THE FLARES went up at 2.20pm on Friday, ( and with it the balloons and a whoop from the demonstrators. had easily achieved its aim of completing a 14 mile chain linking Greenham Common, Aldermaston and the bomb factory at Burghfield.
For well over an hour it had been clear that the 14-mile link up would be a success, Mavbe there were a few breaks in the chain, but for miles the demonstrators lined both sides of the road. Everyone knew that the 40,000 police figure coming over the transistor radios was a joke.
The mood was ecstatic the Tories' elaborate plans smear the demonstrators had been defeated. Thatcher raved in the Commons, Heseltine went the Berlin wall and they even arranged for a couple of Soviet journalists to be thrown out of the country coincide with the demonstration. All to no avail.
A plane flew overhead message Kremlin's fools'. But the demonstrators were not taken in.
Ber in wall! we're worried about — it's you and Reagan' read one poster. At Greenham itself 100 women invaded base.
On Thursday women blockaders closed down for the day, blockade Greenham up by the police.
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