Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police of the details beforehand, where and when protestors would go over the fence. But SHAD modified its tactics, trying to preserve some element of surprise, and Suffolk County police did not find out about plans for the occupation until a deputy commissioner picked up a leaflet when he went to see The China Syndrome...
...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...
...went on for nearly four hours, a continuous stream. Knots of arrested protesters at just inside the fence, singing or chanting anti-nuke slogans, or chatting amiably with police while waiting to be taken to precinct headquarters in Yaphank for booking. "If any of you people would like a piece of gum I have some in my back pocket," offered one teen-ager, her bands bound behind her back. "I can't get it, of course...
...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...
Although Jaffe remarks that there were "civil rights uprisings in the South" and that "the Watergate hearings went on and on," such external events have little effect on her women. When they gather for a 20th reunion in 1977, their preoccupations are unaltered: clothes and contraception, careers and families, the right cars and the right men. It is a formula that Jaffe has cannily employed in her earlier books, and a sequel may soon provide another: in the epilogue, Annabel's daughter Emma is looking forward to going to-where else?-Radcliffe...