Word: shad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protection from the barbed wire). "They're everywhere!" a LILCO official reportedly said as he watched them arrive via closed circuit television monitors in the utility's security trailer. They trudged along the fence until they found a nice spot to go over, wished each other and the support--SHAD lawyers, medics, etc.--good luck, then did what they came...
While for the most part accepting SHAD's policy of nonviolent protest, some expressed impatience with the American anti-nuclear movement and waned that future protests might not be so peaceful. Many were new to the movement, joining after the Three Mile Island accident in March, and this was their first protest. They mixed with old vets, who wore buttons proclaiming earlier arrests at Seabrook, N.H., or Rocky Flats, Colorado. About half the protesters went limp to emphasize their non-cooperation...
...scenes that hit the screens. The focal point of the occupation attempt was the plant's front gate, right in front of most of the press, LILCO officials and police. That's where the only violence of the day took place, when about 15 youths (apparently unconnected with SHAD) decided they would like to storm the place. So they charged the gate repeatedly, kicking and bloodying the hands of LILCO employees who tried to hold it up, and eventually knocked it over. Curiously, though, a no-man's land opened up as the youths backed off instead of entering...
...They're nice people," muttered a LILCO security man sarcastically as he went for first aid, "they didn't mean no harm." The incident gave LILCO spokesman Jan Hickman a chance to lash out at SHAD: "I don't know if SHAD was directly involved, but this is not 'nonviolence' and it wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the kind of emotional garbage SHAD has been putting...
Informed of the violence, some SHAD protesters worried about the adverse publicity it might generate. Said a man from New York, "we're not here to piss people off or alienate them, we're here to make a point...