MOVIES - Nov. 13, 1987

Actor Martin Sheen and homeless advocate Mitch Snyder were arrested early Thursday while protesting fences that bar the homeless from seeking shelter inside the entrance of a Washington subway station. The arrests came after an hourlong demonstration against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which last month installed chain-link fences at the two entrances of the Farragut West station in downtown Washington. Snyder (who was portrayed by Sheen in a television movie last year entitled “Samaritan”), Sheen and a third man were charged with unlawful entry when, shortly after midnight, they refused to leave the closed station’s entrance.