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Times-Advocate, 1982-08-18, Page 121 Page 12 Times -Advocate, August 18,1982 Orsnton•. bride honoured, WI member sttend convention Miss Ruth Mardlin, Lon- don, who will marry Steven Wilson, also of London, on August 28 in the Granton United Church with the Rev. Elwood Morden performing the ceremony was honored at a recent shower. Mrs. Sharon Clymans welcomed everyone and spoke about how Ruth had touched many lives with her friendship, also gave a reading entitled "Friendship." The bride elect then in- troduced the girls sitting with her at a table laden with gifts. They were her sister Mrs. Gail Elson and Tara Lynn Elson her niece. Mrs. Lynda Hayes who will be her matron of honour and Mrs. Sharon • Clymans and daughter Alex. When Ruth had finally un- wrapped her many gifts, she thanked everyone for giving her such a lovely shower and invited all present to come . and see her wedding present which would be displayed at her parents home in St. Marys the last week before the wedding. Women's Institute news Members of Granton W.I. attending the 85th anniver- sary of the Women's Institute held at the Constellation Hotel in Toronto on Thursday were Mrs. Don Roloson, district president Mrs. Elmer Sum- mers, Mrs. Clarence Lewis, and Mrs. Nelson Tate and Mrs. John Dunnel both of Pro- spect Hill, W.I. The theme for the celebra- tion was "From Flicker to Flame". The guest speaker was Mrs. Ziny Westebring Muller of the Netherlands A.C.W.W. president Associated "Country Women of the World. In her talk Mrs. Westebring Muller related how from a very small meeting in Stoney Creek, Ontario at the home of Mr. Erland Lee, the founding meeting was formed 85 years ago, with Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless the speaker. Today the W.I. has 19 million members throughout the world. A candlelighting ceremony with a three layer birthday cake took place with each representing a level of the W.I. The first candle was lit by Senator Marsha Beilish, president of F.W.I.O. Federated Women's In- stitutes of Ontario; the second candle by Mrs. Bernice Noblet, president of F.W.I.C. Federated Women's Institute of Canada; and candle number 3 was lit by the distinguished guest Mrs. Ziny Westebring Muller. Greetings were brought from the Federal and Provin- cial Governments by the Honourable Dennis Timbre), Minister of agriculture and food and many other willwishers. Perth Plow match set A queen competition, anti- que plows, a horse class and various politicians plowing will be part of the activities at the 1982 Perth County plowing match. August 27 and 28 have been set as the dates for the match to be held at the farm of Perth County Plowmen's Assoica- tion president Doug Ait- cheson. The farm is located on lot 20, con. 3 of Elma Township. It is 21.,2 miles south of highway 86 and 1r;a miles east of highway 23. Events get underway on Friday at 10 a.m. with coaching for the plowing classes by the Ontario Plowmen's Assoication judge. In the afternoon, plowing will be done by boys and girls in the 4-1-1 or Junior Farmer age group, although they don't have to be a member of those groups. The John Stephen trophy will be presented at a banquet in the fall to the win- ner. Each 4-11 club member who competes on the Friday will receive $7.50 and a ticket to the banquet. On Saturday morning, there are plowing classes for everyone. There is one for women, a class for any resi- dent of Perth County, a Perth County Junior Farmer class and an open class for those who have never plowed at a plowing match. Also in the morning there is the junior match with three classes for those under the age of 21. Various trophies will be presented to the winners at the banquet. The utility classes start at 2 p.m. At 1 p.m., the speciali- ty classes start. There is an antique tractor class for trac- tors at least 40 years old. Other speciality classes us- ing jointer plows are for reeves and deputy reeves and past reeves and deputy reeves, mayors, the warden and members of parliament and past officials in these Personals We are happy to report that Harold Talbot is now home from hospital and recuperating from surgery at home. Miss Winnie Harlton was home for a few days last week and brought a friend with her, Miss Chieko Takafaka, from Kyoto Japan. Brett and Ben Harlton, Ken Harding and Stephen Bannerman returned home with their Aunt Winnle to Toronto and took in Canada's Wonderland. Hunter's Beach near The Jim Harding family Goderich with the Marshal are spending a few days at family. John Herbert has returned to the Huron Church Camp for another two weeks. PEE GIRLS A CHAMPIONS — Huron Park won the A championship in the Usborne Minor Ball Association tour- nament at Cromarty. Front row from left: Melanie Jones, Shawna Backer. Centre: Virginia Cable, Patty Bower- man, Corina Price, Tommie Winger, Tammy