The World - News from May 19, 1986

Anti-nuclear demonstrations at the site of a proposed West German nuclear reprocessing plant in the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf erupted in clashes that injured 132 policemen, 25 of them seriously, a police spokesman said. Protesters hurled stones, ball bearings and Molotov cocktails at police who responded with water cannon using a fluid laced with CS riot gas. Witnesses said several demonstrators were hurt. Meanwhile, the ecologist Greens party, meeting in Hanover, adopted an election plank calling for West Germany’s immediate withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.