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These Welc strengthening the hand of South African prime minister Botha in his drive for international respectability'. But now South Africa is facing a massive new crisis inside its own borders.
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police come and take them down.
face constant abuse is not only verbal — violent attacks had been made on four wimmin just before my arrival last week. one nao been i jured to the point where it was difficult for her stand up on her own.
There also the physical violence of the local vigilante groups to endure. This has involved BOLI petrol unreported by the press, take a dilferent altitude if they think miners using them beatings. camp: ten on the main gate, ten on the blue gate, and forced to sleep in this one bender or the ambulance because it is pointless to re-erect benders when the In December, it will be one year since the 16 cruise missiles were sited at the airbase. Ine wimmin in tend to have a protest on Sunday 9 December. This supported by Swansea Wont oppose the nuclear threat).
From Ruth Kilgallon, at the Greenham camp The campfire meeting will decide the exact form it will take, but they asking wimmin bring with them as much food as possible, to give it to une miners the unemployed. gestea inat local wimml. groups and CND groups should adopt a gate wimmin to come down on a rola basis to stay at the camp or do a nightwatch ana to take accon wiel the cruise convoys come out.
One of the wimmin at the Rebecca camp Johnson, is standing for CND council at its upcoming conference. The CND standing orders committee wiped the debate on its own women's conterence off the agenda. It was eleventh priority when only ten be debated.
So we're likely to see a large Greenham CUL tingent protesting at this What an insult to all those wimmin the peace movement that have led suffered the hardship of a three year long peace camp at Greenham!
Despite all the hardship wimmin SUll resolved to remain at the camp. They understand and support wimmin's in volvement in the miners' strike. In fact they almost are more COntered the miners should win than aboul wel own callp.
go visit the miners, tell them we support them all the way' was the message they lett me with The Greenham wimmin understand that their fate is intimately linked up with the miners' battle against pit closures. Every struggle will advance if the HELES win Wimmin Against Pit Closures anc wimmin's peace banners can come December in this year's
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The wimmin face the brutality of the bailiffs every day, and have lost all but one bender. They are