Hoist, Kelly Gackstetter, Lorraine Lewis. Back: scorekeeper Mary Lou Becker, Chris Smith, Julie Russell, Paulette Rothbauer, Deb Horton, Michelle Rock, Wendy Bierling and coach Ian Russell. Birds unique for this area By Bill McNutt Hungarian partridge and bobwhite quail are two unique game birds which at one time were huntable in our area. Changing farming methods and several severe winters apparently brought an end to them. An attempt to .restock Hungarian partridge was made in the 1960's when 40 birds were released between Zurich and Grand Bend. Records indicate they surviv- ed for two years until another pair of severe winters hit. When speaking to Wildlife Biologist Mike Malhiot of the Wingham MNR office I found out that there is still hope. Last January, 10 were released at Hullet by the Ministry of Natural Resources. One was found dead but the others seem to have dissappeared. These birds came from the Simcoe district. Huns are a hardy bird that can withstand even our severe winters as long as they can find food. Mr. Malhiot seemed to think they could survive in our area in numbers suitable for hunting and that future Ministry planting may be possible if funding is available. He also said that if any con- servation or sportsmans group would be interested in releasing some of these speedy gamebirds that ap- proval would most likely be granted and they could go ahead with the project. Bobwhites are being releas- ed at Hullet as well in larger numbers. They now seem to be wintering and with areas of suitable habitat should do quite well. More releases are planned by dog trial groups for Hullet so things are really looking up on that scene. A few have even been sighted in the Ex- eter area but where these came from is not known for certain. Malihiot also mentioned that although it was a little early to tell, things should continue to be good for grouse hunters and maybe a little better for rabbit hunters. categories, fair board representatives, service club representatives, and ap- pointed officials from Perth County municipalities. There will also be horse shoe pitching, a log sawing and nail driving contests. The highlight of the match is the queen of the furrow competition. This is open to Perth County women aged 16 to 23. At 1 p.m. contestants are interviewed by members of the plowmen's association and following that they plow. Contestants are marked on their plowing, interview, ap- pearance and deportment and a speech given at the plowing banquet. The Perth County Queen of the Furrow is crowned at the banquet and will compete in the 1983 International Plow- ing Match queen of the furrow competition. PEEWEE GIRLS Id CHAMPIONS — The Exeter team won the B championship in the Usborne Minor Ball Associa- tion tournament at Cromarty. Front row from left: Karen Hoffman, Vicki Scott, Michelle Ellison, Michelle Birm- ingham, Terra Ahrens, Christi Brintnell, Marci Ellison,Dione McCarter. Middle row: Brenda Balsdon, Patti Blerl- ing, Teresa McCarter Elizabeth Hogan, Kathleen Little, Kim Crawford, Shelley Skinner and Julia Tiernan. Back: acting coaches Keith Ahrens and Laverne McCarter.Coach Bev Bierling and assistant coach John Barrett were absent when the picture was taken. On being I.cked up in New York By Joann Young In June of 1982, the Second United Nation Session on Disarmament was very much in the news. Member nation appeared to be tmanimous in the opinion that something had to be done to halt the arms race. The Final Document adopted by consensus after the first U.N. session on disar- mament in 1978 had been ignored by the major powers, and everyone hoped for better results from the second session, u the world appeared to hover on the brink of disaster. Since 1978, global military expenditures had increased rapidly and had passed 1800 billion annually; negotiation on limitation of strategic nuclear weapons had stalled; there was an alarming increase in potential for military use of outer space; nuclear test ban treaty negotiation a less hopeful than in 1978 and U.S. political leaders hid begun to suggest that some level of nuclear war was acceptable. All this was justified on the ground that the first respon- sibWty of any national government was to assure the securi- ty of its citizen. But who felt secure? We spent $1,000,000 per minute on the arms race in a world where 40,000 children died every day of causes which could easily have been removed if only a fraction of this money were spent on food, shelter, and medical facilities in underdeveloped countries. . In New York in June 1982, many speakers at the United Nations General Assembly pointed out the link between disarmament, and the economic and social well-being of a nation. Military spending is inflationary because it drains resources and money from the economy but produces nothing the average citizen can use: no one can live long in a Trident