W. Germans Protest at New Missile Site
About 100 demonstrators blocked entrances to a U.S. cruise missile construction site Thursday, demanding a ban on the deployment of nuclear missiles in West Germany, police reported.
Ten protesters who refused to clear an entrance so workers could enter the construction site were arrested, a police spokesman said. They were released after their names were taken for possible prosecution.
Authorities said that about 100 demonstrators demanded a halt to construction at the site, about 70 miles southwest of Bonn, and a ban on the deployment of all nuclear missiles in West Germany.
On Wednesday, about 100 people demonstrated at a Pershing 2 base at Mutlangen, 40 miles east of Stuttgart. Twenty-seven people were arrested for blocking a road to the base.
The West German government announced last month the arrival of the first batch of cruise missiles. West Germany will get 96 of the 464 medium-range cruise missiles that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization decided in 1979 to deploy in Western Europe.
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