HOW MANY people have heard of the plight of Anne Francis? Not many we suspect. Anne was recently jailed for breaching the fence at Greenham Common airbase last May.
For criminal damage, her sentence is one year jail. Other women tried for the same action have been sentenced the usual one or two weeks in prison.
In the United States an Indian IWU catholic priests were sentenced to betWELCILLI ween 12 and 18 years in jail for causing $11,000 worth of damage to a minuteman silo. It is widely suspected that Anne's stiff sentence arises because the Americans are putting the pressure on here too.
minister's wife from South Wales, argued righteous justification. Would we have as many nuclear missiles, she asked, if they were funded by street corcollections the Was famine relief is?
Anne's sentence coincides with the announcment Brave Defender, this year's civil defence manoeuvre to September Focussingon * between conventional attack Kussian commando units invading the shores of Britain, it will be the largest military exercise since World War II.
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