missile; no one can eat a Pershing II missile; if you're sick, or very elderly, an M -X missile cannot care for you. Even in Canada most of us were feeling insecure as more and more people lost their jobs. Should it have been necessary to accept welfare, unemployment insurance, or to retire, we knew our incomes would be very limited while the cost of living continued to rise. Our insecurity increas- ed as more and more businesses declared bankruptcy, and more and more people lost their homes because they were unable to pay the high interest rates. Many Canadians had discovered that industry had polluted their environment to the point where bad air or bad water had become a threat to the health of themselves and their families. The elderly and infirm were uncertain whether or not the hospitals could continue to give the medical attention they needed, and if they could, how much it would cost. Yet Canada had committed more than 130 billion for new military equipment and maintenance in the 1980s. We ex- ported 1100 million in military goods to third world coun- tries each year, and 1500 million in military goods to NATO countries each year. The government of Canada continued to pour millions into producing and trying to sell the CAN - DU nuclear reactor, although it was well known that this reactor was an efficient producer of plutonium which more than one country had apparently used to make a nuclear bomb. If you lived in Chile, for example, or Pakistan, and knew that your unfriendly neighbour had the CANDU reac- tor and may be using it to make nuclear bombs, you may feel it was necessary for your government to do the same, and so more and more money that could be used to help the poor in the underdeveloped countries went to the arms race. We can only disarm if there is mutual trust, but how can you trust someone who spends millions on nuclear weapons? The end of the nuclear arms race is necessary to liberate resources to alleviate misery and feed the hungry, and so the role of the United Nations would hopefully be to establish a gradual lowering of the level of armament, beginning with a test ban treaty which would ban the design and testing of new weapons. Then if production of nuclear weapons could be frozen and their deployment forbidden, we might buy time in order to begin disarmament. This suggestion was made at the United Nations in early June. About one week later the U.S. government set off another test, and accused Russia of doing the same. The governments of the world's most powerful nations apparently believed their people would feel secure only when they had reached "parity" in the arms build-up, par- ticularly in the feld of nuclear weapons. But history shows that even a rough parity is impossible to achieve for long: each new breakthrough is soon matched or surpassed by the other side, and each new breakthrough then establishes new goals of destructive capacity to be achieved at greater expense, that are more threatening to the other side, and more difficult to control. The United States' MO( and Trident missiles are design- ed to hit targets 6000 miles away, within a few hundred yards. Such accuracy is unnecessary to destroy a city, but is useful to destroy enemy missiles still in their silos, - therefore this new generation of long-range missiles threatens the Soviet Union with an American first strike. Currently, missile travel times of half an hour give time for the other side to check to be certain of an attack before ordering retaliation; however the Pershing'lI and Cruise missiles are designed to strike targets in U.S.S.R. less then five minutes after the Russians could detect their launch. Once the missiles hit, retaliation would be limited, if not impassible, so this forces the Russians into a "launch on warning" system, in which an automatic retaliatory attack would be based on data from satellites and computers, with no time for human intervention - and yet it is only through such human intervention that we have several times averted catastrophe when false alarms and computer malfunctions have resulted in warnings of nonexistent attacks. For these reasons, many felt the U.N. Second Session on Disarmament was the last chance for the human race tohalt the event which would certainly lead to the destruction of life on earth, and 1 welcomed the opportunity to attend one week of the U.N. sessions in June, to find out as much as I could about the disarmament question. Arriving at the United Nations building on Monday, June 7, the exhibit in the lobby of pictures of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombs fell in early August, 1945, perhaps set the tone for the grim statistics I was to hear in the General Assembly. The pic- tures of the death and destruction, of the pathetically maim- ed survivors, and the stories of the days after the attacks, while they have become almost