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...withdrew Aeroflot's landing rights at New York and Washington in 1981, after the military crackdown in Poland, the Soviet carrier was a notorious offender, frequently entering off-bounds airspace in the U.S. Two Aeroflot planes passed over New England military installations, including the U.S. Navy shipyards at Groton, Conn., where work was under way on a new nuclear submarine. Both carried passengers-and possibly spy cameras or electronic eavesdropping equipment. Lot, the Polish carrier, and the Czechoslovak line, CSA, Government also wandered into restricted zones. Notes one U.S. Government official tartly: "We never blasted any of them...
...Atlantic editor who accepted this schmaltz as authentic was Ellery Sedgwick, then 56. One of the most respected men of letters of his day, he was married to a Cabot and had graduated from Groton and Harvard. The conspirator who befuddled his judgment was Wilma Frances Minor, then 42, an attractive former actress and a columnist for the San Diego Union. She claimed that the letters had been handed down through the family
Thirty-one of the students were charged with disorderly conduct and four with criminal trespass, said Sgt. Dick Horan, a spokesman for the Groton City Police...
Students from the Yale school and the General Theological Seminary in New York City coordinated the demonstration, calling it the Groton Peace Party...
...statement released Friday, the Yale disarmament group said. "We come to Groton as followers of Jesus Christ to comfort publicity the evil of nuclear armaments." --The Yale Daily News