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Twelve Harvard students will file a lawsuit on Thursday against the state of New Hampshire and its state police, charging that the students were "clubbed and maced" in an unnecessarily violent "violation of their civil right to protest" at the Seabrook nuclear power plant, Kevin Powers, attorney for the group and member of the Seabrook Coalition for Direct Action, said yesterday...
...group of 20 to 25 Harvard students were sitting with arms linked, singing songs on a hill outside the fence of the plant on Sunday, October 7, when the police approached, Powers said. In the ensuing encounter, several students suffered "physical injury" and one was hospitalized with a concussion and fractured hand, he added, decling to identify the students involved...
Although Powers believes that the students did not trespass on the property of the Seabrook power plant, he said the suit would assert that the lawful remedy to suspected trespass is arrest and legal prosecution. The police used tactics justified only in cases where arrest is resisted, he said, adding that the tactics used constituted "police misconduct" and "deprivation of the right to due process...
Yesterday's issue included articles on abortion legislation, oil company profits and the recent attempt to stop construction of the nuclear power plant in Seabrook...
...moment though, the Chinese seem especially interested in American brainpower. At almost every stop on the tour-at a seismological observatory outside Peking, at an electronics plant in Changzhou (Changchow), at hospitals in Shanghai, in scenic Hangzhou (Hangchow) and at fisheries near Canton-we were told of leading American scientists who had already been there...