familiar now, always con- tain new horrors to be assimilated by the lucky ones who can only imagine the weeks of hell to which these unfor- tunate people were subjected. Did you know the bombe used on the two cities were dif- ferent? Apparently the second bomb was dropped so the destructive capacities of the two models could be compared I Did you know the American provided a well•equippped hospital for diagnosis of the condition of the survivors, but refused any treatment? Apparently they wanted the effects to run their full course so they could be studied in detail! I saw the "Tree of Life" exhibit of children's art from are and the world, depicting the children's reactions to life, war, and death. Their art was expressive of many human feelings, especially of a naive hope that life on earth would be.allowed to continue. Art from war -ravaged countries often showed a sad disillusionment, hurt, and anger of children forced to live as refugees, or children who had lost their entire families amid scenes of brutality and disaster. My reaction to these exhibits was one of helplessness in the face of a system that has created such horror, and, un- satisfied, is now preparing to recreate the same horror a mIllIon-foldTo.day the world possesses adestructivecapaci- ty equivalent to more than one million Hiroshima bombs. Then, as I left the building, I met several groups of Japanese standing vigil in front of the United Nations. Just arrived from Japan, many were in Nagasaki or Hiroshima at the time of the attack.. Although the U.S. government had held up the visas of their tnterpretors, and so prevented them from telling their etorles freely, they were anxious to tell of their experiences and the harsh realities of nuclear war. That afternoon I joined the "Children's Walk For Life". The school children of New York City walked about three miles to demonstrate their concern that their health, educa- tion, and their very lives were being jeopardized by the nuclear arms race. Enthusiasm among the marchers was contagious on that chilly day in New York, We walked, sing- ing the anti -nuke songs, and felt we may succeed in demonstrating our feelings in a way which might command some attention from the politicians. The event received little notice however. Many passers-by acknowledged our pro- test with nods and smiles; others appeared to be wonder- ing what was happening; still others ignored us, or seem- ed angry and impatient with our efforts to make our opi- nions known, in a democracy. Many religious groups as well as ordinary citizens were campaigning actively against the arms race, and during the next few days, in a small park across from the U.N., the drums of the Buddhist priests marked the passing of each second as the General Assembly continued to hear the speeches of the delegates. Several speakers acknowledg- ed the actions of the demonstrators as being supportive of their struggle to achieve disarmament. Then Friday brought the "International Religious Con- vocation". People of every religious persuasion gathered at the Cathedral of St. John The Divine, one of New York's oldest and most beautiful churches4or an ecumenical ser- vice and a walk to Central Park where a "tree of peace" was planted. The service was deeply moving, and more than 5000 people joined the march. Many bystanders this time were obviously sympathetic, and encouraged us with ap- proving comments and the peace sign. The tree planting in Central Park was followed by an all-night vigil in front of the U.N., led at different times by different religious groups. Perhaps the most valuable result of this convoca- tion, for me, was the reminder that the Bible many times calls us each to our responsibility in the face of evil. Saturday, June 12, was the big day, cloudy and cool but with no rain, it was the ideal weather for a day -long march. Before 8:00 a.m. we began to form in front of the U.N. building, and lines of people stretched in both directions as far as we could see. Although most marchers were Americans, there were people from all over the world, all walks of life, and all life styles. There were no elaborate floats, but costumed marchers depicted "the grim reaper" and "the world after the bomb", very effectively. The New York police estimated that 800,000 people took part in the Parade, the largest demonstration ever held in New York City. imagine our concern then, to hear leading American politicians state on the news that night, that security demanded that the arms race continue. What could they mean by security? The arms race was endangering the lives of every living thing on the planet. This is security? Further efforts would have to be made, then, to draw at- tention to the dangers of the current arms race. One is reminded of a quotation from Edmund Burke, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for enough good people