The World - News from Oct. 6, 1986

At least 20,000 people linked arms to make a 28-mile chain across Scotland to protest nuclear weapons. The chain stretched through cities, town and the open countryside from Glasgow to Grangemouth on the east coast in an event organized by a group called Parents for Survival. “The issue of peace is too important to be left to the world’s leaders,” a Glasgow city official, Lord Provost Robert Gray, said at the start of the protest. Nuclear weapons in Scotland include the U.S. nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch.