Word: greenham
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...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...