to do nothing." The perfectly legal demonstration for which a permit has been obtained from the government has pro- ven ineffective. The sit-in is a calculated stratagem to force the government to acknowledge the fact that many people do not wish to follow where they are being led. By forcing the system that promotes and protects the nuclear industry to arrest nearly 2000 normally law-abiding citizens, for a minor infraction similar to a traffic offense, and then by refusing to co-operate with their efforts to punish us for forcibly drawing attention to our beliefs, we can force some recognition of our power and rights as citizens. The civil disobedience was to take place at the U.N. mis- sions of the five states most active in nuclear weapons testing and development: U.S., U.S.S.R., U.K., France, and China. These are also the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. We wished to call attention to the duplicity of these governments in talking peace and security while continuing to justify the need for nuclear weapons. We also hoped to encourage those countries which were working for legitimate national security at much lower, mutually balanced, and verifiable levels of armament, by drawing attention to the world-wide swell of public opinion against the arms race. Sympatheticpassers-hyiare notencouraged to join the sit- in. In order to ensure that the action will be non-violent on the part of demonstrators, interested people are asked to • take civil disobedience training, - a four-hour course in which we were told exactly where we would stand legally, what to expect from the police, and were given an oppor- tunity to rehearse our own actions and reactions to a variety of possible incidents, through role-playing. Itis important that we do nothing that may be considered hostile, except that we will not voluntarily leave to allow staff members to enter the five U.N. missions. When the training is over, in each class of approximate- ly twenty people, we are beginning to know each other slightly, and we then form an "affinity group" of people who will act together in the campaign. We decided to blockade the French Mission for several reasons: France is still actively testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere,and is developing new weapons; France has refused to sigthe Non -Proliferation Treaty, and is one of the world's largest suppliers of arms; France has a vigorous domestic nuclear power programme, and exports reactors. Although U.S. and U.S.S.R. are far greater of- fenders in these areas, there are already many affinity groups going there, and there are not as many going to the missions of the three lesser offenders, China, Great Britain, and France. Two or three people in each group volunteer to work as "support people." They plan to avoid arrest by leaving the group before arrests begin, and they will follow those ar- rested to wherever they are taken for booking. They will be present at arraignment and look after the interests of those arrested until they are released, and be present at their release. This job requires a good knowledge of the ci- ty, and usually your own transportation. Tose who plan non-violent direct action to the point of arrest will try to stick together at least as far as the arraignment stage, to give each other moral support. We arrange to meet again next day, Monday, June 14, at 7:00 A.M. in a small park near the French Mission. When everyone has arrived, we move to a nearby "staging area" where all the affinity groups will meet, 1 Hammerskjold Plaza, from where we can see the mission, and observe preparations made by police so far. They have surround- ed the mission with barricades, and a solid line of police stands behind the blue wooden sawhorses. Only a few breaks in the barricades, manned by dozens of police, are open to admit workers carrying identification. We make our final plans as to which group will go where, and just before 8:00 A.M. we move across to the mission. We group around "our" entrance and sit down, arms in- terlocked. Many of us are a little frightened now. We saw police arriving on horseback earlier, and we know there are 3000 extra police on duty at the five missions to -day, most of whom have been working overtime for several days now. They seem to have picked the largest police officers to man the entrances. One very large man is checking passes in front of me. We plead with the workers, "Please don't go in to -day". "Give peace a chance." We enumeratethe reasons for the blockage. Some of us are singing anti -nuke songs or chanting slogans., A few workers turn back, but most appear to be going in. As the policeman tries to move the blockade further back, I am in his way. 1 don't move. He smacks me three times with his night stick. We call our support person, who takes down his number. Then from the bull horn in the police line behind, we hear the request that prospective workers go and have a cup of coffee and come back later! We call out, "Have two or three on us!" and briefly taste the heady wine of success, but only very briefly. Another announcement reaches our embar- rassed ears, "If you have not left the area in three minutes, we will begin making arrests. This is the only warning you will receive. You have three minutes to leave the area." Then, just to show they mean business, they pick up two front line demonstrators, and heave them bodily into the group. Luckily no one is hurt, but then, "Okay, start with this one", and you feel the strong arm of the law, "You are now under arrest."