When plans were being made to test the MX missile at Vandenburg AFB in California, hundreds of people, including this 82-year-old woman, were arrested and later released.
Polls in West Germany indicated in the fall of 1983 that over 65% of the population was against the deployment of American Pershing 2 missiles in the country. A significant number of West Germans took to the streets in October, November and…
Some 4,500 persons waited in the rain to see President Reagan at a national joint labor-industry conference on dislocated workers in Pittsburgh, PA. But the president left without confronting the crowd or its concerns.
Arnoldas Kungys leads anti-Soviet demonstrators outside the offices of a company that imported Russian goods. The protest was in response to the downing of a Korean airliner by the Soviets.
When ordered to stand trial for charges stemming from his involvement with nuclear protester at a rocket factory, the 78-year-old minister refused to walk in to the courtroom and had to be carried by county sheriffs.