, that has been designated as a site for cruise missiles. There to record the scuffles between demonstrators and police was a Soviet television crew. Said a senior U.S. State Department official: "They are hoping that popular opposition will derail the INF talks, so they...