! ! According to plans made earlier, you "go limp". This makes it difficult for the police to move you, but does not usually justify a charge of resisting arrest, a more serious charge, known as a misdemeanor, for which they would have to give you a jury trial. When you go limp, making it clear to your arresting officer that you do not intend to co-operate in your own arrest by walking to the police van, he says, "0, one o' those!" and calls for a stretcher. They lift you onto the stretcher and carry you to the bus. (We are too many for the ordinary paddy wagon, but sure- ly the fact that they are using school buses is worthy of com- ment.) At the door, they hold you up to have your picture taken. You stick out your tongue. "That's nice, says the policeman, "your children will be proud of you." You polite- ly ask for copies of the picture for your grandchildren, but he doesn't answer.. You are carried onto the bus, and watch as each demonstrator in turn is arrested, goes limp, is loaded onto a stretcher, photographed, and loaded onto a bus. It takes more than an hour, and you have a chance to talk to your police guards. They are nice guys "just doing my job," and you are reminded it is the system, parlicularly at the top, that is at fault, not the police. So far there has been little violence on the part of the police, as television and radio reporters mill about, and ten or twelve legal aid people who have volunteered their help are present, just in case. It must be nearly 10 A.M. when the bus leaves the French mission. We follow a circuitous route through Manhattan, and around 10:30 we pass the French Mission again. There is no one left there now, only a sea of blue uniforms on the bus with us, and they are busy identifying "theirs" since each has to appear with the people he arrested, for arraignment. We already know that the New York prisons are over- crowded. We expect that the police will be anxious to get our names and addresses. If we co-operate we will be releas- ed without arraignment to appear on a summons a few weeks later. We understand that if we do not appear on the summons, but do not get into difficulties in Manhattan in the next six months, the charge will be dropped. The legal system does not want the trouble of dealing with these minor violations. They only want to stop you from forcing the government to recognize that you disagree with their policies. We drive for some time. Is it passible that all the police facilities are so over -loaded that they have nowhere to unload us? 1t is after 11:00 A.M. when we arrive at a precinct station. Moat of the people on my bus, including everyone else in my affinity group, decide to co-operate, and after their identification is checked they are released with summonses. This takes about one hour. About five of us feel we have not committed any crime, and refuse to co-operate by identifying ourselves when ar- rested. A few on each bus feel the same way, and the police decide to load all the non -co-operators onto our bus for another ride. This time, however, there are no T.V. or radio reporters, and no legal aid. Several of the men who refuse to walk are kicked and punched. We are handcuffed together in pairs, except for one man who had seen too many movies. When he saw the handcuffs coming, he automatical- ly put his hands behind him. Now he has to sit on the edge of his seat and has a rough ride over the bumps and pot- holes of Manhattan. The attitude of the police has chang- ed. They are very angry. It is a beautiful day in New York. We drive over several bridges,.and the spectacular views of the city relieve the monotony. It must be around 1:00 P.M. when we arrive at 1 Police Plaza for booking. Since we are handcuffed together now, we all walk into the station. The men are taken in and processed first, then • the women. We are searched. The handcuffs are removed. Those of us who will not walk, (no stretchers now ladies) are dragged, one cop on each foot, to the cells. There is a row of about five cells, each about 3 by 4 metres. There is a steel bench along two sides,•a toilet and a sink, and the fourth wall, facing the corridor, is made up cif 'solid steel bars, painted eanarj, yellow