Photo: JOHN HARRIS FOLLOWED GOVERNMENT. IN THE SPRING of last year the police and military authorities began to step up their harassment of the women at the Greenham Common peace camp. This went hand in hand with a changed emphasis in media reportage. From the grudging sympathy that many Fleet Street pundits had expressed for the 'courage determination' of the Greenham and mistits' variety.
annual to This adoot a freeze campaien.
an attempt which concampaign to turn the tide tinued at the level I of national council till last summent. Thatcher government has carried demoralise activists Now the terrain of that movement is loosing ground.
the leadership signalled a new direction for the debate. Both Euromovement communists about the nockites alike in the peace movement pounced on the opportunity to renew their apeal middle- middle-ground via non-nuclear detence.
when the proposal . to posed to the dis of CAD commitment directly comed Labour's policy. Resolutions to CND's annual conference attempted to 'improve' on it.
One, dropped from the final agenda, openly suggested an electoral alliance campaign. Another went further on the offensive by brit CND forward the idea that paign equally against the Whilst the latter pro.
received short shift posa from delegates to December's annual conference, a non-nuclear defence was adopieu. Desprit Wls. for the second year runn. dian't get it all their own leadership way.
overemergency on the keeping anti-missiles Rainbow Village has brought the the Governof the movement have been file.
Such claims are further disproved if such needed - by the plans for a cruise conference and a women's peace conference which well underway now. Despite concerted attempts disorient the movement, still committed to direct rid of American missiles from British territory.
CND's leadership would do well to note this commitment. The anti.
campaigners understand more clearly than they that a campaign against weapons aims fundamentally change the status quo.
The movement of Greenham women, three short has shown just what effect determined action can have. jority in Britain in favour of getting rid of American missiles.
The events at Moles worth last week response of activists who went there this weekend to defend the peace camp have reasserted that 1985 is still the year of the cam. paign against missiles.
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women, stories increasingly concentrated on slander and vilification of the 'nothing but a bunch of freaks