to cheer uS up. As more and more buses arrive froth the five missions there are thirty to thirty-five prisoners in each cell. By mid- afternoon, half of us are seated on the floor, half on the benches. We are called up for arraignment in groups. We have been told that if we refuse to give our names and addresses we will be fingerprinted. On the training course we were told that if we refuse to give fingerprints they may be taken by force - a very painful procedure • it was not recommended. Some of us feel though, that having refused co-operation so far, we will continue. In court I refuse my name and address, "No name. No address. No nukes.", and am sent to be fingerprinted. At this point I keep my mouth clamped shut in order to keep my teeth from chattering. One policeman is ready to "help" me with a procedure usually used only for serious offenders. Somehow each print comes out smudged. After discarding two or three attempts, he says, "Don't you want to be fingerprinted?" I manage, "No, I don't think I do." "Sit down over there." After a brief wait while a few more people are printed, I feel vast relief when we are all taken back to our cells. Apparently policies have changed: There will be no forced fingerprinting this time. Back in the cells, time drags. Some who gave their names and addresses in court have already left, but more are com- ing in. Apparently it took hours to arrest all the people at the U.S. and U.S.S.R. missions! Those who were finger- printed are told they must wait at least six hours for their fingerprints to be checked. Then, if they are not wanted for anything else, they will be released with summonses. The holdouts cannot be kept in these cells overnight. Since there are no beds here, everyone to be kept overnight must be sent to Riker's Island, described as a "real hole". Our legal aid explains that sometimes prisoners get "lost in the system" there, especially those who have given no iden- tification, and are listed as Jane, or John Doe, since there are so many of them. Once you are lost, you may not get a chance to reappear in court for several days. The outlook is not good, but we discuss it: some of the group who have been arrested and detained in cells before point out that treatment in most countries is far worse. If demonstrators elsewhere can take torture and death, we should be willing to go to jail if necessary, for our convic- tions. Some of the group who are strongly religious point out that many of our Christian leaders have been put to death for doing no more than we have done, bearing witness to our convictions. We decide to continue to refuse to co-operate. At dinner time a wagon of sandwiches and tea is brought down the corridor. I'm glad I decided to fast to -day. After dinner, night court is sitting, with a different judge. Our legal aid tells us that he appears to be a little more le- nient, but when we still refuse to co-operate, at about 8:30 he calls us into court and gives us summonses made out in the names of Jane or John Doe. That means there will be no way they can possibly check if we do not return to answer the summonses. We are simply being told to get out! The system has apparently broken down because it could not accommodate what are now seventy to eighty non- violent demonstrators. We are all overjoyed to think we have won our point, and mast leave at once. In our group, two of us remain, wonder- ing why we should co-operate even now, by leaving. Our legal aid reminds us however that two of us might be ac- commodated for some time on Riker's Island. At last we agree to leave if we are allowed to give a statement in court. I spoke for us both, "I took the action I look today for a very personal reason. My husband was a worker in a uranium refinery. He died at thirty-four of cancer, leaving me and four children ranging in age from six months to six years. The government regards a cancer death of a thirty- four year old uranium worker as a natural death, and has absolved itself of any responsibility in the matter. I find it very difficult to accept the fact that after this, a demonstra- tion of disagreement with government nuclear policies results in my being locked up for twelve hours and then told to go home and forget it." The judge responded only with "Thank you for your state- ment." 1 turned and left the court room to the applause of the spectators, mostly our own support people. Since June 14, UNSSOD has proven a failure, and the American government continues its progress toward global disaster. Tests of space vehicles for war -time use in outer space continue. The anniversary of Hiroshima was celebrated by the testing of a nuclear bomb seven times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb. Many inhabitants of the planet earth are prepared to go to the wall to register their disapproval and refusal to he part of this madness.